GoE 5 Hidden locations

---playlist for this chapter is Eline Moss's Ingenue---

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Elle couldn't believe her eyes.

Her vision is being deceived, and Elle knows who the mastermind behind it is, Etter.

The figure in front of Elle is no stranger to her. However, Elle is well acquainted with this figure. He's the one from the past who loved it.

That figure was her, a young Elleta Ido who was in her early twenties. That's right. Elle couldn't possibly must-see.

Even if her eyes were myopic in that second as well, Elle wouldn't be able to go wrong with herself in a younger form.

"What are you doing with that body, Etter?" cried Elle, too surprised to be able to think clearly.

"This is me, Etter," Etter replied briefly and in such a calm position.

It was as if what Elle was doing was just a bottomless panic.

Etter walked up to Elle, who was trembling violently. Scared, and angry, frustrated, and I don't know what else was raging in his heart seeing the figure, Etter in his appearance as a young man, slowly walked closer.

"No. Impossible. That body, that face was me that young a few years ago." cried Elle hysterically.

"Maybe it's true what you said. And it's true. I am Etter. I'm just taking the form of that part of your age at its best. Yes, Elleta Ida in her early twenty years is the best body. The golden age will come, and where you will soon be married to Elliot. Isn't that right?" said Etter in suspicious calm.

"That, impossible. How do you know I... I... And what happened to me first?" said Elle, only getting frustrated at Etter's words.

What's more with her body?

That face, that posture, that gesture, and even that voice. It was all on her when she was twenty years old. And how can Elle believe the nonsense Etter is currently showing her?

"It's easy. Since I was born, I was made of most of you... Elle," Etter replied the same calmly as before.

"I don't understand?" said Elle confusedly.

And not just confused. Elle didn't understand what Etter was trying to explain to her. Elle feels that now her life is in a very silly fantasy novel.

"Etter is me. It is the embodiment of the fear, anxiety, desire, despair, and helplessness you experience, Elle. It is an entity born once a thousand years. And my goal is to clean up all the injustices that are happening in the universe.

Especially in the Solar Galaxy Empire. Because there have been too many crimes that have taken place and deprived many of the freedoms of civilians. A collection of living entities that I have to protect their preservation," Etter said meaningfully.

If it was young Elle, she would talk some sort of oration fiery. But all Etter did was the opposite. Etter was full of unwavering calmness, and his aura was like an undeniable grand queen.

Etter's presence near Elle inevitably snatches the despair that Elle experienced some time ago. And without him noticing, Elle's hand grabbed her forehead, which turned out to still have bullets stuck half of her own.

Elle hadn't even noticed it all along. Because since his mysterious encounter with Etter, he has not once felt pain from the hot lead shot.

"Okay, fine. Let's say I believe you. The question is, why should I?" Elle asked Etter for more explanation.

"There are many other candidates. It's just for, tries to answer this question of mine. Are you willing to die silly by the robed man without knowing the obvious reason why you got dragged into a conflict that you don't even know what it's about?" pointed Etter looking at Elle in full.

The look in Etter's eyes, with the figure of young Elle's body, inevitably made Elle hypnotized into the past. Elle vaguely remembers a small party welcoming new students where she was one of the organizers.

That's where he first met Elliot. A late-level medical student happened to come to the café where the event took place.

First impressions, their meetings were ordinary. There was nothing special about their first meeting. There's not even a greeting exchange that's in the heart.

More precisely, they only met a while ago.

Back to the problem of Elle not being able to answer the question Etter showed her. Elle's biggest problem is her confusion.

"Of course, I don't want to die silly with what you just said. I also want to know what happened. And why or what does it have to do with Elliot really," Elle admits.

Etter did not immediately reply to Elle's remarks for her answer. Etter just looked at Elle full of clingy and without Elle knowing what it meant.

However, one thing is sure that Etter's gaze at her wasn't like the gaze of an intimidating person. Just like,

"Honestly, I feel sorry for you, Elle. Why of the trillions of people in the universe do I have to meet you to carry out the third hundred and fifth mission? Do you believe in destiny, Elle?" asked Etter, sighing like a teacher who found his students weren't doing homework because they were busy playing online games.

"Where do I know. After all, it's none of my business," said Elle didn't want to give a reply which would only trigger Etter's long talk about her.

About Etter's knowledge of herself that even Elle herself isn't enough to realize.

"Right. Then let's agree that you and in the future should never look at me with a jealous look because I took your twenty-year-old form. You need to know, every time in my mission for thousands of years then I will always take the form of the person who was given the crystal stone energy bracelet by fate," Etter said, back staring at Elle fixedly.

Destiny?

Of course, Elle doesn't one hundred percent believe in destiny. After all, what kind of destiny is this, which is only possible in a fictional story?

However, instead, Elle simply nodded in agreement.

"So, based on your information earlier than what task should I do next?" asked Elle trying to shift the conversation about destiny and her.

Elle doesn't like to have to discuss something called destiny.

Especially, when it comes to Elliot, her husband, who is now somehow her fate.

Then with Ellisa wants Elle to save her body, but in fact, fate says otherwise.

"Okay. To carry out your next task, we will head to the Solar Galaxy Empire's Main Palace."

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-TBC-