200 What shook the foundations.

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I don't know how much time passed but I found myself with the familiar sensation of floating under water.

Then I hit bottom awakening my self-awareness by the slight impact.

I open my eyes to see the familiar sky of my inner world.

I get up and start walking towards the castle ahead of me as usual every time I come here.

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Upon arrival, the usual Dracov was waiting calmly there, he seems calm as always, it seems that nothing can affect his mood.

"It's good to see you around here"

"Hello" I answer simply as memories of last time come back to me.

"I see he is in good spirits"

I look at him a little confused.

'Good cheer? I'd say otherwise' I think about this, remembering the grim things I found out the last time I came here.

Although on the outside I don't seem to be in a bad mood, the truth is that I feel a little sad.

"Yes, the last time you left you were depressed but look at yourself, now you are in high spirits, it is a joy that you are in good spirits"

"Good friends?" The first thing that comes to mind are my colleagues who should be my 'best friends'.

"Yeah, although you don't notice it, since you've had more friends recently this place has been more colorful, especially when those Tenten, Ino, Satsuki and Naruko girls are present, I think a couple more will join soon"

I'm a bit stunned by his response, practically this guy just grabbed all my secrets which I feel a bit embarrassed to face.

I already knew about Ino and Tenten, thanks to that situation a long time ago, I knew about Naruko, but I didn't expect it about Satsuki, with the latter I was confused.

'I also fell in love with her' With this last thing I discovered how prone my heart is to fall in love, I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing... well, although thinking about it, I think it's becoming something inconvenient if we see the subject of my economy, I will have to work day and night if more people invade my heart.

*sigh*

"Why do you say that Satsuki and the others light up this place?" Even though I know the answer I still pretend to be ignorant, I hate to admit it, somehow I feel embarrassed when someone mentions that I've fallen in love, I still remember that mischievous smile (from her perspective at the time) of Ino when she accidentally let out a couple of words, at that moment I wanted to put my head under the ground.

"Well, aren't you in love with them?"

At that moment I felt my face heat up with embarrassment.

"You know, you didn't have to tell me like that"

(PS: Something tells me that Yuu is Tsundere)

The butler just smiles at my answer.

"It's something good"

"What good is that?"

"Don't you see it yourself, he recovered from his depressed state of mind very quickly"

"I know that, *sigh*, but none of that changes the facts" The depressing aura fills my heart again.

"It does not have to be this way"

"What are you talking about?"

"Well, I was afraid that telling him the truth would affect him a lot but now I see that there is no need to hide it anymore"

"What do you mean by that?" I frowned upon hearing that last one.

"Well, do you know the reason why this place is like this?"

Dracov points to the castle, more specifically to the cracks that it still preserves.

"Many years ago when you were a little boy this place was as it appeared to be, a magnificent castle stood in this place... *sighed* unfortunately since the day it appeared it was destined to fall into ruin..."

"Ruin? Why?"

Dracov was silent for a few seconds before answering.

"The day this place was born there was a clash of souls" He answers slowly.

"Shock…" He was confused for a few moments before I could comprehend what he said, the next moment my face contorts and I cast an apprehensive look at Dracov.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Exactly what it means, you weren't the first guest in this place." Dracov remains calm under my stern look.

I am shocked by this answer.

"Impossible..." If Dracov is telling the truth then that means he wasn't reborn naturally, but instead snatched this body from the person he was born with.

But it didn't take long for a question to immediately arise.

"....Then...Then why didn't I feel anything, if it's something that involves my soul then I should have felt it" I refuse to believe that what he says is true, if you look at it from a logical point of view then I would which he says has many flaws.

"I'm not there either, but I think that the fact that he hasn't felt anything has something to do with his own soul"

"My soul?"

"Yes, whether by its provenance or not, your soul is special in a way that is fundamentally different from the normal, look at it from this point: usually souls keep a lot of their body as feelings, memories, emotions, attachments and others; his soul on the other hand also fulfills most functions with a certain difference..."

Dracov looked up at the sky.

"Her soul is too pure, any emotion or feeling falls from her like mud"

"My soul does not store anything?"

"Not exactly, your soul stores more than anything memories, if it weren't for this last one then you wouldn't be able to store emotions since somehow your emotions feelings and so on have managed to depend on your memories to exist, in short you store memories and their memories stores emotions feelings and so on"

I have entered into understanding but still I do not find logic.

"And what does that have to do with the fact that I didn't feel anything? If my soul was falling apart then I should have felt it somehow"

"That's where the other strange feature of your soul comes in, strangely when your soul was fragmented it seemed to function in the same way that a normal soul would, even when several pieces were separated from you there was still a certain attraction, the fragments that were destined to lose somehow came back to you starting a fusion process"

"If we take these two characteristics into account then you could find your answer"

I remain silent for a moment thinking.

"You mean I didn't feel any pain since my soul doesn't have those receptors and because my soul works properly even when fragmented I was unable to find any error"

"Yes, but of course this was not free of other consequences, all the feats and talents that were originally there were shaken to the ground ending up in a sorry state like the one you see today" He points towards the castle.

I was silent for a few moments.

"Then due to a fight with the previous owner I ended up winning but that ended in my downfall..."

"Yeah"

"Then I guess the previous one is dead" I look down slightly lost in my thoughts.

"I wouldn't say he's dead"

It startled me slightly and I raised my head again.

"I'm not sure but I have reason to believe that you two merged, if you take a closer look at this place you'll notice that it's slowly recovering, that could mean that the roots couldn't have been destroyed to begin with."

"Hey Dracov, you are aware that my soul is more powerful than the previous owner, right?" At this point I do not deny that I am possibly the invader that destroyed the previous owner of which they were a part.

Drakov doesn't seem to think much and answers.

"To answer that question, you first have to understand how souls work, imagine that they are pure energy, if you had to destroy another energy, it would not be a question of how much power you have to destroy another soul, but how much you can sacrifice to destroy another soul." another soul, in simple words imagine your soul is 8 and the previous owner's soul is 5, if these two would have a conflict then the subtraction result would be 3(it would survive) so if you actually killed the previous owner then your soul it would be so weak to the point that it couldn't use chakra since soul energy is a requirement for it"

Then he was immediately paralyzed.

With that said, I have no more doubts of his words.