Chapter 3
It had been two years since that incident, Ise's Mother had found her later hiding by the tree with a strange man named Sakamoto Jimbe. Her mother married this person a moth later, Rachel was reluctant to get along with this person and her mother. And sometimes she wanted to say certain things out loud, but it was like she was halted by something.
Words that tended to come out of her mouth weren't hers.
It wasn't until a little later that she stared to figure out her situation. She's heard of transmigration, reincarnation and systems in stories. She loved to read after all, weather they be online or paper book.
Right now, she was in Ina Ise's body a soul that could influence the host but couldn't make her do anything other then that. That's the reason why she couldn't move when Ise's father was killed. She wasn't in control it was always Ina Ise. All Rachel ever did was push the girl to do things.
The only problem was the so called 'mission' that this vague system gave. Rachel didn't understand at all why her system barely spoke or answer any questions it might as well be nonexistent.
Then she remembered Ise's mother, the women didn't even speak to her daughter all that much after bringing her back to the Sakamoto household. The women reminded her so much of her own, Rachel's mother never hated her but she didn't love her either she stayed with her stepfather due to dependency she could not survive alone and needed a men in her life. Something in which Ise's mother is also doing right now pull all her time into pleasing this man and ignoring her only daughter that had recently survived a tragedy and seen death at such a young age.
Sakamoto Jimbe left the household taken along her mother for work related reason. They where expected to be gone for a few years. Ise's mother had left happily forgetting about her daughter.
Rachel realized that Ise had this strange ability and the influenced her to use it more and more. Ise could twist and turn the world around her creating illusion and feeling in others. When she thought about it like that Rachel realized that they survived that incident due to this strange power.
Rachel looked at Ina Ise's reflection in the mirror at Fifteen this girl had really blossomed. Although Ina didn't understand anything about beauty this was something she thought. Today was the day her mother and Stepfather came back. Ise quickly got up and when a servant came in.
"Master and Madam have arrived" the servant said before leading her to her mother and stepfather. Upon seeing her mother's face Ise bowed without a word.
Her mother face flushed with surprise and then put on a pleasant smile. "You look so much more beautiful Ise.
Ise hiding her resentment pretty quickly said "Thank you, Mother. You both look very well Afterall these years" she said with a breath-takingly gentle smile.
"Yes, you certainly have grown more beautiful" Jimbe said with an amused smile and eyes the had a hint of l.u.s.t.
Ise's mothers smile grow stiff at the sight while Ise and Rachel became disgusted with him, but it never showed on their faces.
"Forgive me for keeping your mother away from you for so long. I know it was selfish, and you must have missed her very much, but I wanted to take care of her."
Her mother's face started to brighten again as she smiled and then said, "Shall we tell her?"
Jimbe laughed "Very well"
"Ise, I am going to have a baby."
Ise face frozen for a moment before tuning into a loving smile. "I am going to be a sister; I am so happy. Thank you" she said but her mind was screaming profanities at her own mother. 'You evil wench…'
Rachel found herself agreeing to Ise's thoughts.
"I intend to move household to my city house as soon as possible, before the winter starts. That way your mother can be close to the best doctors. And there will be plenty of interesting things for a young thing
-Later that Day-
Ise brushed her hair in her room all alone, she felt sickened to her stomach.
"Those disgusting b.a.s.t.a.r.ds" Ise couldn't help but grit out. "They really think they can be happy after what they had done to father"
Rachel was also suspicious of them since meeting the two for the first time, that suspicion rubbed off on Ise. Which in the end lead to a secret conversation that revealed the truth of her father's supposed 'guilt'
Jimbe who father once considered his best friend framed him with 'fake' evidence brought to him by her mother. They talked about the past and that's where Rachel figured out the reason behind all this and this also rub off on Ise.
Ina Keijo was a talented man even more so then the Jimbe, despite his status being higher than Fathers. He obtained 'mothers' love first in their youth. That's when jealousy turned to hatred. As for mother it wasn't that she didn't love Ise's father, she was unable to reach his talent. She then grew jealous of her own daughters' peerless talent and growing beauty, this in which she did not have herself. Mother was afraid that she would be left behind by her daughter and husband, so, instead of supporting her daughter's talent she tried to destroy it.
The Sakamoto Household departed in a long line of laden carts and snorting houses that trailed around the edge of the lake like a streak of spilled ink. For the first day or so, Ise enjoyed being out in the air and the light, doing something different.
Out in the open, with the field and forest all around, like there was nowhere to hide. Ise could not say she wanted to go for a walk in the garden nor plead for tiredness. She was with the two most hateful people in the world and her father's murders.
Ise was a weak girl who never even killed before no matter how much she wanted too or could. Even with these strange and wonderful powers of hers, she couldn't do it. So revenge to a different route, collecting evidence to bring these two to justice.
They had been traveling for three weeks to reach the sh.o.r.e of the inland sea. There Jimbe found a s.h.i.+p that would take them to the capital of Brighten Lands. The s.h.i.+p wasn't a regular pa.s.senger s.h.i.+p either but a huge sleek merchant vessel.
Ise and her mother watched through the pierced window screen of the palanquin while boxes, bales, and barrels of cargo were loaded alongside corded chest of luggage, many of them that belonged to the household. Jimbe stood near the gangplank, talking to richly dressed men who held folded cloths to their faces. It looked like they where being used to guard the strong smell that drifted from the nearby fis.h.i.+ng boats.
Small children, bare-chested even in the chill, ran wild around the sailors and boarding pa.s.sengers, earning coins for running messages, and clouts on the ear for getting in the way. The Children were ragged and dirty, but they looked as if they did not mind.
Ise brushed her nose with one of her long sleeves, as she fiddles with a sharp hairpin the last gift from her father.
"You seem restless, Ise" her mother said not looking up from her embroidery.
"Perhaps, it is a new 'home' we are traveling to and….it is across the vast ocean" Ise said without looking. "I can't help but wonder…If are travels will be safe."
'Yes, because this would be the perfect chance for Jimbe and her mother to get rid of Ise' Rachel thought.
"There is nothing to be worried about. We are perfectly safe." Her mother said.
"You maybe Mother, but will I be" Ise and Rachel said at the said time. Her mother looked at her and frozen at the coldness in her daughters eyes a coldness that sent chills before quickly disappearing and being replaced by a gentle smile of a blooming beauty. Her mother frowned and wondered if what she saw was an illusion.
'Odd' Rachel couldn't help but think 'lately incidents like this have been happening a lot. Why, does it…maybe its just me"
Ise attention had wondered back out to the wharf, where gray and white gulls swooped and dived at the heads to the fishermen unloading their catch. The fish were living silver, cascading down out of the nest, and as they tried to steal small treasure, the birds made piercing, mournful cries that both Rachel and Ise found strangely beautiful.
One gull, perhaps full of an early breakfast, declined to join its fellows perched on a coil of rope nearby. It looked up at Ise its warm yellow eyes seemingly deciding something before flying toward her. Rachel reached out her hands and so did Ise, in likeness a notion of two minds becoming one.
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The gull landed on their soft hands looking to be adored if only for a bit. Ise's mother wanted to tell her daughter to stop touching it but found the words caught in her throat. As she is looking at the breath-taking smile ensnare her along with the surrounding sailors.
Suddenly there was a cry. Neither human nor animal, it caught the attention of all the gulls who flew in a frenzy. Ise and Rachel a bit upset that the little thing left leaned forward from the window, they saw another bird plummet from the sky. Moving at a speed they couldn't see it clearly, as it dove directly towards the gulls, who scattered with harsh cries.
The azure bird soared up, with one of the smaller gulls dangling from its claws. The fishermen dropped their nets and whooped and clapped at the sight.
"What is it? What is that noise?" Her mother asked.
"It's a bird of prey" Ise said her eyes sparkling in wonder and curiosity "I'm going to go check it out" Ise stood of quickly and ran out to get a better view she heard her mother call for her to come back. But, Ise choose to ignore her as she headed starboard.
Ise saw the beautiful Azure bird land on a boy, his back was facing hers. But both Rachel and Ise could tell the boy was tanned skin and there was something else something that moved the both of their hearts. For Ise it was like her heart was taken by the only the back. But, as for Rachel what she felt was…Familiarity.
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Mission Success
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Soul Fragmentation at 3%
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Recalibrating
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Mission: Fuse with Ina Ise
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Ise was distracted by the back of the mysterious boy while Rachel was confused at what the system met. Neither of them noticed until they had fallen faced first into the water that someone had pushed them.
But, it was far to late by them as water filled their lungs.