Limitless The Strongest Revenant-Chapter 686: Drink the poison [1/2]

"Excuse me?" I repeated shocked.

Pixie noticing my reaction, knew something was up.

"U-Uhm, I asked {Compass} to show me to my mother. And it made the number 19 appear in my mind. I asked around and the only 19 that made sense was the 19th floor."

Why? Why was she looking for her mother? Did she not know what having a soulgear with {Day by Day} meant? Her mother died to become a reaper. And she died a second time to give her a soulgear.

But much like the soulgears the Sirens had created, you first needed someone to process them. So that meant, Sierra Richards, her mother already expired and was recycled into a soulgear.

I tried to remember what I knew about the soulgems of the departed. The first one I saw was with the tailor. His father was a Reaper named Gerard Sabre. And as his living kin, when Gerard died, his soulgem was given to his son a human.

Along with his death, his son was given income and a livelihood by IRIS. The tailor joined the ranks of the Forsaken. I hardly thought about it. But why didn’t they make a soulgem from Gerard’s {fate}?

Strength wise he at least reached Level 2. Sierra did not. She only awakened and died soon after. Unlike Gerard, Sierra’s soulgem was not given to Pixie. Instead, Pixie remained oblivious about her mother until her untimely death.

Due to her being born of a Reaper she got turned into one without her knowledge. But that then raised the question, why were the treatment of Gerard Sabre and Sierra Richards so different?

’There is something here. Pixie is half a descendant. Meaning either Sierra was already a Reaper or her father was. But it couldn’t be Sierra, her soulgem showed the stats of someone who barely survived an Enlistment.’

Right, it took nine months to grow a baby. There was no way she would give birth while as a Reaper if she hardly had the strength to defend herself. Even if she hid nine months of the Reaper Tax would have drained her finances.

This meant that one way or another Sierra would have been forced to find a way to earn. The many professions would have been there for her. Unless…

’She was also a rogue.’

At that moment I remembered the words Delroy spoke when we were getting acquainted.

"My {fate} is called {Advent}, I can see the memories of undead. I be like Pixie, except I be summoned outside the battle front. Luckily for me, Illegal recruiters protected me, I awoke my {Fate} after killing my first zombie."

"The zombie I killed be an illegal recruiter man. It be from my memories that I learned that they came to earth, created rouges and processed them."

"If the reapers {fate} is useful, they would be sedated and drained of their blood. To be sold in the market place. If the {fate} be useless, for women they be turned to prostitutes. For men they be sold as slaves. Them recruiters be evil."

’Fuck…’

If it was illegal recruiters Sierra wouldn’t need to worry about the tax. Since her {fate} was hard to use, they would be able to sell it as blood. And as a woman she could work as a slave or prostitute. Her ability of having seven bodies would have been useful there.

And once she died, they would of course create soulgears from them. After all it made no sense not too. She would be one of the many disposable Reapers brought against her will.

’This is… Fuck….’

Delroy was also a Rogue, so much like her, they must have miraculously came into contact with Reaper blood. And should they die on Earth with great regrets, with enough souls they could be brought back as Reapers.

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"Ugh…"

"My lord?"

Pixie oblivious to the revelation I was only now understanding looked at me worried. Why was I suddenly piecing all this together? Why didn’t I think of it the moment I heard?

’Exa.’

[My lord?]

’You heard everything right?’

[Yes.]

’Thoughts?’

’Husband?’ ’Dearest, what’s wrong?’ ’Beloved, your link is chaotic. Are you alright?’

Hearing the voices of my {Kindred}, I tried to calm myself before replying to them.

’I will explain later everyone. Please let me be for now. I am not in danger; I just came into some information about Pixie.’

’Okay. Tell me when you are ready, Husband.’

’Beloved, I am fine giving you space, just don’t try to shoulder everything, I will scold you if you do.’

’Dearest, I expect to hear all the details later. I will not forgive you if you leave something out. ’

Hearing the affectionate words of my girls a wave of warmth wrapped around my heart. Whatever tension and fear I had melted like snow. Right no matter what this conspiracy was. I now had the power to end it. I could make a difference.

’Thank you, everyone. I love you. Exa, begin.’

[Yes. From the story Pixie shared, there is a 45% chance her father was a Reaper. And a 40% chance her grandfather was the 1st generation. The 15% is that Pixie is lying.]

I see. While most would assume her father was the Reaper, it is entirely plausible that even he was a rogue. One would only truly know if after they died. And it was also possible that he died but either had no regret or there was no Reaper who supplied the souls.

’Then Exa, why did I only figure this now? I heard the information even before my honeymoon.’

[My lord that would be your fault. You were able to establish the links and formulate your assumptions because of {Code} and {Calculate}. However, neither of them would do the thinking for you. You must decide to want to understand something first.]

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’Oh.’

That simply meant, I needed to first give a crap about something before my brain thinks around it. As I didn’t really care about either Pixie or D’s stories back then, {Code} and {Calculate} also didn’t bother.

[{Fates} in general respect the will of their Reaper. They will not arbitrarily decide for another without a good enough cause.]

That was true. My {fates} followed my wishes. There could have been a thousand different abilities I could create, but so far, I was the architect of my own set of abilities.

’Okay, then that’s one mystery solved. How about Pixie’s case?’

[I agree with you assumption my lord. You have a 84% chance of being right. Sierra Richards being an untrained civilian forced to be a Reaper after her death is likely. Her being brought her as a rogue and turned into a soulgear is also the most plausible outcome.]

’But why doesn’t Pixie know about the {Day by Day} being made from her mother?’

[My lord this would not be her fault. The fact that soulgears are made from dead Reapers is a touchy subject. Only those in Production, Academics, Fortification and Administration would know. And they are normally forced to stay silent.]

’What? Why?!’

[My lord, those on the front lines like Adventures and Mercenaries are intentionally keep in the dark. For fear that will murder each other to craft soulgear. Ethical dilemmas and irrational responses being the most troublesome of issues that would arise.]

That made sense. After all much like me, it took guts to still use soulgears knowing they were once Reapers. It was fine if you did not know the origin. But to those that did. And especially to those that loved them? It would be hell.

It would take a whole new meaning to desecrating the memory of the dead. This must be the reason why Nyda was shocked to learn of her sister already being a soulgear.

’I’m guessing Rogues would have it worse. There is literally no benefit to telling them.’

[Indeed. That is the case.]

’Should I tell Pixie then?’

[That would depend on how much of her innocence do you wish to kept my lord. Pixie Richards while arguable an adept combatant still is a child. Such innocence would give her a happy life on earth. But in Hellsgate such naivety could kill her.]

"…"

What was the correct thing to do in this case? Would it be better to allow her to live her dream a little longer? Or wake her up to a nightmare so that she would gain the freedom to do something about it.