"Where did you even come from?"
Even now, despite Melissa standing directly in front of him, part of him still felt unable to properly process the reality of the situation.
"Well…"
Melissa scratched her cheek awkwardly afterward before beginning to explain.
According to her, she had been born into a family of mages. At first, her life had been completely ordinary by modern magical standards.
She grew up with no memories or any understanding regarding Araxys, reincarnation, or her past life, simply believing herself to be another child born into a mage household.
But then, everything changed on her sixteenth birthday.
"That's when the memories started showing up…"
At first, it had only been bits and pieces. Dreams that felt too vivid to simply be dreams. Familiar emotions toward people she had never met before. Strange flashes of memories involving another life, and another older brother whose face she could never fully remember, no matter how hard she tried.
