The Author's POV

As I watched the demon place his hand against Melissa's hand, everyone's eyes turned white.

'What's going on?'

Their sudden actions startled me as I tried to understand what was going on, but before I knew it, my vision darkened and I was suddenly transported inside a dark space.

'Where am I? What's going on?'

Just like before, I couldn't move my body.

I felt completely trapped.

As I stared into the blackness before me while wondering about what was going on, I noticed that it had started to change, and it was not long before my surroundings started to change as well.

Suddenly, white tiles appeared in the air and shot toward the ground before they neatly positioned themselves together.

That wasn't all.

Also, desks began to form in the air before positioning themselves in what appeared to be a medium-sized room. About half the size of a standard living room.

Books, files, glass panels, and awards?

…one by one a room started to form and my height suddenly started to shrink.

I had many questions that I wanted to ask, but my body was immobile. The only thing I could do at the moment was just watch as a scene unfolded in front of me.

In just a few minutes, everything was set up, and by the time the last tile was placed on the floor, everything seemed to look gigantic.

'No, rather, it isn't the surroundings that are gigantic, but it's me.'

I came to this realization when I found that I was holding onto what seemed to be a small drawing that I couldn't quite understand. They looked like doodles, yet at the same time didn't.

'What happened to my hands?"

Most notable about the situation was the fact that the hands holding only the paper seemed to belong to a child.

Their size…

They weren't even a quarter of what my hands looked like.

They were quite frankly tiny.

The confusion within me only grew as time passed, but I didn't have much time to ponder over the matters as the door of the room suddenly opened.

Clank—!

'Eh?'

A familiar figure emerged from behind the door.

It only took several seconds for me to recognize the figure, and when I did, I was left in a state of shock.

'Octavious?'

He looked exactly the same as the Octavious I knew. But why was he here? What exactly was going on?

Amidst my shock at Octavious's sudden appearance, I realized that my body was shaking.

I felt a weird emotion surge from deep within. One that I couldn't quite describe.

What was it?

Excitement? Anxiety? Happiness?

I wasn't exactly sure.

Taking a timid step to the back, I hid the paper behind my back. All of the actions that occurred were not something that I could control, as the body moved on its own.

"Father."

mouth, what sounded like the voice of a little girl escaped from my

'Father? Octavious?'

this moment that I finally realized that I was in what seemed to be Melissa's body, and the events that previously transpired before coming here started to

didn't the demon say something about breaking pride? Is this what he

realized that perhaps

'…This is bad.'

I tried to move the body in

what was happening, I tried to

It was simply impossible.

fact that I was forced to watch the entire thing as I couldn't close my eyes nor turn my

"Father?"

desk that sat

sat down on the chair and started to look through a

the meantime, my feet gingerly headed toward his desk. Coming to the side of the desk, and finally getting a glimpse of Octavious's side view, my head

a weird feeling enshroud my

make out

'Anticipation.'

I was feeling right now was

of him noticing

happened as thirty minutes

Octavious ever turn to face me as I

I could

step forward and my little hand clasped onto

"Let go."

touched his trousers, Octavious's words

"What do you want?"

he lowered his

eyes…they are the same

observing his eyes, I realized he hadn't changed since this event happened all those years ago. They were still as

"Um…"

my body shifted toward the right and

"Here."

hints of shyness coming from my body when I handed him

"What's this?"

Octavious grabbed it and examined it for several

"A scribble?"

He asked.

My head immediately shook.

"No."

Then what is this? Some sort

"Yes."

my hands shyly twirled behind my back. A bright

I just discovered something

"Oh."

paper, Octavious quickly lost interest and crumbled

on my face froze, and my eyes blinked a couple of times. It was only after Octavious tossed the paper in the trash that he everything finally sank into the little girl's mind as

with this nonsense again. Get

waved his hand, and I

Clank—!

burst open and I shot toward the room's

Clank—!

and my

"Haaa…haaa…"

Drip—! Drip—!

gasped for air heavily as sweat dripped from my face and hair covered my vision while they scattered on the

part of my body burned, and I could barely move

"Again."

right and tightly clenched what

'A spear.'

I thought.