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."

the voice of a little girl escaped from my

'Father? Octavious?'

moment that I finally realized that I was in what seemed to be Melissa's body,

about breaking pride? Is this

that I was seeing her memories, I realized that perhaps everyone

'…This is bad.'

myself as I tried to

an attempt to stop what was happening, I tried to

It was simply impossible.

forced to watch the entire thing as I couldn't close my eyes nor

"Father?"

sat all the way across

he arrived at his desk, pushing the chair back, Octavious sat down on the chair and started to look through

the side of the desk, and finally getting a glimpse

felt a weird feeling enshroud

make out what

'Anticipation.'

feeling right

him noticing

that never happened as thirty minutes

or so minutes that passed, not once did Octavious ever turn to face me as I timidly stared at his

could feel my

my body took a step forward and my little hand clasped

"Let go."

my hand touched his trousers, Octavious's words

"What do you want?"

lowered his head to

are the

hadn't changed since this event happened all those years ago. They were still as hallow and

"Um…"

onto the grip of the paper behind my back, my body shifted toward the

"Here."

from my body when I handed him the paper. Clearly, it meant a lot to the little

"What's this?"

Octavious grabbed

"A scribble?"

He asked.

My head immediately shook.

"No."

what is this? Some

"Yes."

hands shyly twirled behind my back. A

discovered something amazing and wanted me

"Oh."

at the paper, Octavious quickly lost interest and crumbled the paper

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

with this nonsense again.

reply, Octavious waved his hand, and I felt my body shoot up in the

Clank—!

burst open and I

Clank—!

closed shut and my body suddenly started to enlarge before

"Haaa…haaa…"

Drip—! Drip—!

heavily as sweat dripped from my face and hair covered my vision while they scattered on the ground where

burned, and I could barely

"Again."

and tightly clenched what seemed

'A spear.'

I thought.