The Guardian: The Elementalist

Alice

Kaa returned to Atlane with the gate she had made. He staggered as he spent his energy repeatedly opening the gate to another world.

Now that he himself did not realize where he was, he only found towering trees.

"Who? Shouldn't this be the headquarters of the Elves? Why so quiet?" Kaa astonishment. He continued walking towards the dim light in front of him.

After a long step, he finally knew that in front of him was a settlement, he immediately stopped at a tavern.

"Ray's? What are you doing here?" Kaa was astonished after seeing the familiar man sitting while embracing some Elf race women.

"Hey, buddy! You don't look old enough to come to a place like this" Ray said, sounding muddled.

"You drunk? In times like these?" You can only shake your head. "It is precisely because it is very frustrating, I want to drink a few glasses with entertainment" said Ray.

"It's completely immoral! Why are those Elf women here? They're whores? It's slavery?" ask Kaa.

"Not really, rather they are happy to do this job. Isn't that right, sweetie?" ray asked as he stroked the ear of one of the Elf women.

Kaa was completely fed up after seeing it, she was about to leave that dimly lit place, but a man confronted her.

"Why is there a child here?" ask the man. "Hey, buddy. It's best not to deal with her, even though she looks like a child, she's even older than me" Ray said with a slight laugh. Kaa was upset that Ray was heard mocking her.

"Well, really? I see this kid is too sweet for a man, don't you think? Girls today can't possibly have skin as soft as her," the man said as he rubbed Kaa's arm repeatedly.

"You better get your filthy hands off me!" kaa said getting serious. "What do you want, young man? You better come with me to be more useful. If it is sold it must be very expensive," said the man.

Kaa had lost her temper, her magnificent wings suddenly appeared and she flapped in front of the man until it bounced for several meters.

"Ray, you better not play around too much! How many women have you slept with? You didn't check if they were carrying your child or not?" ask Kaa.

"How do I know? I myself have even forgotten which women I've slept with" Ray said.

"Well, it turns out the master is a beast!" exclaimed an Elf woman while caressing Ray's chest. "really? Think so? Should I show you that in bed?" ask Ray. The women just screamed in excitement at Ray's temptation. She finally went out of the shop.

It was then that a long blue hair decomposed in the air. For a moment, he realized it was a girl.

"Alice? That you?" ask Kaa. "Truely, it's me" the girl smiled. Kaa approached him.

"What really happened all this time? You're not aging? Are you also a Chron?" tanya Kaa was curious.

"The chron? That's right, I'm the Chron" Alice said. "It looks like we don't talk much, you just gave me the idea to make a settlement on the seabed and leave" Kaa said.

"I'm sorry if I'm being disrespectful" Alice said. Kaa tried to notice him again. "It turns out you're pretty polite well, I thought you'd look like a talkative girl. How old are you now?" tanya Kaa was curious.

"As you can see, it's my age now" Alice said. Kaa laughed too. "Where might I know! Chron has a period of respite from aging at certain ages, for example when we are seventeen, we will look the same for the next hundred or two hundred years" Kaa said.

"I'm only eighteen years old" Alice said. "That's impossible! Twenty years ago you looked like this too! you must be over thirty years old!" kaa.

"Do you think Alesse is female or male?" ask Alice. "Of course he's a man! Why do you doubt it?" tanya Kaa was astonished.

"That's impossible! Is it really a man?" Alice was doubtful. "What keeps you denying it?" ask Kaa.

"Hm! Do you think a man dies and reincarnates into a woman is it possible?" Alice asked back.

"What are you talking about? Reincarnation? I've never come across a joke like that except for him claiming to be completely insane" Kaa said.

"Is that so? So you think so?" alice asked, her face looking disappointed, she immediately disappeared in front of Kaa like water evaporating rapidly.

"What the fuck is that girl? It just disappeared! I haven't even got my answer yet" Kaa said.

He ignored what he saw and left the place. He was looking for a decent place to stay for a short break.

After a while of laying down on the bed, he felt very empty. Being able to travel with Alesse and his friends was new to him. When they are not there, they feel lonely too.

"What else is this? Am I feeling lost? How strange! Not as usual!" kaa.

He wants to go to Atlane to see Atlas. Only he and his family have.

Finally he was able to open the gate for the last time, at that time he was lucky because the gate between the worlds he opened was directly connected to the dining room of the Atlas house.

"I'm home!" after passing through that gate. He could not maintain his standing position as his energy was already drained to open the gate. At that time Atlas immediately restrained his body and lifted him to the bed.

"He's better suited to be your son, why call him father?" asked Abel astonished.

"You don't understand it for not watching it live for hundreds of years! He's been babysitting since he was five!" Atlas.

"Seeing her teenage body is very unconvincing" Abel said. "This is the privilege of the Chron. They can live for thousands of years" Atlas said.

"It means the same as the Elf race? They're also long-lived, right?" ask Abel. "Elf only lived for hundreds of years, the oldest probably only up to fifteen centuries, even if he did not contract a deadly disease" said Atlas. "What's different about Chron?" ask Abel.

"Chron lived for thousands of years, I've heard about five thousand years. They can live that long because they never deal with humans. The only thing that can stop Chron's longevity are murder and natural disasters. There is no disease that can make him die because he is immune to disease. They will die after entering old age like humans, and that is different for each Chron. Some have experienced aging at the age of two thousand years, and so far the longest is five thousand years," said Atlas.

"How many years will this teenager live?" abel asked while looking at Kaa who was sleeping asleep.

"He's not someone who hopes to live longer, maybe we'll all leave him before he gets older" Atlas said.

"Why does it feel so sad" said Abel, he felt sorry for Kaa's situation. "It's also dad's fault for forcing him to come along. Actually he did not want to deal with humans for fear of loss, but the father followed him from childhood to adulthood," said Atlas.

"Why talking about this makes me think of my sister" Abel said.

"Anne, she's a strong and brave girl, she looks a lot like your mother," said Atlas gloomily, still mourning the passing of his daughter and wife despite years gone by.