The Voice On The Rival's Head

Chapter 1: The Introduction

'You can hear me?'

Asked the strange voice, Verite finally found out because of the sound he heard from since this morning after Verite woke up and put on his clothes. He heard a voice that sounded like small mutters saying like 'Ah so ya' 'Oh I'm right about this place' it happened quite a lot and quite large Verite almost doubted his sanity when he could not find the sound element.

"Yes. I can hear you." Verite replied, the sound of her sighing, showing her sense of relief.

'Thank God, I'd like to talk more with you but if we continue talking like this your friend will think you're out of your mind.'

The voice said, Causing Verite's attention Back to Helian that Verite forgot her existence after hearing this voice talk, Helian looked at Verite as if she would be possessed by an evil spirit.

"Who are you talking to?" Helian asked, her gaze somewhat painful, she sounded really worried about Verite's sanity.

"Ah... It's just my delusion, sorry." Verite said, if he said there was a sound in his head no doubt he would be considered insane he would be considered insane.

"So you're saying I like you?" Helian asked, pitched in curiosity Verite felt she was speaking more than ever.

"Forgot that, or do you really like me?" Say Verite.

"..." - ".Helian was silent.

"Let's go, you said Mr. Jardi had a job for us, right?" Helian said, she got up and left.

'Hehehehe' Verite heard a ludicrous voice in his head, Verite wanted to say answer but no words came out of him.

Verite and Helian began to do the work Mr. Jardi gave them, which was to transport various goods to the homes of certain people in the city.

Helian and Verite split up in the middle of the road because their delivery addresses were different, Verite was used to doing this so she had no worries because she was already familiar with the customers of their facility customers, after they parted the voice in Verite's head started talking again.

'So this is the city you live in, somewhat different from what I imagined.'

"Different?" Verite whispered, careful in answering the speech of the voice so that he was not heard to speak alone.

'Yeah, I guess this place is going to be dirtier and smaller like a lot of medieval fantasies I read a lot about. This place is more than worth living in and people here look satisfied with their lives.' He said as Verite walked through the market district filled with activity and noise.

"Middle ages fantasy?" Verite asked, he was interested if the voice in his head was also reading the novel "I don't know what medieval fantasy is but Azalea City is indeed more prosperous than other cities, but Azalea City is indeed more prosperous, thanks to this City leader Duke Bloome who is great and competent in handling government matters, even a child with no parents like me can have a future because of it." Clearly Verite, his thoughts led to the many sad stories he heard, about other city cities that were devastated by hunger and poverty because they were led by nobles who did not care about the population below them, they suffered so much that they were forced to eat tree bark just to stifle their hunger and in the end they died into monster food, Verite could not imagine it happening to her, he thinks he's quite blessed.

'Ah so yes... It seems like this city has competent rulers.' Say that voice, it seems impressed. 'Oh yes Verite? your name is Verite, right? How about you try to answer me with your mind rather than with your voice, maybe I can hear you. And you don't have to worry about being heard.'

"All right..." Whisper Verite, Verite began to form words in her mind. 'How? Can hear?' ask Verite.

'Yes, I can hear you, thank God, with this we can talk more easily.' Tell me that voice.

'Yes I feel better too, I don't want to be mistaken for a madman because people see me talking.' Verite felt relieved as well, this made their conversation easier.

'Who said you weren't crazy? You have a voice in your head'

'...'

'Sorry, sorry I was just kidding.'

'... So who are you really? Why are you in my head?' finally asked him what he wanted to ask from the beginning.

'Yes...' The voice lengthened 'If asked why... I don't know, the last time I remember I was just a normal human being who slipped and got hit by a car and when I woke up I was already in your head.' She's saying.

'So... You're a ghost?' Verite said, maybe he should call the exorcist... The existence of ghosts has never been proven but that is why they have no evidence that ghosts exist.

'Maybe. I don't know for sure, maybe it's all a dream and I'm lying in a coma in the hospital... I hope not, because if that truck doesn't kill me that hospital bill will take me out. '

Verite didn't know what to say, he started to feel sorry for this person, the uncertainty of his circumstances might weigh him down. 'What's your name? Do you remember your name? Is there anything I can use to call you?' Verite asked, calling out this voice with the word 'this voice' started to tire after a few times.

'I remember.' He replied without hesitation before falling silent for a moment. 'But my name is boring, just call me Mefras, because this is my favorite word.'

'Alright Mefras, I don't know if I have the ability to help you, but if you need anything just ask me.' Verite offers, she doesn't know anything about the occult but she helps Mefras with the basic information she knows about where he lives.

'thank you. You've been helping me talk, I'm glad I have a friend to talk to.' Mefras' voice sounded sincerely. 'I will accept your offer because I still have some questions about this world like does this world have magic?'

'Magic?' Verite raised his forehead, there were many kinds of magic that he knew but he certainly did not know anything about evil spirits.

'Yeah, you know, fireballs? spray water? make things float? Summoning an ancient goddess from the sea?'

'Ah... I think what you mean is thaumaturgist, ' said Verite. 'I don't know what kind of detail they were able to summon the ancient goddess but I do know that they made the lamp in our parlour, I also heard that they could use various powers to fight monsters but I never saw them, maybe I can ask Mr Jardi later?' Ask Verite.

'This doesn't bother you, please ask. Maybe I can get a new body and get out of your head.' Mefras. 'By the way, how old are you?' Ask Mefras.

'I'm eight years old, entered nine of these years ' Verite replied.

'You are an adult... When I was your age I was a snot boy whose job was just eating and watching tv. I'm amazed you can calmly face this situation.'

'Ah is nothing.' Verite said, his face is a little red, if people see him they will be confused why this child is ashamed of himself.

'I'm serious.' Say Mefras. 'Look at your friend Helian, she's confused about her feelings and finally in her confusion she shunned you, a response that a child of a lifetime usually does.'

'Why did you bring him?'

'Because he's the only child your age that I know of, I just woke up this place remember.'

'So... What am I supposed to do with Helian?' Verite asked, this was the first time she knew someone liked her, she wasn't sure she could stare at Helian normally after she learned of this.

'yeah... Whatever you do, he hasn't said anything yet, has he? he can hold it and let it go without saying anything, because you're young you have time to find your identity and what you're going to do, just keep going and face the problem when they come 'Suggest Mephylas.

"Yes you're right, I'm still young. I still have time." Verite muttered as he finished his goods, meanwhile he was accompanied by Mefras who kept asking about this place.

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Meplias was relieved that this girl wanted to hear him quietly, ordinary people would definitely feel like she had gone mad, or worse still think he is a supernatural being who will try to instigate his listeners slowly.

Mefras was amazed at the arrival of Verite as an adult child compared to his contemporaries, such as Helian, from which Mefras saw Helian, Helian was a grown-up child for the rest of his life, but he still shows his favorite taste in a childish way according to his age. Perhaps Mefras made them friends, it would help not only Helian but Mefras and Verite as well.

Speaking of patience, Mefras was pleased that Verite answered his question patiently, so that Mefras could know the circumstances surrounding him, from the city he lived in, the leader of this city and even the existence of magic.

speaking of magic Mefras was not at all surprised at its existence, when compared to its circumstances, a human who gets hit by a car and by some coincidence becomes the in-head voice of a magical orphan girl is a lot easier to believe

Even the possibility that his existence here happened because someone tried to use a magic is not empty, unfortunately Verite does not know much about magic, but fortunately he can ask about adults later.

Speaking of adults, Verite also explained about this city and its leader, Duke Bloome, a noble who, as a, he was the ruler of this region and he had the impression that the bloome Duke was a competent ruler and favored by his people. Compared to the records he read about the medieval city that Duke Bloome ruled was much more prosperous.

There is no plague that kills people, the people do not fall into poverty while the nobles get richer and fatter, no slavery or oppression afflicts this city.

Let it be that this place is still far from the so-called utopia, the city may prosper but this place is only a small part of this empire, Duke Bloome was a noble who followed the concept of noblese oblige, the capital city of the city, a concept that basically proposes that the person above has an obligation to help and educate people below, unfortunately many nobles and rulers who do not follow this principle.

And this doesn't include death from monster attacks, yes the world is filled with monsters, Verite says they are the reason why humans don't spread as quickly as possible, like the fantasy world that Mefras often plays in, it seems like Verite's parents were the victims of the monster attack, Verite and the other children of the facility.

The verite facility that lives in is an orphanage and educational place called Blooming Bud, this place is filled with children whose parents are attacked by monsters, so monsters are a great threat to the morning people of the world.

The attack attack seemed to be quite a lot if people in this world were already used to the attack and thought it was like he was alive, Mefras remembered something similar to this in his world, he remembered reading about Japanese people who were used to earthquakes being part of their lives.

Mefras thought it was natural that people of this world had magic abilities, to compensate for the frequent attacks of monsters, which occurred, Mefras became curious to see the monster but he was unlikely to harm Verite just to satisfy his interest.

The sun began to decline after Verite finished his task, the plan he wanted Verite to ask about magic to Mr. Jardi but maybe tomorrow is okay. He was already satisfied talking to Verite and knew the basic foundation of this world from Verite.