A Tale After Four Lives - Volume 1: Receiving The Reward Chapter 38 38: Samsara

“NOOOOOOOO!!!”

Aura screamed dramatically as she fell to her knees, tears threatening to spill from her eyes while putting on a face as if she was a child being disowned. “Master, please don’t leave me”, she pitifully said.

Tosca who was standing behind Aura wore a confused expression not understanding how Alex leaving would bring out such a dramatic reaction from Aura. “Aura, what’s wrong?”

Aura turned to Tosca, “You don’t understand when Master sais he’s leaving it could take anything from a year to a few decades for him to come back.”

Tosca’s eyes went wide when she heard she might not see Alex in a few decades, She might not have known him for long and he might not give off the same healing vibe Aura does, but she found that she would miss him quite a bit if he were to leave. Her eyes became teary as she joined Aura and pitifully stared at Alex.

Being assaulted by these gazes Alex didn’t know what to do, there was the usual Aura pity me gaze that he had grown immune to then there was the knew to pity me a gaze of Tosca which he hadn’t adapted to and it ‘shot him right in the feels.’ Not being able to put up with it he could only relent, but whether by luck or something else he was planning on taking them with him but like usual Aura jumped to conclusions.

“Relax, this time I’m taking you with me. So make sure your ready we should be leaving around tomorrow”

‘I still can’t understand why she is so immature while she is only a few centuries younger than me’, Alex sighed at his thoughts as he watched Aura’s face as she processed what he just said. He found it quite amusing since her face was first filled with confusion then contemplation finally as if a light bull was lit she started shining as a goofy smile appeared on her face.

Tosca’s pitiful face was also replaced with happiness as she thought about where they might be going, ‘Master is so nice, I wonder where he’s taking us’, she thought while unconsciously copying Aura in calling Alex, Master.

“Master I knew you were the best”, Aura jumped up after she fully understood she was going with Alex, and with quick movements, she hugged him, her arms going around his neck while sitting on his lap and squeezing his head into her chest.

‘Fluff’ went through Alex’s mind as he balanced out for a moment not expecting Aura to overreact so much but he composed himself in less than a nanosecond. His muffled voice sounded out from between Aura’s twin peaks.

“I appreciate your… feelings Aura, but could you please let up just a bit so that I can talk to the two of you about our next actions”

Aura started giggling, “Master that tickles”, as she eased up on her hold on him as not to have him ‘tickle her’ by speaking any longer, but she did not get off his lap and by the looks of it she had decided to stay there come hell or high water.

“Now then, I don’t suppose you’ll be getting off me will you?” Alex asked just to make sure and Aura cutely shook her face while leaning comfortably on Alex’s chest.

Tosca watched as Aura laid blissfully on Alex and could help but think, ‘That looks comfortable’, but quickly shook her head as a blush appeared on her face.

“Ok, Tosca, you can come here too”, Alex called out to the little girl having read her like a book. She hesitated for a bit but after taking another look at Aura’s blissful expression walked up to Alex.

Alex shifted the daydreaming Aura onto his right lap and made room for Tosca on his left, the girly climbed onto his lap and buried her blushing face on his chest. Alex gently rocked his left lap while caressing Tosca’s beautiful white hair, causing the girl to get a warm feeling in her heart as she calmed down and slowly fell asleep on Alex.

“What am I going to do with you…”, Alex whispered under his breath as he stared at the smiling Aura that was lying don on his chest, his eyes flashed with deep love, then he turned towards Tosca who was sleeping in his left lap and it turned complicated, “..and you”.

“Aura…”, Alex softly spoke, after a few minutes.

“Mhhhh”, Aura looked up at Alex, her beautiful face blushing in a deep crimson as she stared at Alex’s face, Which ones again only done a light smile with clear eyes that held not a single ripple of emotion.

“It’s time to discuss my plan”.

“Ok”, Aura said as she waited for him to continue, not planning on moving another inch.

“Sigh*, I have been thinking of an excuse for when I move around in my different forms, though it might not be the best idea I think we should do it under the name of a group that we create ourselves.”

“Master, are you planning on founding your own Faction or cult?”

“Nothing that fancy, but it would be better than going around as a nobody that’s from nowhere,”

Aura put on a wry smile, “I doubt, Master would ever be considered a nobody no matter which forms he appears in, I have already seen three of them and none of them are weak, I doubt the fourth one would be any weaker, so Master what is the real reason you want to set up a faction?”

“Hahaha”, Alex laughed softly as not to wake Tosca, “you truly know me the best, well the truth is I just want an excuse to join in all the fun that is happening right now and will happen in the future,” Alex said with a mischievous grin.

“I knew it, all this effort just so you can mess with people and look just while doing it”, Aura said disapprovingly but the excitement on her face said otherwise, she couldn’t wait to make people die out of anger.

“So what will the group be?” Aura asked her smile just as mischievous as Alex’s.

“I think it should be an Order, one who is created to gather knowledge and use that knowledge to help others, the second part is up to the whims of the members ”

“Of course it is but, an Order?” Aura thought before giving Alex a knowing look, “Are you missing your previous order of Paladins, Master?”

“I can’t deny that”, Alex spoke truthfully as he remembered the time he spends in his first life as a paladin.

“So what will be our positions?”

“I think I will be using all four forms as the leaders of the Order, while you will be Lamberts Second and Tosca can be your apprentice.”

Aura’s eyes went hazy as she thought of a certain Paliden, ” I will be traveling with him again like before…”

‘That’s still me you know, Alex thought wry, but he could somehow understand Aura’s affection to Lambert’s form since it was the form he was in when he first saved her thus Lambert’s image will always be burned into her heart.’

” We will continue this tomorrow, for now, you can go and rest”

“Mooo, do I have to?”, Aura asked unwillingly to move from Alex’s lap.

“Sight” Alex sighed as he leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes, “We can stay like this for tonight”, he relented.

“YAY!”, Aura silently yelled as she snuggled up against Alex.

“Just for tonight”, Alex said, as he slowly drifted off to face his nightmares one more night.

As he slowly drifted off to sleep he thought of a name for the order, it just appeared in his head and took ahold and he thought it fitting giving his past.

‘Samsara’