Henry sits on the bed while putting his elbow on his lap, and his head rests on both his palms. His thoughts completely take over his mind.
While he was completely lost in thought, he heard footsteps outside the room. He then suddenly lifted his head from his palms and looked around.
Where am I? This doesn't look like the auberge I live in.
His eyes narrow around the room to examine it. He first looked around himself on a wooden bed draped with a woolen blanket.
He then looked to his right, where he found a glass jug with a glass on a mini table. On his left side, he found a vase of flowers on a mini table.
He then looked up to the ceiling only to find a chandelier. He then looked at the walls of the room, which were dyed a light greenish color.
On every wall, designs were carved with a golden color. He looked to the right side of the wall and saw a window open to the outside of the city.
The curtains were flowing as air passed through the window. He then tries to stand up from his bed and grab the side of the bed.
With some extra force, he stood up and put on his leather boots. While he was wearing his boots, he looked at the floor of the room and found that the floor was covered with beautifully designed carpet.
He looks at the wall behind the bed and finds a beautiful painting of nature hanging above the bed.
The painting seems to be beautifully designed with many colors. The waterfall and the river shine with the sunlight of dawn, and near the river, many trees and, between them, a beautiful wooden house were painted in the painting.
Is this really a normal house… It looks fancier than the Palace of Velgravia. Wait, am I in…
As his thoughts were about to get complete, the oak door cracked open, and Éloïse Moreau stepped inside the room while a maid stood on the left side of the room.
She looked back at the maid, who stood beside the room's door, and whispered while moving forward to Henry.
"Hmm, he seems fine; you can go now, Marie."
The maid nodded and closed the door while bowing a little and left. Éloïse clenched her hand in anger as her eyes lifted a little. She leans close to Henry and tries to punch him on the head.
But before she could hit him, Henry moved from that place in the blink of an eye and stood near the window while taking back against the wall. He put his hand in his pocket and started staring at the ceiling.
Éloïse looked fully covered in anger; she raised her head and then stared at Henry.
"How dare you change your soul with my brother? What if his soul got absorbed by Death? He would have died."
Henry released his breath and kept staring at the ceiling. He didn't react or move from his place. Éloïse stood still in her place while clenching her fist in anger. It seems like she would cut her own hand in anger.
She looks at the window, and then with immense heaviness in her voice, she speaks.
"What kind of powers do you hold…? What did you do to replace your soul with my brother's soul?"
Henry let out a laugh and then moved his hand out of his pocket; he put his middle finger on the tip of his thumb and snapped, and in the next moment, he stood beside Éloïse.
He gently put his hand on her shoulder and then pulled her back toward the bed, and after that, he forced her to sit on the bed.
He sits on the ground on his knees and holds Éloïse's hands in her lap, then he starts speaking gently and calmly so she can understand every single word.
"So, Madame Éloïse of Ordre du Miroir Noir. It all happened the moment you sent me into the life and death realm. Your younger brother, Adrien Moreau. He was such an easy target from the start."
The moment before Henry goes to the Life and Death Realm…
At the moment, Éloïse sent Henry's soul toward the Life and Death realm. He drifted away before entering the realm of eternal [life and death].
And flow away in his soul-like form, but not actual soul form. Henry doesn't have a normal soul like humans or other beings. It looks like an actual mortal soul, but it's not.
He flows all the way through in the soul-form world to Éloïse's brother's soul. He first saw many souls wandering around in the open area of the real world, but no one from the mortals was able to see those souls.
These don't look like human or any other being's souls… Are these also some kind of creation?
Henry's thoughts pass through his soul-formed body while he keeps flowing toward the soul he wants to reach. He recognizes the soul of Éloïse's brother right away, which was sitting between many other souls.
Hmm, enjoying your time, pretty boy? Enjoy as much as you want; after all, you are going to have a meeting with Death.
He goes near Adrien's soul and touches it. And after touching, he whispered in his soul form.
"Switch with each other."
As he spoke these words, his soul-form body got absorbed by Adrien's body, and Adrien's own soul got out of his body.
At the moment Adrien's soul left his body, his soul started getting into Henry's soul form, and then he got the senses of Henry and started acting like Henry usually does.
And then Ardien, who is now in Henry's soul form, snapped and started vanishing just to go to the Eternal Realm.
In the current time…
Henry keeps smiling while telling Éloïse all this. He let her hand go and then stood up from the ground with the help of the bed.
He goes near the window and puts both his hands around it. His eyes start staring outside the window at the city.
He opened his lips with a gentle smile and then whispered with seriousness in his voice.
"Why the hell did you start showing your emotions to me like… like you love me…? Did that cafe's girl already tell you? What was I talking to that witch about?"
He stood still and then turned toward Éloïse. He stared at her while closing his hands and seeking an answer from her.
Éloïse blushed a little, but then, suddenly, she swiftly wiped the piece of cloth on her face with her right hand and spoke while standing.
"Well, I don't have to explain myself; you know already."
Henry smiled, and then in the blink of an eye, he stood near Éloïse and then whispered while keeping both his hands folded together.
"Oooh yeah, you were planning to use me while thinking I really liked you." He turned his eyes toward her and continued.
'Remember, pretty doll, I'm able to fool my mom, who is omnipotent and omniscient; you are just a mere mortal compared to her. Not even Death knows I exist. I'm outside the fate of the universe."
Henry snapped his finger after saying all this to Éloïse and vanished into the air without any trace.
Éloïse smiled and then started laughing like a psycho; she put her hand on her face while revealing her left eye. Her yellow pupil glowed as she whispered with interest in her voice.
"If omnipotent and omniscient can't read or see through you… Then I'll."
She seems to have completely fixed her focus on Henry, and thoughts fill her mind as she thinks of taking Henry down and understanding him completely.