Reincarnated as a... Completely Average Person?

Chapter 58 (Kit)sune 3

[Does it exist for the purpose of me?]

Souls could often attach themselves to purposes, but this was odd.

She quickly gave the soul back to the angels.

She was a proud spirit after all.

And still, she kept running into the man. He was getting even bolder. Actively finding ways to die in the most spectacular fashions keeping enough karma to reincarnate as a human but not staying much longer after that.

[Enough is enough!]

She was tired of seeing the man.

She found a small gap in heaven and hid the man in there. Souls were low maintenance after all.

She stuffed the soul in the hole and left it.

Things were quiet for a while. But she began to miss the man

[A proud spirit shouldn't care about a mortal soul] she would think

Still...

She checked on the soul and was shocked. Somehow it had gained sentience through sheer force of will and was talking to her ogling her.

[Gross] She left the soul to its own devices and told it to stay put or else it would be caught.

Still..

She felt bad

The soul was stuck there because of her own selfishness after all.

So, she checked on it. Her sisters would often ask her where she was going and she would brush it off.

The soul would always cheer every time she came. He began to call her "Okateratsu"

She dismissed the name. Proud spirits don't need names after all.

She began to enjoy her little visits. The little soul always tried to cheer her up even if she wasn't in a bad mood.

[What a persistent soul]

She kept visiting the soul. What? She needed to take care of it right?

She began to enjoy her visits. Look forward to them,

A spirit doesn't fall in love, right?

Right?

Her sisters asked her why she was working less and less. She told them she was tired. They didn't believe her, spirits don't get tired.

She turned the little hole in heaven into a quaint home. Bringing a bed, chair, and a table so the little soul would have a place to sit and lie down. Not that it needed it, but souls are often attached to their mortal comforts.

She moved from her designated nest to living with the soul. Her sisters asked where she was going, and she would say that she was doing work.

Her work suffered but Okateratsu didn't mind. She was happy.

A proud spirit must be happy right?

The little soul gave her comfort. It had grown, being supported by her spiritual presence. Soon she saw the man who had always called her "beautiful" in his image.

That day it proposed.

A proud spirit should be married right?

Okateratsu would rush to finish the minimum amount of work and come to the "home" she had built.

She didn't use her fox form very much at home and preferred to use her human form. The soul seemed to like it.

They lived quietly

Happily.

A child was born.

She looked much more like Okateratsu than the soul. The soul didn't mind.

They lived in bliss.

Until.

That wretched day.

Okateratsu came back to her hole. The entirety of it smashed to bits. She looked frantically for the soul and her child. That's when "he" appeared.

That evil angel.

She was scolded.

Punished.

Her sister didn't come to her aid

They told her "A proud spirit follows the rules"

The angel cast her and her child down. She watched the soul of the man ripped to bits.

He would never again say she was beautiful.

She was chained to a world in which she had never visited. Using her mana, she hid away. She felt shame, she didn't want to see her sisters who had laughed and jeered at her for selling her divinity for the sake of soul She fell into grief.

She had one blessing, and that was that she was able to keep her child.

She built a hollow. Much like the one she was originally in heaven. She told her child to sleep. That one day they would meet her father.

And so she waited.