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Sakura just woke up in the middle of the night. Sitting up, she stares out the window of her room. The moonlight casting a glow through the curtains, revealing her appearance in the darken room.
She sits in a daze and processes the days event and shuts her eyes in frustration.
"I revealed more than I wanted to..."
She covers her face with her hands and groans with irritation.
"I really told them more than I expected to, all that improvising made, yet I had to add more and more information which wasn't something I really wanted. Dammit, I need to write it down or else I'll forget and I'll end up biting more than I can chew, and I already feel like the chunk I bit is already too hard to swallow."
Remembering the event that transpired that day. She felt like she exposed her self a little too much.
"Dammit! This was because I couldn't fine a better lie than the stupid prophecy dreams and shit!"
Regretting her actions a bit. She wondered if she should have kept quite when she heard Kano being imprisoned because of her command. But then the image of a imprisoned Kano being "interrogated" starts to appear in her head and the guilt of almost letting that happened ate her insides.
Thinking of the outcome if she kept her mouth shut, she can only sigh in defeat.
"Fine, who cares, can't cry over spilled milk. For now I at least gained a useful underling."
Feeling tired from overthinking anymore, she decided to just toss those regrets away and think of her next actions after that unexpected discussions between her and the others.
"There are truth mixed with lies in what I revealed to uncle Ser and the others, but I was planning to tell a bit of the truth to Kano since he made an oath to me and decided to devote his all to me. But I can use this lie to reveal a lot of things to Kano that I wasn't planning to, even more things than what I'll ever tell the others."
While thinking about this and that, she got up and walked silently to her second hidden spot in her room.
Sakura didn't just have one place to hide things. Her paranoid mind wouldn't allow it.
She had 5 hidden compartments in her room. 3 that isn't so hidden, a cover to display how innocent and naive a child can be. While the other two are too well hidden that it wouldn't be noticed even with a magic tool, it would hide the more confidential things that must never be found, an example being the stuff she stole from Rose's mothers' old living quarters.
The aphrodisiac and the stolen jewels of her mother.
'Raphael already seemed to have noticed one of the three decoys. I actually was planning to hide the artifact of the spear somewhere in the 2 more hidden spots, but I have no confidence of it not being detected by a high tier tool with how much power the spear holds. So I had no choice but to hide it in the other ones if I don't want to accidentally expose my real hiding spots.'
Thinking about the item she has, she can only truly sigh in frustration.
'I was already aware of the gods existing in this world because of the game and because of the spear fragment I have. But somewhere inside of me I still doubted it... or rather, I wanted to ignore it.'
She goes on her knees and is ready to move the beautifully decorated piece of carpet in her closet. It was spread to cover the floor but is removable for cleaning every now and then by the maids.
'Having normal mortal beings as enemies is enough for me, however immoral beings like the gods of this world are a different story. But seeing as I haven't disintegrated after using them in my lie, it seems that they are giving me a pass for my "insolence" against them.'
While continuing her thoughts, she moves around a few boxes of clothes on the floor in the left corner and then lifts the carpet up.
'For now, there is nothing I can do with the gods being there watching me, I show just make sure not to get over their bottom line.'
Looking at her hiding spot, she is glad only three days passed after the last clean was done in her room. She only touches this hidden place in certain days and by a certain duration, like the first 3 or 4 days after it is cleaned by the maids.
After that, she leaves it be because it would be too suspicious that only that spot wouldn't have a speck of dust when they arrive the next time for cleaning. She remembered the maids did a deep cleaning 3 days ago. So this is critical time to check the hiding spot.
'I have to write down the things that occured today and move this book where I hide the aphrodisiac. I need to be able to grab it any chance I get so I have no choice but to move it.'
Sakura could have grabbed a new journal and write her "prophecies" in it and hide it in the area where the aphrodisiac is in, but then if she gets a new journal out of nowhere and then isn't seen around her, then it would appear suspicious.
The only reason she has the this one was because it was the journal of Rose's mother. It held her secret thoughts and even proof of her connection with the corruption cult bastards.
Sakura stole this with no reserve and wanted to use it as proof. But then thought of using it for herself as well.
'A journal or diary on the surface for the child Sakura is hidden in one of the three "hidden" spots, while this is a journal for my real thoughts and real plans. I should write the bullshit I came up with today and then use it as reference for future talks.'
Thinking that, she searched around the bare wooden floor, she was cautious and didn't use any light source so her vision was very low in the closet that has no windows.
But she found what she was looking for. Using her her index finger she pushes it through a crack in the floor and lifts the wooden board with her finger. It was straining but the moment it lifted up she used her whole hand to lift it all the way.
Using her other hand, she gently moves the wood and what is in display to her light vision are wooden blocks.
Building blocks made for children was covering the floor. Sakura didn't seem surprised. Rather, she was relieved to see it still in place where she last left them.
'I remember in all those suspenseful movies where people would hide things in the cracks on the floor, people always find it because of the hallow sounds that sound after hitting those specific spots. So I thought of using this blocks to at least lessen the sounds. And if even that doesn't work and it is found, then they will just see blocks and nothing else.'
She quietly and steadily moved the blocks out and what laid under them was three long blocks. They were double the size of the blocks used to cover them and they just appeared to be blocks to built bigger structures.
Salura smiles and removes one of them. She pulls it out and turns it. If anyone else saw it would quickly notice that the block has a slip of some sort. That one side of the block you can slide it out to see it hollow inside, yet rather than seeing just the inside of a hollow block, it appears to be a sort of vortex of emptiness.
It would surprise anyone else if they saw it because they would be shocked to see an spatial space was made inside a block for children!?
'Hehe. I bet grandpa Keir didn't expect I would use this not to store my blocks, but to hide away things from others.'
This was Sakura's 4th birthday present from the dwarf emperor. He thought it would be convenient for her to take her blicks with her if he gave her a secret toy block with spatial magic installed in it for storage.
No one knew except for Sakura and him since he gave her a whole set of blocks while mixing this one in it so it doesn't appear suspicious if he had handed her just one block.
Now it isn't something to be so secretive of in a normal setting if he gave her a purse with spatial space magic. However the reason it was so hidden was because he gave her once with mid-tier 4th stage spatial magic installed in it, and more so it was a block which would be considered wasteful to embed such magic on, especially if it was for a child to use for playing.
But the dwarf emperor was an eccentric man who liked to experiment a lot. So even if in the eyes of others it is a waste, for him it was fun and innovating to try something no one else would try.
Now Sakura is 7 years old and would have no real intrest with playing with blocks anymore so it didn't surprise anyone if she lost a few blocks over the years. So she quickly made this block the main source for hiding her things away.
While thinking that she used this change to silently return to where she hid the aphrodisiac and her mother jewels. She carefully removed those things and then brought it close to the block where the void of darkness was. The things were sucked into the void and was stored inside as if it didn't exist to begin with. Feeling more safer with those things hidden more better. She sticks her hand into the block and thought of the journal.
Feeling something in her palm, she grabs onto it and pulls her hand out. A red journal leaves the spatial space and is in her grasp.
Looking at the old journal, she smirks and places in beside her. She then slides closed the side of the block with the opening of the spatial space and now it appeared like any other ordinary block.
She heads back to the closet and begin placing everything back to how it was silently and slowly as she can so it wouldn't end up attracting attention if anyone was awake.
After placing the carpet back and smoothing it a bit, she sighs in relief and returns to the place she left the journal.
On her way she stops and turns toward her desk. There she grabs a pencil and then heads toward the journal on the floor.
She grabs it and heads to the window. Crouching she makes herself comfortable and made sure to position herself so she doesn't block the moonlight.
Using that as her only light source, she flips to the last page and flips it upside down. And then begins to write on it all that just occured and what she discovered while talking to them.
'They seem to be remembering things like I had thought. Itseems to be Gabriel's first time recalling the past, but it seems papa started to recall things even before him.... maybe around when I became Sakura. But I don't have enough information on that except from his reaction. Maybe bit by bit the others will remember bits and pieces.'
While writing that down she then thinks back to what Adonis told her yesterday.
"... it seems that some may not have memories of the past, but the emotions felt in the other lives are remembered by their soul and would have some affect in their interaction with me.... I wonder if that had some type of effect on Phelan when he met me.."
While mumbling her thoughts, she noticed that the moonlight begin to dim to a different shade.
Looking out the window she sees the sun just barely peeking out.
'It's beginning to brighten to the next day. I should put this away and go back to bed. Raphael would be here in an hour or so.'
Thinking that she was too lazy to stand so she crawls back to the hidden spot and uses that as the new space for the journal.
'Well, time to take a nap before facing whatever today brings me. For now, hopefully they are distracted by the information they already recieved. It should buy me more time for whatever else they ask of me. So for now, let's just plan slowly.'