Everyone Else Has a System

[Hey! Welcome back! Thought you would be missing us, so called you up]

I looked at that screen before turning around to see a whole damn town in front of me. I saw hundreds of people busily moving around doing their own work, while there was a big screen in the sky above, displaying what I was just doing.

"What… is this?!" my eyes opened up wide as I observed the whole thing..

[Since you were gone, we kept collecting people whose purpose can be fulfilled without disturbing you. Then the number kept adding up and Elizabeth and I thought it would be better to create a place for the people to go about their daily routine. Kind of going smoothly for now, I must say. All credit goes to Elle]

I turned at the screen before asking,"what's that?"

My eyes narrowed at that screen that was displaying everything that I was doing and Amon simply gave out one message

[The credit goes to Elle]

I sighed before asking,"and where would she be right now?" at which Amon pointed at the town using the screen and I nodded before walking towards it.

As I walked inside the town, everyone began whispering to each other as they observed me before looking up at the screen. It was as if they were looking at a Higher Being or something… it felt really odd.

Not long before I reached the centre of the town where a circular hall was placed. It was simply an open area where a roof was placed, supported by a bunch of pillars. Though, since it was all white, it kind of emitted a heavenly look.

There was a crowd in that circular open hall and as I moved towards it, people who were there turned to look at me and upon seeing me, they all cleared up a path for me with a look of shock and disbelief in their eyes.

Ignoring them, I coughed a little before speaking,"excuse me. Will you please tell me what is going on here?" gaining the attention of a few more people as they turned, got scared and moved away from me.

"Zero!!" I heard a familiar voice from the crowd and soon everyone turned to look towards me, got scared, and moved aside. As the crowd dispersed a bit, I found Elle sitting with another old lady who seemed to have lost her sanity as of this moment.

"Zero!!!" spoke Elle with a bright smile on her face as she spoke,"it's really you!"

'Well, I could have come anytime you wanted me to come, you know? It was your idea to give me some space,' I thought, making her a bit embarrassed before speaking,

"I missed you… and I need your help."

Her eyes turned solemn before she turned at that woman and I muttered,"me too, missed you, miss beautiful. Now, who de have here… she looks like she was mentally dead for quite sometime before dying for real… and she has been tortured quite a lot as well."

The more I looked at her, the more solemn my eyes turned. I wondered what kind of person she was and how she would be in the current timeline…

If she were still mentally dead… I wonder what should I do… though I really hoped for her fate to be changed for the better course for whatever I have changed in this timeline.

"Amon… turn the time back… let's get her sanity back and see from there," I muttered and a strange light came falling onto the body of that old woman and soon she started changing. At first, there wasn't any change in her body but soon her white hairs turned back to orangish slowly and I felt a really bad omen.

The colours changed more and more, and rapidly the state of that old woman changed into a young woman of about 18-19 years old. It wasn't that Amon had reverted the time back to 40 yrs or something… he barely reverted to about 3-4 months of time.

It was the brutal torture that had transformed her into this old women which she was a moment ago, 4 months of continuous torture.

That orange haired teenager…

"Clair… who did this to you?" my voice was dry as I looked at her. Clair Redfield of the previous timeline, who was lost after saving me and was stated as dead on the files.

My eyes were filled with fury, yet I was calm right now. The surrounding people started to hide behind whatever they could find and only Elle was standing around me as she too looked at Clair with a really heartbroken gaze.

"Where am… I? Did I die? Is that hell… finished?" she asked a couple of questions in a broken voice and I moved close to her. Watching me moving close to her, she started trembling with fear, and I asked Elle for help here, at which she nodded and began explaining things to Clair.

It took time, because the mental stability of Clair still wasn't restored. She was having a hard time concentrating on things and listening to them, but we still understood a few things left and right.

"I… why did I deserve this…? Emma… My sister? Where is she…? Is she safe? And that kid that I save… how is he? Is he fine?" she asked as she looked at me and I nodded as I explained that Emma was safe and happy right now and that the kid was fine as well. She listened to me and smiled with a bit of force before she muttered slowly," I… am… glad!"

And then her body started turning into golden traces… slowly and slowly she started vanishing in front me and I just saw her evaporating in the air with a blissful expression as her only wish, the safety of her sister was fulfilled… that was her deepest desire.

My heart ached as I… just what kind of failure was I in the previous life of mine? Tears began flowing out of my eyes as I soon returned to where I was... outside the library.

"Why are you crying?" Gloria asked with a worry filled face and I turned around immediately, running straight towards Clair and hugging her tightly from front. Watching me tightly hugging her, she felt a bit embarrassed but still asked,"hey what happened?"

"Nothing… just that… it's nothing… Thanks Clair… Can I stay like this for a while?" I asked in a low childish voice and even though she did not understand anything, she spoke,"you can stay like this as long as you want."