Ball of Nothing - Chapter 41
Chapter 41
Isis snorted as she failed at suppressing her laughter . Freya outrightly chortled and Gaia smiled . Sedna sighed at her nephew's question . It was difficult for them to see Zero as their father but En had a point .
The brunet shuffled his feet with both cheeks tinted red in embarrassment . En was technically right . However, the young boy wasn't Great One . He was Zero . As Zero, he had no recollection of creating the Great Gods but he experienced being taken care of by them as a child . If anything, he saw them as his parents instead of his offsprings . It was only natural to call En uncle out of respect .
En sighed at the explanation Zero gave him . He felt a huge headache coming on . Despite Zero's technical age and seniority, he behaved exactly like an innocent child . The King of Trials couldn't hold it against an innocent being . Ignorance is not a sin although it could be counted as a crime . Then again, his job was to determine sins and not crimes .
Clearing his throat, En put on his most serious expression and looked at Zero . He was going to have Zero stop calling him uncle no matter what!
"Zero . I understand that you want Egui here to be your friend . I can put his soul back together and write off all his sins . I can even give him a new life and name but on one condition . "
Nervous, Zero asked what it was . The boy knew that he had nothing to offer En so if the scary King of Trials decided he wanted cakes or cinnites, Zero couldn't afford it .
En bent down and spoke in his most serious tone . "I want you to be friends with me as well . "
The goddesses fell over in surprise and Zero blinked .
"WHAT?!"
"How do I become friends with you?" Zero asked nervously . He wasn't technically friends with Egui yet and didn't know how people became friends normally . Didn't you have to do something to be someone's friend? Egui told him a story and Zero brought him back although it all started with Zero's mistake . But they still did something for each other so it was easier to be friends . What about En? Zero was scared of En's eyes . . . they were as passionate as Freya's when she was in 'teacher mode' . It made Zero want to run away .
En thought for a while . That was right . . . he'd never had a friend in his life either . How does one make friends again? In fact, what do friends do?
Looking at En's troubled face, Freya snapped a few more pictures with her intergalactic communicator . Merlin and Steve Jobs had worked together on this new model in Heaven . Those two weren't gods yet but their creation was god level quality .
That's it! En brightened up and took Zero's hand in his before giving the boy his intergalactic communicator . It was an older model but still good enough . He'd already gotten a new communicator and transferred the contacts back in the purgatory office but didn't bring it out because he was more comfortable with the old model .
"This . You must keep it and use it . I will call you using the communicator from time to time so we can talk even though we are far apart . If you do this, we will become friends and I will help you with Egui . "
Zero held the device in his hand . It was tiny and could be clipped on his shirt . He didn't know how to use it yet but he can ask Sedna later . Behind him, the goddesses gave En a dirty look but held their tongues . En simply ignored them and told Zero one last thing before he excused himself to fix Egui's soul .
"Also, since we are now friends, you need to stop calling me Uncle . Just call me Enma or En like my mothers . "
Zero grinned . "Okay, En! I'm happy to have you as my friend!"
With that, En left and promised to bring Egui back in two days .
"Zero!" the goddesses cried and pounced on the brunet . "You must also answer our calls!"
Slightly shocked by the aggressive behaviour, Zero told them he had no idea how to use the communicator .
"Oh, don't worry . It's actually really easy! See this here? This is the charging point where you transfer energy using magic . Over here you can change its appearance . . . "
As the goddesses explained the various functions and features of the communicator, Zero's stomach rumbled . He felt unwell as the rumbling became louder . However, the goddesses who were too engrossed in their explanation didn't notice the noises until Zero swayed on his feet and collapsed weakly .
"Zero? Zero!"