"Do you reckon mother will kill us for this?"
"Definitely."
"But is not our fault. Mother is the one who's put the vases at this kind of place!"
After I narrowly escaped from the engagement with Jeord, I become a little too excited and ended up breaking a few vases. Not just any vases, but the heirloom of the Claes and Adeth's household!
"Can we just hide the pieces?"
"Good idea, Katarina!"
"No, we can't."
"But why?!"
"Because Mother will definitely suspect us if she doesn't see the vases at that place."
"U-umm.."
"Do you have anything to add Katarina?"
"W-what if we tried to fix it? With glue or something similar?"
"?!"
"Right! That option still exists! Thank you Katarina for that brilliant idea!"
"Now, our mission is: finding glue or something similar, and fix the vases before Mother noticed! Meeting closed! Hurry Katarina!"
"Okay!"
"I'm screwed..."
She couldn't find any glue in this house! And to think her plan went up in smoke in only 5 minutes!
"Well, I'll just accept Mother's punishment..." If only she can just fix it with a clap of her hand...Wait!
This is a world with a fantasy setting, isn't it? Surely alchemy existed in this world, right?
"Next destination, library!"
Alchemy did exist...but just as a way to make potions and salve, not to fix things like in the anime...
She totally screwed!
Well, she already accepted she probably, nay definitely get a harsh punishment for the vases later.
"Well, no harm in trying this experiment."
She is currently in the backyard of her house. She just finished drawing transmutation circle using the chalk she takes from her father's study room, but she does not quite remember what this hexagon is within two circles and filled with different types of shapes and symbols transmutation circle used for. She put the shards of the vases inside the circle.
She focused the flowing mana inside her towards Earth beneath the transmutation circle. Before she can clap her hands to the earth, she can hear someone calling her name.
She searches for the origin of the voice and sees her parents, gardener Tom and her personal maid Anne coming her way.
Not wanting Mother to see the shards, she quickly clapped her hand and slammed it onto the ground, though she thought her endeavor is just fruitless. But no harm trying, yes?
Though the black and purple-ish electrical discharge that rose from the circle tell a different story. Her parents, Tom and Anne stopped in their tracks when they see the electricity.
Suddenly she is in a white space of nothingness, instead of her backyard. She looked around, and she sees a large door just behind her. Behind her is a large floating ornamental door, decorated with a large engraving of a tree, and within the branch of the tree, she can see alchemical symbols and at the top of the tree, symbol for Earth element, and unknown element in two smaller circles surrounding the largest circle with the sun? Or it is a star? symbol. But what makes her shocked is what is written on two circles that are on the bottom of the tree and disconnected from the tree. Kanji for "reincarnation" and "death" are written in separated circles.
"What...did I accidentally do human transmutation!?"
Shit, this is bad, she don't want to lose anything! Maybe Truth will let this slide?
Speaking of Truth, where is it/she/he? Don't they suppose to greet her once she is in this white space?
"This is surprising. You accidentally do human transmutation?"
Suddenly a feminine-sounding voice can be heard. She quickly turns her head towards the voice. There, in front of her, a featureless, white version of her sitting, surrounded by a black outline.
"I want to ask who're you, but I already know who are you. And yes, I did accidentally do human transmutation. All transmutation circles look the same and I don't think I will be able to do transmutation." She explained.
"You have a weird soul." Truth speaks after observing her for a few seconds. "Based on your Gate, your soul is reincarnated soul in your current body, is that correct?"
"So you know... It makes sense, seeing you are the World, the Universe and the nearest thing to God, and most importantly...me."
"And you do know I will take a toll for this, yes?"
Before she can speak, the door behind her opened, revealing a singular grey eye. She slowly turned her head from Truth to the door behind her. Many tiny hands emerged from the door. They drag her inside. She doesn't struggle her way out, as there is no way out. Once she was fully inside, her head almost exploded from the sheer alchemical knowledge of the world. But she can manage this amount of pain. Dying is more painful than this. She can't forget that feeling and the pain. After what she felt like forever, she was released from the domain of God, her head now full of the knowledge of alchemy.
"W-what my toll?" She stuttered, her brain has difficulty making coherent words.
"You are a little bit...gluttonous, so the toll will be the part that creates that gluttony." Truth speaks once again.
The part that creates gluttony in her?
"And by the way? I fixed the vases for you."
She doesn't have time to think, as her stomach is in very incredible pain, almost at the same level as dying. If she just...close her eyes now...
She awake in the same place where she did human transmutation, the Claes's backyard. The black and purple lightning that rose from the circle is now gone. In the middle of the circle are now fixed vases of Adeth and Claes.
When she looked at where her parents, Tom and Anne standing before, there are few additions, namely Prince Jeord and his entourage. That sudden black lightning surely draws his attention.
Before she can say anything to her parents that coming her way once no more lightning coming from the circle, she can feel the same sharp pain she feel in her stomach before coming back here. Blood started coming out of her mouth, and she can feel her consciousness slipping away again. The last thing she sees is her parent's face before everything becomes black. Unlike that place.
This time she awake in her room. When she looked out the window, only the dark of the night greeted her. She slowly rose up from her bed, walked towards the window. She still feels the pain in her stomach. When she tried to touch her stomach, she frowned when her stomach somehow feels... empty. Did Truth take her internal organ? If so, what did they take?
"Did Truth take part of my stomach?" She mused. She looked over the place she had done human transmutation earlier. Looks like the circle is being examined when she is asleep, as she recognized some tool left by Ministry. But luckily, due to her drawing the circle at fragile Earth instead of a solid surface like rock or marble, the circle is now unreadable and doesn't make any sense. Not that it will make sense even if the circle is in good condition. No one will understand that circle.
"Well, I should sleep now."
Once she wakes up, her parents, Anne, and an unknown man and woman walk into her room after Anne notified them.
She guessed the man and woman is a healer and assistants. Once she gives them permission to scan and examine her body for any wound, they began their job. She was surprised when the man's started to glow. When he passed his hand over her stomach, the man's face shows a surprised and worried expression.
"So did my entire stomach is gone or just some part of it?" Her sudden question shocked the man.
"How do you know, miss Katarina?" The man asked. Her parents show worried expressions as well.
"I'm already been told by-" she stopped. She can't mention The Truth, The Gate, and the Alchemy to them.
"By?"
"Secret. I'm sorry I can't tell you who's told me that."
"I...see. Anyway, only part of your stomach is gone, and I don't know how."
"Don't worry. At least they don't take all of it. And if it to believe..."
Luigi, Miri, and Anne don't like the expression on Katarina's face.