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"Talking"

'Thinking'

I gripped my healed hand into a fist before relaxing it and tightening it again. I usually didn't heal myself, but with the battle over the Gold Sagittarius cloth coming in about 2 days, I had no choice.

I straightened up from the tree I was leaning against. There was a place I wanted to visit before the battle actually started. It was a secret hideout that in my first life Shun, Ikki, Hyoga, Seiya, Shiryu, and I had discovered one day… mostly me. I always visited it before any of the battles.

I started to sprint down the road and into the forest. I had the strangest feeling like someone was following me, but in terms of speed, none of the boys were faster than me. That was the only thing that I could really be proud of: my speed.

Seeing the waterfall, I slipped behind it and dived into the waterfall. The rough waves helped push me to the secret underwater cave that was at the bottom of the spring. I swam inside the entrance and took in the air inside.

The flashlight I had left before I went on my journey for the Delphinus cloth was still there, and luckily, it still had batteries. I smiled at the thought of when the first time I came here with everyone, they were confused as to how I managed to get the flashlight through the water.

"I told them I took off my shirt and wrapped it inside before diving down here as quickly as possible. Those red faces were so amazing. I never even knew they could blush so hard before that time… when they knew I was a girl," I said to myself, walking along the cave to the very back.

My hand traced over the marks on the walls. They were the only things there that stayed the same every time I was reborn. It was strange how the marks didn't disappear, but I was glad. They were my only memories of happiness after all.

"We played hide and seek in this cave once. I got lost once, and it was really scary. I never admitted it to them when Ikki found me and brought me back," I murmured, looking at the string of halls. "Ever since that time, I memorized the entire layout."

I continued walking deeper into the cave.

"There was a secret we all discovered deep in the back, if I remember," I murmured, shining my light around. "It was the Gold Cloth of Ophiuchus, the 13th Gold Saint. We did more research and learned that she was the only girl amongst the Gold Saints, and never wore a mask despite being a girl. She was looked down upon by everyone but the others. I wanted to be like her."

I stopped in my tracks when I saw the cloth.

"I guess that was when my curse started. The box opened on its own and the Cloth attached itself to me. We were all freaking out, but in the end, all of us thought it was really cool, despite it being too big for me. We vowed to come back here once we became real saints, and try to discover other Gold Cloths so that we all would be Gold Saints."

I laughed bitterly and crumpled to the floor.

"In the end, it was only me who got to come back."

I laid down on the cold ground.

"They say that the 13th Saint was the most powerful of them all, but eventually was killed because she had learned how to bring the dead back to life," I said, looking at the ceiling. "Her powers were passed on to me, and now I can't even die properly. How… sad."

I laid down there and just stared at the carvings in the ceiling.

"Or so I thought. I know… that if I do this correctly… I can finally be free and die peacefully. I just have to keep on enduring this till then," I assured myself, sitting up. "So, I ask you to stay here until that time of battle comes."

I shone my light on the Cloth Box again.

"When it does, please, will you come to my side and help me? That's all I really ask of you, Gold Ophiuchus Cloth," I said, and turned around, heading back to the entrance of the gave. A golden light reflected off the walls, and I knew that the cloth had just answered me with a "yes".

I gripped the Gold right gauntlet that I was intrusted with tightly as I swam up to the surface and left the secret cave once again.