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Chapter 8

Auteur: Reflection Poetry
Leah looked up at her anxious parents and gave them a playful wink.

“Miss Kane, remember the secret I mentioned on the plane? Well, here it is. Watch!”

She placed her palm on the coffee table in front of the sofa.

In her mind, she said, “Store.”

The coffee table vanished!

Warren and Vivian stared at the empty space, their minds blank with shock.

Their legs nearly gave way.

Vivian sank to the floor, while Warren sprang to his feet in disbelief.

Leah smiled at their stunned faces.

She raised her hand again and willed the table back.

It appeared exactly where it had been.

The sight upended everything her parents thought they knew.

Leah put aside her playful manner and spoke seriously.

“Mom, Dad, remember the emerald bracelet Hayden put on my wrist before he died in my previous life?

“When I was reborn, the bracelet came back with me! I dripped my blood onto it and accidentally unlocked a storage space!”

Vivian, who had fallen to the floor in shock, came to her senses almost at once.

Her eyes lit up.

She grabbed Leah’s hand, unable to contain her excitement.

“A storage space? Like the ones in apocalypse novels, where you can stockpile supplies?”

Leah pressed a hand to her forehead and smiled to herself.

She had almost forgotten.

Her mother was an avid reader.

Over the years, Vivian had read all kinds of apocalypse, superpower, and zombie novels with Leah to grow closer to her.

For a wealthy woman, she certainly kept up with the trends!

“It seems to be that kind of storage space.”

Vivian looked even more excited.

She immediately asked, “Can people go inside it?”

That caught Leah off guard.

“I can go in, but I don’t know if I can bring anyone with me.”

“Mom, Dad, why don’t we try?”

Her mother’s excitement made Leah eager to find out too!

She took Vivian’s hand in her left and Warren’s in her right.

In her mind, she said, “Enter.”

The scene changed, and Leah found herself inside the storage space.

But she was alone in its vast expanse.

Her face fell, and disappointment swept over her.

“It looks like... I’m the only one who can enter.”

She sighed.

If her parents could enter, they would have another refuge when the apocalypse came.

She stood there, lost in thought.

Then, without warning, a cold, emotionless mechanical voice sounded in her mind.

[Storage Space “New Life” has successfully restarted after 1,111 years. Welcome, third owner.]

Leah jolted, and every hair on her body stood on end.

She looked around quickly, her heart racing.

“Who’s there? Third owner? Did two other people have this storage space before me?

“Could they have been Chase family ancestors? But the bracelet disappeared after I unlocked the storage space. How could anyone else have owned it?”

Leah could not make sense of it.

The mechanical voice sounded in her mind again:

[Once the storage space is unlocked, the bracelet becomes a mark on its owner’s wrist and merges with them.

[Only when the owner dies does it leave their wrist and take physical form again.]

“You can hear my thoughts?”

Leah was startled.

[Of course. I am the guardian spirit of this storage space. Since it merged with you, I have dwelled in your sea of consciousness.

[I slept for too long and have only just awakened. I could not fully connect with you when you first bonded with the storage space.]

“Can I bring other people in here?”

Leah asked at once.

That mattered more to her than anything else right now.

After her rebirth, her greatest wish was to keep her parents safe.

[Yes.]

[Have them drip their blood onto the storage space mark on your wrist. Once they form a blood pact with you, they will be able to enter.]

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