GUARDIAN OF THE END

Jason's brain lagged a bit yet his instincts told him to remain completely still.

"All right. Looks like you didn't revert back to simple manly instincts." Seshat noted. "Now don't think too much about my breast and try to feel my heartbeat."

"Easier said than done..." Jason mumbled.

Despite that, he closed his eyes and tried to feel Seshat's heartbeat.

However, minutes passed by in this manner before Jason realized that nothing was beating inside her chest.

[ I ran a small check on her body. It doesn't look like she has a heart. ]

"You don't have a heart..." Jason declared.

A smile appeared on Seshat's face as she let go of Jason's hand. The latter slowly pulled it back while looking at the woman in a new light.

"I wasn't born with a heart, or rather, my heart stopped beating moments after my birth. Unfortunately, my parents didn't let my soul pass away due to the enormous amount of potential I had.

They teamed up with the royal family and the sin of greed at that time to try a necromancy spell on me. Their plan was to just bring me to a self aware state before chaining me to the demon king.

Their plan backfired and he got chained to me instead," Seshat giggled. "That was a fun time for the royal family. I ruled over the continent for a bit before returning here to meet the guardian that was guarding the library back then."

"So you spent time with him and later became the guardian yourself." Jason guessed.

Seshat nodded and started walking towards another section of the library.

Jason stuck closely to her because he had seena couple of books moving on their spot.

He had seen a movie where cursed books could move from their spots and could do harm to other people.

"Do you know that this is the first time in a thousand years that all seven sins exist at the same time?" Seshat questioned.

'So we gonna do Fruits Bas*et here?' Jason wondered silently while shaking his head. 𝘧𝘳e𝚎𝑤ℯ𝘣n𝘰ѵℯ𝘭.c𝐨𝘮

"Normally only two to three sins exist at the same time but currently, all seven sins are alive at the same time. It's quite obvious that something will happen since this much power doesn't gather together for a reason."

"Are you trying to say that some major destruction is about to be caused?"

"Kind of. Another interesting fact is that eight out of the nine major guardians have already chosen their vessel. One more and the nine guardians will also be present in this plane."

Seshat's voice suddenly turned down to a mumble. "The nine guardians of the human race, the seven sins of the demon race, the four branches of the Elves world tree, two master builders of the dwarves and a single balance creator."

Jason asked the system to note all of this information.

It was pretty obvious that thus information would be useful in the future since it talked about the special people from each race.

"Wait, what about demi-humans?"

"That's who I was forgetting!" Seshat turned around and looked at Jason with an impressed expression. "The five spirits of the demi-human race! All of these combined define the strongest potential holders of each race."

Seshat suddenly broke into a sprint and reached a polished wooden desk.

She picked up a black leather-bound notebook and flopped it open to the last page with words written on it.

Black words automatically appeared on the page as Seshat's eyes started glowing.

Jason decided to keep some distance between him and the bookworm guardian lest she released an unconscious attack in his direction.

His decision turned out to be correct one as the space around Seshat started glitching.

Black void like pockets were created in space followed by the appearance of ravens.

The ravens flocked around Seshat and flew in an unorganized manner.

Seshat wasn't bothered by the appearance of ravens and continued to write words in her notebook.

"An year..." Seshat said after what seemed like an eternity. "That's the time we have."

"Before what?"

,m "That doesn't matter." Sehsat shook her head. "You'll be staying in the demon continent for how long?"

"Uh, ten days I think."

"Come visit me on the ninth day of your visit. In the meantime, read this book." Seshat flicked her wrist in the west direction.

A book flew out of a shelf and landed in Jason's arms. The next second, he appeared right next to Astryn and saw the locked doors again.

"That was... weird." Jason sighed.

[ Isn't that true for most of your life? ] The system commented.

"Seshat can be like that sometimes but I guess she took a liking to you." Astryn smirked. "Should we go visit your friend now?"

Jason nodded absentmindedly and followed Astryn.

His demon grandmother took them through another set of complicated hallways before they ended up in front of a door which was exactly the same door as Jason's room.

"Go in. If you want anything, drip the floor with your blood and say my name." Astryn instructed before vanishing from her spot.

'Might as well create a summoning jutsu...'

Jason knocked on the door and waited for someone to open it.

Two minutes passed by in this manner yet no one came to the door.

'Is she sleeping?' Jason wondered silently.

_{𝑓r𝘦𝘦𝘄eb𝒏𝙤vel.c𝙤𝙢}

[ There is another possibility if we go by harem anime standards. Want me to run a check just to be sure? ]

'Please do...'

Jason could already tell what the system was hinting at and he had to admit that the possibility did exist.

However, seconds after instructing the system to check the interior of the room, the door swung open.

"You are all right!" Amber smiled as she hugged Jason.

The latter was taken back by surprise especially when he noticed that Amber's hair were a bit wet.

'Close call...'

[ You almost checked the box for another isekai cliche. ]

'Why do you sound so disappointed?' Jason mentally glared at the system.

[ I just wish things moved at a faster pace. ] The system replied in a sad tone. [ After all, it doesn't seem like we have much time left. ]