Wisdom, Dance, and Love (Nilou x OC)

Chapter 24: Homecoming

3rd POV. A few days after Enkidu and his friends saved Irminsul.

It's been a few days since the crisis in Sumeru was resolved.

But they knew something wasn't right or someone is missing.

Nahida: Enkidu......he's not with us when we came back here.....

Nahida: Wait.....w-what if he was stuck in Irminsul's realm of consciousness!?

Nahida: I can't detect his presence!

Paimon: Calm down, maybe we can look for him back where we fought the Balladeer?

Nahida: I already checked and he's not there.

Nahida: But the remnants of his chains dissipated.

Aether: Then.....

Aether: The Enuma Elish is.....a suicidal attack?

Nahida: N-No, that can't be the case.....

Nahida: W-We......

Desperate......Nahida, Aether, and Paimon asked for Cyno's help to track down where Enkidu could've been.

Nilou also becoming worried due to the sudden disappearance of her beloved.

She joined the search party.....

Nilou: He could be in the forest....I'm sure of it!

But even as they searched thoroughly.....

He was never found.....

Where is Enkidu then?

The answer.....

After Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's existence was wiped out from everyone's memory.....

He was transported back.....

To the place where his story began.

The clearing in the forest, where his father held him in his dying breath....

The place where Enkidu was found by none other than Greater Lord Rukkhadevata.

There, Enkidu lies asleep....his right hand, holding tightly upon the pendant that was left to him.

Once he opened his eyes......he immediately recognized it.....

Enkidu: This place......

He gently sits up to have a proper look at his surroundings.

Enkidu: The place where my father died, protecting me in his arms. The place where I also met, Rukkhadevata.

Besides from the Traveler.....

Enkidu was also exempted from forgetting Rukkhadevata. How?