"So you both died?" The question came from Citar's mouth after a huge silence.
"Yes." Kele and Kamu spoke at the same time.
"Then I have only one very important question." He raised his left index finger.
"What exactly?" Kamu tilted his head to the side.
"How are you alive now?" The Bolacsuk boy grimaced, and the younger Teike twin laughed.
"That's right." He wiped his eyes from the tears that had flowed out, then took a deep breath. "I think it would be best if I continued where I left off with the story. We died." He began the story. "I remember crossing over to the Shadow World, where like all the dead, I received the gift of men. I don't know how to explain the feeling, but it was as if someone had hugged me. Later I heard that this feeling is different for everyone. Some people hear the question, some people see someone, I just felt like I couldn't keep my thoughts to myself." He told them.
"What did you say?" Kele asked softly, but his brother just stared ahead of him, into nothingness.
"Damn, I was just starting to enjoy life." He grimaced, then shrugged. "Then suddenly everything went dark and cold, very cold." He said, immersed in his memories.
When Kamu first came to after receiving the gift of men, he didn't really know where he was. He expected to be in the Shadow World, among spirits, but the place where he opened his eyes didn't glow in that otherworldly gray smoke that he identified with the side of the world that is invisible to the living.
"What?" He blinked at himself when he realized that he wasn't just anywhere, but right in the middle of Lombvár, the headquarters of the Koál tribe. He might have thought he was still alive if someone hadn't run through him at that very moment, but that's how he knew he was dead. He just didn't understand that he was in the human world. "I didn't have unfinished business, I shouldn't be a hungry ghost." He scratched his head, but in the end he just got up from the ground.
Kamu had always been smart, no matter how crazy he pretended to be, he knew that he couldn't do anything about the situation, if he became a hungry ghost, he would stay that way. He could do nothing but make the most of his days as a dead person. Encouraged by this, he started to walk the roads of Madüjawr. He had always moved much faster in ghost form and now it was much more exciting to observe everything, since he didn't have to worry about where to appear so that no one would notice that something was wrong with him.
Surprisingly, barely four months had passed since the last request of his life, when everything around him turned upside down. To tell the truth, he didn't think anything special would happen that day, everything seemed so ordinary. Until the bandit skirmish. The event itself excited Kamu a little, who watched the fight with sparkling eyes, then grimaced and acknowledged that it wasn't just that it ended sooner than he wanted, but that they had even left a dead body in the process.
"Hmm... If a living person can be possessed by a ghost, then can a corpse be possessed too?" Kamu crouched down next to the dead person, when the other bandits had already left. Both Teike and Etele always said that an inventer was lost in Kamu, but only one of them knew that the inventer wasn't as deeply hidden as it seemed from the outside. This desire for discovery drove Kamu then too. "It's worth a try." He grinned as he pressed his ghost hand on the corpse's forehead and, as he had done in his life, imagined what it would be like to be in a living body again.
"That bitch!" His eyes snapped open and he sat up suddenly. He just stared straight ahead for a few minutes. The novelty of the situation confused his senses a bit. He had only been a ghost for four months, after all that time even breathing felt strange, not to mention the impressions of smells, scents and textures on his body. "I didn't remember it being this much." Kamu ran his fingers through his hair, but he immediately furrowed his brows when something that seemed very important came to his mind.
"That's my voice." He determined it and at the same moment he looked all over himself. However, his calmness didn't return, it flew even further than it had been before. "Okay, that's suspicious." He declared. "I have make sure of it." He nodded as he stood up and set off to find a water source. The water source eventually became a small pond, which Kamu immediately bent over, but almost dived into the water again when instead of the bandit's face, his own face looked back at him from the water's surface.
"What the Fene is going on here?" He asked, not really knowing who he asked it from nor even expecting an answer. "It makes no sense." He scratched his head, then closed his eyes and tried to take on a ghost form again. The process was as simple as usual, but when he opened his eyes, he didn't see the bandit's corpse on the lake shore, but he did see his own ghost form on the water's surface.
"Wasn't that something that couldn't change?" He suddenly reached for his eyes, which were now completely black as night, like Teike's eyes were when he was still teaching Kamu. "Liar." The ghost shook his head as he remembered his ancestor, but he tried to think of something else as soon as possible. His thoughts were still oppressed by strange memories if he focused on Teike for too long and that time he didn't feel like having a fairy tale afternoon.
He was much more occupied with this new discovery. It seemed that in Kamu's case, the gift of men gave him the chance to return to the world of the living without reincarnation, and he didn't even need strange rituals, only the abilities of the Teike family. When the full potential of the situation was realized in Kamu, the ghost smiled broadly and took on human form again.
"I think it's time for me to visit the Mist. Ajtony must be completely overwhelmed by now." He chuckled as he turned around and left the small lake. Normally he went to the center of the Mist as a ghost, but now, after four months of being a ghost, he wanted to make the most of every moment of living again.
The downside of making the most of life was that the journey took much longer than normal, so it took another month for Kamu to migrate from the completely opposite side of Madüjawr to the valley where his family's headquarters was. The center of the Mist would not have been found by an average person, but Kamu knew what to look for, so he walked along the road between the houses without any problem, not even paying attention to the crowd of assassins staring after him.
Kamu had a wide smile on his face, pranks had always been an important part of his life and he was enjoying the fact that he could now bring heart attacks to the others. Who knows how long he would have played this game if his right hand hadn't appeared in front of him from one moment to the next and held a very familiar poisoned blade straight to his throat.
"Who the hell are you?" Ajtony asked in a cold voice and with sparkling eyes that Kamu had never seen before.