Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 63 : Aswad 10 of 15 “Unlasting Love” (Part 05)
“A ⸻!!”
The anger in the Emperor's mind became real, a dark red aura instantly blazing around his body like flames on a tapering burning ground. Affected by the wind from the gusts of death aura, the two imperial Generals who had not really understood the contents of the conversation immediately paralyzed. The two of them collapsed to the ground, then quickly lost consciousness without being able to say anything.
“Lantas why did you create it?! How dare you call my savior that way!!”
The dark red aura that enveloped the Emperor quickly solidified and formed a gigantic skeleton of hand bones, the size of its palm could youngly grasp an adult in a single fist. The aura that continued to radiate from the Emperor's body instantly formed the joints, flesh, and skin of the manifestation of the death's hand form.
When the embodiment process was complete, a four-meter-long giant hand manifestation clearly appeared out from the Emperor's back. The nails reach 50 centimeters in length and look very sharp, have wrinkled red skin and emit dark red particles that make all life forms around it die.
All the nutrients from the ground where the Emperor was standing instantly died, the leaves of the trees within a radius of over a hundred meters quickly fell and the branches dried up. The sounds of insects that previously sounded crowded immediately inaudible, the atmosphere in the forest instantly at that second turned silent ⸻ Only the sound of the river splashing is still heard dominating.
Odo was not affected at all. Even though all life forms near the Emperor had definitely lost their life energy from being absorbed by the manifestation of the death hand, the young man remained standing without being affected. Aitisal Almaelumate in a passive state neutralizes dark red particles, completely erasing destructive information and making it only becomes limited to gusts of wind when it hits the skin.
The Emperor's anger grew even more when he saw that the young man was still standing quietly and could still put on a cold smile. Kausar Mao Naraka moved the hand of death, then swung it directly towards Odo.
But without being able to kill the young man, the manifestation of the form of death just landed on the top of the young man's head without being able to injure him. The nails are sharp as if meaningless, the erasing element of life has absolutely no impact.
The wind blowing from the swing made the dark red particles spread wider, making other trees instantly wither and even making the fish swimming in the river die and the corpse float on the outskirts.
“That power called Lord of Life and Death is one of the Special Codes I once had. Impossible he can attack his former master,” said Odo while holding the giant's hand.
Just as the young man's palm touched the surface of the death manifestation's hand, it instantly disappeared and re-deformed into a dark red aura that again enveloped the Emperor.
The black hair girl was so long that she was immediately flabbergasted, not believing that one of the peak forms of her strength could be obliterated that easily. Fear began to mix with his anger, making the Emperor unknowingly take a step back.
“So-Actually who are you? Said the figure, you are the figure that the Devils are waiting for, the coveted of divine beings and the figure that monsters fear. He said as well, you are a being equal to a Supreme God! If you have that much power, why do you do nothing and pretend to be a weak being?! Even though you have come to this world, why are you just silent!”
What the Emperor said made Odo briefly flinch, again putting on a gloomy face due to the misunderstanding. Indeed he looks very strong because it can negate all attacks as long as it can be captured by his eyes and analyzed. But besides this, Odo is not an almighty being who can act as he pleases. The limits of a man are still on him.
Putting down his hands, Odo stared flatly and replied, “I am just a creature called them Ayahanda, and said, not beings who have more power like the Supreme Gods or World Throne-holding beings who can make anything they want.”
“Daddy ..?” The Emperor recalled one of the ways the Unnamed figure and the Korwa summoned the young man holding the Black Element. But because of the anger that was rising to the brain, he could not think clearly and instead thought that Odo was playing tricks on him.
“Do not switch the conversation!!” emperor's Mind.
Odo opened both of his palms forward, putting on a flat expression and with a seemingly hollow gaze he began to explain, “If the Mother of the world is a True God who created this world, then, then I am the Father of this world.”
“Ayah ... from the world? You?”
The absurd fact made the Emperor tremble even more, to the point that the dark red aura that enveloped him slowly decomposed and looked like a small, fierce flame.
Odo lowered both his hands. While walking towards the very long black haired girl, the young man reached out his right hand and said, “I once reached the Beginning of the Beginning and picked up something that could be formed into this world. You know that a child is a mother, right? But the source of life and what makes the child can be in the womb comes from the father. This world was taken from one of the parts that my soul actually has, which is why I am Ayahanda.”
“I-That's impossible! Don't brag about such absurd things‼ You must only want to deceive me!” protest the Emperor. In his mind, what the young man said felt so true without a lie and at the same time it brought fear to him.
“The one they call always refers to me, that's a sure thing. But, too bad I'm still confused as to who they call Mother. It is possible, the figure called Mother was more than one.”
One by one the pieces of facts began to gather in the Emperor's head. Every time the young man opened his mouth and revealed something, the Emperor seemed to be forced onto the realities he had wanted to avoid for hundreds of years of living without the presence of the Unnamed.
“A-What are you talking about? Mother mothership? The fatherland? What do you mean?”
The dark enraged aura completely dissipated from the Emperor's body, the girl stepped back away from Odo who was slowly stepping towards him. Fear really made the girl who looked so fragile fall into despair.
Seeing the obvious fear in the look on his face, Odo halted his steps and immediately lowered his outstretched hand forward. Turning his gaze with a hint of regret, the young man said, “Sorry, you don't have to think about it. I'm forcing reality on you too much. Even though you've lived for thousands of years, I don't think it means you can mentally accept that kind of fact.”
Odo covered his face with the palm of his right hand, then sighed and again said, “It is only my responsibility that has already taken something from the Beginning of Initial and left it just like that …. Most of this is my fault. They make this world imperfectly, which is why the world is full of chaos.”
“I still don't understand!!” The dark red aura re-emerged strongly from the Emperor's body, at the same time the manifestation of the death hand was instantly fully formed. In confusion and fury mixed together, the Emperor gathered black particles in the middle of the palm of the manifestation of death.
“What are you really talking about?! From that moment you spoke as if the world was once truly the Apocalypse and you were from the world before the apocalypse‼ What are you really?!”
“So apparently, you haven't even heard that fact from Mahia. Looks like that kid really hid a lot from you, huh?” Odo was not at all daunted to see such a large number of crushing particles gathering at one point. Putting on a flat expression as if he no longer cared about the conversation, he instead provoked, “You know, Emperor Mao Naraka …. What do you use longevity for, Deity? Your obsession with Mahia is too excessive, to the point of not seeing all the reality around you.”
“Revelation …? What reality?” The Emperor remained adamant that he did not want to accept the facts that Odo spoke.
“The fact that this world is very fragile and its age is almost at an end. The fact that those who sacrifice desperately to save this world always fail in the end because of the stupidity of the people who live in it‼ The fact that you were originally targeted by Mahia and used to build an altar for me appears in this world. Then ..., the reality under Mahia does not care about you or the world at all ...”
All of what he said was completely exactly what the Emperor felt now, as if the young man indeed really knew what he had gone through with the Unnamed figure. Hearing that from the person who made him angry, the black particles that were around the Emperor increasingly quickly gathered at one point in the middle of the palm of the death manifestation.
“A-What are you talking about?! If he doesn't care, how could I be here‼ He is my family! There's no way she doesn't care about me!”
“True ...”
Odo held his palms together as if he were praying, the posture was really similar to when he was about to enter into Pseudo-God mode. It also made the Emperor think that the young man really intended to fight against him.
“Crue. He cares, but only to use you! You know the city of Gahon which became the summoning place of the Demon Monster until now can not be occupied by residents, ‘kan? The city had stood for over a thousand years, built by the First Emperor himself! Watering the seedlings that Mahia means is feeding my Soul with the souls of the beings who die haunting! From the beginning Mahia and I were just a coin with two different sides. Me and Mahia will never be able to meet, because basically we are one soul that is just different sides‼ My soul used to be a part of his soul, but now it is a part of my soul after the Summoning Ritual that the Korwa performed! It was just a tool to reverse the state of our souls that was like this coin‼ This was only for the selfish actions of that fragile soul‼ You are only used‼ Accept it, you fucking crap!”
“Diam …. Tulup …. Already ...” The Emperor shook his head, completely unwilling to accept the fact Odo had told him. With a face full of fear he still denied, “It …. Such a thing is impossible ⸻”
“That's what happened!!” he snapped firmly. “The fact is my condition now! At first I thought that the one residing in my soul was that goddamn Goddess, but if Mahia ever appears in this world it means that what is in my soul is indeed her! He's using you‼ If the child is truly one with my soul, then the only option left is to die!” continued the young man in a loud voice.
“Ma-Dead?” One word at the end was completely unexpected to be thrown by the young man. His anger began to go out, replaced with a sense of confusion that came out of his mouth in the form of questions.
“He is in you, has not his wish been granted? Why do you have to die? Isn't that why you created it? To get you reborn into this world?”
“Only who wants to live again.” Odo stared in anger. His teeth gritted, his forehead shriveled and his gaze flared with hatred. Taking a deep breath and calming down, his face quickly revealed a regretful expression and said, “There might as well be me letting the curse-filled creature wander around in this world! I took part of the Beginning of the Beginning to leave a trail in the world to be formed, not curse it! I'll make sure he disappears with me with all that information! When we completely disappear, surely the Goddess will do something to improve this world ...”
“A ⸻! I don't understand myself! Why do you have to disappear? Don't you want to be together and live happily?! What exactly do you want? I don't understand myself! He, that Unnamed figure loves you so much …. Latas why ... you even ...”
The words immediately made the angry face of Odo fade. True as the Emperor said, Mahia and herself also wanted to live happily. However, such a thing was not something a sinful being could obtain from the previous world.
“Indeed, we want to live happily. Whether it's the boy or me, we both expect happiness. Maybe Mahia will be happy as long as she's with me. Although the world is ravaged and filled with suffering, the child will definitely be able to laugh and talk to me as if nothing happened.”
“Then why? Why can't you be with him?! He did a lot for you! He sacrificed so much to meet you! You want to live happily as well as you do! Then why?!”
“I'm not a person who can ignore people when the world is chaotic!” snapped Odo. He angrily pointed straight at the Emperor, then harshly said, “What is there for me and Mahia is the Curse of the World‼ Something opposite to the Sky's Blessing‼ If we remain, this world will definitely be destroyed in the near future!!”
“I don't understand! Why is it like that?! A curse? Isn't it in your eyes that the curse is just information? You can do something about it, ‘kan? You can definitely! The proof is that you can easily eliminate my power earlier!”
Odo this time just fell silent to hear those words. At that very second, he understood that just living without seeking knowledge did make someone become ignorant. Unlike Reyah, Rhea, Korwa, or the Ancient Demon King who would accept words for words and think about them, the Emperor seemed to reject the unexpected reality and continue to evade.
Sighing deeply and taking a decision in mind, the young man unconcernedly replied, “True as you say, it is information-free. That curse is a virus for all of these universes. The world is already sick, that is why much suffering is experienced by its inhabitants.”
“Virus?” The emperor was again confused by this one word.
“Unfar, something you call Mana …. It was a curse carried over from the previous world. As long as there is Mana in this world, suffering will always arise.”
“Mana ..?” The black particles perfectly finished gathering towards the palm of the manifestation of the Emperor's death. But it does not remove the solidification of the crushing particles, keeping them stable. With a puzzled expression, the black haired girl again asked, “How is Mana not just the life energy of a living being? It can be found anywhere, even behind a rock ... It was ... from the beginning there was in the world. Why can ...”
“Mana can change the shape of living beings, give strength and make one can surpass his limits easily. But, gradually what Mana changed was not mere physical strength, it changed one's personality and soul,” explained Odo.
The young man stopped fusing his two palms together, completely eliminating the intention to fight. Putting on a grim face, he again explained, “One generation has no problem using Mana with the method you call magic. The second generation is invisible. But after dozens to dozens of generations, changes will be increasingly visible. You who have lived through generations must have realized that people are getting desperate faster and bringing destruction to others. If that continues, the world will be destroyed by its own inhabitants …. That will definitely happen, someday in the not far future.”
“Who would believe that nonsense!!”
Once again the Emperor denied the facts presented by Odo. Highlight his eyes darkened, then again collected the dark red particles and condensed them on the palm of the death manifestation. Steadily unwilling to believe what the young man had said, the Emperor again continued to argue, “You must have only boasted that you did not want to come with me to the empire! Everything you say is bound to be just a joke!!”
“No problem you consider this reality nonsense, it does not matter also you ignore the things you have heard this.” Odo really doesn't seem to care. As he looked away, the young man provoked again, “I told you this just because you were once close to Mahia, I just wanted to thank her for accompanying him. Be foolish until the end of this world, O pathetic emperor.”
“Thou ..!!”
Emperor Mao Naraka finished making the absolute eraser object on the palm of his manifestation. The dark red particle solid ball is only the size of a ping pong ball, but the energy is concentrated and the information arrangement is completely solid. It was not a black hole child like the one Anti-Matter had created, but it was more likely like a special set of information that could erase anything.
Seeing that, Odo immediately understood that the small energy ball could easily wipe out his soul and the existence of Mahia within his Soul Realm. As if from the beginning of the conversation just to lure the Emperor out one of the powers of the Special Code he had, Odo immediately smiled faintly.
The young man spread his hands to the side, then in relief and airy chest said, “You have nothing to do, this duty is mine. You are just a tool that Mahia uses, return to your country‼ Pathetic Emperor!!”
“Diam ..”.
“Despathetic basis …. Really, you're a pathetic woman.”
“Be quiet!!!”
The Emperor directly swung the palm of his manifestation and smashed a solid of destructive energy into Odo's body. Without dodging at all, the young man instead smiled and received it from the front.
As the dark red energy ball touched his body, Odo's physical construction shattered and cracks spread out every inch of his body. Reality that makes a young man named Odo Luke become “Ada” instantly deleted.
The orb containing the disassembly information within seconds entered the young man's body before it was completely destroyed, then attacked Odo's soul and made his soul-forming information unravel in an instant. But in less than 000.1 seconds before Odo's soul completely disappeared, an element of Odo's soul absorbed the information and reversed its effects.
Odo's erased reality instantly reshapes, then ⸻
Everything.
It darkens.