Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Chapter 38: Reese and Rabe 5 of 5 (Part 01)

The wind was clear, sweeping away the white clouds in the sky and against the waves that were heading inland. The sound of the coconut leaves being blown was clearly heard—along with the rhythm of the sea water colliding with each other wildly.

The view of the mountains is seen in the distance, quiet settlements decorate the coastal area where it is located. Despite clearly receiving all such information with his senses, Odo Luke still only saw two colors in the place—black and white.

He stood with a broken black shirt burning on his arm to his elbow, wearing black trousers that also burned to his knees. Standing on the sandy ground, Odo was still unable to digest what the person before him said.

His face, height and eyes look very similar to Odo's. It was like a figure that could be seen in a mirror, only the long shoulder-length curls distinguished the two people who were staring at each other. As if waiting for Odo's answer, the self-confessed young man Odrania Dies Orion smiled lightly and stopped his footsteps.

While observing him closely, Odo only realized that the young man was wearing a white robe typical of the laboratory, as well as a plain black shirt. Odo's head instantly throbbed in pain, a glimpse of a room full of iron looming within the head. Staring curiously, he asked, “You ... who?”

“Not that I introduced myself earlier? I am Odrania Dies Orion, the Ancient Demon King as well as the original ruler of the 72 pillars before Solomon. Heir to the Authority of the Demon God, Odrania Karln .... Eng, did you become deaf because I broke your body, Father?”

“Dad? Since when do I have children ...”

Odo took a deep breath, paying no heed to the way the Demon King called out to him. Turning his gaze toward the sea, the vast black waters stretched to the limit of the horizon. The wind again blew fiercely, waving their black hair violently.

When he turned back to her, Odo asked, “Why am I here? Anyway, what is this place? What's your goal?”

“Wah, wah, straight forward the question.”

The young man with curly hair put on a smile while raising both hands. Back down, he put on a face as if releasing longing. Walking closer to Odo and standing a few meters in front of him, the Demon King explained, “This place is a Realms Resins created from my personality, a place of two colors, which is a realms created from my personality, black and white.”

Odo stared suspiciously, the memory of his body being broken by the hands of a giant skull still clearly etched into his mind. Pain, horror and helplessness are still stored in Odo. Slightly stepping barefoot back, he was about to use magic just in case.

However, Mana did not respond at all and a magic circle could not form. Seeking another initiative by about to take out the sword from the Dimensional Bracelet, the storage magic tool was not on his right arm.

“Take it easy, Ayahanda! You don't have to worry like that. This place is my world of consciousness, all the power that Father has will not be able to enter this place. Whether it was any kind of magic, the power of the sacred tree, or even the Dragon God Princess it ..”.

Odo was silent for a moment, he remembered that the Ancient Demon King before him was the ringleader of the Mad Curse suffered by the Dragon Princess and made the Great Dragon race almost extinct. At first glance, and stop thinking about Seliari's feelings that might be a grudge against Odrania, Odo tried not to bring it up.

“Hmm, you researched a lot about me, yeah. How do you know all that? Reading minds?”

Odrania smiled lightly. Look away and face towards the sea. A little turned around, he lightly replied, “This place is a concept of time almost similar to the Astral World, not forever one second applies one second in the Real World. I know, we've been in this place for more than two years in the duration range. In fixed calculations, this place should be faster 31,536,000 times faster.”

Odo was not at all surprised, only analyzing using his own common sense and remaining silent. As the Demon Lord said, all the power Odo had was indeed unusable, even the Auto Senses that should have been with him continued to be inaccessible. Considering such a thing, Odo considered what Odrania said about the duration of that time as well a reality, there was no reason for her to lie like that.

“Two years, yes .... If time has passed that long, aren't you bored?”

“Bored? Funny ..., waiting is common for me. For years, hundreds of years, thousands of years, hundreds of thousands, even millions of years, it was common to me. Anyway ..., Ayahanda has too often made others wait.”

“Eng?”

“Ah ..” The Demon King stared lightly, looking at something different from what was in Odo.

Walking up to him, Odrania immediately put the horses— humbled the position of the body and made the distance between the two legs by bending the knees. Preparing with his left foot forward, the Demon King immediately launched a diagonal right foot kick upwards and aimed at Odo's head.

“!!!”

Odo was surprised, did not have time to react and only held the kick with his left arm. It hit the target right away, the sound of bone cracking was heard clearly and made his body bounce, spinning in the air and falling onto the surface of the sand. Before she could get up, Odrania leapt towards Odo with her left leg raised vertically straight up, then swung tightly down to step on.

Odo rolled over, dodged the attack and immediately got up. Taking out the sand around his stand, the young man threw it towards Odrania and entered into his eyes. Gaining a clear blind spot, Odo immediately struck with a raw right-hand strike.

Less than a second before the blow hit the Demon King's face, he disappeared from Odo's visual capture and without himself noticing the young man was thrown to the ground. Odo Luke could only be puzzled, sprawled out on the surface of the sand and looked towards the sky.

“What ... was it? Anyway, why are you attacking me?!”

“Hmm, looks like it's true. Ayahanda ..., you're relying too much on internal calculations. If it's not wrong, it's Fathers call Auto Senses, right?”

“Hah?”

“Well, let's get up first. We're talking ..., while boxing like that.”

“Eh?”

Odrania extended her hand to the young man. With a slight hesitation and confusion, Odo grabbed him and woke up again. But before preparing, the Demon King punched him in the face and made Odo fall back on the sand.

The pain was obvious, and black blood came out clearly from the nose. But existing wounds healed quickly, even the bones of the left hand that should have cracked the same did not leave a prolonged pain. Sensing that, Odo slightly fell silent with a sense of confusion. Under normal conditions, he usually immediately uses Auto Senses to find out what is going on, but now he can not.

“What's up, let's get up, Dad!”

“Whisper you ...”

Odo immediately got up, stared flat and only really realized what the Demon King said before him was very precise. “Ah, without Auto Senses it feels like this, yes .... Indeed, it's like I'm hanging on the tool, it feels annoying to be told by people with faces similar to mine,” Odo's mind while squinting a little and putting up the horses.

Analyzing Odrania standing with his horses, Odo realized that the horses were very similar to Zen-Ketsu-Dachi—, a horse in Karate where the left foot rested forward, while the weight point of the body is centered on the right leg which is behind and slightly bent. Inserting his left hand back and tightening his leg muscles, Odrania directly lunged straight at Odo and launched a punch into the massage.

“!!!”

It was very fast and Odo could not avoid despite knowing it would come towards his stomach. The fist was raw to the stomach, making Odo instantly nauseous and step back holding his stomach full of pain. He spewed out white liquid, black blood came out and some of his organs were completely damaged from the blow.

“Gawat ..., some of my organs are affected. Pain ..., pain once,” Odo's mind by curling his body on the surface of the sand.

The young man could not rely on magic to alleviate pain or regenerate the body, actually receiving direct damage from the attack like the karate master's punch. Lifting his face and looking towards Odrania, Odo really started to get upset and immediately woke up.

“Hmm, the power of your soul is incredible! Want to go further?” take it easy Odrania.

Looking at the grinning smile of the person with a similar face like that, Odo actually went up in black. But as the pain throbbed back on his stomach, his mind suddenly turned extremely calm along with a gust of wind. He inhales, observes and uses internal calculations without the help of Auto Senses.

“What do you mean by Soul Power?” ask Odo.

“Soul Strength, yes Soul Power. Resilience of wrapping complex information of a personality. You know the difference between Spirit, Soul, and Raga, right?”

“What does it have to do with this place?”

“Ya, this Black and White place is Realms— a world of consciousness, has its own rules.”

“Regulation?”

“Ya.”

Odrania immediately put up the same horses as before, then immediately launched a heavy fist towards Odo. Unlike earlier, the attack was clearly visible and Odo tepis using the right palm— drained him sideways and counter-attacked with the left palm.

Odo's attack hit Odrania's chest, but the Demon King did not budge and just stared leisurely. The young man instantly knew what the Soul Power was talking about earlier. Before Odrania caught a hand and slammed it as before, Odo immediately jumped away.

“What rules is it?” ask Odo.

“My world's rules .... First, the color there is only pure white and deep black!”

Odrania approached Odo's range and immediately launched a diagonal kick aimed at the head. The young man with black hair dodged and dodged. Stepping into the opponent's horses with a low body position, Odo immediately grabbed Odrania's leg and made him lose balance.

“Both! This world time is going very fast!”

As she was about to hit with the tread and drop it down, Odrania suddenly changed her fighting style. The Demon King stood with one hand as a heavy point on the surface of the sand, then salto back while launching a kick with the right leg that had been scuttered.

“Capoeira?!” odo's mind while tilting his body position, avoiding the kick and immediately steadying the horses.

Odrania several times salto backwards and away. Seeing that the Demon King's horses had changed from karate to martial arts with completely different characteristics, Odo had actually made it clear that Odrania did know something about the previous world. Odrania moved her body like she was dancing, making it difficult for Odo to read the Demon King's next move.

“Three! This world there will be no supernatural forces, only physical and kinetic factors that determine our fight!”

Taking a deep breath and calming his mind, Odo asked, “You ..., do you also know about the world before the apocalypse?”

“Hmm, that's how Did Adinda not tell you, Ayahanda?”

“Adinda?”

“Yes, my sister, Korwa.”

“A—? The korwa? She's your sister!?”

Odrania moves zig-zagged with a small left right step towards Odo, then spins fast and kicks with the right heel diagonally. It was held with its left arm by Odo, but the force from the momentum gathered in the round was strong enough to make the young man kneel. Without letting her fight back, Odrania stood with her right hand and directly swung the right-footed kick vertically into Odo's face.

The buark!

It was on target hard. The young man's body was slammed, rolled several times over the surface of the beach sand and immediately stood back up. Breathing gasps, pain that feels very clear and makes Odo's vision a little blurry.

“What ... means ... is he your sister? If not wrong ..., Korwa is not famous by the nickname Devil Fire?”

“While pretending to be stupid? Father knows himself, he is a personality that comes from the bottom of the world and is not exposed to cycles, splitting personalities and making various versions of himself.”

“What ... you ... is also that kind?”

“Ah, I can indeed retain information during the cycle, but the ability to split personalities like the one you have is not there for me. I only have a Single Element, so even in a parallel world I will only have one. In other parallels there will be no me, therefore in the basic dimensions I cannot increase.”

The pain in Odo's body completely disappeared within a few seconds. Taking a breath and calming down, the young man tried to get used to such directly accepted pain.  Standing upright without putting on showy horses, he stared flat.

“If you call him Adinda, then you are also a personality born from my erased memories—Maksoku, pulled out of me?” ask Odo while jumping small, like a boxer who is warming up.

“True, I am one of the personalities born from the memory of Ayahanda. That's why ..., we all call you that!!”

Odrania again zigzagged, made a deceptive motion and approached Odo quickly. When it came to the range, he immediately spun and kicked diagonally up— eyeing Odo's chin. Like having learned from the movements of the Demon King, Odo who had gathered momentum with a small jump immediately dodged backwards.

Clutching Odrania's right leg when going down, Odo immediately launched a fist on the calf and aimed at his muscles. But as before, the punch had no impact at all and the Demon King instead jumped using his left foot as a pedestal. Rotating in the air and forcing Odo to release his gripped leg, Odrania immediately launched a swirling kick and hit the nape of Odo's neck.

The black-haired young man's body immediately fell onto the sand hard, his face smashed against the surface first and made a hole mark. As Odrania was still in the air, she once again swung her feet vertically down and was about to step on Odo.

Odo rolled over, forcing the body to move dodging and immediately woke up. Jumping backwards to keep his distance, the young man's body suddenly limped and instantly knelt down. The kick was very impactful on him, making concussion and faded vision like he was heavily sleepy.

“He really did not hold back, yes .... My Sight ...”

Not granting any mercy, the Demon King instantly moved a short zig-zag jump right left. Entering within range, he immediately spun around to gather momentum and launch a kick.

Relaxing the body, Odo dropped the body onto the surface of the sand and dodged. Immediately crawling, the young man immediately gripped the left leg of Odrania who became the only heavy fulcrum. Punching his calf and making the Demon King completely lose his balance, Odo immediately got up and butted towards him.

Successfully keeping Odrania away, Odo rode on her and locked the Demon King's body on the surface of the sand so as not to wake up. Occupying his body, Odo really excelled and immediately launched a right-handed fist in succession. As Odrania was about to fight back, Odo brushed him off and replaced the straight fist with a left hand.

That he did with a lot, without stopping and utilizing conditions where he would not feel tired even though he continued to move. Although Odrania looked immune to punches at first, but after being hit in a row like that Odo knew the weakness was there. Immunity is only in physical form, in fact the Demon King can also feel pain when attacked.

“What's up!!? Why are you holding on!?”

Odo continues to beat him, without allowing Odrania to strike back and force him to keep protecting the face with both arms. As the sand where the Demon King was moving was chaotic due to Odo being brutally beaten, Odrania's lightning speed launched a backlash and it hit the young man's face with black hair.

The consecutive blows came to a halt, black blood flowing out from the nose. But—

Not an interval of two seconds, Odo immediately launched a streak of blows and this time increased quickly and strongly— to the point that the skin of his own hands peeled off little by little. Odrania was completely flustered in the defensive position, it should have been a crushing blow that could have made Odo bounce. Sensing the young man's fist getting stronger and faster, the Demon King was actually forced to hold on.

Odo stopped punching in a streak, instantly quickly extending his hand past Odrania's defenses and gripping the Demon King's head as he too focused on surviving the blow. As predicted, Odrania took off her defenses and attempted to release Odo's hand which gripped her head.

Seeing the opportunity, Odo immediately launched an outer fist of the left hand and directly aimed at Odrania's right ear. The croooks! The fist was not clenched, but the middle finger was pointed and stuck into his ear.

“AKHHH!!!”

The demon king screamed and thrashed with all his might, hitting blindly and trying to knock Odo off his body. But that was when the weakest moment that the young man with black hair was waiting for, he immediately struck Odrania's eyes and seized sight.

Superior in two senses, Odo launched a two-handed streak of punches towards Odrania's face and left the Demon King battered. One minute, ten minutes, and up to half an hour, that's when Odrania just completely gave up.

“Ak—guh! Me—GUH!—Me—Gay! Rah!”

Odo halted the blow upon hearing the faint words that came out. Seeing Odrania's face completely bonyok and covered in black blood, several teeth falling out and her nose breaking, Odo felt that what he had done was excessive.

Staring coldly the young man asked, “Aren't you immune? Why bonyok?”

“Ukh, brutal .... Who is invulnerable, I only use Soul Resilience to maintain body shape in these Realms ..”

Odrania rubbed the black blood flowing out of her mouth. His face began to heal again in a matter of seconds, loose teeth and broken nose bones also recovered easily. Gazing towards Odo who was occupying his body, the Demon King asked, “Does Father not hold back even against his own son?”

“I never remember having a child! Don't call me that! Want me to make you bonyok again?!”

“Ahah, please ja—”

Odo smashed at Odrania's visibly debilitating face. Strangling his neck, the young man confirmed, “Don't underestimate me .... You know, I hate kind of like you. You're similar to Korwa, I really hate the kind like her.”

Odrania narrowed her eyes slightly, looked sad and said, “It is better that Ayahanda does not say that to Adinda, she will cry if she hears that .... Father knows, from all of us he is the one who works the most.”

“We?” Odo's eyebrows slightly raised.

“Yes, we .. personalities born from memory of someone taken from the Father. We are all people once known to Father, that is the construction of information that shapes our personality.”

“Ah .., what is a creature that claims to be the Goddess named Helena?”

“Yes, we created Mother based on information Ayahanda.”

The way the Demon King summoned Goddess Helena made Odo disturbed. If indeed beings such as the Demon King and Korwa were born from it, then it also the source of chaos is actually Odo Luke himself and the Goddess who drags him in all the problems that exist.

“You ... how many are there? Besides Korwa and you ... there's more, isn't there?”

“Our number is only four, no more than that. One as a symbol of destruction, one as a symbol of evil, one as a symbol of order, one as a symbol of light. That's us, beings who crave a meeting with you, Father.”

Odo's forehead shriveled, he stared hard and grumbled, “I told you, I never had a child.”

“We know it .... Even so, this bond was clearly etched into our minds. Father, maybe this memory was taken from you by Mother, but please do not hate it. That ... happened because it had to happen, like a thousand meetings and partings that Father had gone through.”

“Hah?” Odo was gaping, completely clueless about what he meant.

“What you want to protect right now, it has nothing to do with the past. We ... have disconnected it, so move on according to what the Father wants in this world. Until the time comes, we promise to stand by your side to return against our eternal enemy.”

It really made Odo silenced, he had absolutely no idea who the so-called Immortal Enemy was. If the Demon King himself said that, Odo felt that the demon race itself was not much different from humans and they varied personality— could not be determined all demons were evil and absolute enemies.

Turning his gaze and looking towards the sea, Odo Luke put on a sad face as if he was homesick with the black and white scenery. A flash of flashing and returning to look at the disappearing sea at the end of the horizon, suddenly colors filled everything. Reddish twilight scenery, sun rising at the end of the horizon and seabirds flying in groups.

But as he blinked and looked again, the scene disappeared and what he saw became black and white again. Odo felt nostalgia for the glimpse, turned to Odrania and asked, “What do you know about me? Who was I before? What do I remember this is really me? Or .... only part of it?”

Odrania smiled with a relaxed expression, cheerfully she replied, “Ayahanda is an awesome person. Leader, Researcher, Savior, and God, Father was once all that. Otherwise because of Father, perhaps this world would not exist and everything would still be in the cycle of creation and destruction without intelligent life like a chaotic cosmic storm.”

“I remember .. I was just an ordinary student before I died. I've never done anything awesome.”

Odrania fell silent, stopped staring at Odo and looked up at the sky. Stretching both hands to the side, the Demon King replied, “Life limits are what is stored in memory. When a person does not remember something he has done, he will think and act like what he did never happened. It is also the opposite, someone who is wrongly remembered will act like he ever did even though it is actually not.”

“What ... are you talking about? Why is that?” ask Odo in a flat tone.

“It's about you, Ayahanda. Though you have done many things, yet acted like you never did any of them just because you don't remember .... I am also like that, because of this memory I acted like that and challenged the heavens as a Demon King. Perhaps, this is the best condition for you who have fought too hard. I don't want to offer this myself, but I think this is what I have to give you, Ayahanda.”

The wind blew quite finely, waving Odo's hair and the air sending Odrania's words to him. Strayed at what the Demon King said, the two young man's eyes opened and his mouth was slightly gaping. Close back and groan, he forcefully asked, “What ... do you really have it? My deleted memories?!”

“Ya .., I have it. We all have it .... If you want to remember everything, take it from us. We will hand it over with pleasure .... But please remember this, there are times when the forgotten is best forgotten. Regrets and bad things usually always come from the past.”

The warning was truly sincere from the Demon King with his human physical form, coming from the bottom of his heart and gazing anxiously at his father. Smiling lightly with her stiff cherry face, Odrania said, “Does Father want to take it?”

“Of course .., I'll take it.”

“So, yes. Leganya, I'm so happy Ayahanda is exactly what we thought. You always step forward even though understanding what lies ahead is a road full of thorns.”

Odrania extended her hands towards Odo. Touching the young man's chest, instantly the Demon King's body emitted a pitch-white color. Slowly, Odrania's two hands entered Odo's body, slowly continuing to become one and finally his entire body was sucked into the body of the black hair.

Sitting on the surface of the sand alone, Odo stared straight ahead with both eyes wide open. Tears slowly flowed, dripping onto the ground surface and instantly changing the Realms where they were.

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