《New Resident of 5th Apartment》Chapter 2: Title for Two
Advertisement
"Administrator wants to meet me ?"
Sawako felt weird seeing the word 'Administrator.' If she recalls correctly from books, media she watched. Earth should be full of gods and deities from all kinds of mythology and stories from every part of the nation.
An especially astral plane should be full of great gods like Zeus, Amaterasu, Odin, Yellow Emperor, Buddhas, and more gods from every pantheon.
But she never expected to be called astral plane to meet the administrator.
With a swipe of a hand, Sawako created a portal in front of her. It was one of few innate abilities that every god has possessed.
"Well, it would be rude refusing such an invitation."
Said Sawako walked through the portal.
On the other side of the portal, she saw a gigantic orb made of thousands of faces floating in pure white space. There was no temple, garden, or throne it was just a pure white space and one gigantic floating spree made of millions of faces.
Greetings, Airu.
Another blue screen appeared before her.
"Hi."
Sawako raised her hand to greet the administrator and noticed her three arms. Then understood she changed to her appearance of a god as a six-armed goddess wearing a golden mask of a wolf.
"So, are you a god ?"
Yes and no. We are no god what you describe, but we possess equal or even more power.
The spree explained.
Sawako tried to check the sphere's status using her power, through Divine Language skill she could able to read and understand every language. But the only thing she saw was all kinds of unrecognizable gibberish in spree's status window.
Even using your power is no use. We are everything and anything.
"Then what is the reason behind your invitation."
She was in deep thought for trying to understand the current situation.
Advertisement
To be honest Sawako didn't want to involve with anything, especially things related to other gods.
Leaving behind the fact, she met the god of earth, it was the only month since returned the earth, and she spent that one month in the hospital.
It is to discuss.
"Discuss ?"
Yes, about the rule of this world and your role. As you can see there are few changes in some of your skills especially the skill called Power Over Life.
'Power Over Life' was quite an absurd kill that allows a user to decide the life of any living thing. Back in her world, all other gods made a pledge not to use this skill unless they deemed it is absolutely necessary. But still, it was an option.
Sawako knows the danger behind the skill so she silently agreed with the talking spree.
"Then, what about my portfolio's ?"
That is okay.
Sawako was quite prepared to fight someone or something over her domain but didn't expect the thing to just agree like that. The portfolio is a source of power and having more is better as the ruler gets more power from different domains. That is why back in fantasy word in every few years, she would always face god or a new demi-god who wanted her portfolio.
"Okay ?"
According to rules, We have no right to involve with your domain or activity. As of right now, you are the sole ruler over three portfolios and only god beside me.
"What ?"
Then the sphere has begun to explain other things. To summarize those explanations, she understood as right now she is the only god after sphere. Using its system other people will become strong and some of them even transform into gods and receive a portfolio that fits for them from the sphere.
Advertisement
The sphere right now controls over all of the portfolios except war, family, and fortitude.
The reason behind that is preparing a strong force against the outer world invasion that she fought against back in the fantasy world. And her job is to watch over and fix or destroy things related to outer world while sphere overseeing the entire system.
Outside of that, you free to do anything.
"That is it ?"
Yes, at least for now. When the time comes, we send a notice.
With a simple sentence, Sawako went back to the portal.
Appearing back to her apartment in her human form then she immediately has begun to clean everything. Some hours later she decided to eat some things she missed the most.
"Well, where I hid that unhealthy shit ?"
Sawako searched around the room and shelves. She can easily find them if she used search skills, but in her human form, she got no skill like that. If she transformed into her god form just to find cup noodles there would be all kinds of the problem arise ranging from size problem to mistaken as a monster.
"Yeah, here it is!"
Said Sawako raised a curry-flavored cup noodle in the air as if she found some kind of treasure.
Sluurp!
"Aaah, how much I missed this addicting taste."
With satisfaction written all over her face, she placed an empty cup on side of her table while wiping soup stuck on her lips.
"And now time for that isn't it!"
Without further ado, Sawako placed a clean pillow on the tatami mat and placed chips beside the pillow then covered her body with a blanket.
"Yes!"
Lying around eating chips beside her, Sawako looked at her phone until she passed out. She doesn't know how many times she passed out, but when she opened her eyes she saw her husband standing in front of her with a previous girl.
"Oh, yeah agreement right!."
"Wait just a sec, and here."
Without any reaction what so ever Sawako stood up, wrote her name on an agreement, and went back to sleep. Dumbstruck by her action her husband and the girl beside him didn't even realize they have already left the apartment.
Some moments later a system message appeared in front of two people first her husband Naoki Haru.
Due unforeseen circumstances you lost your title 'One Closer to Goddess' due that following benefits will be removed. +100% all stats, Holy Protection, +150% Exp bonus, +200% Skill Mastery.
Second is the current prime minister of japan.
Congratulations you earned the title 'Law of Fool' for being able to harm god in some way using your foolish law. While possessing this title you will receive the following benefit before receiving the god's wrath. +10% all stats, +10% protection against divinity
Advertisement
- In Serial9 Chapters
The Sanguine Reaver
Young detective Harrison Slyde works alongside three trusted allies, fighting for the good people of Karabone City. But they don’t know that they’ve already lost him way before a criminal from his past catches up to him. At the same time, high schooler Andrew Lakes wounds up in an incident, resulting in some extraordinary ‘gifts’. He’s not sure how to use them, however. These two separate individuals, though they know each other on the surface, work differently in the shadows, masked by their newly-formed alter egos. There’s a third player, too. One whom Harrison detests so much it drives him to do all he’s done, till the end. With him dabbling in morally ambiguous grounds, and Andrew uncertain of his own purpose, will they find out what they’re really here for?
8 236 - In Serial12 Chapters
The Wizard And The Private Eye
Richard 'Dick' Miller, an ex-private investigator and WWII Veteran, now drunk and destitute, without a hope in the world. By the year 1970, after stumbling upon, and getting crushed by MK-Ultra and Watergate, he lost his profession as a private eye and now spends his days in the bottom of a bottle. That is, until he got hit by a car and died. Now, by unknown means, he finds himself as the guiding spirit to a magic-wielding, young peasant boy in what can only be called a Fantasy land. Roped into a Kingdom-wide conspiracy involving mages, nobles, magical beasts and criminal enterprises, can this unlikely buddy-cop duo navigate the maze of bad intentions while defeating unseen foes with their shenanigans?
8 170 - In Serial7 Chapters
The Hidden Blade
Mordred's developed a nasty habit of getting killed and reborn in the Virtual World known as Avalon. Honestly, Lifeline Mode can be such a bitch! In each life, he gets a reset and another chance to save Lancelot from being betrayed and killed by the Knights of the Round Table. They claimed that Lancelot's deep, dark secret - screwing Queen Guinnevere, caused a massive civil war that effectively screwed Avalon too. Truth is, Lancelot did have HER deep, dark secret. That SHE was probably the only woman in the world who wasn't into other women. After literally lifetimes of reliving and dying in the same damn cycle, Mordred's done playing nice. Screw trying to persuade the Knights of the Round Table Lancelot didn't swing that way. This isn’t a story about becoming a hero amongst heroes. This is a story about becoming a villain, so that a hero amongst heroes stays a hero. _____________ Cover Image credit: assassin__s_creed_ix_by_remussirion-d4ecbhf
8 218 - In Serial6 Chapters
A World With or Without Aliens
Nothing matters. It's not my opinion, it's a scientific fact. This is neither good nor bad, it just... is. I watched my entire country burn, fried on a patriotic pan after some jerk fired a bunch of nukes at the docile fleet of alien ships hovering over us. Who gave this moron such power? I don't know. Everyone involved is most likely dead by now. As for me, I can't die. I feel pain like a normal person would (I think), but no matter how terrible the conditions, I will never die or pass out. Fortunately, a lot of alien technology survived its crash to Earth, so I get to spend some time playing with it until Mr. Author gets bored and decides to screw up my life. Beware, this has a "harem" tag. If you haven't figured it out yet, I'm the main character and am therefore subject to this novel's timeline. While this bars me from the sweet ignorance of Chapter 1's me, it does have other perks... for example, I can tell you that heroine number one is personally responsible for kil-!? H-hey, back off! I'm your character, so if you didn't want me to be like this, then you should've written me differently! Randomguy here! In all seriousness, this novel is meant to explore the concept of nihilism as a post-apocalyptic/supernatural-scifi/satire told from a nihilistic introvert's first-person perspective. As you heard from my unsettled main character, each heroine is going to be a different type of horrifying socio/psychopath with dark motives and dangerous abilities (most of which are psychological). Why would I do something like this? Because I am, in reality, a nihilist who is often frustrated by weird things, like unrealistically dramatic stories, the industrialization of art (specifically music), and people who think swimming in brown creekwater for five hours is a "fun" activity. Don't get me wrong, neither me nor my character are depressed, we're just malcontents who make a lot of nerd references. I feel like the true essence of an "everything is worthless" perspective is lost on most pop-culture figures. The closest character I can think of at the moment is Rick from Rick and Morty, who is a drunk, angry nihilist that experienced tremendous loss. I, personally, find this belligerent state of mind to be very relatable, and have incorperated it into every chapter's introduction. Here, the main character talks directly to the reader (and me), shamelessly complaining about some semi-relevant facet of society, which probably doesn't make much sense... it's not really supposed to, though. These "angry nihilist" moments are just a peak into the main character's everyday existence, and also act as miniature rage-journals for me. It will sometimes take a subjectively 'positive' turn, but not very often. This is because reality isn't good or bad, "it just... is". I will eventually bring it full-circle to optimistic nihilism, since that seems to be a more practical way to live (and by "practical", I mean "doesn't create mental health issues"). It is, of course, a satire. I did this because most unnecessarily emotional moments or people usually make me feel kind of awkward, so I decided to mock them. That is, I plan to mock the characteristics about them I don't like in characters based solely off said characteristics. Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy my story!
8 286 - In Serial163 Chapters
The tokoyamiverse
short stories of our favourite bird-headed boy created by the requests commented by youmore information in the intro about the rules
8 182 - In Serial4 Chapters
We see eye to eye
Lisa is a ten year old girl living in Miami. Her life isn't easy: her parents hate her, people around her are hating her, she's always left out. She spent her whole childhood being treated badly. The only thing keeping her head up is her favorite person in the world, Katy Perry. But Lisa's life is getting worse with every day that passes by... only a miracle could save her.
8 103

