Character: Rewind

Decades ago, on a planet long forgotten, a boy who resembled a human with red hair and red eyes smiled thinly as he slit the throat of his pregnant mother with a kitchen knife.

The mother fell to the ground, holding her neck with both of her hands.

Flapping her legs and struggling to breathe, the boy laughed at her.

“”

The boy crouched down near his mother.

“”

The little boy gritted his teeth.

“”

The boy held the knife tightly in his hand.

Stabbing his mother in the face, he laughed.

“”

He shook his head.

“”

He stabbed the knife in her arm.

“”

He took the knife out of his mother’s body.

“”

He looked closely at the blood on the knife.

“”

The mother was losing her vision. She was about done.

“”

The boy licked the knife next.

However, he made a disgusted face.

“”

He smiled once more.

“”

He licked the blood off the knife again. And again. And again.

When he finally started to like the taste of it, he spread his arms wide.

“”

However, she was already dead.

But.

“”

Cutting up her fingers, he slowly put it in his mouth.

Chewing on it, he made a disgusted expression once more.

“”

Finger after finger. Then her eyes. Then her skin. Then her muscles…

“”

The boy who had eaten the flesh of his mother wiped his face with a napkin.

As he was doing that, an old woman entered the kitchen and gasped.

“”

Strengthening his grip on the knife, he shot himself towards his grandmother.

Before she could react, he had slashed off her in the neck, face and chest.

Due to the pain, the old woman fell down.

Using that opportunity, the little boy struck his knife into her heart, killing her.

Breathing heavily, he stared at the ceiling while sitting on his grandmother’s dead body.

“”

He stared at the ceiling and repeated the same thing for hours.

Finally, when his father entered the house, seeing him, the boy jumped towards him.

However, the boy was too slow.

The father saw the scene before him and was confused.

So, he swung his left arm, throwing the little boy away.

He kept his calm and checked on his wife and dead mother. But the pain and sorrow and anger was overwhelming him.

But what he found was his worst nightmares.

With bloodlust eyes, he picked up his son with his hand.

“”

“”

Hearing the sinister laughter, the man slammed the boy into the ground.

“”

The little boy felt no pain as blood dripped from his forehead.

In a singing voice, he said, “”

The man’s eyes widened.

He immediately took a step back.

He was wrong. He tried his best to think that someone was probably using an image inducer to look like his son, but looking him in the eyes, he realised he was wrong. So, he took a step back.

“”

Shooting himself towards his father, he swung the knife and slashed his father’s chest.

Of course, the cut was not too deep but the father fell back on his butt and gulped.

He was frozen in horror.

He was not sure what his son had become.

“”

Without hesitation, the boy stabbed his father in the eyes.

Crackling with laughter, the boy shouted out, “”

He kept on stabbing his father.

“”

The boy licked the knife once more and left the house in his bloodied clothes.

Years pass and the number of the boy’s victims increased.

He became one of the worst serial killers in the history of this planet.

No one has ever survived meeting him.

He isn’t particularly strong or fast but his passion for killing and his skills are what makes him very dangerous.

Ten years later, the boy who was now grown into a man, was standing in front of the world’s largest country’s president's house.

“”

The man had killed everyone in this place and made his way into the president’s study.

“”

The man licked his bloody knife.

Seeing that, the president’s body tensed up.

But he managed to push a red button under his desk.

“”

He threw the knife and it went through the president’s head.

Breathing a sigh of relief, the man walked towards the desk.

He was the most powerful man in the world.

He was ruling over everything now.

Horror, death and despair will follow.

Thinking about that, he threw the president off his chair and sat on it.

“”

Leaning back in his chair, he looked at the ceiling.

“”

Sitting in the same place for a few minutes, he remembered something.

“”

He noticed that the president hit a button or something but what else would he do if he was not calling for guards?

He looked down under the table and noticed a red button.

“”

He hit it a few times but nothing happened.

“”

Opening the drawers, he noticed one of them was locked.

Curious, he looked for a key inside the president’s pockets and opened the drawer.

Inside it, he found many papers.

“”

He did not fully understand what was written in the papers but he knew that they were developing something.

“”

He laughed.

“”

He threw away the papers.

“”

BOOM!!

An energy ray shot from the sky decimated the whole town, including the man.

However, something happened.

Before he entered the president’s house, he had killed every single person for a few miles.

Being the only one alive, the cosmic energies imbued with him.

And…

And…

And…

“”

Everything else was frozen around him.

Nothing was moving.

So, he moved. He tried to see figure out why everything was frozen.

However, he was moving very fast. It took him a few seconds to realise that.

Faster than light. Faster than thought.

In a few seconds, he returned to the rubble of the town.

“”

He fell to his knees.

“”

He looked at his arms and then stared at the sky.

“”

His screams were not heard by anyone.

“”

He slammed his fists into the ground.

“”

He might be wrong. Very wrong.

A few months later, when he fully mastered his powers, he set out to the stars.

Before he knew it, he found himself in the wider universe of villains and heroes.

It was a no brainer that he will choose the side of the devils.

Finding his way into the Jabalot Empire, he kneeled before Iget and said, “”

Even though he was kneeling before the king and others present, they could not see him at all.

“”

Iget could not even see his silhouette. No one could. They tried searching for it but could not.

“”

Iget tried to trace the voice but it was hard.

“”

A black-haired and red-eyed human-looking man said with an expressionless face.

“”

“”

Reaper shook his head.

“”

“”

Iget sighed.

“”

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Annoyed, Iget sighed.

“”

“”

“”

Rewind looked at a man who resembles a hybrid of a human and a frog.

“”

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The human and frog looking hybrid is called Professor Death. He let out a deep sigh once he heard Rewind call him ‘frogman’.

“”

“”

Hearing Iget’s reply, he jumped up in excitement.

However, no one saw it.

Rewind was considered a joke by most of the Death 100 in the first week.

But soon, he proved himself to them.

Within a month’s time, he was considered the second most powerful member of the Death 100 after Reaper’s.

And within a year, he proved himself to Reaper than he even stands above him. However, he never told anyone else and asked Reaper to keep it a secret.

Reaper never cared about ranks but Rewind wanted to keep the second position.

His reasoning was simple, he wanted to surprise the bigger fish.

He continued to be second-ranked for decades. On a fateful day, he came across a white-haired and red-eyed human.

Seeing him, he became wary of him.

In the original timeline, Aarin had killed Rewind because the Death 100 killed Nazar many times.

So, seeing him, it made him remember a bad memory. He always wondered who this angel was but now he remembered that she was with Nazar.

It was supposed to be a battle between Nazar and the Death 100, but Rewind left without a trace. Of course, no winner came out of it because the battle was resolved in more peaceful ways due to another threat coming up. But if Rewind was around, he would have defeated Nazar very quickly.

Even though he tried his best to stay away from Nazar and improve himself, but their paths crossed a few times as enemies.

When he was ready to even face an angel, Rewind stopped hiding.

He finally showed his true powers to everyone.

One day, he stopped holding back and killed everyone in a large solar system within a second.

And soon after, he faced Nazar. The battle was very short with Rewind securing victory.

He was expecting the angel but never showed it through his actions or speech.

So, he changed his strategy. He decided to become friends with Nazar so he could lure the angel.

However, to his surprise, he started to consider Nazar among his true friends over time and stopped trying to use him.

Their adventures together allowed to fight alongside one another and against one another. But deep down, even they fought against one another, they did not hate each other. It was nothing personal, just business.

Many years later, standing on the moon of his dead world, he started to slow down.

After decades of constantly moving faster than the speed of light, he was finally slowing down.

Looking down at the empty space where his world was, he smiled.

“”

He chuckled.

“”

Sitting on the surface of the moon, looking at the never-ending sun while smiling widely, he perished from this universe.

Forever.

Darkness.

Darkness.

Darkness.

Every road leads to darkness.

But some, even in the darkest of the dark, will find light.