~Kazese~

My eyes opened after some time. All I could see was blurry images through my eyes. Everything was bright and I couldn’t make out what i was seeing because my head was hurting and so was my eyes. I finally took guts to open my eyes fully and get used to the bright light.

“What? Where am I?”

All I could see was a large white room... No! It was a large white space and the way the light entered through this room was inexplicable. It was like the room had it’s own internal source of light since i was unable to find where the light was coming from. I looked around for a while but was still unable to know how the room was so bright. With no windows and doors, this room was something like the chamber of time or such. What truly amazed me was that every time I tried to look at the walls of the room, the walls seem to be moving further from my view. It was like I was an infinite and vast room where it had no end.

I stood up at the same point of the room where I was lying down before I woke up and tried to investigate the room. Of course I was shocked and amazed but somehow I was feeling calm. I was about to make a step to walk around when a deep and mighty voice was heard and I was unable to move like I was being forced.

“You are Kazese kajou. Am I right?”

I try to find the person who spoke those words and look around me but I was still unable to find the source just like the light present in the room.

“Yes... I’m Kazese but. Who are you? Where am I?”

Suddenly I could feel a strong gust blowing towards me and when it felt like it was going to hit me, it lost it’s strength and was circling around me.

“I’m sorry for that...” (He probably meant the wind)

I felt a bit scared after experiencing that gust coming towards me.

“I’m the one who you call ‘God’ and the only one you should know about and you can call me ‘Kami’ if you want...but I want you to do so”

What is he saying? Is he pranking me? What king of a prank is this? But it would be wise to trust him since i’m sure he is the one who pulled me here and that gust of wind before are without a doubt his deed.

“Kami? I don’t understand. Why would a ‘God’ bring me into this place and talk to me?”

“Wasn’t it you who complained about the life I gave you?” (He answered in a majestic tone)

What i did was curse myself and my fate, I don’t remember complaining to him. But since he is here, I need to talk to him and not make any mistakes while I do.

“Yes, Kami-sama. I am truly happy to be able to talk to you. And I have complained about my life in the past but is it no possible to see you? I kind of feel weird to talk with the air”

“I understand but it is completely impossible for you to see me” (Kami-sama)

“That is fine with me if it is not possible but me being able to communicate with you.... Am I dead? If so.. How did I die?”

“Hahaha!” (He laughed)

I could feel his power through his laughter. He laughed as if nothing mattered to him just the way a ‘God’ should be. When he laughed I could feel the ground shaking, his voice felt like the thunder that is fearsome and can be felt and seen before a big storm.

“This isn’t the place for the dead. It is a chamber created by me to communicate with my creations. And I brought you here to have a little chat with you and also to negotiate with you”

“Negotiate? But why would Kami-sama want to negotiate with a mere human?”

“Of course it would be a bit foolish of me if I negotiate with a human, but what choice do I have? But I can’t look away from such an opportunity if someone is willing to volunteer in discarding their life for another one”

I couldn’t see him but I could somehow feel his gaze upon me.

“It is true that I would like to escape my old life and start a new but that means I would have to go through the as I have with learning and other stuffs”

“That isn’t a problem actually.... You won’t be back there even if you wanted to, since you have been brought here”

“What? I won’t be going back?”

If he says I won’t be going back, does that mean i will have to live here for my whole life? I can’t accept this! This isn’t something I wanted. There is no way I’m gonna live here.

“Haha! It isn’t anything as you think. You won’t be staying here, you are going to be free after a while”

Of course he could read my mind,after all he is a ‘God’. If he wants to negotiate about it then he must have something for me as conditions or such. It would be foolish of me to reject a God after all.

“I understand. Please explain me what you plan to do with me” (I lower my head)

“Very well! I’m pleased by your quick decision. So I will explain to you about things that are about to happen in your life and also about the things you will be going through. But before that I will accept your previous request of wanting to see me”

Suddenly the white bright room turns dark and unable to even see myself. The atmosphere was so dark that it would suffocate anyone if they were her and it was the same for me but for some reason I was able to breathe as if nothing had happened.

“I want you to close your eyes and open them if you want to be able to see”

His voice echoed through my ears and without wasting another second, wanting to escape this complete darkness I close my eyes shut and then open my eyes within a millisecond.

I couldn’t believe what I could see. Right in front of my eyes was the beautiful mother earth and because of the rays of the sun passing on her, she looked beautiful. I was pretty amazed and got speechless within a second of the sight.

“Beautiful..isn’t it? This is what you have been missing all this time but too bad this will be the last you see her”

It was the same voice but it was a bit less resonating. I turn around because this time the voice had a direction of source.

A man with long hair up to his hip was standing behind me. I took a few minutes to look at him. He was lean but had a well built body, he had a trimmed beard and was smiling as I was looking at him thoroughly. He wore a black jacket type of robe that showed his chest but covering his body, his feet was no where to be seen due to the long robe. And of course though i couldn’t see it but i could feel his crazy godly radiance just be standing near him.

“You are Kami-sama?”

“Hai!Hai! Is there a doubt after what I have just shown you?” (He said smiling and staring at a distance)

“No.. that’s not it!” (All I could do was stammer in front of him)

He walked past by me and was standing a bit further from where he walked in an instant. I turned around to face him again. He bowed a bit to look closely at my eyes because he was really tall and smiled.

“Now for the lesson, I won’t be repeating again but you can ask me questions if you don’t understand it.”

(He stood back up from the previous posture and pointed his finger up while saying this)

He looked at me for a while with his strong and began to explain.

~Kami-sama~

“What I’m about to tell you is what happened in the past and it’s not the past of your world but the world that you are going to head to”

“It all happened 80 years ago, when the birth of a new born human child shook the world. The human child was born with attributes similar to a demon king. The human child was brought up with care by the priests and the all things holy on that planet but, who could change the fate of that child. He was born to be evil and he did become evil. Unlike any demon king who were born in the past, this new demon lord was actually a lot powerful than them. The new demon king had powers rivaling to Tsuki and was quite unique as for the demon kings in the past had powers almost like Tsuki but was unable to rival her. This extra ordinary power was recognized as the ‘Demon moon zokusei’ by the priests of that world”. (‘Zokusei’ means attributes and ‘Tsuki’ is moon)

“At the age of 13, the demon king had awakened to his full powers and as fate had decided, he turned evil and forced the people to turn into his slave. Though he had took control over the whole planet there was one kingdom that he was unable to lay hands on. And that kingdom was ruled by King Theora, he had knowledge about many secret techniques and magic spells and was partly able to destroy the demon king. After the partial defeat, the demon king went into his sleep for twenty years and the people of the world lived without fear and also gave their countries under the care of King Theora but later, the demon king woke up right at the time King Theora had died and his son was the current king, ‘King Abel’. King Abel prepared his greatest army force after the news about the woken demon king but he had no knowledge how he was to face him in a one on one battle”

“I planned to help him and sent a hero, the first hero from that same world but from a different place. He was made with the strongest rock on the planet and was blown with the strongest gust of life, he was wise and strong too but somehow after the battle with the demon king, neither both of them lost nor they won but they were nowhere to be seen. Even I couldn’t find their presence. Later I sent another hero, a second one with the same way i created but this time I added the knowledge of modern magic but he also vanished without a trace after 45 days of is birth”

“Then I created a third. She was also strong like the other two and was blessed with the knowledge of creation magic, but she didn’t even last for a week and she disappeared too”

“

Well, I don’t want to talk about the fourth. She lasted longer than the three heroes but at the end she vanished too. I had a lot of hope in her. And she was sent there a year. Her powers were no different from the other three heroes but she didn’t even try to fight the demon king when she found him but instead ran away for some reason and now she is missing too. Since, I can’t talk to them directly and if I do, they will have to move to a different world again didn’t I tell you?”

“So, is there any thing you would like to ask?”

(When I heard the story and thought about each word he said, i had a bit of hope and was like smiling)

“Oh! Why are you smiling? What are you thinking about?” (He asked in a kind of childish tone)

“If this happened 80 years ago then, I’m sure that the demon king is too old to fight right? It’s gonna be a piece of cake!” (I was overjoyed and was like literally singing)

“Haha! You are funny...Kazese? When a demon king’s power awakens, he ages only for four more years and he stops aging. Didn’t you know that? He must still be a seventeen year old now.”

My happy and joyful face had frozen in blink of an eye. I almost forgot that there were some kind of theory behind this demon king.

“Ah!... I never thought about that! So, what do you want me to do Kami-sama?”

“Well, isn’t it obvious? I want you to go there and defeat the demon king. The demon king hasn’t done anything anything flashier and stuffs like that but it would be good to maintain a balance in that world. He may be scheming something too” (He looked serious)

“Hmm... Sure! Defeat him and come back, right?” (I put my right fist on my left hand palm)

“Well, defeating him sure will bring back the lost balance in that world but.....”

I could see him holding his chin in his fingers like he was thinking about something big and suddenly made a movement and came close to me and put his hands on my shoulders and said.

“That’s it! I want you to defeat him and...... and also find the four hero.”

“Yes!!... That’s the mission for my fifth and last hero. Will you do it?”

I was confused since I could understand why he wanted the demon king dead but i couldn’t understand why he wanted to find the four heroes if he isn’t even sure of they are alive.

“I don’t under...” (I answer to him looking at his eyes filled with hope at me)

“Well, I wanted you to find them because one of them was sent from your world and i need to return them”

(Did I just hear him say that one of them is from my world?)

“Which one?” (I ask him in a demanding tone)

“The fourth one. So, I want to you to find the heroes since you don’t recognize the heroes. But you will be able to tell apart heroes from the ordinary people, you’ll see”

“I think i understand your objective and also the reason, so what do i get as in reward?”

He smiled a bit wider as if his lost energy had returned and started speaking.

“Well, you will be getting three wishes”

“Three wishes?”

“Oh... ,maybe only two wishes”

“Hey! But why? Don’t go back on your words if you are a God”

“Calm down... calm down, You get two wishes of your choice but the third wish will be a wish of the two options that I’m about to give you”

“Options? What kind of options?”

“Well, the options are where do you want to live?”

“Where do I want to live? It means that I get a chance to return back home?”

“Yes, indeed. You have to make a wish of the place you want to live in. Is it this new world or your original old world?”

He came close to me as he spoke and stared at me for a while. I was a bit confused but I understood what he meant.

He slowly came to my eyes and...

“Well, it’s not important now is it?” (He whispered)

He stood back away from me after he whispered those words, leaving me in a deep thought of the choice i was being put through. But of course he is right, I don’t have to choose right now, I can do that after I finish my job.

“Well.... I can decide once I finish my job, right?”

“Yes... yes... that’s it! so you have some time to decide and you do need it”

I was a bit relieved after thinking that i had a lot of time. I took a big breath of relief and look at him with confidence.

“Okay, take me there”

“Oh you mean to send you there” (He smiled like some evil manga character who was plotting something)

“That’s fine but let me give you some detail about you and your abilities as you go in that world. You live have superhuman strength and also some superhuman abilities of which you will have to find out yourself. You will have extraordinary chi flow in your body than rest of the heroes and also gain knowledge about a lot of logical things that you will be using for sure.”

Wow! That is a lot of powers. I have heard about those in the fantasies and games that i have known and played. And what i know from them is that this is extremely powerful blessing. I am about to lift myself from this feeling of overpowered blessings.

“But... to make sure that nothing happens to you like the heroes in the past, you will be gaining a gift.”

He looked pretty serious. I’m sure he really felt bad after loosing his four heroes. I’m sure I’ll be getting some of those super powerful weapons they call the holy sword or something.

“A gift??”

“Yes.. once you reach the land, you will see for yourself”

“Thank you Kami-sama. I’ll be sure to defeat your enemy and bring those heroes back”

“Yes, I expect a lot from you. And since I won’t be able to communicate with you until you finish the job, you will have to take care of your own and your gift”

“Sure, Kami-sama. I’ll take care of your gift”

He calmly smiled at me unlike the time he smiled before and lifted his hands as if giving away a signal. The space beneath my feet suddenly became bright and the white light passed through my legs. I looked at Kami-sama and he was waving his hands goodbye while smiling at me. His lips were moving like he was saying something. I wanted to hear his last words before i started my journey.

I heard him quite well though I couldn’t understand what he actually meant. I could feel my body hitting against the wind pressure falling from the sky. My eyes felt heavy like before but this time i closed them without struggling even once.