-Yuzu here, I've noticed that alot of people are skipping the prologue, the story might be a bit confusing if you choose to skip it as there is alot of important information there. Happy readings

(Chapter 1) Pleasantries with Death

“Where……….Where... am I?”

I was alive, somehow, wait am I alive? What……. What’s going on, I shouldn’t be able to think on account of me destroying myself but I was still able to recount all that had happened in the past few months and who I was.

I was surrounded by mist and on some sort of marbled tiled floor, I bent down to look at the floor but was surprised when I wasn’t even able to see it due to the mist all around me. I could only feel its hardness and coolness under my feet

“You’re in my Domain Muzumi.”

A voice that seemed to echo throughout my being rang out. I looked around suddenly feeling an irrational fear.

“Who are you? Show yourself!”

“I have many names mortal, some call me the End, some call me the Devourer of All, I prefer being known simply as, Death.”

“I am not a mortal, I am the third prince of the Devil, I have god blood in my veins at most I should be a half-immortal.”

“Yes I suppose you are correct but we outer circle gods refer to all existences besides those of the inner circle gods as mortals.”

“Outer circle? Inner circle? What does that mean?”

“Well, we have a lot of time so I don’t mind explaining to you. At the beginning there was something known as the void, the ever expanding nothingness, and from this nothingness came many somethings.”

“Huh? I don’t understand?”

“Don’t worry mortal, there are many things involved with creation that even the inner circle gods are simply incapable of understanding, just listen.”

“Continuing from where I left off, these Somethings that came out of the void were all the current outer circle gods. You may recognize them as things like ideas or entities of existence, they are all around the mortal worlds and their influences mix together to make what you would call the universe.”

“My brothers and sisters include, Chaos, Faith, Life, Order, Miracle, Norm, Magic and many more that you cannot understand, as for me, I am Death.”

“My work is directly involved with my sister Life, she is my counterpart. Not all outer gods have one but like my two brothers, Chaos and Order, my own counterpart is sister Life. She makes souls and I End them, without her I would have nothing to End and without me her influence would grow too strong and she will end up getting devoured by the void.”

“Counter parts to us Gods exist to keep our influence in check, if there is no balance to our influence the void ends up devouring us. Already many outer gods who recklessly grew there influence have been destroyed. But for the last countless eons, the current set of outer gods have flourished and created a balanced system you would know as the universe.”

“As for inner circle gods, those are the gods that exist within the universe and manage the many worlds. They are all existences that have ascended into godhood by growing their own souls through many trials.”

“Your father was such a being, you would know him as the Devil, but there are actually countless Devils and heavens all across the universe, this is the work of another brother of mine, known as Coincidence”

“Is his counterpart outer God Randomness?”

“Yes, good observation, many ideas that exist are outer gods or indirectly related to one. Originally Magic was an outer god that was part of my brother Miracle but then Magic's influence grew over the years and he branched out to be a god on his own.Like this, influence on the universe directly affects your power as an outer circle god”

Suddenly the voice of Death grew more solemn “The strongest outer circle God right now is Chaos, and the weakest is Order. Chaos is far too reckless, he thinks that he might be able to grow strong enough to challenge the void but he does not know what sort of power the void has…and it will be a pain to remake the universe if he ends up dying…….”

“Now, I've done explaining creation to you mortal, consider yourself lucky as no one besides outer gods know of it. it is due to a whim of mine that I even bothered informing you. So moving on let me explain why I reformed your soul”

“You should thank my sister faith, I owe her a favor for helping me out a long time ago and she was very interested in your future as you are the only mortal that has no path. your'e one of a kind, due to some sort of freak accident you are destiny-less”

“She cannot see into your future no matter what she does so she was rather quite furious and mystified as to why brother Luck decided to end your life.”

“Wait, an outer god killed me? Why?”

“It was found recently that brother Chaos forced brother Luck to end your life. I guess that the reason might be because somehow he arrived to the conclusion that your existence was the only existence that could decrease his influence in the universe as you are, destiny-less. Since your future cannot be seen you are the only thing that can possibly effect his influence and he’s been rather quite meticulous recently in building influence and eliminating threats.”

I was shocked at what Death was telling me, this is crazy I am just some random being in the universe, why am I destiny-less? What does that even mean…..?

“So, let’s talk about what me and sister faith have planned for you Muzumi. we are collaborating with sister Life to re-incarnate you as a human without any God-blood in your veins in the world that you came from. Additionally we're working together with Magic to completely hide the fact that you are still alive from Chaos, but Chaos has many gods working for him and we have estimated that we can hide your presence for at least 200 mortal years before he finds out. Use this time wisely and grow to at least the strength of an inner god so you can protect yourself”

“Wait, inner god in 200 years? That’s impossible!”

“Hmmm if it’s impossible then maybe that’s all you would ever amount too, how can you ever hope to fight against Chaos if you can’t even do something so simple.”

“It seems as if everything that needs to be discussed has already been said, walk through this portal and you will be reincarnated as yourself, only without God-blood and back to the age when you were at your weakest yet oldest.”

The ground shook and in front of me appeared an archway with glowing light coming out of it “wait” I said “what do you mean by weakest and yet oldest?”

“Don’t worry about that, also, I might’ve forgot to mention that you will have to take a……trial of sorts to earn your right to a second life……… don’t worry I am sure it’s going to be easy for someone like you….hahahaha……”

“Wait…….! Trial…….!? What trial..?” I called out but then I felt a pulling force and all of a sudden I was hurtled inside the portal and everything went black.

---Hi Yuzu here, I’d just like to mention thank you for reading my fiction, my goal is to update it very frequently (at least 1 chapter a day, hopefully more) and that I would love it if you guys told me what you think! Super nervous as this is my first fiction but I have awesome plans for it!! =) <3