Anya lifted the entire bench over her head and was eagerly preparing to slam it down directly onto Kikaro's head.

"Your ass is grass, godly bitch!"

Kikaro sat on the ground, "Hey now. No need for that, or the title of a 'god'.", he chuckled, "Is that what people think of me?"

"I'll end it all right here, right now."

"With a bench?"

"What, afraid?", Anya briefly paused.

"No, but considering I was slashed, stabbed in the eyes and much more from an Obsulyte user, such as yourself, I doubt that a park bench will do the trick."

"I-I...", Anya stopped herself, "God dammit."

She placed the bench back down, crashing on it once again while grabbing her coffee, taking a huge sip from it.

"Was it just alcohol that I drank? Are we sure?"

Kikaro sat back on the bench, "You tell me. I just found you in the bar before you let lose some drinks on me."

"Great...I'm not sorry for that."

"Anya, come on now. I know there's two different worlds sitting on this bench, but being polite is off the question?"

"What do you know about polite? You're one of Hikari's two mad, batshit insane brothers. If anything, I'm expecting a decapitation happening to me at any second."

"And you're not scared?"

"My family is most likely in the shit 'cause of me, my entire group of friends is consisted of misery and my life is gone, since I threw it away by being a god damn idiot. Tell me exactly what I care for right now, to make me afraid enough of death."

"Not that you didn't fear death before? I mean you did face off against Dante when he wasn't holding back. Granted he will get stronger but...hey, you still faced him."

"Thanks for the compliment. Now how do I get you to piss off?"

"Look, you heard some stuff about me, yes, but are we currently fighting? No. So there's literally 0 point in you being so aggressive. Just relax and enjoy the day. Based on what you experienced yesterday, I'd say it's well deserved."

Anya finally relaxed, "Alright...fine. Just let me check my phone then."

Looking at her phone, she read all the messages that were sent to her. Her friends best wishes and them worried constantly about her. A briefing on what happened and what new information they had on their hands, not by email, but personal messages. Something about that made her happy, causing her to relax even more.

"So we're now basically a free organization? Huh...interesting. They said they forfeited some identities as well. I don't see the reason why but hey, it's cool."

"Let me guess? Drima helped them?"

"I don't think you need to be a genius to understand that. And he...well he's got his ways."

"Yeah, he does. Always has been willing to go undercover criminal and bend the rules."

"Hey, mind you, he's the reason we could make sense out of nothing. With his help we could at least find a proper direction to head at."

"I think you misunderstood me. 'Criminal' is what Drima is. By definition, that means breaking the law in certain ways that fit his game. I didn't say he was a bad person. Nowadays, I'd say criminals are the most innocent souls after children anyways."

"Yeah? Much like you were thought of as a god?"

Kikaro chuckled, "Hey, I've held that title for awhile without meaning. What, just because I can cause a rift in space and time I'm god now? Obsulyte users born in this world have already managed to gain sufficient power to be powerful as and be treated as gods but everyone seems to hate them instead. What a paradox. Humanity always strived to reach heaven and when it did it just collapsed on itself."

"So if not a god, then what are you?"

"You saw the message Hikari sent about the whole 'Overseer' thing? Yeap, that's me."

"You sister is much of the same but I don't see her wanting to destroy the world in the books of history."

"'Sister'. I guess I am a little bit guilty about that."

"Why do you even say sister like that? That disgusted of her?"

"I bet that other half she's got held back the memories Hikari had even more, huh? Made her listen to those stories and whatnot. When we say 'brothers' and 'sisters' it's more of a cult thing. Thing of it as like the Chaos Sect."

Anya raised an eyebrow, "Really?"

"Ah, bad example, given that group's history. But yeah, that's what fellow male and female Overseers call each other."

"Wait, wait. There's more of you? Not just the three?"

"Yes. I didn't exactly make a headcount last time more than me and my brother were present, but there surely are. Dante, for example, is definitely and obviously an Overseer in the making."

"So what the hell are you exactly? Aliens? Omnipotent beings?"

"I think when I look like a human and act like one, I'd say just really, really, unbelievably strong, overpowered beings. Not that special Obsulyte users can't face us, but I doubt just one would do the trick. You know, this whole war thing and stuff you read in the books of history that you said, I bet didn't have any of the lesser known details to it, right?"

"Such as? If I were to say how they portrayed you, I'd say that you guys were the biggest scumbags in history."

"I would say that too, had I looked in retrospect. Thing is, because of Hikari's arrival in this world, she kind of did many things she wasn't supposed to. For one, no living beings should have been created when she forced a big bang by collapsing space on itself and for two, she kind of shaped this world almost exactly like another one. That being, the point she originated from before becoming an Overseer. Victoria? Kolumbia? Pretty sure those were places back in her world or time eras even. Hell, even certain personalities like Einstein and Holmes were reborn here."

"Pause. So you're saying we copy pasted another world from god knows where?"

"Uh...kind of, yeah. Though I'd say more snip and stich together in some ways. Like the far away place among the Solar Sea that no one approaches. Forgot it's name. By now you're probably questioning how I know that, well it's simple. Hikari, like all of those who are not from this world possesses a World Core, which is a cool name for saying 'GPS location', across space and time to the original point or world of the host. I checked it out and her world is pretty cool...though humanity is still a thing in that reality so it's kind of being held back by the fact they lay leadership on a handful of people that just point fingers at each other and kill everyone. But other than that, pretty cool. Simple, fun and interesting with the creatures in it...not that the creatures are extremely different there, but hey, beggars can't be choosers. And I may have caused them a little bit of trouble anyway...", Kikaro chuckled awkwardly, remembering his mistakes.

"I'm pretty sure I can't crosscheck that at all, even if I tried. Or at least, I'd like to see how similar her world is to ours."

"Similarities are vague, but there. Her world didn't exactly have kids born with strength enough to topple buildings in seconds."

"No Obsulyte users there?"

"That's one of the other problems Hikari caused. Obsulyte is a driving power behind what you call 'gods'. Others call it whatever, Candy Power, Nuclear Power, the name doesn't matter. What that is, it's essentially power of unknown origin to even us, but it's something that keeps reality as we know it stable. In check. Worlds and realities are built based on it and cease to exist without it. Now, this world here, it's special. Back to the Big Bang thing, there's always a point of origin for that, right? So where space started to expand, we can say it's point zero, the beginning. Now take your world as a balloon and place it in the Matter Sea, as I call it. Where that 'Enemy' of yours was born. This world is the origin point for all the energy that built infinite others. The problem with what Hikari did is that this world shouldn't be a thing, because it's unstable. Energy was supposed to be outflowing, but when she reversed the outflow, collapsed it on itself and contained it within another bubble universe, another reality, that caused several issues. If this universe collapses on itself ceases to exist and the balloon bursts, then there's no more energy left to feed other worlds. That's an uncountable infinity number of casualties. Not to mention that I don't know if we will all just flow in black with nothing happening for eternity afterwards."

"Holy shit, you are all mad crazy then. And I mean all of you. Why the hell did you entrust something like this to kids like us? Why didn't you and all your other friends just go ahead and do it? What, you think this is gonna be a movie where teenagers save the world just because you told them to use the 'power of friendship'?"

"Well, let's be honest, you are all every bit irregular. And I don't just mean your insane powers, but also your personalities. You are all weird."

"Yes, thank you for stating the obvious. Miserable is what I'd call it. We have all the power in the world, yet we all feel powerless. Dad is a jackass, but he was right for one thing. Mere physical powers to change landscapes and beat the shit out of everyone isn't gonna cut it. There's a lot more at play when it comes to this. Granted, with the power you're selling out to have, we could snap the world out of existence, but at that point, what's the point?"

"I wouldn't call you the least bit miserable. I'd actually say that you're actually the happiest when together. Sure, tragic pasts, but at times of war, I doubt that anyone who was in it would have a rosy past to share. Your guy's ability, whether its ignorance or something else, to look aside the grey when together and laugh is something I would say I'm jealous of myself. So cheer up. Your smile is always appreciated, with a normal face or one with a big muzzle!"

Anya briefly stared at Kikaro, unable to understand why she started to understand him. His words of encouragement, from someone who was clearly aware of her past and knew exactly how she felt gave her something to feed her worried mind over.

"Yeah...thanks. I'll tell it to them."

"No worries. You guys just need to relax a bit more, that's all. Remember, while you have taken on certain duties, forthfilling them without living your lives will just make you hollowed in soldiers. Take a vacation every no and then."

"We will when the coast is clear. When there's work needed to be done, everyone will shut up and work. You explained your part of the story...which I'm not going to trust you over completely yet. But tell me this. Why was the war with all the Valkyries and stuff back then so vivid in Hikari's imagination? I doubt that Enemy would leave that memory there if she could conceal it."

"That war was really bad. Thing is, with me, Makaro and Hikari being three present Overseers at the same time clashing with different opinions, we fell into the same trap that humanity normally does. Different opinions equated to clash of forces. Makaro wanted to control this world and minimize the influence other Overseers may have had on Existence itself within the Matter Sea, securing the fact that Hikari's mistake wouldn't happen again. Hikari wanted to just let the world be, so that she could perfect it to the point of proving that humanity and all living beings as a whole could coexist without pain or suffering. Thing is, by the time she admitted to it, humans with Obsulyte powers down bellow were already hunting down other creatures, presumably creatures that were purely like you in their monster forms from birth, as well as the then small population of demi-humans that began to rise. Of course, with a mirrored world like Hikari's humanity eventually won the evolutionary battle and prevailed, which led to today. A little bit of this here and that there, all Sentinels, who are just way stronger than average Obsulyte users chose a side, and fought under the command of certain Overseers, with their Valkyries who were just stronger than average Obsulyte users, following them. The end result was not to anyone's liking. Hikari, with the majority of Sentinels agreeing to follow her with their Valkyries had her entire numbers killed, and saw a world on fire. The reason behind why Obsulyte users are few and far between compared to the entire world back then, is because Makaro went on a kill spree to punish them for trying to take over by murdering others. His rage was justified, but his actions were not, because he hit innocents on top of that too. There's always innocents. In either case, this world suffered the consequences of Overseers fighting exactly like humans did, way more than it should have. Then again, the fact that it exists should reflect on how poorly built a society like this is built, on top of why it shouldn't exist as a world, both physically and morally."

"So out of that side of the story, what was your take? You didn't say what you fought for when that happened."

"I fought to destroy the world. With how much heat the world got, other Overseers were about to make it a million times more miserable, so I honestly thought pulling the plug would do it better justice. I'm sure you're glad I failed."

"Yeah...I am. But I don't get it, you seem to enjoy it. This world I mean. Why would you even try and destroy it in the first place? Couldn't you just turn back and fight the other Overseers that would intercept you three?"

"Then the world would be destroyed anyway. A direct battle between Overseers is something indescribable. And horrifying. We call that a Collapse. Because when Overseers fight, a Collapse will follow, destroying everything, from stars to planets to worlds itself. An Overseers biggest fear from my experience is replacement. If their World Core and powers are stolen over their dead bodies. And this world, Riza, Zero, whatever you wish to rename it is filled with Obsulyte users, mere mortals, with powers that define Overseers."

"So you're telling me we all flew close to then sun when simply being born, got more power that we didn't even ask for to reach such power levels and are now going to be killed for it? So it's kill or be killed?"

"Not exactly, but close to that. You are all much stronger than you realize. Granted, the 'power of friendship' will play a factor if you band together to topple an Overseer, but until that happens, you three have such a long way to go. You first need to realize and control the full extend of your gifts. You were born with your powers, you didn't earn them. And if you want to intoxicate yourselves with your powers, you best know how to control them first."

"I get that...but wait. Why are you telling me all this? I asked you simple questions and you gave me honest answers."

"How do you know that? You said you didn't trust me."

"Business. You know how many business deals I've closed for my dad? Common tactic to extend the conversation and start scoping out who's bullshiting and who's not."

"Doubt you'd say 'you're bullshiting me'."

"You get what I mean, you ass. So I use a little bit of swearing when I'm chilling, so what? Tiki does it too, though she should actually try to chill first on that part. Probably add a filter too. When it does come to business, I obviously won't be using the same tongue."

"I get it, live it out how you want to. I'm not an old man to judge you for it."

"You don't look like one, but I'm sure you are one."

"Infinite years old, I guess. Overseers are defined by space and time, so despite looks, I don't think you can get much of an age aside from the physical one. But I have heard that there's this new method that scientists use to check something in your blood cells to define your physical age, if you wanna do that."

"I'm fine, nerd. Now before we get going, because I'm sure you won't leave me alone, why did you do this? All this? The bar, the ninja fight?"

"I know what happened to you, and I thought you might need company. Someone to vent to. I would say I'm quite honored to know details that even your bestie, Dante, doesn't know about you. Simply telling you small facts to guide you along a bit. But I guess I could, can and did a little bit more. Whether you see me as an enemy or not, I honestly don't mind. War is still a battle of opinions and to everyone who is fighting it, in their eyes, they are the heroes. Well, depends on the pair of eye's they've got to see with. Doubt I'd ever show my face to your crew of losers and misfits, however, as I'm sure we would only fight each other without much else."

"I could tell them otherwise, but things are not good right now. I've got way too much to do. Speaking of which, I'm off. I've got to find a way outta here and I doubt that I can take a plane to Vardard to meet up with everyone without papers."

"Suivez moi. I've met with an interesting guy, not too long ago. With the way you look, it'd be more than perfect you meet with him.", Kikaro cheekily insisted.

"Better not kill me then. Though you try to do so, I doubt I'd care."

"Pretty sure I didn't help you to stab you in the back later. Now come on, let's go."

The two of them left the bench behind, following along dark alleyways to avoid crowds and going further out, to the suburban areas of the city. As they reached the more run down poor areas, more and more beast turned people started to appear, making Anya quickly realizing where exactly they were headed, before they stopped before a heavily fortified building with a thick metal door.