Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Epilogue Arc 02 “Regalia of Felixia: Antequam Aurora” (Part 04)
In a tear, the mother tried to collect fragments of her daughter's flesh. Hysterically, like a madman who still hopes his daughter can survive even though it is no longer shaped.
Opening his eyes immediately, the young man pulled a black pole that pierced his neck. Slowly the wound he had sustained healed as if time was playing back, leaving absolutely no meaningful marks for him.
Waking up and seeing blood splattered on the sidewalk and his sister crying hysterically, the young man immediately knew what had happened to his nephew. A moment of anger rose and made angry mimicry appear to him. But quickly, it disappeared like a dust stain on a floor washed with water.
Staring at the white-haired woman, the young man with a very clear mind asked, “You, what are you? Why do you always make me suffer? What do you want from me?”
The young man really did not show any anger or sadness at all, only staring blankly in the void. Despite seeing his sister cry like that and having lost a nephew, his heart was not shaken at all. It was true for a moment in his chest that it hurt, yet it quickly dissipated and turned into a rotten calmness without himself noticing.
“My spirit is one of the Gods of this world. Well, I guess the word God is less suitable because it refers to a single thing. After all, the personality I have is female. Perhaps you can call myself a Goddess, more precisely one of the 101 Observers of the World and Human Civilization.”
The seemingly straightforward and non-serious answer again provoked the anger of the Youth, making the person who always looked calm to frown and stare sharply.
The young man raised his hand and pointed, then in wrath said, “Dewi? Human watchers?! Just be right!! Such a thing is worthy of a Goddess!! Blow up innocent little boy!! You're just a Devil!!”
“Well, Goddess or Devil is up to you. Basically it's just a matter of the perspective of people with low knowledge like you. So whatever it is, it is definitely a fact that we are observers of your civilization since time immemorial.”
Speech that always sounded as if it did not care made the anger of the Youth really grow. The first feeling that was vividly recalled by him after so long was a great wrath, burning his heart with a blaze of anger. Glared, clenched their hands tightly until they bled and gritted their teeth tightly. The young man was completely burned with flames of anger.
“For ... what?” ask him with a little self-control left. He almost ran towards the woman and beat her up. But when he saw the sister who was crying hysterically, he preferred to think about how to secure it first.
As if he could read the contents of the young man's head, the white-haired woman raised her index finger under her lips and put on a disdainful expression to provoke him. It was really effective, the young man's head was filled with anger and focused on him.
While smiling widely and looking away, she replied, “Of course to judge whether this version of the universe is worth it or not to be where we live. We guide your people with abundant knowledge, then give freedom and observe. If you pass from the day of testing, then you will be safe.”
The woman lowered her finger, sighing lightly as if disdaining the conversation. In a passionate gaze he again said, “You know, our goal is to uncover the truth for the survival of the rest of the world. Select, assess high-value individuals only to be maintained to save resources. As we did in the central world back then, choosing 101 individuals alone with the highest level of knowledge and sacrificing another billion!! Then in the end, there will be one Individual who knows everything!! It is he who is chosen, then it is that the path will lead humanity to the true truth ⸻!”
“That's not what I asked!!” cut the Youth. He was again completely overwhelmed with anger when he heard this, then in the power of wrath cursing, “Basic ******! I asked you why you did this to me! Fuck everyone else!! What do I care about the world!! I don't care what you go for!! Do that somewhere else you fucking!! Don't involve us! I just want to live with my family!! You bastard!”
It sounded like a musical melody to the woman, making her smile with satisfaction and stretching her hands to the side. At that moment he felt the happiness of having chosen the right person.
Clapping his hands he said, “What a selfish, greedy and lazy person! Despite being endowed with many things, such an attitude still did not go away! Like a child! It's amazing, because that's what I like! You were chosen because of your nature and ability. For that very reason, I give you eternity that has been attached to your soul!”
The young man shuddered and his anger was instantly extinguished, he had only seen for the first time anyone excited when he was cursed. Feeling strange, clueless and so agitated. With anger that began to waver he asked, “What. Selected what?”
The woman stopped stretching her hands. With eyes open and a wide grin as if tearing his mouth, he firmly conveyed, “As you know, young man! Although we claim to be God or Gods, we were once humans from a world with a civilization level millions of times more advanced than this world!!”
“A-What are you⸻?”
The white-haired woman stomped her feet, made the surface of the ground shake and made the young man's mouth shut in fear. Striking his legs again to make an earthquake, the street light poles near them suddenly exploded and the glass from the building cracked.
Despite smiling widely, he in a tone and voice snapped saying, “You know, a concept like God or something like that is the original thing made by the people of this world!! To call us who impart knowledge to them! There are times when we are also called aliens, demons, or even angels!! Then all of us who are 101 and wise have decided to make you a backup!! You understand what that means, young man?!”
“What ... are you talking about? A backup? 101?”
“You'll know that one day! What matters now is the news I have to tell you!”
As if space meant nothing to her, the woman took one step and immediately stood in front of the Youth. The young man reflexively swung his hand to hit the woman. But, instantly his body stopped moving right before a fist hit the woman's face.
“Ak⸻!?”
Closing her mouth to her ears, the white-haired woman whispered, “The time of judgment has come. Young man, one of us decided to self-destruct with one of the worlds out there. Currently the only seat holding the Omniscience has been empty …. Therefore, your judgment will begin with the end of this world. Decide whether the humans in this world deserve it or not to survive.”
The woman took one step back, and she was standing at a place five-four meters away. Flicking his finger a second time, he made the young man move again. At the same time, the woman also revived the child who had previously exploded as before without the slightest flaw.
The younger brother of the Youth immediately looked up, immediately hugging his daughter who was back intact in the arms. But when he realized that the woman who had previously blown up his daughter was still there, he again trembled and stared fearfully.
“Young man, this is my strength. Almighty! As a small gift from our meeting this time, I will tell you. Each one of us has a power that you know as the 99 Names of God, and then three of us are supporters of our existence. Since one of us is gone, you can search for the three individuals out of the 100 remaining. Isn't this an easy rule?”
“What ... are you talking about?”
Despite capturing what the woman meant, the young man's common sense could not digest the conversation. What happened to her nephew, the power-related thing that the woman was talking about, her head seemed to be unable to accept all these things.
The white-haired woman clapped her hands once again, then in a cheerful tone said, “If it is called in the language you like, the Holy War will begin soon! Or ... more precisely should I call Ragnarok!? The apocalypse? End Day? Well, whatever it is up to.”
“Holy? What are you talking about⸻?”
“You chose the word Doomsday, yes?” cut the woman while clapping. Raising his right hand straight forward, he with a wide smile said, “Alright! The final judgment will be called the Apocalypse! Oh, young man! O mankind!! The apocalypse is before your eyes, get ready!!”
“Yang is right! What are you talking about!!?” snapped the Youth.
The woman even grinned widely. Slowly raising his hands up and pointing towards the sky, he loudly said, “Look, the figure of your opponent! One of our executioners has gone down! First we will send five of them! Before the Last Judge comes down to destroy you all!!”
We are the pinnacle of world civilization, that was what humanity originally believed before that day came. But when the warning came to them, people were made aware that they had lived like a frog in a well. As if laughing at everything, one of the Judges appeared to the Youth.
The creature floated with a massive size, reached 600 meters high and had two pairs of light wings that reached two kilometers wide. His skin looked hard like a white shell, had two arms and legs that were the same length and his head was shaped like a human skull that had neither earlobes nor a nose.
Floating on his stomach down, the giant eyes without petals stared intently at the surface as if judging all the living things in the city he passed by. The mouth with the lower teeth sticking up like a rake began to open, then issued a very loud noise as if being angry at something.
Looking at the creature and feeling like an ant because of its size, the Youth trembled in fear and forgot about its anger. He immediately knelt down near the Little Sister, then clasped her and snuggled in the absolute terror.
Science, business, history, civilization, and human life seem meaningless.
“A ..A⸻! What ... is it? What the fuck? Why can ... there be such a creature in the world?”
The woman who was still standing straight lowered her hands, then with a laughing smile she loudly conveyed, “Knight of God! You can call him a real angel! One of the judges who will judge your speed!”
“Ke-Report?”
“Really! You one people will be judged by him! This is a lightening we can provide!” The white haired woman pointed at the Knight of God, then with just one commanding word, “Destroy!”
The giant that floated on its stomach slowly landed, setting its foot in a place quite far from where they were and making the ground shake. The windows of the building broke and the noise came back. When the massive figure stands, its height exceeds the skyscrapers around it.
His four wings lashed out, then shattered into dense light particles and quickly wrapped around his right hand. Slowly raised to the northwest, the densely-lit hand shot out a high-temperature beam of radiation.
The buildings passed by the light melted instantly like heated butter, then at a distance of hundreds of kilometers the light hit its target and made a powerful explosion. Beyond any nuclear that mankind ever created at that time. The waves generated from the center of the explosion even reached their place, like a storm full of dust.
A few minutes after the explosion and the electromagnetic storm began to fade, the Device attached to the ear of the Youth immediately received dozens of notices to him. Of all the news, two things made his face pale. The Test City had been destroyed 60% and the Capital of the country where it lived had completely vanished from satellite observations in orbit.
Although it is only a quick calculation after electromagnetic interference, but a fact that the light was directed not to just any place is real.
The young man took off the Device and dropped it, staring with resigned eyes and hoping that what happened was just a dream. Among his limited views due to the dust storm, the young man clearly saw him, the smile that seemed to laugh from the white-haired woman.
When the young man stopped hugging his sister and was about to stand up, the white-haired woman snapped her finger. At the same time, the body of the sister and her daughter exploded. They were both crushed into pieces of flesh that were scattered apart.
It was very sudden, not giving any chance for the young man to react to protecting his Little Brother.
“A⸻What ..Ap ... A⸻!! AKKKKKKKKHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Her chest feels tight. Not because the dust full of radiation that floated with strong winds, but the overflowing emotions made his body function could not operate properly. A heart that takes too long to heed the feeling is truly reminded, with the cruelty of the real world.
The woman lowered her hand with a laughing face. Like an unimportant joke, he loudly said, “You were thinking about wanting to be alone with your sister, right?! Uhuhuhah! How ridiculous! It can't, we won't let you do such a selfish thing! O Youth, this is a duty given to you. Obligation! Unite humanity and fight us! Hate us! Murder to us! Take advantage of everything in your hands and try to lower us from the throne!!”
“Ha ha .. Hahahahhahahaha!!!!!!!!!”
The young man's mind went crazy because he could not accept the reality, he laughed and cried at the same time.
Stop laughing, the young man immediately picked up the device before it was dropped. He re-attached it to his right ear, then while grinning at the commanding width, “Public Security System, cut off all notifications and ignore them! I give orders to all the remaining A.I! Combat nuclear warheads from all countries and prepare for launch! Target coordinates are ... where this command is sent!”
The white-haired woman laughed out loud at that, as if enjoying the resistance given by the Youth. He clapped his hands in contempt, then with a small smile pointed upwards.
Looking at the woman, the young man's body trembled and was frightened. The giant that had previously shot out light and destroyed the Capital and the Test City had stood several tens of meters behind the female.
His voice while stepping was completely inaudible, his existence could not be felt before the woman told him. Slowly crouched down, the body of the figure called the True Angel pierced through the buildings as if it had no physical form and stared straight at the Youth.
“Youth! Your determination and the world has begun! Unite your nation and fight! Hate us! The wrath! The grudge!! Prove that you are better than us and deserve your own future!! We will all wait and see from the throne! Your speed will be tested!”
The woman flicked her finger for the umpteenth time, making the massive-sized giant crouching behind her slowly bubble up as it held an enormous amount of energy. As if the giant bomb had been ready and its size had doubled, the white-haired female put on a wide smile and clapped her hands.
The body of the figure of the True Angel was exploded with power beyond healthy humans, instantly burning their bodies both indiscriminately and turning all objects within hundreds of kilometers into ashes.
In the next few years, the explosion was said to have eliminated the Southeast Asian island nation from the world map. Changing the surface climate of the earth becomes unfit for human habitation, then in the distant future is remembered as the Beginning of the Decline of Mankind.
--- Arc 02 Finish ----- Arc
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What the author felt after writing this :
“This should be Epilog, ‘kan?”
Well, that's.
That way the story connects again with the earliest CH of the series.
See You Next Time!
All notices, the next two weeks off first. The author wants to learn to draw again, the only skill has been weathered because it is rarely sharpened. Make a cover for the second season and Arc 03 later.