Re:START/If {Book 1.0}
Prologue Arc 02 “Regalia of Felixia: Antequam Aurora

The vast expanse of land was dusty, the air felt stuffy and the sun was scorching as if burning what was on the ground. Throughout the eye of the beholder, there was no sign of life and only the loose land with some gigantic stone hills was like a labyrinth. Sitting on one of the stone hills, I saw a stretch of quiet place that seemed to stretch indefinitely to the horizon.

My long hair feels sticky from sweat and dust, breath feels tight and thirst makes the throat feel burning. I've been looking for this place for quite some time, probably since I last spoke to that young man for the last time.

Recalling in memory, I have more than I thought. Knowledge of the beginning of the formation of a planet called Earth, since from the first impact of the asteroid to the creation of natural gaze and until now. I'm not kidding, it's real that understanding is in my head. Maybe now I'm the one who knows the most about this blue planet and its solar system.

A blue? I don't think that name is suitable for this arid place anymore. Not insinuating or hyperbole, this world is over seeing all that is in front of me. There is nothing, but the world is still full of problems. Imagining this place will enter a period of extreme climate and will be replenished by a variety of living things, I doubt this world line can survive.

Looking up, it looks like outer space. There is no atmosphere that makes the sky look blue, no Reyleigh scattering phenomenon that makes the sky look blue in the morning and dark at night. There is only outer space with clusters of stars that one by one explode and disintegrate. Chaos, uncertainty at the end of time.

The demolition process is still going on, yes ....

The world is in a phase of doomsday. It is not an apocalypse like the universe being destroyed instantly in a moment, but through procedures and stages in accordance with an orderly algorithm. In that order, it looks like this exposed solar system can already turn. Looking towards the sun, the distance of the star that became the light source of this solar system is very close. Perhaps the equivalent of the planet Mercury being near the sun.

The fact is that the planet and the dawn star have been swallowed up by the sun, which for billions of years provided life for many living things. Both planets have been consumed by parents' mothers who have looked after them for billions of years.

Soon it was Earth's turn, and by then it was certain that the sun would explode and create a giant Black Hole that would end this solar system. But before that happened, humanity was wiped out first because of the war against beings who called themselves angels. They are extinct from this world, and I am not making it up.

Mankind has the power to oppose the heavens. Hmm ..., not .... The sky that had only been watching began to be threatened, and to maintain their existence began to fight. In the end, mankind was wiped out and the heavens got nothing. The wars that were fought meant nothing, only the fear and selfishness that they satisfied became the basis.

I am not a human being, I am one of those sides of the sky. The reason humans fight the heavens, in other words the Gods is because they are aware of that fact. The beings that they worship as long as they are not absolute, they can also disappear when the world disappears. The classification of the Gods into occult things instantly disappeared when humans gained that knowledge, and they realized that we were just beings from other parallel worlds that had more advanced civilizations.

The celestial side were the other parallel beings that came to the line of this world. Those Gods were people from world lines that were more advanced thousands of times from this world line. Thinking about why there could be a faster world line, the reason was simple. High-intelligence beings appeared earlier than this world line. When the other world line was still in the paleozoic, our world line was already in the Neozoic. While at the time when other world lines were still prehistoric, our world line of beings called Gods had entered a period where they could explore space.

Because of that difference, the existing knowledge and technology becomes very wide when compared to millions of other world lines. But that was, very long ago.

Because too quickly a civilization develops, the sooner the world line is destroyed because of natural damage and the end of resources. That's one of the reasons we're looking for another world line to be habitable and supervised so that it doesn't end up like our world line.

From millions of searches, we found this most stable line of the world. Technological development is not very fast, intelegensional creatures do not appear too early, and the cycle of climate change and the cycle of the movement of stars from an archaeological point of view is not as brutal as our world line.

In this world line it is very rare for galactic cannibalism to occur and the Black Hole to spread far enough from the Galaxy Clueter array. Dark Matter is also not so concentrated that the void is stable, and what makes this world line perfect is that the expansion of its universe is so slow that the end is very long.

At the very beginning of the appearance of the intelegensitive beings who will be the Leaders in this world line, we decided to watch and guide them so that this world line does not end like our world line. Choosing the best among them, we provide input to form a good and true civilization. Even so, it seems that the nature of war has always existed in those who have knowledge. Selfishness and lust cannot be lost.

It has been thousands of years since the beginning of this world line we guided. But at a point that even we could not predict, a deviation appeared. As if without any notice at all, the millions of stars in the universe suddenly ran out of energy and became dead stars. The death of a star is tantamount to the end of a solar system, and the end of several solar systems in space creates dozens of Black Hole that engulf other solar systems like a domino.

When we re-analyzed the cause, it turns out that it happened because the other world lines one by one have begun to disappear and reached the end of age. Millions of world lines, or so-called parallel worlds began to reach the end of their lifespan and were wiped out. The case is the same as the destruction of our world line, the exhaustion of energy sources that quickly make a universe disappear.

The reason our so-called Sky Party had only a few left was because the remaining time limit was minimal to bring everyone. Even when we first came to this world line, our form was just an iron box calculation machine that held 101 consciousnesses and personalities.

It happened about a hundred years ago, finally this world line began to run out of energy. The cause is only one, which is because the energy was sucked by the Black Hole and sent to what place. At that moment we realized that all this was just a cycle. It is like the night changing day, the seasons changing, the orbit of a planet, life and death. The fact that the universe and all parallel worlds also have an absolute cycle we conclude patentably.

The world will be restored, returned to the void and started again from the beginning of the void. Like the beginning of a world created by a huge explosion, the energy absorbed by the Black Holes from all the world lines went to a single point, passing through time, space, and even the universe. At one point where all that energy gathered, a seed of the world would explode and bloom into the universe. According to our cosmological point of view, the seed is the core of the world in the form of solid energy and heat from. The forerunner of the universe will go through stellar nucleosynthesis to gradually form the elements of the world.

We were too naive, we thought we could survive by meddling and settling on otherworldly lines. It turns out .. it's all free. From the decision of our 101 members, a determination was made to be able to maintain consciousness into the world after the coming apocalypse.

“End like this, then ... completely vanished without being noticed by anyone is the same as never, yes ..”

The Sky Party immediately thought so. Sure enough, existing and vanishing unbeknownst to anyone is as good as never existing. We are ultimately looking for ways in a limited time to survive. At the end of the effort, we found the Absolute Freezing method to compress souls and personalities in tiny particles on an object. But we can only bring one soul and personality to be maintained through the final phase of the world.

“All creatures have the right to survive.”

Using that idea, we decided to tell reality to the beings we have been watching and guiding. Hearing that fact and gaining knowledge from us, they even rebelled and started a war visiting the sky. Their goal was one, seizing the method of Absolute Freezing and surviving in place of the celestial side. Those on the ground use the knowledge and seize the knowledge of the heavens, use it, and drag us down.

The war takes place at the end of time, like a predestined Ragnarok. The result is the world today. There are no winners, only a dusty, empty planet. Humans are killed by climate change, the sky also has a similar fate. All that's left is me and this young man who a few days ago died was hit by a rain of Comets that targeted the earth.

The reason I was able to survive in this place with an external climate was because I was using genetic engineering to increase the body's resilience. Yes, after all this body was created from genetic manipulation and to me it was just a container. Almost all living things that can survive the longest are those that have changed their basic genes, so there is no need to eat, drink, or anything like that. Only by exposure to the sun will they get food, like plants that photosynthesize.

“Ah ..., sepinya,” lamented while saving a leg. Regardless of this dirty anti-burning special dress and robe, I was actually lying on the ground full of dust and ashes of the dead.

If you know that loneliness feels like this, I better invite the young man to live longer. If not mistaken, his body has also been enhanced almost as much as at my level.

Standing up and cleaning the toga robe, I turned around and walked towards the iron entrance of a cave. That place was one of the young man's laboratories, a place for him to put up his final resistance to the end of the world. Down the iron slab stairs to the basement of the place, I occasionally sighed. Although there was almost no oxygen, I still breathed out with great sadness.

While walking, I took out a small black cube from my pocket. It was no wider than a palm and was black, but it was definitely the object with the most complex and hardest structural arrangement in the universe. Yes, that thing is the Absolute Freezing that all beings fight over. In its official name, it is called the Black Element because it also has almost all the knowledge of the world.

Most of the Sky Parties misunderstood the core of the function could only hold one soul and personality, they were too focused on surviving and were unaware of it. If you can only store one soul and personality, why not just change the format of the soul and personality to data like the world information stored on this object. Although there is no guarantee that personality will be maintained perfectly, but at least the soul that can not be divided will still be stored in more than one.

“They are too afraid of disappearing .... That's why they fell into the war, it's ridiculous. Do you agree with me, Number 101? Hah, but it is really offensive to name you by our overall starting amount, yes ...”.

I arrived at a large hall in the basement after passing through several long hallways. The place was full of cables, processor tubes and an open panel screen containing the calculation process. The light of this place is on and a large iron box centers all the wires visible. He was one of the relics of the young man, as well as his hope.

“Pronounced, Owner is not afraid to disappear like you guys ...” Light flickered from the surface of the large box as it let out a sound.

Yeah, he's right. We were too afraid to disappear, which is why chaos ensued and everything that had been planned fell apart. Walking up to him and sitting on the floor leaning against the hard iron box, I was momentarily relieved.

“Haah ..., does he think he can survive with that kind of iron?”

“Answer, Owner did not make this, I made this thing using these laboratory tools that are still accessible.”

“Creating? Aaah, you can loot the system all the way out, yeah. In that case, do you know the situation .. and the situation is now.”

“No, I don't know the state of Owner.”

“Do not lie.”

“Saying, Program can't lie. The owner left behind an absolute system that made me unable to detect it while outside this room. So as hard as I look for it, I won't be able to find it .... Only signs of what Owner has done can I know.”

Ah, so it seems. The young man .. he really planned all this. But when I look at his mind, why did he not— Ah, he erased his own memory apparently.

“Obviously I didn't know this place before scanning all these planets. It was fortunate that I was able to find you, with this it seemed like the young man's plan would not go smoothly. Tch! I was really fooled ...”

But this feels like a relief. Trusting the young man next I don't think it's bad either .... After all, he it is .....

“Do you want to hinder the Owner, O Goddess?”

“Of course not ...” I woke up, then turned around and touched the cold surface of the iron chunk while having the sense, “I want to cooperate with him. With this, maybe we can leave a trace in the world after the apocalypse ..”

I took the Relavital cable out of my pocket, and then attached it to a connector device on my spinal cord located in my upper back. I connected it to Number 101. Just by attaching the plugs on the surface of the metal lump, I was directly connected to it.

“Shape to information change, base to end alignment begins. Data change starts!”

I started the process of changing my soul and personality into just a piece of data. My will began to erode and consciousness faded. It was very clear that copying my data into Number 101 was really going on.

“Wahai Dewi ..., you really want to do that?”

“Ya ..”.

I put the Black Element on that lump of iron. “In there is your Owner. Go inside and take me .... We will become one and accompany him in the next world. Well, maybe ... I'll be thrown out of it when it all starts, anyway.”

“Alright ...,” he replied after a moment of silence. It turns out that the machine can also hesitate, the tool made is indeed made ....

That A.I did what I asked of him. After my consciousness had fully entered into him and turned into just a data, He entered into the Black Element and merged into the information of the world within there with the young man who became its creator.

That was the beginning of our journey through the cycle of the world. But it is like the world is always not as expected, a small desire to have a companion I can not achieve. I was thrown from them and my soul was whole again when the world was re-created.

The young man whose life I had destroyed and turned into an immortal seemed to not allow me to be with him. When I first saw it from the sky, I already liked it, I wanted to take it. But because the way it was done was very wrong, I ignored his will and just want to make the young man live long.

Several hundred years passed since the meeting at the stop, I could not tell him. Every time he met he only gave a sharp look because of his grudge against me. Regret haunting until now, if only doing different things that always ring in the mind.

Why would I have to read it with an axe containing information of immortality at that time? If only I could be better .... No, no matter what I do it must end up the same ....

Therefore, at least I ask the person he created to convey my message. I wonder if this sad creature ever existed and loved him. I want to apologize, I want him by my side. But I hope he forgets me. That's why I asked him to erase some of the young man's memory, hoping that he might be happy at the next opportunity.

Although I did not become one with him, but at least I could go to the world after this and live to watch him again from a faraway place. If you look at the way he looks, maybe I'm just a shitty stalker. But I really face your happiness.

Antequam Aurora .... May you find the light there .....

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Update before homecoming:v

Filled with mystery back before actually getting into Arc 02

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