place: Planet Earth, Japan
time: 21st century
in a place with lots of trees and vegetation a small and lonely hut was
at first glance it may seem that this place was in a forest but you can pay attention and look at the sky filled with smoke and listen to the deafening noises of cars to realize that this place was in the middle of a city, more specifically Tokyo
despite looking like an abandoned hut, this place was once the temple of a deity charged with protecting a large and ancient samurai family
however, the temple, long forgotten, was in terrible condition, the name that was once written is not even readable today
this ancient myth now only exists in the past
any normal person who looked would just see it
but you dear reader is not something normal, when someone reads a story it is not possible to classify it as normal, at least not in the story itself
going beyond the veil of reality you can see a very intelessant figure kneeling inside the temple, he had no face and every visible place on his body seems to be made of light, wearing only a kimono and holding a transparent sword made of his last wishes
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in front of a door of a hospital room two people talk
one was a doctor and the other a man who looked like he was about to weep
nothing to do, surgery to cure it or a more expensive treatment, even if it's too expensive I can get enough money somehow
the doctor looked at him sighed and spoke
"Unfortunately not"
"the infection is already spread all over the body, and your vital organs are almost incapacitated, we did what we could but your boyfriend does not have more than a few days"
"let's keep him in an induced coma you can go and say goodbye if you want"
the man paralyzed by this information
and then tears started streaming down his face
he felt that his life was over
the door opens creating a great noise in the middle of the previous silence
"doctor this is a miracle" was what a nurse who left the room said
the reason she said that is because there was no better way to describe the event, the one that everyone thought was impossible to cure was awake and totally healthy
he managed to get out of the hospital bed as if everything that had happened so far was just a dream
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the being who lived in the temple was practicing seppuku with the sword in the same position as before
that man who would die is also the last of the lineage of the honorable samurai clan
this god has already had his name completely forgotten, normally a deity would have disappeared from existence but his will was always to protect
even though he was forgotten, he never forgot
he always waited for the right moment so that he could complete his duty one last time
with this act he used the rest of his powers and completed, he would disappear, he would die, he would be forgotten, but he has no regrets
even though he is sad to become only a memory of those who will never wake up from their dreams
death brought his freedom
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place: chaos
time: nonexistent
the place where our main character is the perfect meaning of the words oxotic and chaotic
everything around it didn't make sense, it was an apparently infinite dimension full of different objects that at times seemed without form, at times they seemed geometrical shapes that could vary from 1 to 5 dimensions (if you didn't intend to search for "tesseract cube"), sometimes they looked like people or objects completely deformed, sometimes they seemed to be all these things at the same time
the dimension was painted by all the existing visible colors, and also the invisible and non-persistent colors
"are you enjoying the look of my kingdom?" spoke a voice that seems to come from everywhere but at the same time nowhere
"who are you ? ... what are you ?"
"you didn't read what is written up there"
"what ?" he looked everywhere but he didn't find anything that made that sentence make any sense
"sorry, sometimes i forget that characters like you can't see beyond, let me introduce myself, i have many names however the most suitable to use would be "chaos" ... "
"be more direct, you who brought me here ? , why am I here?"
"hahaha, very arrogant, i liked it, better not to say that kind of thing if you want to live
answering your questions, the answer to the first is yes, and the reason for bringing you here was to offer you a deal, however it was not me who choose you"
"what agreement"
it is very simple, you were born a god but you were forgotten, and being forgotten you died, I am offering you a new life and a chance not to be abandoned a second time.
abandoned, that word causes him a lot of pain and suffering, hearing these words ... ...
"hearing these words blah blah blah ... "sloth" you can shut up for a minute, ... then accept it or not"
"...
...
...
yes"
"good
I hope you don't regret your decision
I'll be watching you "
a portal opened next to the protagonist
"wait
I almost forgot
This is a present for you protagonist-san "a snapping sound is heard, his mind was filled with information about Greek and Roman culture and some other information that seemed cloudy and difficult to understand
"This will be very, very useful on your journey"
The portal pulled him in without him having time to say anything else
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"[sloth] you will be there hiding forever"
A vortex appeared and a fully hooded figure came out of it, no part of the body is visible until the face is hidden by a smiling masquerade with closed eyes and androgynous, the /// looked too big and too wide so it covered even the legs and legs. /// was gray and looked full of stains and dirt, while his chewing is totally clean and shiny and gave the feeling that he was dreaming to anyone who looked at it directly
"Why did you choose this character to participate in MY storyline?"
There is no answer, but the reason he chose this character is because of his samurai personality he would probably change the story, he himself did not know what would happen, it would be very interesting and fun
"Interesting and fun, um, we'll see
do you realize that talking about yourself in third person is very stupid? ...
and who would they be?
[chaos] look at you READER
[sloth] doesn't say anything again, but if I did I would say that the reason we are together is that the stories are meaningless without someone to see them
"You are certainly the weirdest creature in the ominiverse"
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Protagonist POV
... our protagonist opens his eyes and sees a beautiful woman with black hair like the midnight sky, eyes that seemed to be made of pure gold, red lips like (for something red) and perfect black skin, without spots, her height is around 2 meters
And behind her there is a man about 280 centimeters and extremely strong, with muscles and skin that seemed to be made of polished steel, his clothes were reduced to extremely white and light cloths as if he mocked the possibility that someone could hurt him or at least the dirty
He didn't know where he was, he just realized that it was possibly in Greece or Rome because of the woman's clothes, and that the place he was being taken to is a giant cliff in front of the sea
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POV? misterious woman ?
"I think my husband will finally be happy and spare our son, the first male heir will finally calm his fury, perhaps"
She went up to the cliff, as she approached what looked like an altar and started to cry, seeing this her son caressed her face with his small hands and smiled to try to comfort her
"So small, but already so kind, he doesn't deserve to have this destiny"
A maternal instinct ignited, she decided to run
But before anything could be done she was paralyzed, she and everything around her stopped moving, from the dewdrop to the birds flying in the sky, everything looked like a big picture
"Every time Rhea you try to trick me or run away, it's always the same story, i'll have to destroy another mortal city so that you don't disobey me again"
The being who spoke this was nothing less than the current king of the gods, the ruler of the heavens and the god of time, Cronos
--Time returned to normal --
"(Crying sound) my son does not deserve this punishment he did nothing wrong, none of my poor children deserved it, you are a complete madman, you are so obsessed with this prophecy that you have become a tyrant ..."
Cronos frowned at the offenses of, but something she said made him more interested
"Bring my son back" Cronos said this highlighting the word son, after all all the children born until the moment were female
Being the titan of physical strength, taking this baby out of the mother's arms was very easy
The baby had dark red hair, eyes with irises so black they were no different from the pupils, and what appeared to be a tattoo of three pairs of wings on the back.
Their eyes met, cronos' chest tightened, cronos felt regret for his actions, he started to rethink his actions
"Every king needs an heir, if i educate him properly i might be able to change the forecast, or maybe gaia was just deceiving me"
He thought of being merciful to hades
But when he took the baby in his hands he felt enormous potential coming from the child, even greater than his previous daughters
This caused a fear in Cronos, when remembering the prophecy the fear spoke louder than the piety
"that's how it's supposed to be"
Cronos delivered his son to Atras
The time titan began to float to the cliff and used the skill of every titan to grow to colossal sizes
Soon he became what appeared to be a perfectly sculpted statue made of (for something associated with time) 300 meters high
His size was so big that his feet touched the bottom of the sea and the water would never wet his knee
The child floated up close to the giant's mouth, chronos looked into the small eyes of his newborn son one last time
The Titan swallowed him with enormous voracity, closing his eyes so as not to have feelings for this little creature, he would do this with his future children so as not to make the same mistake of feeling sorry, this would become his downfall with his other future son Zeus
but who is the new protagonist of this story is hades, this baby he gets is his decadence, not just him living with the honor of a samurai and the dignity of a king the whole story will change.