What will it cost to kill a god?
Will killing one merit me or forsake me as gods are beings that are above humans?
What will happen if I kill a god?
These questions were what drove me to this point.
The bodies of my precious allies with whom I fought countless battles with were lying down the castle floor, dead and dismembered.
In the middle of them was a silver haired woman with an ethereal aura to her, which one can notice at first sight, telling that she's not someone from the world I live in.
Her ruby red eyes were still open with a few blood drops dripping from her eye sockets.
They were probably her tears.
But, do gods cry?
I started thinking on how I came to this situation as I scrambled my way to the inter-dimensional portal, already flickering, signalling its upcoming functional failure.
With my sword at hand, lots of blood and broken bones all throughout my body, I flinched and whimpered with every step.
"Haa... Haa..." Heavy breathing generously went out of my mouth as I took in air just to prolong my consciousness even just a little bit further, just enough so I can go home.
"Where are you going now, Tetsuya-kun?... You belong here already, don't you?"
The female voice that suddenly popped up inside my head was very familiar. Yet, she didn't belong there nor is she someone close to me.
She's the goddess that I just killed after all.
"You're supposed to be dead already, aren't you, Alisa?!" I covered my face with one hand and repeatedly shook my head, hoping that I was just hearing things.
"Ah, die? You might kill me but you can never punish an immortal with death. I am a god, I am eternal."
The voice followed with a laugh, getting louder and louder in my head as searing pain started coursing through my body.
I started coughing up blood and after a few moments, my vision went black and I lost consciousness.
The last thing that I saw before everything went to oblivion was a glimpse of silver hair and the ethereal shine of Alisa's ruby-red pools for her eyes.
Opening my eyes with a yawn, I sat up my bed and scratched the back of my head before laughing out loud.
"I'm already free. Everything here is. I've completely destroyed Alisa and everything that symbolizes her. There won't be Walpurgis Nights anymore, there will be no more unfortunate people who will have the disease of Soteria."
Standing up from the bed and looking at myself in the mirror, I found a quite good looking fellow staring back at me with jet black hair and dark cerulean orbs.
I closed my eyes for a few moments and after opening them again, golden light shone from my dark irises.
"I'm a god-slayer after all. I'll end everything with myself."
The sunlight shone through my window and it came to focus on my sword, the Soterians' god-slaying broadsword and an old friend, Exophio.
I made a small smile as I reminisced upon the past of how I came to vanquish Alisa, the goddess of Ether and how I saved the world from the catastrophe that would've fell upon it.
That's how it was supposed to be.
Until when I woke up and found myself still lying down inside the main chamber of Alisa's inter-dimensional castle.