Chapter 19 - Family Matters - Part 3
Nazar's apartment, London, UK - Earth:
It was evening and two men had fallen to their knees on the ground.
"How…?"
They were looking at their palms. There was a strange red liquid on it.
A very slimy red liquid was also coming down their face.
The cold feel of the liquid sent chills throughout their body.
"You should have yielded before it was too late," Nazar said as he let out a psychotic laugh.
The two men looked at one another.
"We didn't have a chance..."
The other one nodded as he bit his lip.
One of them raised their hand and tasted the red liquid.
"Aaahhh," he shouted out.
"No… It can't be..."
One of the men slowly stood up and looked at Nazar.
"You..."
He held Nazar by his collar.
"I thought we were supposed to be using ketchup and not hot chilli sauce."
Nazar let out a laugh.
"Eh, that was getting rather boring."
The man let out a sigh and let go of Nazar's collar.
He looked at the other man and kicked him.
"Get up, Harry."
Harry looked at Chris and sighed.
"Are we done playing around?"
"Yep."
He stood up and looked at his clothes.
"Now, I have to wash it off."
"Well, it was your fault for losing in a cooking contest against me," Nazar sounded proud of himself.
For many years, these three friends would have regular food contests because they read it in Shokugeki no Soma/Food Wars manga. They have battled out using their cooking skills and every time, Chris and Harry have lost to Nazar. Today was no different either.
Their current match started a few hours ago where they had to make the best Spaghetti within 30 minutes. And of course, Nazar won. In his human form, he might be average, but he is an extremely good cook.
"Gonna be back. I need to wash it off."
"Well, the good thing is, I brought an extra shirt. But I still need to wash my hair," Harry said.
Chris and Harry left the kitchen.
Nazar looked at the two other people in the kitchen. Seeing their gazes upon him, he shrugged as he said, "What?"
One of them was a petite woman with curly red hair and blue eyes. She has brown skin. She is Ashley Lane.
And the other one was a tall and busty woman with black hair and black eyes. She has white skin. She wears big glasses on her eyes due to vision problems. She is Rebecca Kyle.
"Sooooooo… Is this your last one?" Ashley asked.
"Maybe," Nazar replied immediately.
"How did it last this long?"
Hearing Rebecca's question, Nazar thought about it.
"Well, it started when we first read this manga known as Food Wars. And ever since then, we have been using this as a way to improve our skills. And since this year is finished and we won't be together as much… So, this might be the last one."
"Oh, are you sad?" Ashley said as she smiled thinly.
"Pfft. No."
Nazar opened the oven and took out something that was covered in aluminium foil.
"I am sadder that it reminds me of how the manga got axed and had a pretty meh ending."
He started to take off the foil.
"What, are you guys gonna be sad that you won't be able to eat my amazing food anymore?"
"Kind of," Rebecca said immediately. "We like the food all of you guys cook."
"Now, now. No need to praise your dumb blonde boyfriend of yours, Becky."
"Shut up!" Rebecca said out loudly as she threw a used up tissue at Nazar.
"Oh, it's chicken wings again," Ashley said as she looked disinterested. "Poor guys have to eat the spicy chicken again, right?"
"Yep. And you don't have to feel sorry for your boyfriend either, Ash."
Ashley let out a sigh.
After a minute, Chris entered the room with a new shirt and he was wiping his hair with a towel.
"Now, then, eat."
Hearing that, he just let out a sigh.
Chris and Harry are used to eating spicy wings so they don't really care anymore.
After eating the food, they all sat in the small living room on the floor and started watching a movie while drinking beer and alcohol.
As usual, the movie was just playing in the background and they were talking among themselves.
"Okay, I want to ask each one a question," Chris said.
Everyone looked at him with bug-eyed expressions.
"If you were transported into another world, what would you do first? Like how in some mangas they get transported into another world, so if you were transported, what will do first?"
"I would find myself a shining knight," Ashley said as she looked at Chris and winked. "And then I will get married to him."
Chris gave her a wry smile.
"Haha, don't worry, I won't cheat on you in this world."
"That… that does make me feel a little better..." Chris said with a gloomy expression.
"Oh, I would find out why I was transported and find a way back here."
Everyone looked at Rebecca.
"Boring," they all said in unison.
"Anyway, I want to find out what powers I have," Harry said with a wide smile on his face. "Preferably magic."
"I am gonna do the same," Chris said excitedly. "But instead of magic, I would want real superpower. What about you, Nazar?"
On Nazar's face, a thin evil smile appeared.
They all gulped because they thought that he will try and destroy the world.
Whenever Nazar talked about his favourite stuff in fiction, it involved the destruction of planets or universes. So, they thought he would destroy the world as soon as he enters it.
But.
"I will build a harem."
"...."
Everyone looked at him blankly.
"...."
They exchanged glances.
"I would want a demon girl, an elf, an explosion girl, a masochist, a goddess, an angel, a cat girl, a tsundere, a yandere, a vampire, a fox girl, a--"
"Wait. Stop!"
Hearing Chris's shout, Nazar trailed off.
"Dude, really?"
"What? I mean, yeah, powers are cool and all… But a harem is a must-have in the fantasy genre. If you don't have one, you have failed the Isekai life."
They all let out a sigh.
"Get a girlfriend. Your dream of having a harem will never come true."
"Hm. I already do have a girlfriend."
Hearing Nazar's reply, everyone looked at him in surprise.
"What?"
"Since when?"
"Who?"
Seeing the exciting look in their eyes, Nazar backed down slowly to a corner and tried to change the topic.
"Do you guys know what--"
"Dude, who is she?"
Seeing their gazes, he let out a sigh.
"She..."
Everyone was anticipating a name of the person but…
"You don't know her."
"Yeah, right."
"Then let us meet her."
Nazar looked away from them and said, "She… She is an alien..."
With a blank look on their faces, they said, "You are hopeless."
"No, I am being serious."
"Yeah, right."
"Oh yeah, speaking of... Did you guys see what happened? First, Afghanistan was turned into a utopia and then that weird green energy was seen everywhere."
Everyone looked at Rebecca.
"Apparently, every single person who was ill was miraculously healed."
She took off her glasses and smiled.
"I can see properly now."
"Woah, that's so cool," Harry said.
"Yeah that's pretty awesome," Ashley said with a smile. "Did you guys see the video? It's a man who did it."
"Yeah, I know right? That was pretty cool."
"I wonder who has that kind of power."
Everyone was talking about this phenomenon excitedly but Nazar's eye was twitching furiously as he stopped hearing their conversation.
(How...)
No one noticed his angry and gloomy expression.
(Shit!)
He stood up and left the room.
No one noticed him gone.
Nazar took out his phone in the hallway and looked at it.
He took his normal form and started using technopathy.
Looking at the flow of digital data from around the world, Nazar's body tensed up.
He had made a mistake.
When he healed everyone, he took his normal form, but he forgot about something else.
(The whole country was under the surveillance of every country you can think of. And not just that, Bradley Conglomerate had already found the source of the problem… And I healed everyone from that place… Shit!)
He scratched his head furiously.
(There is a brief second in which you can see my face...)
"Yo, guys, I need to do something important, so I am gonna be gone for a while."
He wasn't sure if anyone heard him, but he said it to them from the hallway and vanished into thin air.
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Outside of the multiverse, in the void that is nothing, Lucifer slashed his hand.
In the pitch black place, a white door appeared.
Lucifer sucked in a breath as went through it.
There, he found two of the oldest beings sitting opposite one another.
One was made from pure white light and the other looked exactly like Nazar except he had black hair and black eyes.
One was the Supreme One and the other one was the Nameless One.
The Nameless One was wearing skin-tight dark blue clothes. This beautiful dark blue skin-tight clothes connected together with a golden belt. There were also golden strips here and there on his clothes.
He also had a dark red cape that went along with his clothes.
"What brings you here, Lucifer?" A voice that was not human or artificial… A voice that can never be explained asked Lucifer a simple question.
"We meet many, many years later and you are not trying to kill us?"
Lucifer ignored the Nameless One's question.
The great creator and the great destroyer sitting together in one place and not trying to kill one another stunned Lucifer for a brief moment.
"What? Did my beautiful creation, Nazar, did something again?" The Nameless One said as he said thinly. "Hopefully destroyed a few universes."
Then a psychotic laugh rang out in this place.
Lucifer could not explain what kind of place it was.
Was it made of pure light? Or was it a room? Were there chairs? Were these god-like beings sitting or standing?
Lucifer's mind went blank to what he saw.
He shook his head and gathered his thoughts.
"It's about the Seven Deadly Sins..."
"The ones you created billions of years ago? And then killed them straight away?"
Lucifer nodded at the Supreme One's question.
"And the other..."
"It's about Nazar, isn't it?"
Lucifer nodded once more to the Nameless One's question.
"Something is wrong with him."
The thin smile from the great destroyer's face vanished.
With a serious expression, he was now standing in front of Lucifer.
Lucifer wasn't sure how it happened. He didn't move or teleported. But he was standing in front of Lucifer now.
"Let me hear it."
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In a pitch black place, outside the multiverse and away from the white door Lucifer just opened, a woman in a black dress with silver hair and purple eyes narrowed her eyes as she watched Nazar closely.
She was outside of the very existence, in a place where there is nothing but darkness, but she was looking at Nazar. She could see and hear him as if he was standing in front of her.
"Oh?"
Her voice didn't sound anything like a human. It was more artificial than natural.
If someone heard her, they wouldn't know what she is feeling.
"It is rather an interesting development… Right?"
She looked at her right palm.
"Things are not going as I planned. Interesting… but I will have to improvise."
In her right palm, a purple energy ball appeared.
"Then let there be more developments like these."
The purple energy ball started to float in front of her face.
She watched as the purple energy ball travelled away from her in the darkness towards the universe.
"Hehe..."
She let out an emotionless laugh in the pitch black place and watched Nazar closely.
"Let Plan 8 begins."