"Net?" I ponder. That's a weird name.
"I have been called that before," He exhales, lifting the clipboard back up again. "You can use that."
"Okay Net," I sigh, too detached to inquire anymore about his weird name and personality. "Please explain to me what you mean by monitor?"
"Hm…" He pauses, giving his answer a lot of thought. "Maybe something you humans have named God?"
"God?!" I scoff with a chuckle behind it. "You mean to tell me that you're God?"
"No," He states without a change to his expression. "There is no God. However, the definition humans have given to the name God is the closest to a description of my being."
"I see…" I whisper in a daze somehow actually believing everything he's saying. That would explain this weird-ass dream-like reality. Plus, he's saying stuff like reincarnation and being my owner. Perhaps I'm actually talking to God right now?
At the thought, I steal a glance at Net, soaking in all his postures and expressions. I never though God would look so young. He doesn't look a day over 19, that's six years younger than me.
"Um… Net?" I start, staring at him intently. "How old are you?"
"Hm? That's a sudden question," He responds, staring back at me. "I'm not sure, I stopped counting after fifty-nine billion, three hundred and five."
At the mention of that, my jaw drops, and I freeze in a state of disillusion. Did he just say 59 billion? It sounds so absurd but somehow, I believe even that impossibility.
"So, you're sort of our creator?" I ask, now a little nervous when speaking to him. "Humans I mean."
"Incorrect," He states, scanning the documents in his hands.
"Huh?!" I gasp, not understanding his terms anymore. "Didn't you say you were my owner?"
"I am," He articulates, changing his position on the armchair he's sitting on. "I own you, but I didn't create you."
"Then if you didn't who did?" I ponder aloud. I'm getting a little curious now.
"The being who created me,"
"And where is he?"
"He's gone." He answers with an awkwardly straight face.
"What do you mean he's gone?" I continue to ask hoping to understand the situation that I've found myself in.
"As it sounds human," He states with a stare creeping me out a little. "He disappeared when he decided to no longer exist."
"Are you telling me God- or your father as it seems, is dead?"
"He isn't God either, he was created as well just as we all are," He says, flipping the papers on the clipboard again. "But yes, he's dead."
"I'm confused now," I exhale, weary of the circle of thoughts that keep frustrating me.
"My kind are known as monitors," He starts after a dreaded sigh. "Over the years we have been assigned many titles, one of which would be gods."
I relax comfortably on the seat as I prepare my mind to hear an explanation that would most definitely sound made up.
"We live in a realm far away from this one or any other. A place we call Yggdrasil," He continues, relaxing into a comfortable position as well. "There are 8 of us created by the being who created all the realms that exist today. Messo, Shira, Demis, Layel, Portfemos, Batrak, Jespav, Ydris, Kryvelta, Homserkv, Gamis, Tremis, and Requistaz are the 13 realms. Realms contain worlds or planets within them. For example, Earth and its solar system are located in the realm, Messo and is currently the realm among all 13 with the most population of humans. Because of this, reincarnations of humans on earth to another realm like transportation don't happen very frequently. It only happens when a world in another realm is having problems that the monitor of that realm cannot handle or interfere with directly and thus must summon a hero from outside the realm."
"But you just said that realms contain worlds within them, meaning more than one," I interrupt out of curiosity. "Why can't a monitor summon a hero or whatever from another world within the realm? Why does it have to be from an entirely different realm?"
"Hmm… well there are really only two reasons for that," He states putting down the clipboard in his hand. "One, if the world is facing a problem that not even the monitor can solve directly, then the problem is most likely affecting the entire realm all together. Like cataclysms and apocalyptic cases that happen often. Two, the realm is like Messo with only one world that inhabits life capable of going through the reincarnation process."
"You mean earth?"
"Yes," He replies. "Messo contains the entire solar system plus an uncountable number of galaxies. As such Messo is the third biggest realm, however, only earth holds capable life forms for the task so summoning a hero from another realm would be the only option. But Messo has never fallen into a state of such trouble so I've never had to summon a hero before anyways."
"You keep saying reincarnation," I continue with another question. "What does that mean exactly?"
"It's the process by which heroes are selected," Net responds, bringing his palm up to his chin. "But that doesn't quite apply to you which is why I'm just transferring you."
"Why?"
"I just looked over your file and it seems you're in luck," He says, gesturing to the clipboard he put down. "You are actually very worthy hero material, however, a hero for the world I have chosen to transfer you to has already been selected. If a monitor reincarnates someone into another realm without the intention of making him a hero, the process is called transferring. And seeing as I accidentally killed you, this process fits."
"I guess that makes a bit of sense,"
"But there's a problem," He states, tucking a strand of hair behind his ear.
"What now?"
"Your file, you're too much of valuable hero material."
"What does that even mean?"
"The selection process we use for choosing heroes, you scored a 98"
"What?! So, does that mean I have to be a hero?"
"No not really,"
"Huh?!"
"The reincarnation process which we call "Tato" doesn't really test for whether an individual is good or brave enough to save the world he's to be reincarnated to, rather it tests on how great an impact his existence will have on the world. Heroes usually score within the range of 76-84. If a hero's will and character is great enough to alter events set in stone, then he is chosen for reincarnation. And depending on his score he is sent to worlds based on their difficulty. However, the world I have chosen for you is a world with a hero, yet the process has graded you to be a 98. There is only one reason. Your score is higher than the hero formerly chosen, yet the process did not see you as a suitable hero candidate. Granted, it could be because of the peculiarity of your will and personality, but the process has never chosen two people for a job yet does not acknowledge one of them as suitable."
"Then why?"
"There are two sides of a coin Mr. Arisu, if the process does not see you as a hero, then maybe your presence in the world isn't fit to be beside the hero, but against him. Which would make more sense seeing as the impact sending you there would be a 98."
"Are you telling me I'm the evil the hero has to fight against?"