Game like interface. Rules. Objectives. Teammates with the same enemy.
No matter how you look at it, this is like playing a game or watching someone that is playing a game.
To spectate means one find something entertaining, because curiosity has to be sparked before anything can attract you. When you find something entertaining, you will keep on doing it or watch whatever it may be until you get bored over time.
But what if you just started something you find intriguing? Something that has your full attention. For it to be stop midway, right before the climax at that, won't anyone would be irritated beyond reason?
[....]
I look at the board in front of me with cold eyes.
John who was observing me this whole time was perplexed but kept quiet as he had little information on what was going on.
Whoosh.
A gentle breeze passed through.
At first, I didn't mind the wind but I then realize. How come there was a breeze indoor? I look at Phoenix who was on his spot eating the food I gave him.
"...?"
He wasn't moving.
I stood up abruptly and look around me and saw that no one was moving. To be more precise, it was as if time has completely stop.
"Hello"
I turned around as soon as I heard a voice. A man's voice.
A man with no face.
"This is our first meeting, no?"
From his clothes to his skin, everything was vivid.
"You can say that I am a God"
All except for his face.
"Now, you say that you don't mind dying, correct?"
As if his face was being censored in real time, there was this glitch, trying to cover his face.
"Yes. I don't want to do something that I myself am not aware of"
"Not aware of, you say. But isn't this world a part of what you created?"
Although his face cannot be seen, based on his tone alone he was happy.
"You know about the things that will happen and the things that not even your fellow transmigrators know of. So how come you aren't aware of things? Hmm~?"
He skip here and there, making no sense from his movements. His cape was so long that it looked like hair.
Acting like a child, he raised his hand and pointed his finger at me.
"It is only normal for you to know things that you have created yourself. The same things foes for the others, right? Right? It won't be fair if you knew everything after all"
"I am talking about the rules of this game of yours"
He sat on the ground and crossed his legs.
"Hmm, hmm"
He started to levitate into the air as if there was no gravity.
"About that, I will permit that"
"Now you have changed your mind?"
"Yes. Just so you know, I gave the same test to the other two who ask the same question like you. Of course, their answers were similar to yours as well which is why I granted them the permission to disclose any fragmented information about this"
So it was a test.
"Anyway, why don't you choose someone who is courting you, eh~? Won't it be nice to put some romance in your life now? You will have to work yourself to the bone in the near future after all. Ahahaha!"
For a God, he sure doesn't act the part of it. If anything, he looks more like a man child.
"Thank you very much for your concern but I do not need a man in my life"
"Really?"
"Not yet, I suppose"
"Why not?"
"Because I still have other things to do. I don't like depending on others for things I can do by myself. You should already know that"
"Yes, yes. Of course I do! Just because you were transferred into another world doesn't mean your trauma from your previous life has changed"
"If you already knew the answer, why ask me something so trivial then?"
"Trivial? Hardly!"
Whoosh.
Just like how Almas disappear, the God who was floating in the air all this time turned into mist and vanish.
"I just wanted to confirm from your own mouth"
The voice came right behind me.
"You see, I've never taken in anyone before"
His hands in my stomach.
"I have also never developed any feelings to anyone. Mortal or immortal"
His chin on top of my shoulder.
"Let's just say that I was interested at you"
"There are many who are like me, you know"
"I obviously know that. But all my creation are uniquely different but similar at the same time. As I said, I am interested at you since you weren't even supposed to exist"
Huh?
"You are someone who isn't supposed to exist which is why, ever since you were born, things have gone haywire. Little by little, things that weren't supposed to happen, just happened on its own"
"...So you are attracted to me because I am someone you didn't foresaw?"
"Half wrong half right. I know the past, I hear the present and see the future as the creator of all. And yet there was an abnormality in between. So you can say that I am extremely attracted to you. Wanna be my wife?"
"No. For a virgin God, I suppose your ways to flirt isn't impressive"
"Ouch~"
He sat down on the ground once again, pulling me in to sat on top of his lap.
"You say that you prefer short haired men"
"Yes. So?"
"Luckily, I also have short hair"
"Are you done?"
"Done what?"
"Done having fun?"
"Yes. I don't want to push my luck any further. You will look at me negatively if I go any further than this. Till next time, kay?"