[ August 2022 ]
[ Location: Realm of Sanctuary ]
[ Kent Family's New Residence ]
" Let me... " Grandma Rory grunts as Zeus chokes her while picking her up with him. He flew into the skies, looking at ARS-23, who intercepted him like a good Divine Cyborg she is.
" Been wondering what're you up to... " Zeus says as he gives Grandma Rory to her.
" Bring her back, but also tell Vlad to not touch her; this isn't his toy."
" It's a gift... for the Matron Supreme... or perhaps for Duke Arcanon if he knows... " Zeus tells ARS-23 about it but is met with a silent response.
"You're being silent? Again? " Zeus asks ARS-23 about it, which makes her immediately bow to him while taking away Grandma Rory harshly. Leaving Zeus behind, as she returns with the other Olympian armies.
As he was left alone, Zeus looked at his cyborg-like arms; he looked at them while touching his face. His eyes empty while he looks at the skies, while being empty, he remembers his last encounter with the White Demon, both his encounter back in the Niigata Sea or even the World of Dreams.
" This body, how long have I been using this?"
" After many Timelines, the 'flow of time' had been flowing to the path that we couldn't even divine with our Divine knowledge."
" Especially in this one, after the White Demon appeared... "
" Tch, guess this is our fault... for being too arrogant on manipulating his fate as well as his granddaughter in the Previous Timeline. "
" Our Divine Rule has made us soft, made us overlook the fact that there are beings that could bite back harder over our rule than the ones before. "
" It is time... for a change. " Zeus says as lightning strikes when he says that. He turns back, looking at his back, and immediately fire spreads around the forests and mountains nearby. As the fire spreads even further, a little black silhouette from afar ascends from the ground, floating into the skies.
Zeus closes his eyes for a bit and opens them, which results in him seeing the person he's after right in front of him.
" It seems out of all gods..., you're the one who 'really' have a death wish, didn't you...? "
" Lord Zeus...? " says the White Demon as he silently appears before Zeus, equally floating with him in the skies.
" Can say the same to you..., brat. "
" It seems, out of all demons... only you, the one crazy enough to build an army so dangerous that could mess with our full great armada... "
" The Black Shadows... look at 'em. " Zeus praises.
" Makes me curious, how did you do it? " Zeus asks.
" How powerful have you become? What makes these crazed creatures fight for you willingly? " Zeus asks even more while the White Demon stares silently while also looking onto the skies above Zeus.
* White Demon stares into the skies. *
" Hey, hey, eyes down here! " Zeus calls the White Demon, feeling annoyed as he ignores him.
" Don't you dare look somewhere else when I stand in front of you, Demon! "
" I am your enemy! " Zeus reminds while White Demon is in his usual silent, strong expression.
" Right now, I believe the Black Shadows are dealing with my armies, aren't they? " Zeus asks the White Demon. While the scene shifts from them a bit, showing the Black Shadow Elites and their respective armies doing whatever they can to destroy the army of the gods.
" Oh, don't worry... " White Demon assures Zeus.
" The Black Shadows had been evolving each time you sent us into another place... "
" Each time you 'Diviners', interfered with the goddamn Gates. "
"( ...Or perhaps I should say 'one' of the Diviners. )" Ragna had some thought, during his speak.
" And yes, just like you said earlier, they're dealing with the remaining armies of yours. " White Demon responded with a bit enraged in his tone, which Zeus caught with his ears.
" Oh dear..., kekeke... "
" Your slight angry tone..., I wonder... "
" Do you already know..., what's actually going on here? "
" White Demon..., Ragna Kent. " Zeus tells Ragna that, as Ragna raises his chin a bit and replied.
" Nothing I didn't already know... " Ragna says as lightning flashes when he says that, the weather is getting stormy around them, perhaps it's Zeus' doing.
" Kekeke... hahahaha! "
" You're so confident, my 'demonic' friend... even when your identity is revealed. "
" So calm, so brave, like you have nothing left to lose or to hide... "
" Was this part of your goal... to reveal who you really are to the world as well as your 'story' with us? Your 'Revenge Story'...? " Zeus asks but Ragna is still silent, no expression of his confirms or denies Zeus' current suspicion.
" You see, kid..., your actions had made people curious 'bout you, you know? "
" Even with our power over the media, they're still trying to figure you out and connect the goddamn dots..., the goddamn dots that could also lead back to us, the source of your 'aggression'..., those over-curious rats. "
" Always, with the curiousity, aren't they? A curiousity over a person, a figure, that already caused the 'gods' so much trouble thus far... " Zeus' voice slowly increases with each coming word.
" Who else do we have to thank for that!? Who else than the one and only 'White Demon', Ragna Kent!? "
" You almost-thirteen-year-old-'God-slaying Punk'! " Zeus shouts, stating facts about Ragna's current age, immediately using [Divine Time Interference] as well as his lightning speed to hit Ragna first.
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" Hey, hey, what's wrong, White Demon!? " Zeus mocks Ragna, as he sees him frozen during the 'Time Interference', unlike last time*.
" Can't move, huh! Can't move! "
" How very unfortunate of you! Die! " Zeus hits him using his 'Divine Punches' and 'Kicks'; he continues the assault over the stunned Ragna as he rules the flow of time at the moment.
" Ohoho, I felt so bad right now!!! " Zeus shouts happily.
" Look at me, an Eon-old God, happily brutalizing a demonic-cosplay mortal brat! "
" Destroying his new home, taking away his family one by one! "
" You're 'Pseudo-Awakened'* Granddaughter, I've taken! You're Grandmother, I've given away! "
" Even if I said it to you right now, it won't change anything, brat! "
" Their lives are now in our hands! "
" Just as your life right now! " Zeus says it as he raises his arm to the skies, summoning something thunderous out as he points it towards our White Demon, Ragna Kent.
" Strike the brat down, [Thunderbolt]! " Zeus calls down his Divine Thunderbolt, summoning it from the skies as it strikes over the 'time-frozen' Ragna hard.
" How's that, Ragna Kent!? How's the Thunder!? "
" I've been researching, you know!? About you... "
" During that research, I stumbled upon an event, an event I didn't recognize that had both of us involved in this 1.111th Timeline. "
" September 6th, 2015, the day you were defiled by Indura! " Zeus tells it, which made Ragna's brows rise up for a while.
" Based on my research, after that horrible event, it was said in some reports that you had a 'trauma' with things regarding thunder or electricity...! "
" Perhaps that's because of your 'PISD', your 'Post-Indura Stress Disorder'! "
" A disorder so bad that you have to go to mental therapy before your good-as-dead uncle takes you with him! " Zeus says that while laughing as Thunderbolt strikes Ragna many times.
" Oops, I should've not said that; I forgot... we, the 'gods', killed your goddamn Uncle too, hahahaha! " Zeus mocks Ragna, increasing the strike of his Thunderbolt tenfold while he prepares his finishing attack.
* This time, instead of attacking Ragna, Thunderbolt comes towards Zeus' hand as it charges his next attack. *
" This time, you won't be able to punch it back. "
" For this is not a fight, brat, this is your Execution! " Zeus says while remembering the time he and Ragna clashed fists—the clash that cost him both of his hands back in the Niigata Sea.
" It's time to correct our negligence as a Divine... "
" This time, no more parties, no more orgies... "
" No more social events, no more press conferences, no more looking nice upon those mongrels, no more social media advertisements and branding bullshit! "
" With your death, as one of the Allfathers, I, Zeus..., declare the Diviners will rule the humans with full vigilance from now on. " Zeus swears that as the Thunderbolt's thunder was focused on his fist, Zeus began to aim over Ragna's position.
" You will die, Ragna Kent, you will die by the hands of thousands of thunderstorms compressed and condensed in one attack, you will die in shock as I will make sure to end your existence for good."
" As well as that 'heroic-yet-troublesome-hindrance' Granddaughter of yours. " Zeus says it; he is serious about this right now; he felt this is the time that he and the other Diviners should change how they rule the humans from now on as he plunged over Ragna.
As in this moment, to start the very change over the Diviners. It shall start by ending Ragna Kent once and for all.
Zeus believed that Ragna Kent's death was the very thing that would change the course of history.
" [ Divine Ruler's True Fist: Thunderbolt's Roar ]!!! "
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Extra:
* ... Zeus mocks Ragna, as he sees him frozen during the 'Time Interference', unlike last time.
See Chapter 318: I Level Up to the Gods Part 3.
* 'Pseudo-Awakened'.
See Chapter 337: "Volume 4 Extra Part 1: Pseudo"
If you're wondering how Zeus knew about this term, well, he's a god, an Allfather even. Of course, he knows something thanks to his great access to much information about things such as the 'Akashic Records'.