"Do you believe in god?" 

Words speak up in chaos. 

The place of nothingness which was silent until now, is now showing signs of voice.

"A being who sees all and everything from the top. A being who wields power beyond understanding of mortals" 

Voice was the same as before but the voice held power. A power that was very dark. A dark melody to influence someone.

"I believe in god. Not because of a religion but I know him(god)" 

A tall man with long golden hair and golden eyes. One can say that he is a perfect human by looking at his appearance alone. Undoubtedly, a noble man.

"This is just simple logic. If one is the winner then the other would be the loser. Same goes, if one is to be ruled then the other one is the ruler. This is simple logic of this world"

He goes silent for some time. An evil smile came upon his face. 

"To keep climbing until one reaches the pinnacle of everything with his thoughts. Throne. It is the Throne where the god who rules everything with his power sits. In other words, this is where you can found hadou"

He looked at the darkness as it started to take the form of a person. 

The smile of the devil(man) got even bigger. He continued.

"Become the god while being alive as mortal. This is the truth that I know about" 

"However…"

A new voice spoke up.

The man is quite different. If it is a demon or god, one cannot say. A being who is out of nowhere. His appearance is that of young and old at same time. 

"There is always someone superior above you. Throne is unmistakably the pinnacle of everything but it is not unchangeable. The desire that everyone holds can make them god. This path is the path of hadou. Without a doubt, it is a path of bloodshed and sacrifice. But, this vast eternal universe rarely produces diamonds in roughs. Now, what will happen if they appear?"

Both men are the opposite of each other. One is gold and the other is mercury(silver). But even though they are opposite, their understanding is beyond that of a normal being.

Gold smirked down.

"When multiple candidates who wields the power to reach the top appears, then battle for the top is inevitable"

"Yeah. Loser is doomed to be fade from existence"

Gold looked at the eyes of Mercury as gold and silver colors were dancing around them.

"So, history of gods is the same as the history of humans without any difference"

"The rise of the new god and the fall of the old god are fated. It is an endless cycle of succession"

"The broken laws of the past throne(universes). I wonder....."

"I wonder.....why are we here?"

As both speak at the same time. Their colors show a different nature. Gold is war color and silver is eternal loop color. 

One is a beast and the other one is a serpent.

"Were we not supposed to perish? I still remember my final moment. Then, why.....?"

"Just like I mean, there is always someone superior. In the past, we thought that we were at the top. So, we fought for the Throne without any reason"

A new color appeared. This color is that harmony and peace. This color calmed the war gold and embraced the eternal silver. 

This color is like that of a mother for creation.

"Now, I think about it. We never wanted the throne so badly.....also, there were not so many people who knew about the throne and it rarely happens that someone tries to become a god. I only able to knew about throne after I become a god"

A gentle voice of goddess illuminates this nothingness. 

A blonde girl with bruises on her neck that resembles a decapitation mark. She is very beautiful. 

Her voice is that of melody. She is someone that of twilight. A deep meaning. 

A bridge to supernatural and natural. 

"I have no idea about gods or any shit. We never wanted to become one in the first place.....we were trying to solve the problem that we were facing. We were battling for our loved ones and wanted to protect them. That's how we reached here"

A young man. He looks exactly the same as Mercury in terms of appearance. He looks like the child of a serpent. The blue hairs are short unlike serpents who have long ones. 

He is different.

 Unlike him, who is a jester and talks weirdly. He is straightforward and cold.

Maybe this is why his color is red. Cold red. 

This red feels different. Normally red is associated with love, anger and blood. This color holds the same property but it is cold. Cold like chill.

A suspension. A halt. A moment that never ends.

Gentle goddess speaks again.

"It is a fact that we faced while coming here.....that there is only room for one" 

"Since the current god is already there. He has to go. Elimination is the only option if multiple candidates reach the throne. It doesn't matter, one is destined to fall regardless of opinion"

"Isn't that weird? This is like some law"

"Yes. If the throne is the pinnacle of everything then you should be able to set your own laws. I don't believe that the being who is at the top obeying someone else.....Marie, you done great job and it was very hard feat"

The goddess whose name is Marie looks towards him.

"But I wasn't able to break one rule. The rule that between succession of gods is impossible to break"

Her smile goes down as she remembers her last moment. 

"When I faced that baby....."

"I....."

".....I"

"Supposed to die"

Both said the same thing at the same time as they remembered their last moment.

"Indeed. We all have died"

Beast is still smiling.

"Yet we exist here"

A cunning serpent shows his interest.

"Where are we?"

Goddess looked around her surroundings in darkness. 

Her eyes can see the flowing color of her, gold, silver and red but even more.

"Round Table(realm)? Sephiroth(emanation)? Or Mandala(centre of everything)? What is this place?! Is there someone?!"

Young man yelled as he tried to guess where they were with all the possibilities that he had seen in his life before. Maybe they are in different realms. Or even in different laws of god. Or even worse that there is somewhere which not even gods had seen.

"Shinga(Atman), Muzan(Remorseless). Myojo(Morning Star). Suigin(Mercury). Ougon(Gold). Tasogare(Twilight). Setsuna(Moment). Hajun. Just eight are here? Not enough! I have to wait for two more"

A distorted voice speaks their divine name. 

It was familiar but at the same time it was not.

This sound was that someone they knew but at same time, they didn't. Someone who is close to them but at the same time not. 

One who is always there.

Setsuna(young man) roars in anger.

"Who are you?! Show yourself!"

The distorted voice laughs in nothingness. 

"Hehe–hahahahaha! I am here! But you don't know me because we are build different"

There were five large stones floating. Red, blue, green, yellow and pink. Those five are something. They are something else. Something different. Explanation is not needed. 

"What do you mean?"

An innocent question like that of a child is spoken by Tasogare(goddess).

Gold gave his answer to Tasogare. 

"He is something big from our perspective"

"So, it is like someone above just like that tale of frogs in well"

Suigin smirks.

"Hey! What do you think?"

Distorted voice spoke again.

"You guys are particular about big or small or strong——you applied your own unique set of values because that's what makes you like that. But that's not the case with Naraka. I can't explain because of a reason but I will make you understand someday. I was in the process of returning(resurrecting) them"

"Naraka? Is that your name?"

Innocent goddess again asked this distorted voice in nothingness. 

"Umm.....let's just wait for those two" 

Golden beast smiled with his heart content as he looked around in this nothingness which had been illuminated by their colors. 

"Interesting. Gathering of hadou gods is happening. It looks like there are more beside us. Shinga. Muzan. Myojo. And last.....but not least"

Setsuna's eyes widen as he recalls that name which Gold is talking about.

"Hajun?!"

"No way! How?!"

Even the goddess is shocked to hear his name.

"I am curious now. As we know that hadou gods are not supposed to coexist with each other at the same time but there are eight of us here.....even Hajun, who prefers to be alone, is here. So, it looks like we are bound(tie) to this place. It is like prison, right?"

The Golden Beast waits for the answer from above.

Distorted voice came again.

"Maybe. You can come up with any theory and reason if you want. It is just perfect way to kill time until we wait"

"Umm.....what are you going to do, Karl?"

As Gold looked towards Karl(Suigin) with a smile.

Gold knows that if someone can bring any weird logic. There is only one. Him.

"We can only think about the reason. There is nothing we can do here except getting bored. So, I would say that to escape from boredom, we should observe and think about this that why are we here despite our demise"

Tasogare looked at Suigin with the question that she was very curious since she heard that speech of Naraka.

"Wasn't we resurrected by him?"

"Yes. Generally, it is most probably the case yet I believe that it is a different case. I think it is how it is supposed to work. This make me uncomfortable about this"

Suigin placed his theory that they are resurrected but it can't be called resurrected. It is like how it was supposed to work. 

A pattern or design in the machine. 

A rule perhaps.

Tasogare understood what he meant.

"So, you are saying that, it was planned to happen?"

"Most probably. Forget about that, it is my pleasure to meet you again, my goddess, Marguerite! Ah, I can see another familiar face"

Suigin smiled happiness after meeting his goddess again and then he looked at that familiar whose color is that of pure white.

"He is my predecessor"

Gold looked in the direction of the third god of pure white, Myojo.

"Let me guess, Myojo? Then the one who killed him…is you but yet——"

"That I am not shocked to see him? I don't worry about these matters. Any hadou god wouldn't coexist under the same heaven. This relationship is not limited to us"

Tasogare after observing all around surroundings. She looks towards Setsuna who is beside her.

"Naraka said that he is waiting for two more people.....do you know anything about them, Ren?"

"The one who defeated Hajun and the one who will defeat those, yes. When this happens, there will be ten of us just like he wanted for his plan. I am not liking this. It can't be good"

Gold heard the words of Setsuna(Ren).

"You are telling this by looking at us?"

"Obviously! Naraka is annoying.....he is not making things easy for us!"

"This doesn't change the fact that we have to work together"

Gold starts to laugh loudly. His color rose like a king. A monarch of death. He is an unlovable light but yet, he loves everything. He loves it. He destroyed it.

"Amazing, amazing! I couldn't even imagine this scenario! Hahahahahah! What a betrayal but lovely "Pantheon""

He announced this name to everyone like a king.

"Pantheon?"

The goddess left in confusion with this term.

"Group of gods. All hadou gods. Fitting term for us. One would hardly expect us to cooperate. So, there is a reason that someone would be main hero of this act"

Everyone looks at the previous hero of the script. Setsuna, the divine god who was once a mortal named Fuji Ren.

"Are you going to do it?"

"Do you want to, Ren?"

"Spare me for this"

Suigin said that. He was a scriptwriter before when he made Ren as hero. But it is not his script. 

"Not even in million years"

"Then who is going to?"

"Isn't it obvious? We have to ask the eldest among us. The first god. The one who gave birth to this throne world that we know"

Suigin looks at the first god. The color is duality. Endless battle of duality. Black and white. Red and blue. Her world is a pattern but dualism. 

"She is the one who knows "zero". I think she is someone who is close to you, Naraka?"

Suigin waited for the reply.

Naraka laughed so much. He laughed that someone can guess this. The woman who wants to hide so much but she can't. 

"That's right. The one who is going to lead you and is commander of your team is Shinga. Her name is Mitra.....she is my woman"