Slowly, the outlines of buildings appear, though they are different from those in Kimura. Older ones, like those from Lagoon. Gradually, the buildings gain color while the silhouettes of people emerge. They, too, slowly take on color as two children run around this village with smiles on their faces. A boy with red hair and violet eyes. The girl has violet furry ears and a violet tail with blue eyes.
My eyes widen as I realize what is happening here. The boy falls down, injuring his knee. The girl giggles when she sees this, but without hesitation, she goes to the boy. She places her hand on the knee of the boy, who sits sobbing on the grass. The wound glows green under the girl's hands.
A time skip occurs. The girl and the boy are still playing together. It is slowly getting dark and smoke is coming from the city. I realize more and more why I am seeing this. Fiery red light rises up the walls. The two of them come to a halt, but the boy only stops because the girl has stopped. She looks in the direction of the flames. An aura rushes forth from where the flames are... I look there.
I don't notice that the girl is already running toward it. Tears stream from my eyes, just as they do from my corpse, but I don't realize it. But it seems I can't stop the people here in any way regardless. The girl is not alert enough and is simply impaled, just like I was by the orc.
The boy's eyes widen, filling with tears. The boy begins to cry while a girl around the age of 13 appears beside me. I turn to her, which shows me now that I am not wrong. This is the moment when everything changed. The moment Lisa died. My parents died.
"Hey Min… you used it. You used the Magic of Existence and Life. I'll explain to you what it can do, but don't be startled," Lisa says with a sad look.
She seems to know what this magic is. "Existence and Life," that is what she called this magic. Is "Existence" supposed to mean something? I try to figure it out.
"Okay, tell me, what kind of magic is this?" I say with a determined look.
Lisa nods with a gaze that shows fear, but also joy that I want to know the consequences.
"Good, I'll start then… this magic, it causes you to rise from the dead. But this magic will only appear when one has seen through the Status of the Gods… I am glad you recognized this system. Even I only recognized it much later. As soon as you are alive again, you should see a number that says 'Deletions: 3/3'. This should be standing there. You will eventually notice what exactly that is all about. I only know that your status will increase. This single number will increase so much, you can't even imagine it," Lisa says with several pauses, during which I listen to her more and more intensely.
I nod every now and then when I understand something or when what she says is true. I open my status window, where everything still looks normal. I close it again. Lisa looks at me with a smiling face.
"Oh, I forgot something. Every being, every human, every god will forget you," Lisa adds with a pitying voice.
I stand frozen and look at the ground. My fists clench so hard that my hands begin to bleed. Lisa comes closer to take my hand. A warm feeling surrounds me as she takes my hand. I look up and immediately think of a plan. If it works, they should be able to remember me eventually. I clench my fists again, begin to smile, and my gaze is more determined than ever.
"Good, I know what I'm doing," I say with a determined and satisfied voice.
At least I've become even stronger through this and apparently have an ability called Deletion, but I can only use it 3 times, which makes it weaker. However, in theory, I must be able to reset it somehow. But how will I be able to do that? No matter, I'll have time for that later. Meanwhile, the three girls are no longer standing near me, they are just running away in a panic. Their memories have been changed.
"What was that monster? I thought it was a B-rank monster," Luna says with a fearful voice.
I assume they will no longer be camouflaged by my magic, since it has run out. I don't need to camouflage myself either, since I've been forgotten. Only my deeds still exist. I am excited to see what the future brings. However, my story is only truly beginning now. The girls run further and further.
"I don't know either. But that was at least S-rank," Mia says, gasping for breath.
I slowly see myself dissolving while Lisa waves to me with a motivating look and a smile. Perhaps it was the last time we saw each other.
I lie where the orc is now sleeping. My eyes are still closed, but my presence is slowly returning. The river I created flows gently beside me, the orc on the other side. I can hardly breathe, but I mustn't cough either, otherwise the orc will definitely wake up. I can't risk such a thing as long as I haven't looked closely at the Deletion ability.
I slowly open my eyes, looking into the bright sun. The ground beneath me and the forest around me are completely gone. I can even see how the girls are already running into the city walls. Guards are already standing at the gate again. In the city, everything has been normal since I died and woke up again.
I open my status. My eyes widen at this Power Number. I wipe my eyes to make sure this is really happening the way it is.
"What?!" I scream, not noticing that I wake the orc by doing so.
The orc opens its eyes and begins to scream. I quickly read through the description of the Deletion ability, which says: "When using Deletion, you can determine whether you want to only kill or destroy the entire existence. No life, no memory of the being you use it against." I look briefly at the orc.
"Deletion!" I say in a calm tone, as if it were nothing.
The orc stops. Because if I say Existence Deletion, then I don't just delete the life, but also the existence. But this way, I only delete the life. I look at him with a cold stare. I couldn't look at everything, but at the end it says: "If you use this, you will become emotionless." Emotionless means feeling nothing anymore, no longer smiling, no more crying. This means I will only look coldly into the void.
I sit down without cracking a smile. In the process, I take out noodles to eat. I have to approach everything calmly and must not act blindly now, otherwise that's it. The orc is still standing, but after a few seconds, he falls to his knees and hits the ground.
The girls meanwhile arrive at the guild and go inside. Gasping for breath, they go to Sila.
"Sila, that was an S..." Suri says with a stutter at the end. "No, that is a God-Monster," Sila says, interrupting.
The three turn pale. Until today, they had only heard of them from books. The God-Monsters that are so strong that not one has ever been defeated. The irony of fate that it is me who is the first to kill one.
I eat my noodles in peace. When I'm finished, I put the bowl back and teleport, without thinking, exactly into the guild. Before that, I look once more at the number in my status, which shows the value 1,329,000. With that, I am definitely much more powerful than before.
I appear in the guild in a violet light. Everyone around me is startled while I already hold my guild card—where I am now Min and also have my old appearance and everything. The three and Sila look at me confused while I also pull the quest slip out of the hole. I go to Sila and unpack the corpse behind me from the dimensional hole with an emotionless face.
Everyone in the guild is startled and begins to scream. Only Sila is quite normal and calm, as she can see my power. In doing so, she sees my suppressed aura as if it were unfolded.
"Um, killed that monster while passing through," I say with a normal and relaxed voice.
Apparently, I can turn my voice into emotions, only my exterior will never show feelings again. I try to smile, but it doesn't work. The girls look at me confused; they don't seem to recognize me. What did I expect? There is still one possibility, but for that, I have to go to Lagoon with them.
Sila stamps the mission without saying anything. The girls wonder why I have the mission.
"Where did you get the mission from?" Mia asks me skeptically. "From the neighboring village," I say to the three.
The three stop looking at me skeptically. I just look at them briefly, then give my guild card to Sila so she can increase my rank. A giant "D" appears over the guild card. The letter shatters like glass with a splintering sound, then it assembles into an "A," causing me to skip C and B rank. I don't give it any thought and simply take the guild card.
Afterward, I jump over the corpse of the orc. The girls watch me go. I walk toward the guild door while everyone watches me. Not just the girls, but the other adventurers too, who look at me with skepticism and envy, as if I had committed a crime.
"Oh, I won't be stopping by again. Heading to Lagoon," I say with a waving hand.
I walk out of the guild while the girls also wave to me, confused. I just hope now that they will automatically go to Lagoon because of this. Tonight, I'll simply sleep on a roof. I jump onto a roof, leaving a mini-crater. I regenerate this natural damage.
I take only a sleeping bag out of my dimensional hole, but pack it away just as quickly because I decide to sleep on the roof of our house. I jump from roof to roof like back then in Lagoon. I take the sleeping bag out as I come to a halt on the roof of our house, since we have a somewhat flat area at the peak of the roof. I just go to the middle and lie down in the nice warm sleeping bag.
This is just the beginning of a great story. This is what you call fate, what happened here. However, I will take this fate and destroy it—not with power, but with will and patience.
"Because will and patience are the greatest strengths," I say to myself.