Part 1: Fate
It was night time.
A man was walking through the streets.
He was a traveler.
His name was Andy.
He had a 500 Reo bounty.
He was alone.
Then suddenly—
An attack happened at him.
He dodged it.
It was a fire ball attack.
Andy quickly used his armoured item.
It was called Sun Badge.
He used it to create light.
He looked around him.
And found Haruto.
Haruto countered with a water ball ritual.
Andy used sun ray through his Sun Badge.
A light ray rushed toward Haruto.
The water ball and light ray clashed with each other.
The water vaporized.
And the light ray turned off.
Andy quickly pulled out a gun.
And shot bullets at Haruto.
Bang.
Bang.
Bang.
The bullets were fused with light rays.
Haruto summoned a stone wall.
Then Haruto summoned a giant fire ball.
And threw it at Andy.
Andy jumped high.
And dodged it.
He climbed onto a building.
And entered an empty room.
He could escape.
He saw an escape route in front of him.
He ran.
But—
Suddenly a wall appeared in front of him.
He immediately turned back.
And the moment he turned—
His first step landed inside a mud trap created by Haruto.
Before Andy could react—
Haruto reached his floor by winestruck ritual.
Then launched Machine Drill at Andy.
It was quick.
It hit Andy.
Boom.
It pierced through Andy's chest.
His organs were destroyed.
His back burst open.
He fell.
Haruto quickly reached him.
Then took his armoured item, Sun Badge.
Then quickly placed a lam paper.
A ritual circle was drawn by Haruto.
Haruto placed Andy's body on that paper.
Then Haruto summoned a small fire ball.
And extracted Eco energy from that fire ball by using his staff.
The fire ball was made of Eco.
So if the staff was used well, the fire ball could transform into Eco energy.
And to activate a drawn ritual circle, a person had to put Eco energy into it.
As Haruto could not directly use rituals,
He extracted energy from his fire ball ritual.
Then Andy's body got teleported.
Haruto left the place quickly.
As Haruto left the place,
Some people arrived there because they heard noise.
But they found no one.
The scene shifted to Ryuk and Marin.
They were working together.
They were clearing trash bags.
"Oh, what a bad smell," Ryuk said.
"Wear a mask," Marin suggested.
"Uhh, yeah, but where is the mask?" Ryuk asked.
"Take this," Marin said.
"Oh, thank you," Ryuk said.
Ryuk grabbed some trash.
The amount of trash they cleared was the amount of money they would get.
So they had to clear as much trash as possible.
Ryuk grabbed some trash and put it into a bag.
Then dropped the trash bags into a cart.
"Uhh, we need more trash bags so we could earn more money," Ryuk said.
"These two trash bags would be around five kilograms."
"We will get around five Reo," Marin said.
"Yeah, we have to do more work," Ryuk said.
Then suddenly—
A trash bag dropped on Ryuk.
It was heavy.
Although Ryuk did not know where it came from,
It was heavy.
So they would get more money.
Ryuk and Marin became happy.
And put that bag in the cart.
The scene shifted again.
A woman was standing on a watchtower.
Looking over Logpost.
Then suddenly—
Haruto appeared in front of her.
"Who are you?" the woman asked.
"I am here to hunt you, Catlya," Haruto replied.
"Oh, so you would hunt me?"
"But first, reach me," Catlya said.
She ran out of the tower.
She used an armoured item to boost her physical ability.
It was called Olympia Bracelet.
Haruto did not run after her.
He watched where she was going.
Then he brought out his pocket watch.
He changed the time into a little past.
Then—
Click.
Haruto blacked out.
Then he woke up.
He found himself at the moment when Catlya was about to run.
Now Haruto knew where she was going to go.
Then Haruto launched Machine Drill toward that direction.
She was fast.
But not fast enough in reaction.
She dashed.
And the drill was launched at the perfect timing.
Haruto launched Machine Drill so precisely that she did not get time to react.
Boom.
Her belly burst open.
Blood spilled out.
Haruto quickly took her body.
Then once again used lam paper to teleport it.
And left immediately.
Before teleporting her body,
Haruto also took her Olympia Bracelet.
He also found around 500 Reo in her pocket.
Haruto did not stop there.
He went after every traveler.
And attacked any traveler who looked strong.
And if the traveler was strong,
And somehow managed to escape from Haruto,
Or Haruto got overpowered—
Then Haruto simply changed the time into the past by using his pocket watch.
One by one, Haruto collected money from the travelers.
He killed around ten people after Catlya.
And found a total of 1000 Reo from all ten people.
Then Haruto went after another person.
His name was Acthony.
Haruto silently approached him.
Because this opponent was stronger than the others.
As Haruto closed the distance between them—
Acthony sensed him.
Acthony used a flamethrower ritual at Haruto.
Haruto dodged that attack with difficulty.
"I am sensing that multiple travelers are disappearing."
"And I found who is killing them."
"You bastard," Acthony said with an evil smile.
Haruto did not rush.
He launched Machine Drill.
It was fast.
But Acthony stopped it with his hands.
And broke it.
Haruto used Olympia Bracelet.
And ran at Acthony with full speed.
He moved very fast.
But Acthony pulled out two revolvers.
He shot.
Bang.
Bang.
And both bullets hit Haruto.
The revolvers were ritual tools.
Crimson Revolver.
Its ability was simple.
If it hit someone—
That person would bleed heavily.
Haruto suddenly started vomiting blood from his mouth.
His eyes turned red.
Haruto understood the power.
Haruto used Sun Badge.
And created a temporary light force.
Acthony got distracted.
Haruto used Olympia Bracelet.
And rushed at him with quick speed.
Then launched Machine Drill.
It hit.
Boom.
But—
Nothing happened.
Acthony had an armoured item called Unbarrier.
This item allowed him to survive one one-shot attack after each cooldown.
And since Haruto's Machine Drill was a one-shot type attack,
Acthony survived.
Acthony noticed Haruto.
Then Acthony rushed toward him.
He punched Haruto with full force.
And fused fire into that punch.
Haruto was blasted away.
He broke through a wall.
Then hit a pillar.
He was bleeding heavily.
Even breathing felt like hell.
Acthony reached him.
Then grabbed Haruto's arms.
And bent them three hundred and sixty degrees.
Haruto's arms were crushed.
Then Acthony did the same thing to his legs.
"Go to hell," Acthony said with an evil smile.
Haruto could not do anything.
He felt like he had faced this before.
Death.
He had faced death many times in the Dark Forest.
And now—
He was going to die in real life.
"Is this the end?"
"Obviously not," Haruto said.
In Haruto's hand, the pocket watch was there.
And the time had already been set into the past.
Haruto clicked it.
Then teleported into the past.
The battle began again.
This time everything happened the same.
But then Machine Drill hit Acthony.
Haruto jumped high.
Then attacked with a giant fire ball.
But Acthony destroyed that fire ball.
And Acthony used flamethrower so fast that Haruto started to burn.
Haruto felt the heat of burning.
But at the last moment—
Haruto again transported himself into the past by clicking the pocket watch.
It happened again.
And again.
And again.
Whatever Haruto did—
Acthony almost killed him.
So after ten attempts—
Haruto decided to do something different.
He did the same things as before.
But this time—
Because he had been hit by the revolvers multiple times,
He had learned Acthony's movements.
So this time he did not get hit.
Haruto used Machine Drill.
It got defended by Unbarrier.
Then Haruto used Olympia Bracelet.
And rushed forward with full speed.
Then tackled Acthony.
The revolvers fell from Acthony's hands.
Haruto quickly took them.
And fired at Acthony.
Bang.
Bang.
Now Acthony was affected by the revolver's effect.
Haruto had not been able to defeat Acthony before because of those revolvers.
And because of that effect,
He could not think properly.
That was why Haruto used the same weapon against him.
Acthony started bleeding heavily.
Then Haruto used Sun Badge.
A light ray struck Acthony.
Acthony became paralyzed for a few seconds.
Then Haruto fired the revolver again.
But this time—
He mixed it with the power of Sun Badge.
And Haruto used it differently.
When the bullet hit Acthony—
It also summoned golden lightning.
Like the attack of a god.
Light was Acthony's main weakness.
For that reason—
Acthony died.
Haruto finally won after many attempts.
Haruto took out Acthony's Unbarrier.
And searched for anything else he might have.
He found a key.
But then suddenly—
Lightning landed on Haruto.
Haruto fell to the ground.
He looked in front of him.
Eiji.
Lightning was sparking in his hand.
And his eyes had turned blue.