The Overlord's secret
-==Chapter one: The beginning of everything?==-
*Note : This story follow the "Super Hero Ending" and past through the Post game.
Disclaimer: I do not and never have any ownership of the game or any character or referred in this fiction.
Thank you for your attention, please do NOT read this fiction while sleeping because it might cause eye problems. Sit as close as humanly as possible while reading this fiction, No snacks allowed. Okay, popcorn and any kind of bread allowed but no carbonated drinks.
The Netherworlds, the land of demons. That was what the Demons used to call their lands, but ever since discoveries of new netherworlds, several demons prefer to call their world as Netherplanet which resided in a Netherverse.
What is a Netherverse? Netherverse is a planetary system which consists of countless Netherplanets. It is somewhat similar to our solar system, the only differences were that there were countless Netherplanets surrounding the system core and there was no star acting as the system's core, replaced by group of close ranged Netherplanets in range of ten to thirty Netherplanets which we called "NetherCore" Planets.
Each one of these NetherCore Planets was ruled by the strongest Overlords in the Netherverse, each one has their own history regarding their own world and their relationship with surrounding planets.
One of these Nethercore Planets was a Netherplanet which was ruled by a charismatic Overlord who fell while protecting his world from another overlord, now the throne has been taken by his young yet powerful son.
There is another NetherCore Planet famous for its Prinny production and it's highly discipline Prison, ruled by a former Tyrant who still retained his power despite stopping from taking his former power source.
There's another unique NetherCore Planet. Although we refer it as "NetherCore" Planet, yet it was inhabited by humans. According to their story, their world was dragged here by an Overlord who wanted to make the once human world into a netherworld, but the overlord's plan was foiled by his own daughter. Unable to move the planet back to its original location, now it stuck as the only human world in this Netherverse.
Out of all NetherCore planets there was one Netherplanet that differ itself from other Netherplanets. It was a "School" world for demons. Demons schools were built on the surface of this planet. Just like Human school, they taught good morale for their students. Well... of course the word "Good" in their school perspective might be slightly different than us humans... no, it WAS different.
The Netherplanet was once ruled by a gigantic Overlord whom also acted as the school's dean; however the Overlord was defeated by a human hero called "Aurum". For a certain reason, the hero decided to raise his enemy's son to become an excellent Overlord. For years, the Overlord was kept to stay alive, by sealing his soul into his own gigantic body.
One day, the Overlord's son revealed the truth and seeks to destroy the human world to revenge on the hero. But because of his friends' help, the Overlord's son realized who his real enemy was and seek out to defeat the hero who has been taking care of him for a long time.
The Overlord's son managed to defeat the human hero. When the Overlord's son was about to kill the hero, he decided to held his hate for him and offered him back into the butler who has been taking care of him. Suddenly, Despite his dying state, the Overlord spoke, he told his son, his son's friends and the hero...…..
"CAN'T WE JUST SKIP THIS PROLOGUE?!"
No, we can't we must…Wait. How did you get in the Naration?! You are supposed to be dying!
"I just broke the fourth wall. Now, get into the story!"
No! we must… W-Well… okay, I will make an exception, J-Just put down your hand, please. It would be bad if a beam came out from it. H-Here we go…..
It had been a few months since Mao, the Overlord and the Dean of Evil Academy, had won against the Tyrant Overlord Baal in Baal's Enrygi form and somehow able to steal back all things Baal has stolen, excluding Asagi's Game, Axel popularity and Laharl's height. Are they even stolen at the first place?
But, every single action has its own consequence. Even defeating the strongest extra boss in the game has its own consequence. And this time, the consequence was far greater than what Mao and his friends ever faced, the consequence was: There was nothing else to do afterward.
Mao could have reincarnated back to level 1 then grin to max level, creating his cameo on other NIS games, challenge item gods, etc. The only problem was that he has done all of those several times already.
His Boredom has been built up since they defeated Baal. Mao has done no overlord work, because there's nothing to begin with; even if there was, Mao could handle it swiftly thanks to his High Intelligent.
He has lost his interest to do any experiment; he has "Dissected" most demons, humans and angels he has met. Though there were some which he preferred to put out of his dissection list.
Boredom always haunted him. There was nothing in this world more painful than boredom. Uh….. no… not really maybe one of the irritating painless pain that can kill you.
=====The Evil Academy : Mao's room; Morning=====
The Dean slowly opened his eyes and let out a heavy sigh. He jumped out from his bed, leaving it untidy, and then opened the room's window's curtain, revealing the academy in its usual state, the dark and chaotic school.
Mao grabbed his crimson Jacket in his bed, slipped his wrist to the arm through it and let the jacket button unbound, showing the black shirt he wore.
He grabbed a snack from his refrigerator, then sit on his round table in the middle of the room (Yup, ON the Table). He opened his snack and ate it slowly while thinking of what he would do today.
Each piece of the small ball snack rolled into his mouth consecutively. He rolled back what he did yesterday, nothing. He rolled back what he did two days ago, nothing. He rolled back what he did three days ago, he blew up a prinny, but he didn't feel any fun throwing prinnies. He rolled back every single thing he did since 2 weeks ago, yet the answer always the same, nothing.
"Another boring day….." Mao let out another heavy sigh; he threw his now empty snack, and then took out a random portable device from the floor. He turned it on and moved the screen into Super Hero Champion game, but instead of playing it, he turned the portable device off then threw it away as he let himself fell to the table.
"Nothing to play, nothing to experiment, nothing interesting, no overlord job, nothing to do…."
Mao closed his eyes, trying to pass the day simply by sleeping.
"…But sleeping is boring as well!" Mao shouted in frustration.
"You could always try to clean this room, Mao" Beryl voice echoed in his Eardrum.
"Beryl, what are you doing here?" Mao replied.
"I heard you have some kind of problem, so I came here to help"
"There's nothing you can…" Mao turned around, only to saw Raspberyl and her lackeys, Geoffrey, Almaz and Sapphire were cleaning his room. Yup, his "Honor student rate" dirty room.
"….WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"
"Well…. considering that your room was very dirty, it might be better to make it cleaner" Raspberyl said
"BUT THAT'S A DELIQUENT THING! I AM A HONOR STUDENT!"
"Not anymore, Mao you are the dean now" she replied.
"THAT'S IT! I WILL….. Hey, where's my sword?! My Stardust sword! It's gone!" Mao searched through his jacket's pocket (Which somehow able to store lots of things there) but he didn't find it anywhere.
"You lost it since two weeks ago, Mao. You have been "borrowing" from random people you met every single day because you always forgot where you put yours" Almaz said while organizing one of Mao's supposed to be game disk Cabinet.
"Here, I found all your swords and put them on this box" Raspberyl proudly picked a box then opened it, the box was filled with Mao's sword, neatly organized, making it easier to search for any sword.
"Oh, here it is… I thought it was dropped when we visit the shrimp's world"
Mao's hand was about to grab his strongest sword, the stardust sword, but his hand stopped when his eyes spotted another sword, a plastic sword that has its tip cut off.
"Isn't that a toy blade?" asked Raspberyl.
" Oh~~~ this one is the sword I used first time, it brings back memories" Mao took out the toy blade, he inspected it from its broken tip to its grip, memories of his first battle flow back to his mind.
Mao swung his old sword, but the sword's blade cracked before he can do another swing.
"It doesn't fit my power anymore, but I should keep the remains as a reminder of my effort all this time!" Mao Declared. "Let's see what else I can find here ….. HAH! Even this Baal sword I won from the Shrimp!" Mao pointed the sword upside, recalling his memories about his battle against Laharl.
"See? You should keep things organized from now on okay?" Raspberyl said, raising one of her eyebrow while resting her chin on her hand.
"Why should I keep my stuff organized when you will do it?" Mao said.
"Does that mean I can clean your room from now?" Raspberyl asked
"WHY IN THE NETHERWORLD I WOULD LET YOU CLEAN MY ROOM?!" Mao exploded in anger. "I know… this is a trap isn't it? One of you must have planned to kill me while I was distracted"
Mao dashed into one of his cabinets, and then did a small jump before sliding into the stacks of cabinets, kicking the one cleaning it in the process. Mao got up as soon as he could, then staring at his victim.
"Sapphire, was it your plan? What do you expected to get by your easy to see through planned plan?" Mao asked.
"D-Don't ask me! The princess is over there!" Almaz squeaked.
"I know, fool! But the last time I jumped at her, I got a slash from " ", so I need to jump into someone less dangerous"
"Killing you while you were distracted might be a good idea, but then that would eliminate the reason for our honeymoon in the netherworld and I have to go back to the boring castle tasks" Sapphire said. "Besides, cleaning your room was Miss Beryl's idea"
"Y-Yes! I-it was Miss Beryl!" Almaz said before he fled behind a stack of boxes.
"Well… that's because we kind of bored and we got nothing to do until the next two week" Raspberyl said.
"And, Geoffrey! WHY ARE YOU HELPING THEM?!"
"Actually yes, Miss Beryl has told one of my reasons, however I have another reason" Geoffrey showed several envelopes he has found but none of them never been opened by the dean.
Geoffrey, A.K.A. Former Super Hero Aurum. He first came to the netherworld to slay the overlord/dean of the evil academy. He won and sealed the former dean's soul within the dean's own body, preventing the dean to die. He has been raising Mao for the past 200 years to become a great overlord to kill aurum in an epic battle so he won't be forgotten by the history. Long story short, he was defeated by Mao, however Mao spared his live. After the former dean declared Mao became the next overlord and the 'Aurum' has already dead, Mao decided to recruit him again as Geoffrey the butler. Aurum himself agreed out of his own freewill. Now, he continued his work as Mao's butler.
"Apparently, I have received a letter addressed to young master last night, I put it somewhere in this room but I can't find it this morning"
"How can you lose it, Geoffrey? You have never done it before. But, never mind, who wrote it?"
"I don't know, young master; it was kept in a bottle, so I don't know who sent it."
"Um…. Was the letter inside a walking bottle?" Raspberyl asked
"A walking…" Geoffrey said but he stopped in the middle of his sentence. "It appears that the bottle can move on its own, young master"
Mao confused with Geoffrey words, but then he realized everyone in the room were staring at Mao.
"WHAT?!"
"It's your head, Mao"
On his head was a bottle with a letter inside, oddly it has pairs of arm and legs.
"Since when it was there?" Mao grabbed on the bottle's neck then took off the bottle's plug before taking out a paper inside it.
Mao's eyes were blank; his hands were shaking while cold sweats dripped out from his fore head. Mao's reaction was out character. There has never been a single time Mao look very confused.
"What does it say, Mao?" Raspberyl asked worrying that the letter might be a threat
"the heck….." He flipped the paper upside-down, pointing it to light source, magnify it with magnifying glass, took some book and use them as references. Seeing no result, he took variety of decoder tool and used them while running all over the room.
"It's…." Finally Mao stopped. He walked to the others and showed the letter to the rest of the group.
Mao was silenced for few moments till he finally said "Can anyone read this letter?"
The others examined the letter. The letter was….. Either it was in an unknown writings or it was badly written, but it's clearly unreadable.
"I have never seen any word like these, doesn't seem like demons alphabet" Raspberyl said.
"Neither have we" Both Asuka and Kyoko said in unison.
"hhmm…. These letters doesn't have similar form as letters we used back in human world either" Sapphire said.
"*Sigh* if nobody can read it, then it's just a prank done by some student, it's the evil academy where demons learn how to prank after all"
"Do not come to the former overlord's room" that single voice startled Mao and the others.
"Who said that?" Asked Mao.
"I did" Almaz raised his right hand while holding the letter.
"You can read this?"
"Well…. of course, although was written in demon Alphabets, I can read it with no problem"
"It was written in demon Alphabet? Don't play dumb with me, Almaz. Demon Alphabets were the ones we always use in this academy, if you can read this, then why I can't?!"
"Just look at this this one 'Do' the next one 'not' the other one 'co'…" Almaz pointed at each letter arranging the word he said before. Mao also realized that these were somewhat resembling the demon Alphabet.
"Then it's just badly written" Mao concluded. "So, what's it said?"
"it was written 'Do not come to the former overlord's room, signed O' That's all"
"O? "
"That seems to be the sender. There was just a single 'O' letter and the bottom right part of the letter"
"'Do not come to the former overlord's room' I wonder what that mean…." Mao said, he sit on his table again, closing his eyes as if he was trying to find an answer.
"Why is it my father's room? It's not a strategically good place for an ambush at all. An assassination from far away is also impossible, because there were too many building to use as cover. A trap? Maybe an ambush?"
"Maybe it's a prank after all" Almaz concluded
"Mao…. I was wondering…. What happen to your father's remains?" Sapphire asked out of blue
"I kicked out every living being on his room. But they won't come in again because I have sealed the whole building with a special barrier so it can only be entered through its entrance"
"Maybe those demons want to take their home back?" Almaz asked
"No, that is impossible sir Almaz. From my analysis, despite being categorized as "fancy", but every room in that building has become the worst place in this netherworld that you can live on. It was so bad that you would be thankful if you were kicked out from that building" Geoffrey explained.
"You just said it was "fancy" but I would be thankful if I was kicked out? Just how bad it could be?" Almaz asked.
"I'm sorry, but it was classified, even for you, sir Almaz" Geoffrey Responded.
"it was the worst, Almaz. Have you ever seen magic leaking from a dead body even after months of death? Even I never saw one like that before. If someone spark…" Mao stopped at his own word. "Something that I never saw before…"he mumbled.
Mao was right, he never seen anything like that before, a flint of curiosity has flared his spirit. A smile formed on his face, Mao jumped to his room's exit, and then kicked the door open.
"Geoffrey! Almaz! Come here! Quick!"
Geoffrey engulfed himself in blinding magical circle lights then disappeared. While Almaz running beside Mao, Raspberyl and her lackeys followed them from behind.
"Mao?! W-What's going on?!" Raspberyl asked.
"I forgot to do an experiment on that demon; I should have done it months ago!" Mao said
"A demon? Who? Was it the one who sent the letter?" Almaz asked
"No. It's someone better than that!"
"Who is it, then?"
"Huff…. Huff….. The greatest overlord ever exists before my regime!" Mao said, huffing so hard that fog has started to cover his glasses; signing that he was over excited, which he hasn't done much lately.
"N-No….. D-Don't tell me…. It's….." Raspberyl face turned pale.
Slowly, she opened her lips; with tremor on her words, she said "T-The f-former overlord? Y-Your F-Father?!"
Chapter 01 End