Chapter 1: Beginning
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"At the end of thy short human lifespan, to think thou wouldst make such a foolish gamble. Thou art truly a troublesome brat!" A deity declared gallantly to the mortal youth with an exciting tone.
The boy pointed a stone tablet forward to a floating figure on the sky, his black colored eyes shone brightly with unwavering determination. His arm was trembling and breaking down from pain and fatigue. His mind and body was reaching its utmost limits. However, he didn't want to lose here, he wanted to live on.
Kusanagi Godou didn't want to die.
A taste of irons lingered within his mouth, and his fingers crooked just by holding the forbidden grimoire.
A lilac haired deity look puzzled from the sky above, he couldn't comprehend what this mortal was trying to do, he didn't understand why this frail and weak boy would go this far to defy him.
He was curious and excited. Never before in his myth, no human could go against his divine providence. But this boy was different. The burning determination suited for a king.
Verethragna finally came to conclusion. Their meetings were led to this moment. The Persian warlock closed his eyes and release his grasp on the golden sword. Smiled lightly, and muttering a small word, "Thou art truly troublesome, Boy."
Back to the rebellious mortal. His grip on the divine artifact, pouring everything into it even his soul. The tablet heated up and shone with a golden radiance.
The boy smiled and declared. "My name is Kusanagi Godou. Remember it well." At that moment, his finger was burned off instantly and the grimoire morphed into a pillar of light. His eyes slowly blinded, his skin split, his organs ruptured and his bones cracked. This was a price and punishment for a foolish mortal dared enough to use a divine authority.
The god was incinerated and the mortal was killed from blood loss. This outcome could only be described as a mutual defeat. The clash between the boy and the god had finally reached its conclusion.
One tale had ended; other was about to start.
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So comfortable…
Kusanagi Godou could feel a soft sensation behind his head, a warmth circulated through out his broken body. A small hand stroked his hair slowly and gently. "I guess this time it will be something worth to see, right?" Someone was talking to him. "I know you have a lot of question, but I can't answer them right now, so I'm sorry!" This girl was panicking for some reason, "You'll surely go through a lot of hardships and suffering, but this is also a path of kings. I, all-giving woman, Pandora shall give you my blessing." The girl's voice was packing with cheerfulness, but in the deepest part, there's a sadness and grief hiding in her message.
"This is the first time for me too…I'm your mother, yet I don't have any chance to look after you growth as a ruler anymore…"
"If I could I wouldn't let that shitty bitch snatches my child from me!" Her tone suddenly filled with a boiling ire.
"But right now, infusing the prize you've claimed is the only thing I can do for you." A golden light pierced through his semi-open eyes, and a feeling of having something pressed into his chest.
"While I can't accompany you through out your adventure. The circle of usurpation certainly can. You won't be denied of your right, each fights of your will be rewarded." Although, The all-giving woman couldn't communicate with this child anymore. The mechanics of usurpation ceremony was still intact to his body and soul.
It was uncertain if he would ever encounter any of her brethren in a place far beyond the current reality. However, if he did, and manage to slay them. This boy would still guarantee to gain an authority.
Almost choking from the weight pressing into his body, as soon as the usurping process had been completed. Kusanagi Godou's body started to reform and revitalize itself. His soul magnified by several magnitudes, reaching the realm of divine. However, a consequence would be, as a non-mage campione Godou might suffer a from amnesia for an unknown duration of time.
HIs body and soul began to reshape, strengthen and acclimated to his newly acquired divine strength.
After the divine imbued flesh settled down. The witch spread her arm and looked up to the pale white sky. " Then let everyone present grant their blessing and their hatred to this child! The seventh Campione - possessing the destiny of the youngest devil king, please bestow the sacred spell words upon this child!"
The sky rumbled, the land shook. The advent of the youngest king had been announced. The curses and blessing was bestowed. The usurpation ceremony was finished.
"Goodbye, my child, I'm sure that one day we'll meet again!" Waving her hand at the fading figure, the future of his was still unknown, but she believed every of her adopted children to survive in one way or another.
The woman's delicate warmth disappeared from his body, only to be replaced by cold and eerie grip of darkness.
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Kusanagi Godou felt his head slumped to his left shoulder in a very weird way as if someone snapped his head then poorly attached it back to his neck. His entire body was exhausted from an unknown cause. Last time he worn out to this extend was when he participate in World Series as a Japanese Representative.
Cracking his eyes open, but closing it almost immediately, 'WTF' That's the only thought running through his mind right now.
He couldn't believe what he had seen. In front of him was an unfamiliar building, a renaissance style construction, a city painted with red and white bricks. As he knew, Godou should be sitting on his old red velvet cushion reading or watching a show with his younger sister, shouldn't he?
However, the image burned into his black eyes was people from various ethnics, and… dog and cat-like people walking along with overgrown lizards dragging medieval-style carriages.
Kusanagi Godou was confused, as a child grew along with science and technology, this was a hard blow to his brain. He enjoyed fantasy, but always knew the fact that this was nothing but fiction. Rubbing his face with his stiffed hand. 'Sitting here like an idiot won't help for sure.'
Pushing himself from the fountain side bench. Godou started walking around, trying to find anything that might provide some clarity to what was happening to him right now. The town itself was….super duper weird, everything that his friends back in middle school spoke about anime became real.
After an aimlessly walk, The godslayer finally settled in a very dark and narrow alley, dumping himself on the crates lying around the corner. Trying to isolate himself from the main street.
One thing he could say. It was a nightmare came true. Come on, no middle school student would want to see a kobold like person taking dump. Oh, yes! Thanks to being sent to an alternate reality, because it meant you couldn't read anything, including toilet sign.
It was just nightmarish. A haunting image was burned deep into his memory. This included having a dog like paw slapped his face with a strength that could snapped even a grown man's neck.
When he wonder if his luck would get any worser? The answer was…It did! Other than toilet for walking female dogs, he wander into a bar specially for insect like people. And, he didn't want to be racist, but everything was downright creepy, out of place, and scary.
He sighed a very deep one, 'what should I do from now? I've no money, I don't know how to read and write, and I don't even know where am I…It couldn't be worser than this right?'
"HEY!" A loud and booming voice grabbed his attention, when he look up, a knife was already pointed at him. 'Yeah, it could be worse…'
In front of him was three men, a giant with a green vest and tanned skin, a skinny guy who's pointing a knife at him, and a shorty with bob cut. "Let's go straight! If you don't wanna get hurt, cough up whatever you've got!" The skinny man threatened him with the most classic lines ever.
"Sorry, but I don't have any money or food with me, so could you please go away?" The man the grab his collar and pull him up from the crate. "What about your clothes! It seems that you're wearing a pretty nice one, aren't ya?"
"Let me go!" Trying to resist the assault, Godou tried to grab the man's arm, but his body was still weak. He couldn't even clench his hand properly, so it was impossible to fight back in this situation. He even resorted into kicking, but it was futile.
"Stop pestering! You're so damm annoying!" The delinquent threw away the boy to the crate. *CRASH
"GU—hah!" Godou had been on a lot of fights before, yet every fights he experiences weren't this brutal. Lying helplessly on the ground as if he was a trash. He was hungry, alone and now injured. Why? What did he do to deserve this kind of treatment? A rage erupted from the bottom of his guts, glaring at the thieves.
Kusanagi Godou's eyes met the muggers.
That looks were irritating, how dare they looking at him like this!
USE ME
THAT THING WILL BE CRUSHED
I WILL DESTROY IT FOR YOU
A voice echoing in his mind, it was one of the prizes he claimed from the deity. The most powerful weapon in the world, a regalia suited for the king of kings. Answered its owner subconsciously desire. Surging from the exploding fury inside, the incantation had been recited. "May his spine be crushed…
The muggers were laughing at him, they assaulted him, they must pay!
While he let his wrath consumed him, he didn't pay much attention to the petite girl swiftly ran pass through him.
The wind cladded girl dashed pass the boy with black hair. Her ruby eyes caught a glimpse of the black haired boy. Suddenly, her inborn instinct screamed at her that this boy was a bad news. She must leave without looking back as soon as possible, 'Sorry for your luck, but take care!' The blonde burglar couldn't do anything but pray for the three muggers.
Back to the boy, he was muttering the incantation, a mana burst up from the youth's body. The dark alley glowed dimly in reddish-gold color yet, nobody noticed the sudden change.
A shadow began to spread from underneath his feet.
When the tension reached its breaking point.
"That's enough!" With his rage clouded eyes, he saw a girl with milky white skin and silvery hair. She was dressed in white and purple outfit and golden symbols on her sleeves. Her eyes were the most prominent part on her dedicated face, she had a lilac pupils and blue iris.
The girl then open her mouth and said. "I don't know what are you trying to do, but return what you've stolen from me! I'll let this slide, so return it."
"What!" The thieves turn their head back to the girl in white. "Who the hell are ya?" One of them shout to the girl. "Are you going to save this piece of shit?"
"If you asked me wether I have any connection to this boy I'd say no." The silver haired girl answered truthfully while curious with the boy appearance. "His clothes also a bit strange…"
"Then go away! This is none of you business!"
"If someone stole from you, she was just ran by!"
"Yeah, yeah!"
The sound of trio supported each other made Godou felt disgusted. He want them to shut up and begone. But after the confrontation between the girl and these bastards, his rage died down and the voice in his head was no more.
The girl in white slowly ran past him, then stopped and turned back. "Although, I've no business here, but I can't overlook from what you did." Pointing her hand at the muggers. A light enveloped her palm. Pillar of ices were formed and shot to the trio simultaneously.
That's the last thing he saw before losing his consciousness.
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This was the second time Kusanagi Godou had woken up. Normally, he was a very energetic boy with his life almost never took a nap during the day.
"Finally wake up, huh?" A sweet voice ringing inside his ears. It was so familiar, and this softness and warmth must be that he was lying on the girl's lap. He didn't want to move now, he just wanted to sleep and relax more than this.
'By the way, why the girl's lap was so hairy? Nah, I shouldn't think much about this, just enjoy it.' The fatigue was enough to avert him from any questions in his mind.
"Sorry, but I can't let you go back to sleep." A pain ran through out his face. "Ouch" He shot himself from the lap pillow instantly after getting pinched by the girl.
Reflexively jumped from the lap pillow. Without any warning or anything that girl just pinched him without any mercy! By the way, it seemed that he didn't have the silvery haired beauty as his lap pillow, but a human sized cat instead!
To be honest, this girl might have been one of the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen except for her pointy ea…
A girl…with pointy ears? What should he expected from a girl who capable of using magic and having a magical cat as her familiar!
"Well, you're truly weird you know. Your body was already healed when I was going to apply a healing magic on you," The silver haired elf said like she was complaining.
"It's not like I helped you because I want to. I aid you because I want something from you, so don't expect that I'll help you next time. I'll h…" The cat then intercepted. "Shouldn't you ask him about that?" The spirit reminded.
"Yeah! Do you know who stole my insignia? It was a crest with a red ruby engrave at the middle." The youth was clueless about the girl's question, so he could do nothing but shrug. "Sorry, But, I don't even know what or where to find that thing."
Satella's face was a bit pale and lower her head a bit. "I see…"
To see the girl depressed like this and did nothing, wasn't Godou's way, so he patted on her shoulder and encouraged her. "Come on, don't give up. You'll find it soon."
HIs words lightened up the mood in this dark alley. The half-elf appeared to regain her confidence and burning with determination once again .
Looked like their time had ended; Godou prepare to have his way out from this alleyway; The half-elf called the black haired boy, then she threw a pouch at him. "You don't have any money right? I heard your stomach roared non-stop, so I'll give you this. Well, please take care of yourself, and don't do dangerous thing, like wandering into deserted alley alone. It's not like I'm worrying about you! Well, I'm in hurry, farewell."
Godou was quite surprise. The youth didn't expect much about this world, but he was quite amazed by the girl's kindness for him. "That girl is really a nice girl, huh?" Before the girl vanished into the main road. Godou felt like he needed to say something.
"Wait…What's your name?" This was the only words popped up into his mind. The girl looked at him with an uneasy and confused sight. She hesitated for a second, but slowly answered the boy. "My name is…Satella." She smile dryly before turned back and walked away without looking back at him.
The cat then showed a resigned face while saying something with a grimly expression. "You have a bad taste…" Pack waved his paw back at him before, caught up with Satella.
"By the way, if you're looking for the thief, she went that way." Godou pointed to the back where the theft went. The half-elf tripped a bit before walking away for real this time.
'Oh, I didn't tell her my name.' The boy thought. Godou then took his way out of this alley.
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The snowy-haired girl sighed deeply. "I thought we would've caught the thief…" She frowned. Her amethyst eyes glowed dimly from disappointment.
"You said there's something in the alley, so I went in." She then looked at the pocket-sizes cat, who's floating above her shoulder.
The gray cat shrugged. "I said something was there, however, I didn't say that the thief was in the alley." The contracted spirit reply in a sheepish tone.
The half-elf tried to retorted, but couldn't find anything to counterargument to her surrogate father. She couldn't do anything but avert her head and pout.
The great spirit couldn't but enjoy his daughter's cute moment. He knew how easy she could het sulked, but he couldn't help it! She was too cute!
While enjoy the moment, his mind wasn't shy from darting back to that boy. A foreigner, and a clueless one to boot. How can a boy at this age didn't know how dangerous to wander alone in the capital of Lugnica.
Also that! A terrifying surge of magical energy he could sense. It was unexpected and fast. Even his daughter couldn't notice it. But, he can, and it wasn't even funny.
The spike was extremely overwhelming.
The mana was potent enough to overwhelm him. THE. GREAT. SPIRIT. A fiery golden aura that definitely not something belong to human. No mortal should ever have magical energy with that intensity.
The spirit narrowed his eyes, an individual that had power to this intensity was the witch of sins.
This need…
"_ck! Puck!" A call pulled him out from his thought. The girl was looking at him worryingly. "Are you okay?"
"Oh! Nothing, Lia, it's noting. I'm just thinking how should I style your hair!" He didn't want to worry his daughter more that she should be, she had more than enough problems on her head anyway. "Maybe, we could try Beatrice's style!"
But just to be sure. "Lia, that boy, we might meet him again." Just a little heads-ups wouldn't hurt, would it?
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A meat juice dripping from his chin, his eyes pressed together and almost cried from its heavenly taste. Godou never thought that beef skewers would be this delicious. Normally, when you're hungry; you just eat and get full, nothing more. Now, it was a different story. His body reacted to the food quite violently, each bite made his body trembling with happiness. It was a sense of fulfillment.
With the mysterious girl's generosity, the youth was able to fully re-energize himself.
His strength was completely returned. He was sure that if he encounter that bastards again he would beat them to pulp this time.
Other than thinking about revenge, there's a thing stuck in his head for a while. an existence of magic. He could remember vividly that Satella used some kind of ice bullets to drive the thugs away. Without any doubts it was a magic. 'Maybe I'll ask her next time we met. It's not like I can use magic anyway. There's no point of thinking about it right now.' Then dismissed the thought and focused on the food in front.
"You really like that beef skewers, huh?" A man sat beside him out of nowhere, he has a flaming red hair, blue eyes, and gallant physique. The only image fitted for the red haired stranger was 'A perfect hero'.
Godou looked at him skeptically and asked, "What's your business?" He didn't know why this mister perfect would want to talk to a middle schooler like him.
"Come on, please don't be so cold. I'm just a passing by knight." The young knight said cheerfully. "My name is Reinhard, Reinhard van Astrea."
"Kusanagi Godou, Nice to meet you." The youth replied the red haired knight. "I'll ask again what brings you here, Reinhard?"
"Just taking a break from patrolling, what about you? Why a foreigner like you being here?" Reinhard's question held no malice or any bad intention just a pure curiosity.
"Tourism and looking for a job, I arrived at this country last week, and this is my first day in this city. Actually, this town is pretty nice and I like it." He mend his words with a half-truth, this city was indeed beautiful and he absolutely hated this town.
"As a citizen of Lugnica, that's an honor, then, If you really want to go to someplace with a nice scenery and landmark…." He paused his sentence and made a thinking pose. "Ah!" Godou could see a light bulb above the knight . "You can go to Priestella, it was one of our country major cities. I'm sure that you won't be disappointed."
"I'll give it a shot after I finished with this city then, still have a lot of things I want to see." He blatantly lied to the knight. After what Godou had been through this morning, he really wanted to sleep in the inn without doing anything for a day or two.
Thinking of something, "By the way, Reinhard, Do you know where can I sell some of my possession? I think I need to have more pocket money for my journey." Godou then pulled his cellphone out of pants pocket. 'The signal is dead, and I don't need to take a picture either.' Maybe if he was lucky he could dubbed his phone as a magical item, and sold it with a ridiculously high price.
Godou also had a thought of going to the casino and winning a big sum. His luck and gambling techniques were amongst the best in Kusanagi clan (He really didn't want to accept this.) However, the risk was to high for him to go for it. He didn't want to piss off a local mafia though.
"Is that a metia? I've never seen this shape before." The knight replied.
"Metia? What's that?" Okay, that's new.
"Metia was a device that's allow people who didn't have their gates opened use magic, like real magic users. Actually, I'm not a magician or merchant, so I can't tell if your…" Reinhard paused.
"It's called 'cellphone',"
"That's it, I don't know if your cellphone could be counted as a metia or not. But, in case you want to sell it; you can go to the pawn shop or … I don't want to recommend though. You can also go to the loot house if you want. They'll probably give you a higher price." Reinhard reluctantly said.
"Thanks for the information. With this, I think I'll survive for a while before getting a job. You really save me this time, mr. knight."
After both spent sometime talking too each other, the sun was high above their head and the clouds were gone, leaving only a deep blue sky to see. The time had finally reached the noon.
Staring at the clear sky above, the red haired knight then stood up and brushed some dusts from his pure white coat. "I guess its time for me to go. It's a pleasure talking to you. Someday we might encounter each other again. So long, Godou." The knight walked away while waving his hand.
The silence returned once again.
Honestly, Godou did enjoy the company of that man, if it was possible he would like to hang out with that guy more. It's not that kind of feelings, but Godou felt that somehow he was gravitated by the knight's presence.
After he gulped down the last piece of meat, the youth was now thinking about what he was going to do next. This wasn't what he expected for. Right now, he should be working as a part-timer under his grandfather acquaintance or preparing for a fresh high school life in April.
What should he do next? Working as a labour in the world with no insurance and labour law was suicidal. 'It's not like I have much options…The money that the girl gave me won't last till next week, and I don't know a standard currency of this world.' He signed again, cursing his fate for dumping a young middle schooler in a different world.
'Although, I'll manage somehow. One way or another! Don't underestimate Kusanagi Godou, bring it on, fate-sama!' While the situation was completely hopeless, The youth knew no despair. Why should he? His grandfather left him alone once in a foreign country, so what's the differences in this situation except it was a fantasy world?
This is not an overly optimistic out view nor madness caused from escaping the reality. Kusanagi Godou was raised to be able to survive through any situation by his well-experience grandfather.
Scratching the back of his head, he decided, "I'll go grab some money first then." Threw the stick aside, and shoved the flip phone back to his pocket. The youth then proceeded his way through the crowd of Lugnica. His figure was gradually disappeared into the stream of people.
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He was plunged deep into the ground. His power was sealed and ripped.
Only a weak and fragile self was left.
His sword refuse him, and his name was denied.
The one who bore the name of his love was disgust and dismiss his existence as nothing but a mistake.
The knight who should be steadfast ignore his plea and abandon him.
Curse that thief.
Curse that witch.
Curse everyone.
He will sleep here and wait for an opportunity.
This slight must be answered. He would have his revenge.
The unwanted child born from deceit and illusion, he, who supposed to be pure and perfect was tainted and twisted.
The shining child now drenched in darkness.
The world would trembled at his rise.
This was a story between two warriors that will intertwine by the whim of fate.
The lost king and the fallen one.
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Hello!
This is the first chapter of Re:zero x Campione! As you can see the main protagonist is Kusanagi Godou right after the event of volume 3. If you think that he would be overpowered character; I'm sorry to say, but he's not. Godou's body hadn't completely acclimated to the Veretharagna's authorities; he'll need a lot of time to familiarize himself with his power. In the canon, campione can sharpen and improve their authorities by excessively using them: Godou lessens his incarnations' regeneration times from a whole day to half a day after 18 volumes passed and Alec achieved manifesting avatar contrasted to the way he used it similarly to Godou utilizing [Raptor] in the past. Our beloved protagonist will get stronger, his potential is limitless, but we'll have to wait.
Godou's state of mind right now is considerably younger and more immature than his canon counterparts, and thus he'll behave quite a bit different from his canon self. He'll have some of subaruish~ behavior. I know this might irk some of you, but please remember, this Godou is a still a middle school and being dropped into a different world would do something bad to your psyche. We'll see this Godou takes another route to grow physically and emotionally as the main protagonist of this fanfic.
Harem? I don't know…I'm not good at writing love story. I never have a girlfriend before ya know!
I hope you'll like my story though.
I love, really LOVE review and criticism, because it helps overcome my mistakes and improve my story.
PS. I don't think a second chapter would come out anytime soon, but I'll try my best. College is killing me.
See Ya!