1.1 - The Search is Just Beginning

Gamindustri... A humble world governed by four goddesses, ruling over their respective nations. The people put faith in them, which gives them power to continue. But 3 years back, the goddesses disappeared.

"Where are the goddesses? Did they leave us?"

"That's straight up bull. How could they leave us, the people that empower them?"

In the last 3 years, they never reappeared. The nations slowly degraded to evil. Gangs appeared, crimes became rampant, and no one ever stood up against them.

Well, until...

6 years ago

"Mom, mom!" a young boy said.

"What is it dear?" His mom asked.

"Someday, I wanna meet the goddesses for myself! It's just not enough to see them on TV. They have human forms, right? I wanna see that!"

The woman giggled at her son's dream. "Soon, my son, soon."

3 years later

The young boy had grown up and is now in middle school. He had been diagnosed with a few ailments, and it's unknown how he got those, because he also had memory loss, with 3 months worth of his recent memories gone. At night, he would always look out the window and sigh, for he would think that if he'll wake up tomorrow.

This particular night, he's doing his daily routine, looking out the window, and think if he still lives by tomorrow. "I don't wanna die, I haven't gotten to see the goddesses, but even if I didn't have these diseases, they've disappeared. People keep saying that the goddesses have abandoned us, said that they left us to fend for ourselves. I don't believe that."

That moment, he saw a meteor in the sky, and he was filled with joy. Then, he started wishing.

"I wish... I wish..."

Present day, 3 years later.

Heavy footsteps can be heard from afar. A 16-year-old boy is running away from a few thugs.

"Damn, after that twerp!"

The blue-haired boy is Shu Aizawa. 3 years ago, he slowly became a vigilante, trying to defeat the Ryuto Thug Gang members, one by one, as he tries to rid Planeptune, his home nation, of evil.

"You won't capture me, slowpokes!"

"Damn, this twerp's talking big," an underling said.

"Wait until he gets caught by Goro..."

*pant* *pant*

A few minutes of running, and he lost sight of the underlings.

"God, that was exhausting..."

Then a smile lined his face.

"But it's worth it, I still have my groceries. Now to go back home."

Shu is initially a cheery boy, keeping a smile on his face, but when it comes to cleaning Planeptune of the thugs, he becomes a tactical and witty man.

He was about to move again, then suddenly...

"Heh, so you're the vigilante bastard who keeps getting in Ryuto-sama's work, well, not for long," a man shouted at him.

"…Hm?"

Then, out of nowhere, he takes out a crowbar then lunges at Shu.

A close call, good thing Shu gets his wits together quickly when in battle.

"Hmm... So you're Goro, right?"

"Goro, the Crowbar Expert! I'm ending your life, right here, right now, for Ryuto-sama!"

"Heh, maybe the Crowbar Chicken!"

"You cocky bastard! Hnng...!"

He hits a wall yet again.

"You do know we're on a sidewalk, right?"

"So what? Scared of dying by an accident?"

"You know, I'm not scared of dying, as long as I tried to save Planeptune. But..."

Goro seems fazed by Shu's statement, but he attacks again.

"I'M NOT GONNA DIE YET!"

"Ghhk...!"

Shu was finally hit by the crowbar, but it just slightly injured his right arm, and he can still move it.

*"Maybe it's time to test it out," Shu thought to himself*

Then, he takes out a glove from his pocket, and puts it on his right hand.

"What's that? Can't fight without your favorite glove on, wuss?"

"Heh, maybe," Shu replies as he takes a stick from the ground and holds it with his left hand.

"That's not gonna help yo-"

*Static sound*

Raising his right arm, he mysteriously teleports to a few meters from where Goro's crowbar struck.

"Dammit, this cocky chicken!"

"You guys forgot about the thing about how I love to tinker with stuff. This glove right here is the pinnacle of science itself. I had found a way to alter space-time with just a glove."

"That's ridiculous! Hrraggh...!"

*Static sound*

"Tch, again?!"

"Shit, three charges left. Gotta save em for last."

Shu grins at his fazed opponent.

"You little..."

"Hep, hep. Don't move now..."

*Static sound*

With a flick of a finger, Shu stopped space-time. Everything is frozen in time, except for him. "Now is the time to strike!"

*Powerup sound*

With an empowering light from the glove, he swings his long wooden stick with all his might.

"THIS IS ITTT!"

With a powerful swing from Shu, Goro gets thrown off in the other direction with an excruciating pain on him.

"Ahhh! Y-you wil pay, bastard!" Goro shouts while running away.

"Yeah, go run, wuss!"

And again, Shu felt refreshed that he had defeated yet another Thug.

"Yeah, all right! Let's go home!"

But, when he was about to walk...

"S-Shu-sama!" a young man's voice shouted.

Perplexed, Shu looked back to see who it was and...

"Shu Aizawa-sama, we need to talk."