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The Saga Of Levi the Just
Chapter 1
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A young school boy stood on top of a building. His life was a living hell. First he gets bullied and no one stood up for him, his mother had left him and his dad, worst of all, he had no friends. He had no one to be with him. He thought he rather kill himself and hope that somewhere in the afterlife that there are people he can call friends, not that he believes god will be there to help him. He felt as if life was pointless. With no regrets, he jumped. He jumped off just like that from a 5 story building, hoping the fall would kill him. The ground was close, he was going to hit the ground. Time suddenly stopped. He looked around, he wondered if he was hallucinating. He had no idea what was going off. He saw the head of a dog looking at him.
"Another non-believer? Guess you humans really have lost faith in the Creator." The dog said.
"Wait a minute….. are you god?" The boy asked.
"Of course I am god, who else would be?" The dog said.
"Well you don't look like god. I thought he would be the sun or the moon." The boy said.
"And yet you don't have faith in me." The dog said.
"Hey pal, I got no friends, my mom left me, and now this. This is your fault entirely." The boy said.
"You dare blame me for this?" The dog said.
"Of course 'oh great one'." The boy said.
The dog growled.
"Look buddy, If I had a second chance-"
"Oh… Actually I think I might do that." The dog said.
"Wait what?" The boy asked.
"Maybe If I bring you back, let you make some friends, you might have faith in me." The dog said.
"Hey! Converting an atheist takes more than reincarnation buddy!" The boy said.
"You wanted friends, I'll give you them." The dog said.
He couldn't believe it. This thing, this god, he was going to reincarnate him? Just so he could have friends to get him to have faith? He can't do this! He was supposed to take you to heaven! How can he?! This was madness!
"Wait a minute!" The boy said.
"I'm afraid it is the only way to punish you." The dog said.
Punish!? What does that mean?! Why punish him with that fate?! That doesn't click to common sense!
"Wait a second! I don't-"
"Deus lo vult." The dog said.
What did those words mean? He never heard a phrase like that.
"As the Lord wills it, You shall be reincarnated in a world where science doesn't exist. You will forever be put in a world where you will spend the rest of your reincarnation forever." The dog said.
"No! Anything but that! I'd rather-"
"Now go mortal. Go and live your next life." The dog said.
"No, wait! I'm-!"
SPLAT!
Everything went black. There was nothing. He had truly died.
Unified Year 1913
The boy heard crying. He opened his eye and saw a nun with a spoon in her hand.
"Come on now Levi, let me feed you." The nun said.
The nun put the spoon in his mouth. It tasted like food. He turned his head to see a baby boy with eyes of azure blue and white hair looking back.
'No… it can't be….. I'm a baby?! The hell did he do to me?! I know he said something about reincarnation, but this is not what I had in mind!' The boy thought.
He had to accept his fate. He himself is now Levi. He accepted his new life, knowing it was pointless to argue. He looked around and saw other children with him. He assumed he was in an orphanage with nuns. It was situated in a church, considering that there was a statue of an angel. He saw a blonde haired baby girl with blue eyes. He felt an ominous presence from her. He had to assume there were others who died and were reincarnated like him. For now, he had to live his life as it is now, as a baby.
'Well, better get used to this.' Levi thought.
1918
He was in the cafeteria of the orphanage. Some kids were fighting over some food. He ducked under the table to find the girl he saw as a baby, only now her hair grew out. She had a loaf of bread. She looked away. She wasn't willing to share with him. He crawled over to her.
"You know, I don't mind having half." Levi whispered.
The girl looked as if she didn't trust him. The boy decided to use his adorableness to convince her to hand him half. The girl wasn't falling for it. He kept at it. The girl looked annoyed. She tore half of it and gave it to him. He took the loaf and ate it.
"So what's your name?" Levi asked.
The girl looked at him with annoyance. He smiled.
"Tanya. Tanya Degurechaff." The girl said.
'Tanya….. What a nice name.'
"Levi Blitzlowe." Levi said, 'Should I ask her or leave her be?'
He couldn't shake the feeling that the girl was strange, too intelligent for a kid. He had to assume that the girl was a Reincarnation of someone from the real world.
"You know, you seem smart for a girl, a bit cold at that." Levi said.
"Really?" Tanya asked.
"Yeah." Levi said, "Say, you wouldn't have been reincarnated, right?"
That question got the girl to become silent. She looked away. She grumbled a bit.
'Did I get her?' Levi thought.
"Were you reincarnated?" Tanya asked.
'Bingo!' the boy thought, "Yes."
The girl grumbled to herself again. She looked at him.
"So what was life like before you were reincarnated?" Levi asked.
"It was good. I used to be a salaryman, I was paid well and was hoping to live an inexpensive life on top of everything." Tanya said, "That is until I fired an employee who had a terrible work ethic and broke company rules. He shoved me into a train and here I am."
"Killed by an employee you fired? Man, god must hate you then." Levi said.
"And I assume Being X hated your guts by bringing you back from death." Tanya said.
Levi gulped at that remark.
"W-well….." Levi stuttered.
"Tell me, how did you die?" Tanya asked.
"I…. Jumped." Levi said.
"What?" Tanya pondered.
"I…. had no one who would care for me. My dad was at work, mom left me, I had no friends. I thought life was pointless and now here I am." Levi said.
"You killed yourself just for that?" Tanya asked, "Pathetic."
"You wouldn't know until you got in my previous shoes." Levi said, "Now this 'Being X' wants me to have faith in him, saying if he put me in this world, I could find friends, if you ask me, I guess he just said that just so he could take them away and make me have faith in him."
Tanya looked at the boy. She remembered how cold she was during her life as a salaryman. She didn't care about that employee's problems, all she wanted was him gone from the office for being a terrible employee. She knew that man deserved it, she was killed in cold blood by that man because he wanted to keep his job. Scum like that employee should learn their place and keep quiet. That's what she thought, now hearing about Levi's personal life, maybe she can give him some company as long as he has someone who would help him with getting revenge on Being X.
"You know, maybe we can be friends." Tanya said.
"Really?" Levi asked.
"Yes. Together, we can get revenge on that petty 'God'." Tanya said.
"R-Revenge?" Levi asked.
"Yes. I know just how we can get revenge." Tanya said.
"We're…...not gonna kill him, right?" Levi asked.
"Even better." Tanya said as she grinned maniacally.
He didn't like the way Tanya smiled at him. He wanted a friend, but to think his first friend was someone crazy enough to take revenge out on god.
"We're not gonna burn the church, right?" Levi asked.
"Oh no, much better." Tanya said.
"What is that?" Levi asked.
"We're gonna live a great life." Tanya said.
"And how will we do that?" Levi asked.
"You'll see." Tanya said.
He gulped. He felt as if he was gonna regret what he was about to do to himself.
1921
He was in line with all the other kids. He saw Tanya with a device onto her head. The device activated, causing everything around her to float. Her eyes were glowing. The device deactivated and everything fell. The doctor who was in charge made notes on a notepad. Levi went up and had it strapped on his head. It activated, causing his head to feel warm. His body felt warm. Everything around him floated.
"My, his magic amplitude….. It's just with that girl." The doctor's assistant spoke.
'Magic? Wait, so no psychic powers? What is this?' Levi thought.
His eyes glowed an even brighter shade of blue.
'God… I don't know what this is, but I'm starting to like this.' Levi thought.
A few minutes later…..
The other children had gone through the test. Levi and Tanya had a rating of 'A'. Tanya told Levi that the world they were in was like the same, except magic exists. Not only that, the time period suggested that it was during the age of WW1. Levi soon realized that the military seeked individuals with Magic abilities of their level to be Mages to fight in a war.
"You know what, how about we volunteer for the military?" Tanya asked.
"Right now!?" Levi asked.
"Come on, a Mage being conscripted with an 'A' class rating must be treated generously. If we join the military, we'll be on the fast track of an easy life. We just need to be on the rear and Being X can go cry in the corner." Tanya said, "Unless you want to back out and offer prayers to that 'thing', I won't mind if you die in a life being poor."
He didn't want to die at a young age, nor did he want to live a poor life. He knew the only way to go about this with Tanya is to just go with her and just go with whatever she has in mind.
"Ok, you got me. When do we do it?" Levi asked.
"How about now?" Tanya asked.
"Eh?!" Levi said.
"Trust me, what could go wrong?" Tanya asked.
'Damn you…' Levi thought.
He bowed his head in submission.
"Good, now let's get going then." Tanya said.
OCS, Berun
Levi and Tanya stood in front of a tall man in military uniform.
"I know you two want to join and that you make great mages, but you seem a bit-"
"Too young?" Tanya finished.
"Well yes, I mean it could be-"
"Dangerous?" Tanya said.
"Look, Tanya, how about we-"
She glared at him. His spine froze. He couldn't move. He felt as if she had stabbed him with an icicle up his ass. He was looking into the eyes of someone who would punish him if he gone the other way.
"We wish to serve the Fatherland, so that we could have a better future for both its citizens and ourselves included." Tanya said, "Don't you need 'A' Ranked Mages in the military?"
"Y-yeah! We want to fight for a better future!" Levi said, 'I can't believe I have to do this. But then again, maybe I can have friends in the military. I won't waste this chance to make friends in the military! In the meantime, I better learn how to be a military tactician and a Mage at the same time.'
"W-well….. Um…. we shall consider it. Just you wait." the officer said as he got up and went to his superiors.
Levi looked at Tanya. She seemed serious about this. She wanted to gain a superfluous life in this new world. Levi knew that if he was going to pull his weight in the military, he had to follow Tanya long enough until he can stand on his own. His hope in life was to join the military so that he could reach the same goal Tanya intends to shoot for. The man came back with a another man with an eyepatch, a beard, and orderly gray hair. His other eye was green.
"These are the ones?" The man asked.
"Yes, Major. They seem awfully young and everything, but they want to volunteer." The officer said.
The man stroked his beard.
"I am Major Feuriges Ross, as of now, I see that you might have what it takes, but I will decide that so I'm not sure." the man said, "I want a few questions answered and depending on how they are answered and what the answers are, I will decide if you have what it takes."
'Questions?' Levi thought.
"First of all, do you know what is going on right now as of this moment?" Ross asked.
"War." Tanya said, "We are at war with foreign powers."
"That's right." Ross said, "The Entente Alliance of Legadonia to the North, the Francois Republic to the west, possibly backed by the Allied Kingdom across the channel that divides the two from each other, and the Duchy of Dakia press at our borders. Soon enough, this country will fall. That is why you wish to join, yes?"
"Yes, that, and we seek a better future in the military." Tanya said.
"Then I ask you this, do you believe there is justice in war?" Ross asked.
"No, in war, it is survival. In war, one another compete against each other to strive to become the strongest, to survive and destroy each other so that the victor would become the strongest in the world. That is why we are different, to compete. If one does not pull their weight, they will die." Tanya said.
Ross eyed Levi. Levi seemed confused on the subject.
"What about you lad? You didn't answer my previous question, have you? Do you not wish to fight?" Ross asked.
"I….. I….." Levi said, "I agree with Tanya's answer about the previous question, but…."
"Yes?" Ross asked.
"I disagree with her answer." Levi asked.
"Hm?" Ross asked.
'What?' Tanya thought.
"I know there is justice in war." Levi said.
"And where is that justice?" Ross asked.
"It lies within only one fact I know, but I'm not even sure it is a fact." Levi said, "The ones who should kill are those who are prepared to be killed."
"So you believe that only those who are prepared to die should kill?" Ross asked.
'Justice doesn't exist in war, it's just a delusion you're making yourself Levi.' Tanya thought.
"If we are being invaded on three sides, is that even fair for a country that hasn't done any wrong? Should it really be fair that we are invaded by three countries, and yet we haven't done anything wrong?" Levi asked, "Shouldn't they be the ones who have done wrong?"
Levi remembered his past life. He remembered looking at things that delved into war, the reasons behind it, the truth of it, the actions it brings, the people it affects, the ones who are the evil and the good of those who fight in war. When he watched war films, he wondered if war was justifiable. He wondered if justice existed in war. He wondered why countries invade each other. He knew that war was sickening. He knows there is no right or wrong answer. He deluded himself into thinking war was justifiable because it lied within the motives for those who declare it. He thought long and hard for the justification of his answer, for even if those who are prepared to die should kill isn't enough.
"If we haven't declared war, then why are we being invaded? Why make people suffer if we haven't declared war at all? Is it God's fault? Is it because he wanted to test our belief in him by having us kill each other? Is it because humans are greedy and will stab each other in the back? Is it fear?" Levi asked.
'What is he getting at?' Tanya thought, "If god doesn't intervene in war, then that makes it his fault."
"If we haven't done anything wrong and yet we are being invaded by the enemy, then the only justified reaction to that is to destroy- no….." Levi said, "Then we must obliterate them, no matter the sacrifice."
Ross's eyes turned stern. The brows tensed, his eyes, flaring with wonder.
"So you are saying that they are evil and we are just in fighting them? Even if it means to obliterate everything at the cost of your humanity?" Ross asked.
"Yes." Levi said, "Even if it means that I must become evil to destroy the greater evil that exists!"
'So that's why you disagreed with me then, survival doesn't matter to you, it is rather if you must become evil or just to justify your reason for killing to obliterate your enemy, even if it is an enemy that has the same ambition and reasoning as you have.' Tanya thought, 'If God must exist, then there is a demon, but since one doesn't exist, so why not become one?'
Ross seemed impressed by his answer.
"I see…" Ross said, "You there."
"Yes sir?" the officer asked.
"Get their uniforms ready. I want them to accommodate their size." Ross said.
"Wait, you-"
"That's an order soldier, now get it done." Ross said.
"Yes, Major!" the officer said as he left.
Ross looked at the two.
"For the next two years, you will be trained rigorously to become the best Mages in our Empire. By the time I'm done with you, you zygotes will become demons, so when you graduate, be glad after I'm done pounding you into oblivion." Ross said, "Show these rookies what it means to be the demons of war."
"Yes sir!" the two children said as they saluted.
AN: Sorry if I had to change the story, I felt as I was rushing this, so I had to rewrite the chapter. anyway, review while I work on the next chapter.