Chapter 1: OP Heterochromia Iridium

Sixteen years, that's how long it's been since I've been reborn into the world of Campione.

"It's finally time to kick things off," I muttered under my breath

The thought kept running through my head as I walked with the person who I considered my brother in all but blood, Godou Kusanagi.

I glanced to my right at Godou as we walked aimlessly through the streets of Sardinia. He's sixteen years old, with dark navy blue hair and brown eyes. He's got an average build and slightly above-average height. Right now he's wearing his usual casual clothes a white jacket over a dark blue sweater and jeans.

Sixteen years, that's how long it's been since I got my new body.

I looked myself over.

I had black shoulder length hair that was slightly spiked on the left side of my head, my skin was moon pale. I had burning amber eyes, an angular jaw. I was six foot two in terms of height, my body was very well defined for my age, but compact enough that I would probably look scrawny if I wore baggy clothes.

After all, I had to keep myself fit with all the odd jobs I was doing, even in a new life the gym was still calling my name.

My outfit consisted of a gray zip-up hoodie with black tribal markings on it, a black shirt with the logo of the band Queen on it, dark blue jeans, and a black pair of sneakers, and a pair of black wireless headphones around my neck. As we walked my mind took me back to just how I got here.

When Chakravartin sent me to this world I arrived as a baby in front of an orphanage. From then on I just grew up as a seemingly very smart kid, good thing Chakravartin programmed moonspeak into my brain, or else I would have been so damn lost. I meet Godou in elementary school and we've been best friends ever since. His little sister Shizuka sees me as a second brother which is concerning since she's a brocon, that, and I've caught her blushing at Godou and I on occasion.

Godou's grandfather Ichirou Kusanagi was always a really cool guy and considering that he was a former professor of folklore, he had a lot of interesting stories to tell.

He also taught me his lady-killer ways.

Which I constantly use on Shizuka to troll her.

Ichirou just silently gave me thumbs up the first time I did it.

High school was normal for the most part, but either way, here we are, in Sardina, lost as all fuck.

Taking a look at the tablet in my hands, I felt a particular weight on my shoulders, the responsibility. After all, not just any mortal should be given the power to steal the [Authorities] of a god, myself included.

I sighed as we walked, this wasn't going anywhere.

Where's the plot when you need it!?

"You two, over there!" a feminine voice behind us shouted in Italian.

There it is!

I knew it was Erica Blandelli, Great Knight of the Cooper-Black Cross.

But oh thank God, I thought we were going to end up lost in this damn city forever!

Praise the sun!

Godou and I turned around to face the owner of the voice.

Erica Blandelli, let me tell you something about her, any illustration of her in my world didn't do her beauty justice.

She was a beautiful, downright gorgeous girl of unparalleled figure. Long blonde hair that reached down to her lower back and a slender body with generous bosom. She wore a long red dress without shoulder straps and little red heels.

"Us?" Godou asked.

"Hand over that grimoire immediately," she asked again in Italian whilst pulling a knife on us.

Godou looked at her in shock while I gave her a face that said: "Really nigga?"

"Um, can we help miss?" I asked her in English. "My bro here doesn't speak English so if you know Japanese, could we please switch to that?"

"You don't speak Italian?" she asked. We shook our heads. "Fine, Japanese it is. Hand over that grimoire immediately."

"Grimoire?" Godou asked.

"I think she's talking about the tablet," I answered. Turning to Erica with a smile. "Sorry miss, no can do."

She narrowed her eyes dangerously at me. "And why is that?"

"We were sent here to deliver this to someone named Lucretia Zola."

Her eyes widened. "Lucretia Zola!?"

This time it was Godou who spoke. "Yeah! Do you know where she is? It would be a great help if yo-"

*RRROOOOAAAAAARRRGGGHHH!*

He was cut off as a brain scrambling roar echoed throughout the city.

Suddenly, everything around us turned grey, the sky, a sickly shade of green, the people that were in the once bustling streets disappeared.

"What the fuck was that!?" I shouted, knowing damn well what it was, but still, that's fucking scary, man.

We stared in awe at the giant boar rising from the ground. It was absolutely gargantuan, far bigger than the buildings surrounding it.

"W-What the hell is that!?" Godou shouted in horror.

"A god..." Erica said. "A Heretic God."

"A pig god huh?" I turned to Godou. "Think it'll give us some bacon?"

Both Godou and Erica looked at me blankly.

"Jack now is not the time." Godou deadpanned.

"You two need to run," Erica said as she ran off to where the giant boar was as she jumped on top of a red car that was speeding down the road.

"H-Hey..." Godou's eyes switched between Erica's fleeting form and the boar. "Jack, we have to help her!"

Godou turned to where I was only to find out I was gone.

"Jack, where are you!? he shouted, hopelessly confused.

"Already twenty or so steps ahead of you! Move your ass twinkle toes we got shit to do!" I shouted while running in Erica's direction.

Godou shook his head with a grin as he ran to catch up to me, even in a situation like this, we still found ways to enjoy ourselves.

We ran as fast as we could, the sounds of destruction and mayhem in the background. I took a look at giant boars direction, Erica was trying to hold it back using some kind of translucent red flame, it wasn't working at all.

I was so distracted by the battle that I wasn't looking where I was going and ended up tripping on some ruble.

"Oh shit!" I shouted as I ungracefully crashed into the ground, dropping the tablet.

"Jack, are you okay!?" Godou shouted as he rushed to my side.

"Yeah don't worry I'm fine," I said as I got up.

"Huh?" Godou and I said as we noticed the figure before us.

He seemed to be a fifteen-year-old boy with blue hair and a small tattoo on his forehead dressed in what appeared to be robes.

Oh shit, it's Verethragna, and he has the Grimoire in his hands, fan-fucking-tastic!

"Does this belong to you?" he asked looking at me.

"Um, no, it's his," I said gesturing my head to Godou.

"You need to get out of here now, some kind of monster is rampaging through the city," Godou said.

Verethragna chuckled. "This is rather funny."

"Funny?" Godou said confused, his eyebrow raised. "Who are you? Your Japanese is a little strange."

"Godou, we have more pressing concerns than someone's way of speaking," I interjected.

"I am the Victor." Verethragna started. "I am the strongest and that which will defeat every enemy."

"Victor?" Godou questioned.

The Invincible Warlord turned his head to me, his eyes narrowed.

"You," he said pointing at me.

"Me?" I asked confused.

"I sense a rather unfamiliar energy emanating from you."

Is he sensing the Mantra Chakravartin gave me? I forgot I even had that!

"Interesting, I've never felt anything quite like it." he looked as if he was deep in thought. "Maybe you'll do. I tried to revive the king of the ancient gods, in order to fight them, but I've yet to be defeated, perhaps you could surprise me."

Godou turned to me. "Jack, you know this guy?"

"Never met him in my life," I answered.

Our heads snapped up as we saw Erica jumping from rooftop to rooftop in a new outfit.

"Hey, wait!" I shouted.

"Did you come here to chase after that witch?" Verethragna asked.

"Witch? No, we're here became my grandfather sent us to deliver that tablet," explained Godou.

"This?" Verethragna said as he stared at the Grimoire.

His hair shadowed his eyes as he started chuckling madly. "How nice, how nice...you two are good kids, I bet you'd make even better warriors. This thief has told me so!"

Suddenly Erica's scream echoed throughout the city, Godou sprinted off in the direction of her scream without hesitation.

I was about to follow his lead but Verethragna stopped me.

"Are you going, warrior?" he asked.

Oh! So now my presence in this world starts changing canon; waited sixteen fucking years for something to happen, but no~ I have to wait until episode one!

Fuck it, I gave up on canon the moment I was sent to this world.

"Yeah, may I have that back?" holding my hand out.

Verethragna looked at the Grimoire and then back to me. "Very well. I shall let you hold on to it."

The god handed me back the stone tablet, a bright light came from behind me. I turned behind around and saw a brilliant glowing white horse with a gold main. All of a sudden the Grimoire in my hand started glowing a blinding white light. I had to cover my eyes, once the light died down the horse disappear along with Verethragna, I knew it was in the Grimoire now as the godly ability [White Stallion].

"That was one hell of a light show Verethragna, if I had a hat on me I'd tip it off to you," I said while smirking. "Alright, let's get this show on the road."

I sprinted in the direction Godou ran off to.

Little did I know that Verethragna was standing on a rooftop near me within hearing distance.

The Persian war god smiled savagely as he watched me run off.

"You truly are an interesting young man, don't disappoint me," he said as he walked away.

"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!" I swore. "Where the hell is he!?"

I made a sharp right as I heard the sound of more destruction. I saw Erica sent flying off the building she once stood. I saw Godou on the second floor of a building ready to catch her as she fell.

He's got this.

She's falling rather fast though, but I know damn well my bro has got this.

He's about to catch her...he missed.

How the fuck did you miss she was like three feet in front of you!

I sprinted as fast as I could.

Damnit! I'm not going fast enough.

Come on I have to make it in time!

Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on!

Gotta go fast! Gotta go fast! Gotta go motherfucking fast!

I dove forward and caught Erica in my arms sending us tumbling down the street.

Yes! SEGA you've done something right!

After a few seconds, Erica and I stopped rolling on the ground. I opened up my eyes to see her on top of me, her eyes firmly shut.

"You...alright?" I said through haggard breaths.

Slowly, she opened up one of her eyes and looked into mine.

"Y-Yeah," she said in a shaky voice.

"Is that a tornado!?" I heard Godou.

Erica and I quickly turned our heads to where to boar was, we saw it being consumed by a massive tornado before it disappeared and the world turned back to normal.

My eyes widened when a certain thought flew through my head.

"Dammit, we're in a SyFy original movie, but instead of sharks we got God damned Godzilla boars!" I shouted.

Both Godou and Erica looked at me blankly before bursting out into fits of laughter. I smiled at the now less serious atmosphere, nothing could have prepared me for the avatar of a god.

I turned my head back to Erica. "So, could you stop straddling me now, I know I'm good looking, but I don't think now would be a good time for that."

Her face quickly grew red with embarrassment and anger.

"So, by "god," you mean a real god?" Godou asked.

He was sitting to my left while we were sitting on a bench waiting for the train with Erica who was sitting to my right, back in her red dress, and an assortment of luggage at her side.

I was sitting between the two of them, my headphones over my ears listening to Muse on a low volume so I could still hear the two of them with an angry red handprint on the side of my face.

It was fucking worth it just to see the look on her face when I said it.

"A Heretic God that brings disaster to the world," Erica answered Godou.

"Heretic God?" Godou inquired.

"A god that has broken out of its mythic plane, manifesting on Earth," she said. "They create different types of disasters depending on their nature."

I pulled my headphones down and spoke. "So, if water god came down it would cause massive floods, or if a sun god came down it would cause droughts and random fires, right?"

"Correct," Erica said, she was still a bit miffed about what I said before. "The Heretic Gods have existed since before recorded history. But only those who possess magic are capable of witnessing them. Normal humans can only perceive them as natural disasters."

The Cooper-Black Cross turned to face us.

"You two have such a powerful grimoire but you don't even know that much?"

I sighed. "Again we're only here to deliver this to someone named Lucretia Zola, but we were never given any directions as to where she is."

Her eyes widened in remembrance. "Oh yeah, you said you two were looking for her before the Avatar of the god attacked. To think you'd be looking for Lucretia Zola, the Witch of Sardinia."

"This is getting crazier by the second," I said as I shook my head, I turned to Godou. "Hey, Godou?"

"Yeah, Jack?"

"Why are we waiting for the train when she has a car and willing to follow us whether we want her to or not?"

"U-Um, I...huh?"

I patted him on the back. "Where would you be without me to show you some logic?"

"Hey!"

"Hey calm down I'm just messing with you," I said with a mischievous grin.

Erica looked at Godou and I curiously. "I've been meaning to ask, are you two brothers?"

Godou and I looked at her amused.

"No, we're not brothers we've just known each other for so long we practically are by now," Godou answered as we all got up.

Erica shrugged and started walking away. "Anyway, you two hurry up and carry my luggage. We'll take the car."

"Why do we have to carry your luggage!?" Godou shouted.

She turned around and smiled. "Do you need a reason to carry a lady's luggage?"

Godou's eye started twitching, I put a hand on his shoulder.

"Calm down man I'll carry her luggage," I said.

"You sure you can carry all that?" he asked.

"I'm pretty sure I got this." I walked over to Erica's suitcases and lifted them up easily. "Huh, not even all that heavy."

"Well I guess it's to be expected," Godou said sheepishly while rubbing the back of his head. "You are the one out of the two of us that's been hitting the gym constantly."

Erica raised an eyebrow. "You hit the gym? You seem a bit too skinny for that."

"It's the clothes," I answered. "I like wearing baggy clothes, it's comfortable."

She shrugged as she walked off, we followed suit.

"So, I've been meaning to ask, what's your name?" I asked her.

She turned around, a hand over her chest, her head held high.

"I am Erica Blandelli, Great Knight of the Cooper-Black Cross," Erica stated with pride.

I smiled. "A knight huh? Not bad, not bad at all."

My words seemed to bring Erica's opinion of me up a bit.

We continued on our merry way, the streets were once again filled with people, many who were still rather confused at the recent events that have occurred. The destruction around us as we walked was another harsh reminder that I wasn't in my world anymore, and never will be, this world is where I belong now; I've got friends, people who I consider family, but the next choice isn't mine to make.

I glanced at Godou as we walked, the next choice is his to make, he just needs to know he has a choice in the first place.

As we walked through the crowds I passed someone that looked vaguely familiar to me.

He looked like a twelve-year-old kid with ice blue eyes and silver hair done in cornrows. He had some kind of blue mark on his forehead and tan brown skin. He wore a blue sleeveless hoodie with what I could only describe as the baggiest pants in existence, and a gold pyramid-shaped pendant around his neck.

I stopped for a moment, it couldn't him...right?

I turned around to get a better look at him, it seemed he also had the same thought as I saw him turn around as well.

Icey blue meet burning amber, for a few seconds nothing happened. Then his right eye flashed blue and his left eye flashed red.

Fuck. Me. Sideways.

I looked at him in shock for a few seconds, and then he smirked.

I turned around quickly and hauled ass through the crowd to catch up the Erica and Godou.

Fuck!Fuck!Fuck!Fuck!Fuck!Fuck!Fuck!Fuck!Fuck!

We had to get to Lucretia and fast or else we're all fucked.

That was fucking Loptr from Bayonetta 2, and he had both Eyes of The World!

We are fifty different shades of fucked!

After a few minutes of walking, I found Godou, Erica, and her maid Arianna Hayama Arialdi all standing by the red car waiting for me. I rushed to the trunk of the car and put the luggage in as quickly as I could.

"Jack, where have you been?" Godou asked.

"No time, we have to go now!" I yelled.

Everyone's eyes widened at my panicked tone, but they did as I said. Arianna recklessly speed down the street just in time for me to get my seatbelt on.

"Okay, what in the world has you so spooked?" Erica asked.

"Godou you remember that one guy we found when the giant boar showed up?" I asked.

"Yeah, what about him?" He asked not knowing where I was going with this.

"He said: 'I tried to revive the king of the ancient gods, in order to fight them,' that, and he was the only person besides all of us who we could see in the city."

"So? he possessed magic what about it?" Erica asked.

"He wore Persian clothing, had a strange mark on his forehead, and summoned a white glowing horse. All those, and the giant boar, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say he might just be Verethragna the Persian War God." I explained, everyone in the car had a shocked look on their face. "And again he said: 'I tried to revive the king of the ancient gods, in order to fight them,' he summoned another god to do battle with, and by what he said, and with where we are in the world, I'll take a shot in the dark and say it's Melqart."

"And they're planning to fight here in Sardinia," Erica said as her face grew paler by the second.

"But that's not why I'm flipping my shit," I stated. "That would be the fact that I believe that there's a third god, one that makes Verethragna and Melqart look tame in comparison."

"Do you know who it is?" Erica asked, her face completely serious.

"Yes, but it would be better to continue this conversation at Lucretia's."

Erica no doubt wanted to drill me for more information but she reluctantly let go of it for now.

The roller coaster ride that is Arianna's driving skills lasted about twenty minutes until we reached a mansion outside the city. When Arianna finally stopped the car Godou got out as fast as he could taking several deep breaths.

"Oh thank God we're out of that spinning metal death trap!" he exclaimed relieved.

"Oh come on, it wasn't that bad, it could have been worse. You remember what happened at the amusement park a few years ago?" I asked.

"We agreed never to talk about that again!" He yelled in frustration.

"No, you agreed never to talk about it again, let's just be glad that we don't need Shizuka to dig the holes again."

Godou hung his head down as Erica and Arianna looked at us perplexed.

Suddenly we heard a voice. "I haven't seen you before. Who are you?"

We all turned our heads to see a black cat sitting on the roof looking right at us.

"A cat?" Godou said confused.

Erica took a step forwards. "We are here with a delivery from Kusanagi Ichirou, Lucretia Zola."

"Ichirou..." the cat said quietly.

"Sorry..." Apologized the woman in front of us who was laying down on the sofa. "I shouldn't be lazy just because I can use magic."

To say Lucretia Zola is an extremely beautiful woman would be the understatement of the century and said century is by Fall Out Boy. In all seriousness, Lucretia had a body that would make models green with envy, light brown hair, slender with a large bosom. The purple lingerie didn't help at all.

"S-She's young." Godou stuttered.

I turned to my brother figure. "I'd call you Captain Obvious, but I'll forgive you for it this time," I turned to Lucretia. "Because seriously *wolf whistle*."

"Is something wrong?" Lucretia asked.

"N-No..." Godou stuttered. "It's just, my grandfather said he met you when..."

"Well, I might be pretty old, compared to a normal human being. But I'm nowhere near starting to decline..." Lucretia smiled as she raised one of her legs. "It won't be much longer before dark. You want to give this body a try, boys?"

Godou blushed and gulped.

"Girl damn," I said approvingly with a grin.

"Lewd," Erica said blandly.

"S-Shut up," Godou said embarrassed.

"Lewd and I approve," I said shamelessly.

"Don't say that," Lucretia said coyly. "Innocent young men are typically overflowing with urges."

"Innocent? You think I'm innocent?" I asked amused.

Godou was currently trying to not double over in hysterical laughter at someone calling me of all people Innocent.

"Hmmm?" Lucretia hummed out curiously.

"Godou over here has seen my Internet history," I said with a grin. "Dude, tell them what you thought of it."

"A year and a half later and I'm still trying to get over the trauma," he said with a strained smile.

"Oh come on, it wasn't that bad."

"The things on I found on your computer, you sick, twisted son of a gun." he berated. "The stuff on your computer is comparable to an eldritch abomination!"

I just continued to grin.

"Aw, and here I thought I'd have fun teasing you." Lucretia pouted.

"Don't let that stop you, but a bit of a warning, I am quite open about my pervertedness," I said.

"Oh really, you don't seem that perverted."

"Believe me I am, I just like to believe that women like a man who thinks with their brain, not their dick."

Lucretia smirked slyly. "Okay, it's official, I like you."

My eyes roamed her beautiful lingerie clad body. "And I like what I see."

The Witch of Sardinia smiled in a sultry fashion. "You don't look too bad yourself."

"Ehem!" Lucretia and I turned our head to Erica, whose face was as bright as a Christmas tree...along with everyone else. "I believe there are more pressing concerns."

I sighed. "Fine, casual flirting aside, we've bigger things to worry about."

Lucretia smiled nostalgically as she picked up the Grimoire. "The Secret Book of Prometheus...that brings back memories."

Erica's eyes widened. "Prometheus!"

"Yes."

"So what do you plan to do?"

"I'm not sure..." Lucretia smiled. "It would be terrible if bad people began gathering because this was around. If possible, I'd like someone to look after it."

Erica's face turned serious.

Lucretia turned to Godou. "Boy...did you run into anyone else on your way here?"

"Not really..." he said.

I sighed. "We ran into this kid on the way here Godou, you just ran off before he could say anything else."

"Oh yeah!" Godou exclaimed as he remembered. "You said he was responsible for summoning that boar and some kind of white glowing horse, you called him Verethragna right?"

"Yeah, the way he was talking, I think he wanted me to fight him."

"You're pretty sharp aren't you?" Lucretia said.

It's about time I make the big reveal.

"Not really, I just have some information that's out of this world," I said with a somber smile. "Remember when I said there was a third god here?"

Lucretia raised an eyebrow. "There's a third god?"

"Yeah, and I'm about to make a few mind-blowing revelations for everyone here, I'm going to need a mirror and a bowl of ice cold water."

Everyone gave me a curious look.

I sighed. "Just trust me on this."

"Alright, thanks for getting everything I needed so fast Lucretia." I smile gratefully.

She just smiled and waved the praise off dismissively.

"What do you knew all of this for anyway?" Godou asked.

"Just watch," I said.

I grabbed the small mirror and fogged it up with my breath, then I used my finger to draw the Dick Butt meme on it, I set the mirror down on the floor.

"If you're happy and you know it summons God." I sang then clapped twice.

Everyone looked at me as if I was crazy.

"Jack, are you alri-" Godou was interrupted as a gray portal opened up on top of the mirror.

Out of the portal emerged the silver skin mofo Chakravartin himself.

"For thousands of years I lay dormant, who dares disturb my slum-" Then Chakravartin noticed I was here. "Oh hey, son!"

"Hey, Chakravartin," I said while I grabbed the bowl of ice cold water, I then splashed it all over his face.

"OH BY MY NAME THAT IS COLD!" The Spinner of Mantra wailed while he tried to warm his skeletal face with his hands.

I on the other hand just watched the spectacle with a sadistic smile on my face. Lucretia looked at the two of us wide-eyed.

"You...know him?" she asked.

"Yeah, he's technically my dad," I explained.

"He's your dad!?" Godou exclaimed, pointing at the tall silver skinned god.

"You two seem to have a...complicated father-son relationship," Erica said blandly.

"You have no idea," I said with just as much blandness.

"Why would you do that!?" Chakravartin shouted in my face as he recovered from his improv ice bucket challenge.

I started at him unflinchingly. "Because you made the most retarded way to summon a god ever!"

"It wasn't that bad!" he argued in vain.

"No, it was really fucking stupid."

"Who is this?" asked Lucretia.

"This is Chakravartin this creator of the universe, a true god, and my father," I explained.

"You're a demigod?" Lucretia asked.

"Oh, um, no I'm one hundred percent human, he just created my body."

"Alright, so why did you summon me, son?" Chakravartin asked.

"We've got some 'splaining to do," I answered.

"Ah, so you're going to tell the truth," Chakravartin said amused. "And here I thought you were going to keep your origins a secret like every other self-insert."

"Ugh, I've been dying to get this off my chest since I was reincarnated into this world."

"Reincarnated?" Godou asked confused.

"Yeah, I'm not originally from this reality," I said bluntly.

My brother in all but blood looked at me wide-eyed "What!?"

"Alright, alright, everyone sit your asses down, it's time for one very overdue explanation," I announced. "First of all, yes, I'm not originally from this reality, I was reincarnated into it."

I stopped and looked at them.

"Second: the events of this world are a story in mine, a Light Novel and anime to be precise, it's called Campione."

Lucretia, Erica, and Arianna all had shocked looks on their faces while Godou just looked confused.

"Campione?" Godou asked.

"Campiones are god slayers, kings of the world." I turned to Erica. "Erica here has had her own little encounter with one of them, Salvatore Doni, shortly after she gained knighthood at age twelve, and later gained her magic sword Cuore di Leone from Saint Raffaello."

Erica had her jaw dropped at the info I just revealed.

"Arianna, you were almost expelled from the Copper-Black Cross because you have little talent for magic and you can't make soups or stews for shit." Arianna had a downcast expression on her as I finished. "Don't worry I can help out with making soups and stews."

Her expression instantly switched to a beaming smile.

"Lucretia, you used Prometheus' Grimoire on the curse of a mountain god in order to save Godou's grandfather and one of his friends."

Lucretia sigh as she put a hand on her forehead. "He's telling the truth, this getting to be more of a headache as it goes."

"Long story short I know a lot about everyone here," I said.

I turned to Godou who looked was walking towards me with an outraged face, I quickly walked up to him a grabbed him by his collar and slammed him into the nearest wall.

"Godou, before you even open your damn mouth, do you honestly think after all these years that I would think of you or anyone else here as just characters from a fucking story!" I looked into my brother's angry eyes. "News flash: I would never think of anyone like that. You, Ichirou, and Shizuka are my God damned family, and if you ever so much as think I would do that ever again, I will smack you half to death and let Shizuka finish the job!"

I took some deep breaths to calm down my nerves while Godou hung his head down in shame.

"I-I'm sorry," Godou said apologetically.

I sighed as I let go of him. "It's alright Bro if you weren't pissed I'd think there was something wrong with you."

"Still bros?" Godou asked as he held his fist out.

"Mother fucker you'd be lost without me," I said as we fist bumped.

Godou went back over to his spot and sat down.

"So what's the story Campione about anyway?" Lucretia asked.

"Well, it's actually about Godou," I answered.

"What!?" Godou shouted confused as all hell.

"Yeah in the story Campione, you team up with Melqart and beat Verethragna with Erica's help. The story is about your exploits as a Campione, even though all you want is a normal life." I explained. "Now, you have a choice."

Godou looked confused. "A choice?"

"Yeah, " I picked up the Grimoire and set it on the table between us. "Who's going to be the one to risk their lives against the three gods out there."

Godou looked at me as if I grew a second head. "You expect me to make a choice like that!?"

I looked at the person who I consider my brother somberly. "Fate dictates that you're going to take the Grimoire, die, and be reborn as a Campione tomorrow." I spat out the word "Fate" venomously. "Fate dictates that you'll lose your normal life, and enter a world of gods, magic, and kings. You will never live a normal life again no matter how hard you try."

I sent a nasty look towards the Grimoire. "The power the steal the [Authority] of a god, hmpf, and it's right in our hands, right just when we need it most, seems a bit too good to be true, doesn't it?" I turned back to Godou. "What I'm giving you is a choice without fate. So, here are your choices Bro."

I looked a Godou right in the eyes. "You can take the Grimoire, go out there, fight three gods, and maybe, maybe, come out of this alive, as the Seventh god killing Devil King, a Campione, someone who rules where they walk, even if they don't want to."

Everyone in the room looked between myself and Godou, Chakravartin was just floating in a corner of the room observing us.

"Or, you can hand me the Grimoire, you can live a normal life, you'll never have to deal with this crazy bullshit ever again. I'll take on Verethragna, Melqart, and the third god Aesir myself, I'll win or die trying. Believe me when I say this since Aesir is involved all of humanity is at stake."

Godou hung his head down, his eyes refusing to make mine, his hands were clenched tightly into fist, his shoulders shaking.

"H-How do you expect me to make a choice like that?" Godou said shakily.

"I don't, in all honesty, if the lives of millions of people weren't involved, I would have kept both you and I out of this, some other poor bastard can get himself tangled up in this mess. Unfortunately, we are in this damn mess...So Mister Protagonist, what'll it be?"

All was silent in the room Erica, Arianna, and Lucretia us looked at the two us jaws dropped, after all, I had dropped so many revelation bombs it wasn't even funny.

Godou silently got up from his seat and walked towards me, he stood in front of me for a few seconds until he reared his fist back and punched me in the face as hard as he could. I saw the punch coming a mile away, but I didn't do anything to stop it, in all honesty, I had it coming after all. My head snapped to the right, but I didn't stagger, I had put myself in one very dangerous spot, one where I could die and it would mean everyone else dies with me, so I'll be damned if I hesitated now of all times.

Everyone, besides Chakravartin, had an expression of shock on their faces when Godou punched me.

"That was for keeping this from me for years." Godou picked up the Grimoire and shove it into my chest. "This is because I trust you to get shit done, you crazy, crazy, mother fucker."

I held the Grimoire with my left hand and wiped a small trail of blood from my mouth with my right.

"If Shizuka was here to hear you swear like that, she would go all sorts of abe shit on your sorry ass," I said with a grin.

"Oh, just shut the fuck up," Godou said with a grin.

The two of us started laughing heartily, it was a long time since I had ever heard Godou swear like that, Shizuka was usually on his ass before he could utter the first syllable. She got on my ass for it all the time but gave up when she realized that I wasn't going to stop no matter how hard she tried.

Little did I know, the warm smiles the girls in the room were giving me, and the proud look Chakravartin sent my way.

"So, who is Aesir?" I heard Lucretia ask.

"Oh boy, where do I start with this guy," I said frustrated. "Let's start with just how powerful he is, Comparing Aesir to the god Rama, The King Who Manifests at the World's End, is like comparing the Death Star from Star Wars to a God damned firecracker."

Lucretia got extremely pale when I said that.

"Wait who's Rama?" Erica asked.

"Rama is the prototype of King Arthur Pendragon, he is known as the Strongest of Steel, The Devil King-Exterminating Hero, whenever he awakens it's Campione hunting season. In the story Campione from my reality, it took Godou, that dumbass Doni, and Luo Hao just to take his ass down, and even then, with three Campiones working together, they barely won."

Erica paled at just how bad the situation really was.

"The thing is, Aesir isn't supposed to exist in the first place, he's the final boss in a video game called Bayonetta 2 in my reality."

"Wait then how is he even here?" asked Arianna.

I turned to Chakravartin. "I've got a feeling mister tall, silver, and shiny had something to do with it."

"Guilty as charged." The Creator God said shamelessly.

"Of course you are, you just had to send a time/space controlling Creator God as your first act of shoving a tree up this realities continuity," I said sarcastically.

"Creator God?" Lucretia asked.

"Gods that have created their own worlds, think something like the Christian God," I explained.

The Witch of Sardinia nodded in understanding.

"Now onto his background." I began, I cleared my throat. "Nobody knows where the world came from. A struggle caused the Trinity of Realities to be split into three realms: light, darkness, and chaos. Obviously, our world is born from chaos. The three worlds all needed rulers. Most of all, ours. And Aesir ruled chaos. Aesir spent the first eternity quietly looking upon Earth from his holy mountain. Where we only see reality and make it match our rules of the world, Aesir saw through reality, and those visions became our world. Those observations became Aesir's power. His eyes were truly the eyes that created the world."

I took a deep breath.

"However, Aesir pitied the humans for their naivety and lack of free will, so the power he wielded was split into two equal halves and entrusted to humanity's instincts: the Right Eye of Light and the Left Eye of Darkness. By dividing the power of the eyes of Aesir, humans gained free will...They could now choose. With control of the Eyes of the World, the eyes that determine destiny, humans could choose their own paths. They awoke their own identities. Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but now we were thinking reeds, and we could take our first big step towards grand prosperity. The inheritors of the eyes of Aesir had been granted the power of creation."

The whole room was silent in shock at the legend of Aesir.

"How do we even fight something like that," Erica said in despair.

I held up the Grimoire and grinned. "I've got an idea. Thank you Verethragna for straight up handing me your [White Stallion] ability, now we actually have a solid chance. Time for a bit more background, when Aesir split the Eyes of The World he didn't just divide his power, but his being as well. The good half Loki, and his evil half Loptr. And we're dealing with his evil half Loptr, who has both Eyes of The World, meaning he can transform into Aesir. But luck is on our side here. Aesir's true power is of nothingness. The power to erase anything and everything from the world. Fortunately for us, Loki is the one with that power. Loptr, on the other hand, has Remembrance of Time, meaning he can see through the past, present, and future, and pull things out of them."

"How is this good for us!?" exclaimed Erica.

"It means that he can't will away the Grimoire. This Grimoire is the only way we're even going to have a chance against Aesir. We're going to take away the source of his power, his eyes." I grinned as I finished.

"And how are we able to do that without dying?" Lucretia asked seriously.

"Tomorrow, Melqart shows up. Ever wanted to see a mortal and two gods team up?" I asked with a sly smile.

"How would you even get them to work with you?" Erica asked.

"Well..." I said scratching the back of my head. "Here comes the borderline suicidal part of my plan."

Godou sighed. "Of course it's borderline suicidal."

"I'm going to have to piss him off enough to make him say fuck it and go Aesir on our asses." Everyone looked at me as if I was insane. "If we even get that far, and this is a very big if. Verethragna and Melqart will no doubt be feeling his overwhelming power, I'll make a deal with them to team up, and the moment they feel Aesir's power they won't have a fucking choice in the matter. They distract and weaken Aesir enough to give me a clear shot with the [White Stallion] and I steal the Eyes of The World, and then proceed to wreck his shit."

"That plan has a lot of things that could go horribly wrong," Lucretia stated blandly.

"Yeah, but it's that best I got," I admitted. "Does anyone else have a better plan or a plan in general?"

No one spoke a word after I said that.

I set the Grimoire back on the table.

Lucretia sighed. "I'm breaking out the wine for this."

"I haven't drunk alcohol in this life or my past life, but at this point, fuck it," I said dismissively.

Lucretia got up from her sofa and walked off to some other part of the mansion, while Erica, Arianna, and Godou just stared at me and Chakravartin.

"The fuck is today am I right?" I said sheepishly.

"Erica, you've had enough wine for now." I declared as I took the bottle and glass away from her.

"You give that back," Erica demanded. "I'm not drunk enough for this!"

"I need you sober tomorrow dammit," I said.

"Fuck sober!" Erica declared in an unladylike fashion.

I looked at her blankly, then suddenly proceeded to finish off the wine in the glass and drink the rest of the wine from the bottle.

"H-Hey! That's mine!" she shouted.

I set the bottle and the glass back down on the table and took a deep breath. "Not anymore."

"Arianna-san!" Godou shouted. "Please keep Erica-san from drinking any more."

Arianna, who was leaning on the stairs, drunk as fuck and laughing hysterically, "He called me Arianna-san!"

Godou sighed and turned to me. "Hey, Jack?"

I turned to Godou. "Yeah?"

"How are you not drunk yet?"

"That's a good question, I don't know."

"It's the Mantra in your body son," Chakravartin revealed, he was sitting down on a nearby chair, a few empty bottles of wine surrounded him.

"Huh, I forgot about that," I admitted.

"You forgot!?" the god exclaimed.

"I never knew how to activate it or use it, so of course I forgot!"

Chakravartin sighed. "Kids these days."

"But damn, Augus must have given Asura some strong ass sake before they fought on the moon," I said impressed.

"Hey Jack, one more question?" Godou asked.

"Shoot," I said.

"What would have my original life been like without you or Aesir entering it?"

I grinned sadistically causing Godou to regret ever asking that.

Too late now mother fucker!

"You remember all of those anime we watched was the protagonist was dense as fuck and had a bunch of girls falling head over heels for him left and right?" I asked still grinning.

"Yeah..." He said nervously.

"That was you in a nutshell."

Godou looked horrified. "WHAT!?"

"Yep, you had like ten girls after your dick, including two other Campiones, two Heretic Goddesses, and your sister!" I announced with a grin.

"My sister!?" Godou exclaimed mortified.

"Yep!" I said shamelessly. "And she still wants your vitamin D."

"WHAT!?"

"Well, technically she wants it from both of us."

"That's even worse!"

"Hey, it's not my fault your sister wants a kinky Shizuka sandwich between the two of us."

It was at this point that Godou decided to pass out.

"And my work here is done," I said with an impish grin.

Lucretia, who was watching the whole conversation, started clapping. "That right there, that was amazing."

"Thank you." I turned my head to Erica who was barely keeping her eyes open. "I guess I'll take her to bed then."

I walked over to her and put her arm around my neck. "Come on, let's get you tucked in."

As the two of us walked upstairs I couldn't help but feel as if I was forgetting something.

Something...anime as all fuck.

Fuck it, let's YOLO this bitch.

I opened the door leading to a rather lavish bedroom and set Erica down on the bed. I was about to leave the room when she grabbed my hand.

"Jack," Erica called out my name.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"Thanks for helping me up here."

I smiled at her. "No problem." I looked at her for a few seconds and sighed. "Erica, why are you drinking?"

The knight didn't say anything for a while.

"I'm the most useless person in the group."

I raised an eyebrow. "You're anything but useless, you're a knight and a witch, you're incredibly valuable to the situation at hand."

My eyes widened as she grabbed me by my collar and brought me down to meet her face to face, there were tears forming in her eyes as she grit her teeth.

"Your father is a Creator God and you know the future! Lucretia is the strongest witch in the world, how am I more valuable than that!" a few tears escaped her eyes as she wailed. "Why am I even here?"

I gently took hold of her hands on my shirt collar and removed them, I took a seat next to her on the bed.

"You're right," I began. "Compared to Lucretia, you're useless in terms of magical ability. But you know something?"

I grabbed her chin and made her face me.

"I'm just some random high schooler who just so happens to be a reincarnation, I have an energy inside of me that I don't even know how to use, and the only thing I'm good for is using the Grimoire. Compared to that, you're far more useful than me."

The room was silent for nearly a minute until I heard laughter from Erica. "Is that supposed to make me feel better?"

"Did it?" I asked smiling in kind.

"No." Erica deadpanned, but then she smiled. "But thanks for trying."

"Alright, how about this." I began. "If it weren't for you, Godou and I wouldn't be in this mess." I looked her right in the Eyes and gave her a warm smile. "And I wouldn't have it any other way."

Erica looked at me shocked, her face was a shade of red I had only seen from Shizuka.

She nodded slowly. She started to look incredibly drowsy and leaned on my shoulder.

"Arianna, get my back," she said in a mix of intoxication and drowsiness.

Ah, um...fuck.

"Hurry up!" she whined.

I clicked my tongue and sighed. "Ah, fuck it, it's nothing I haven't seen before."

I unzipped the back of her dress causing it to fall off, leaving her in nothing but her frilly white bra and panties. I picked her up bridal style and placed her on the bed, I grabbed the blankets and covered her up with them as she smiled contently.

"Huh, that was easy, nighty night," I said as I walked to the door.

When I twisted the knob only the only to find out it was locked, it was then that I finally remembered what I forgot. And when it hit me, it hit me harder than anything the Soulsborne series ever could.

Lucretia had just trolled my bitch ass.

"Lucretia if you do not open this door up right this instant, I will ride your ass on this one!" I yelled.

"Oh, my~." I heard her say mischievously from the other side of the door.

"God fucking dammit!" I yelled.

When morning came I awoke to something I didn't expect.

Myself and Erica in bed, with her hugging me like a body pillow.

Okay, I know damn well I was sleeping on the floor last night, so then how did I…

I turned my head over to the sleeping Erica, still hugging me with a smile on her face.

"You're quite the handful, aren't you?" I asked rhetorically.

Erica choose this particular moment to wake up.

"Hmmmmm." she sounded as she woke up, her eyes stopped when they meet mine.

A shit eating grin made its way on my face. "So, was it as good for you as it was for me?"

The whole world was quiet for a total of 4.5 seconds, until finally.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Erica screamed, her face redder than the reddest thing in existence.

I, on the other hand, was laughing my ass off, rolling around on the floor.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh my God, your face was priceless!" I shouted in hysterical laughter at her reaction.

"H-Hey, stop laughing at me!" she demanded.

"Alright, alright, just give me a second." I took a few deep breaths. "Oh God, that was fantastic."

Erica glared at me as I got up from the floor. "Did you do anything to me last night?"

"You know damn well I didn't do anything to you last night, I'm the one who should be asking that question." Erica raised an eyebrow while I grinned slyly. "Why was I sleeping in the bed when I distinctly remember sleeping on the floor?"

Her face quickly turned red. "I-I-um...I, um, you, um, I-"

Crash!

Suddenly the whole mansion shook.

Slowly I turned to the window to see it was raining heavily with thunder and lightning.

I turned back to the underdressed Erica. "Congrats, you've been saved by divine intervention." I deadpanned.

Erica quickly got dressed and we both ran out of the mansion, just in time to see a huge muscular man the size of large buildings with a long white mustache and beard. He was dressed in some kind of stone armor with a crown.

It was Melqart.

Good God this fucker was huge!

"Holy shit," I said in awe.

"Please wait, god!" Erica called out to Melqart.

The humongous god turned to face us. "How arrogant must you be, child of man, to stop a god's advance?"

Erica steeled herself. "Please forgive my disrespect. From what I can tell, you are the king of gods the Phoenicians worshiped long ago, Melqart."

"So there are still praiseworthy individuals who know the names of the ancient kings," Melqart said in a softer tone, the god turned to face us fully, the ground shaking with his steps. "I am Melqart, the king once known throughout this island...No, throughout these entire waters!"

Suddenly lightning struck the massive god.

"Verethragna," I said as I looked into the clouds.

"As always, you are adept at changing your form," Melqart said. "I must hurry."

Erica glowed red briefly to reveal her wearing black and red striped combat uniform as red motes of light disperse. I grabbed her hand as we ran to the car, in less than a minute we were at Arianna's car. Erica took the back seat while I jumped in shoot gun. I looked into the rearview mirror and grinned at who else I saw in the back seat.

"Mi'lady," I said to Lucretia, who was wearing a purple body-hugging dress.

"You didn't think I'd sit out on this fight when it concerns the whole of humanity did you?" she asked with a coy smile.

"I'd be insulted if you didn't," I answered.

"Also, you'll need this," Lucretia said as she handed me the Grimoire.

"Thank you," I said gratefully, I turned to Arianna. "Floor it."

The car suddenly moved with the grace of a Michael Bay film as we speed towards our destination.

"Jack, does Aesir have any weaknesses?" Lucretia asked.

"He's a glass cannon," I stated.

"A what?" Erica said confused.

"He can dish out the pain, but can't take it," I explained. "Swords, magic, or even ramming this car into him would hurt him, even if he was in his Aesir form. Mortal humans have beaten him before, this is just take two of that. Another tip, go all out right from the start, there is no starting small with Loptr, I'll distract him while you dish out the pain, we split his attention between the three of us, don't give him any room to concentrate. Hit him hard and hit him fast, we're using basic hit and run tactics here. When he finally turns into Aesir run like hell, it's up to me, Verethragna, and Melqart from there on out."

"Again, there are so many ways this plan could fail," Lucretia said blandly.

"Where's Godou?" I asked.

"He wanted to stay behind, said he didn't want to get in the way. Chakravartin said the two of them would be watching the battle through his power." Arianna answered.

"Alright then."

Soon enough we made our way the ruins near the beach. Erica, Lucretia, and I all rushed out of the car and into the ruins to confront the gods while Arianna stayed in the car.

"Pitiful, isn't." said a childlike voice that came from my right.

I stopped my sprint sliding on the ground a bit, I turned quickly to face the child form of Loptr leaning on a wall watching Verethragna and Melqart converse.

Loptr continued. "These 'gods' have no other ambition than to destroy each other, it's utterly pathetic if you ask me."

I grinned, it's time to piss off a god!

"It's not like you'd be any better," I said, his head snapped in my direction, his eyes narrowed with silent rage. "You ghetto ass Yugi Muto looking mother fucker!"

I quickly rolled to the right as a large blue ethereal arm punched the ground where I once stood, creating the ground and causing a shockwave that destroyed some of the ruins around us.

BGM: Bayonetta 2 OST - Beyond Time

"You would dare disrespect a god!" Loptr yelled outrage.

I chuckled. "You wouldn't be the first god I've disrespected before, don't go thinking you're anything special now!"

Loptr narrowed his eyes at me and grit his teeth, he was consumed by a blue light for a few seconds. When the light died down it revealed Loptr in his adult form. He wore a long, diamond-shaped, partially opaque cloak that glowed with blue light. The cloak itself is adorned with gold frames that form the symbol of Aesir, there were golden cuffs on his wrists and ankles.

"Arrogant human, I will rid you from this world." he declared, six blue ethereal arms appeared around him as he floated off of the ground.

His blue arms raised themselves up towards the sky, a white mist appeared between his arms, forming blue crystals.

"NOW!" I shouted.

A red flaming beam of energy and a super hot stream of fire hit Loptr square in the back, stunning him and causing him to lose whatever control he had on the crystals. The crystals fell right on top of his head, causing him to fall to the ground on knees. I quickly ran up to him as he tried to get up, my fist reared back, I delivered a devastating haymaker directly to his face. He fell back down on flat on his ass.

I stopped and turned around on my heel to look down at Loptr. "Well, well, well, if it isn't Loptr, my favorite evil flying kite!"

Loptr used his blue arms to push himself off of the ground, he looked at me with confusion and hatred.

"How do you know my name!?" he demanded.

"Oh, I know a lot more than just your name Mister Prophetic One," I said mockingly.

Loptr moved faster than I could see, practically teleporting right in front of me. His blue arms outstretched, ready to close in and flatten me like a pancake. With great speed, Erica appeared from her hiding place and slashed Loptr in the face with her sword, causing him to stop his blue arms and grip his face in pain.

I grabbed him by the back of his head and slammed his face into my knee, snapping his head back. I kicked him in the chest, sending him flying right into a large piece of concrete being sent at high speeds our way. I rolled to the left to avoid any debris from the resulting collision.

"You worthless humans!" Loptr shouted.

"You mad bro?" I asked condescendingly.

In response, Loptr flew up into the sky, a blue aura enveloped him as parts of the ruins flew up above Loptr, forming a giant tower made of stone. I smiled nervously as he pointed in my direction and sent the tower falling my way. Erica grabbed me by my waist and carried me as we ran from the impact zone at high speeds. The resulting impact shook the whole area violently.

Once Erica let me go, I quickly climbed on top of the roof of one of the nearby ruins.

"Oh, so close!" I shouted mockingly in a Bayonetta like fashion.

"You!" he shouted.

"Me!" I shouted back.

I started running as fast as I could as Loptr created countless orbs of blue energy and sent them hurtling in my direction. It was a good thing he didn't aim where I was going to be instead of where I was. As I ran I saw a house-sized fireball being conjured up in the air. I saw Lucretia on a rooftop point her hand at Loptr, the blazing inferno was sent straight into his back at blinding speeds. Loptr was sent crashing into the ruins below.

"He's finally starting to take us seriously," I told Erica as we ran.

"The more we make him angry, the more I regret this plan." the knight deadpanned.

Lucretia floated to us. "How long do you think we have to keep this up because at this rate I'll wear myself out before too long."

"Not long, I think one more insult will do it, but God damn Lucretia, they don't call you The World's Strongest Witch for nothing!" I praised.

"Thank you Jack," she said smiling, but slightly winded.

"Lucretia, I need you to hit him with your most powerful lightning spell and Erica, blast him to kingdom come."

"Got it," they said in unison.

Lucretia flew up into the sky to get a better view of where Loptr crashed and Erica ran atop the ruins to do the same. I calmly walked towards the crash site, filled with determination. The crash site was suddenly hit with a powerful stream of lighting and the biggest stream of red energy I had ever seen Erica produce.

"Come on Loptr!" I called out. "We're only worthless, pathetic, humans, right!? We couldn't possibly push you back, right!? Oh, Wait! You were defeated by humans before, weren't you! I believe their names were Bayonetta and Balder!"

Suddenly a powerful shock wave and a pillar of bright blue light erupted from the crash site. But the most shocking thing about this was the sheer amount of pure power being emanated from it. It was even greater than what Chakravartin had shown me during our first meeting.

A humanoid figure burst from the rubble and into the sky. He had intricate glowing gold markings all over his body that was most likely mystical in nature along with blue glowing skin. His hair was styled into a pyramid, and a glowing Chaos marking is visible on his forehead, his left eye glowed red and his right eye glowed blue. Whilst lacking any formal attired to speak of, he was adorned with golden frames that form various symbols relating to power. He also wore large, golden cuffs on both his wrists and ankles and sports a large Chaos symbol that hovers near his back as wings.

This is Aesir.

Well...the easy part is over now.

The god of humanity glared at me with his glowing eyes filled with nothing but pure hatred.

"You would dare speak their names in my presence!?" The furious god shouted his voice and power no doubt noticed by Verethragna and Melqart.

I shoot the urge to run away in the head and threw it out the metaphorical window.

"So what if I did!? What are you going to do about it huh!?" I shouted grinning smugly. "Come at me, bro!"

It was only due to the fact that I knew what he was going to do, that I was able to dodge the small blue laser of pure concentrated energy aimed at my face by tilting my head to the side.

Aesir growled in frustration, but he didn't act on his anger, he knew the game I was playing. If he snapped, I won, and his pride wouldn't allow that.

"You feeling pretty strong up there Mister Blue Da Ba Dee Dabba Da-ee!" I shouted, Melqart was right behind Aesir, who was oblivious to his presence, Melqart's gargantuan club pulled back, poised as if he was a batter playing baseball, I grinned as I saw this further infuriating Aesir. "All of that power right at your fingertips! Well, guess what!? I'm feeling pretty strong too!"

Seemed like that was the last fucking straw for Mister Blue's Clues as he pointed his finger in my direction, gathering untold amounts of cosmic energy at his fingertip. Pride be damned, there was nothing in this world that was going to stop him from killing me. That what was most likely going on in his head right now, until Melqart decided to let loose and hit him as hard as he could with his club, the resulting impact left a very satisfying bomb, sending Aesir straight across Sardinia at Mach speeds.

"HOMERUN!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, if Godou was here, the look on his face would have practically been orgasmic at the sight of that spectacular hit.

"Child of man," Melqart called out to me. "Who was that being?"

"That was Aesir, The God of Chaos and creator of humanity," I said bluntly.

"God of chaos and humanity?" a voice that to my left.

I turned my head, it was Verethragna, his eyes were narrowed in the direction Aesir was sent flying.

"Hello, Verethragna," I said.

"Hello to you too Warrior. Could you please shed some light on to why his power is so gargantuan?" The war god asked.

"He's a true god from a different universe and one of the three creators of said universe," I explained.

The war god grinned savagely. "A greater challenge than anything I've ever face, you bring the most exotic opponents don't you."

"Quite, but I have a plan," I said. "Verethragna, you gave me your [White Stallion] ability, if I can get the perfect shot I can take away the source of his power, his eyes."

Verethragna narrowed his eyes at me. "So, you're planning to abuse the power I gave you to steal another god's power?"

I grinned. "Oh maliciously!"

The war god grinned savagely. "Bitchin'! How do we do this?"

"For this to work, I'm going to need your's and Melqart's help," I stated. "So, how about it, all three of us team up against the big blue bastard, who wants to rule and or destroy the world."

"Are you trying to use me, a god?" Melqart said dangerously.

I sighed, I had no patience for this shit right now. "Are you trying to question me, the son of Chakravartin, The Creator, and the guy with the Grimoire that is our only chance of winning."

Melqart laughed heartily. "To be in the presence of the Creator's child, very well Child of the Creator, it would be an honor!"

I smirked, seems that Chakravartin's name is well known throughout the gods.

"To think you were the child of the Creator," Verethragna said with mirth in his voice. "I certainly chose a very interesting warrior."

I smiled. "That, and I'm probably insane."

"I won't lie, you probably are."

"What is your name Child of The Creator?" I heard Melqart ask.

"It's Jack Gehrman!" I answered.

"Very well Jack Gehrman, let us grasp victory through glorious battle!" he bellowed.

Our heads turned to were Aesir was sent flying, his power was getting closer, we didn't have too much time until he came back. It made my blood boil with excitement, everything was going according to plan.

"How can you stand there and smile?" I heard Erica ask.

I had no idea I was smiling. "Honestly, no idea, just the thought of taking this guy down makes my heart race with excitement."

I took a deep breath to calm down, now was not the time to get cocky.

"You two should get out of here, it'll be hell on Earth from here on out," I said seriously.

"What!? No! We're staying right here!" Erica declared.

"If you two stay here you're going to die!" I shouted. "I couldn't live with myself if you two got yourselves killed and I could have stopped it!"

"What about you, won't you die too!?"

"It doesn't matter if I die!"

"How could you say that!?"

"I'll die if I run, I'll die if you stay, I'll die if I use this Grimoire! It doesn't matter what happens, I'm going to die no matter what choice you or anyone else picks!"

Erica's hair showed her eyes, her shoulders were shaking as she bit her lip. What she did next was something I didn't expect. She grabbed me by the collar of my shirt and pulled me down for a deep kiss. I stood there for a few seconds trying to process the situation, she pulled back, a trail of saliva still connecting us as she rests her forehead against mine.

"For luck," she said, her cheeks tinged with red. "You better come back alive you hear me."

I sighed. "You know I can't promise that."

I felt another pair hands on my shirt collar, it was Lucretia, she pulled me down for a deep kiss herself. She pulled back a red hue adorned her face along with a sultry smirk.

"Alright, now you have to come back alive," Lucretia stated.

I stood there shocked as the two women left the ruins in a hurry.

"That escalated quickly," Verethragna said.

"No shit." I deadpanned, okay Erica I get, but Lucretia? The actual fuck!?

The hell was going through that woman's head when she did that!?

What went through Lucretia's head when she did that.

Ichirou you bastard!

How dare you teach such a good looking boy your ladykiller ways and send him here!

The fact that he can keep up with my flirting doesn't help at all!

You know what fuck subtlety he's too good of a catch to pass up on!

I guess I'll never know why that happened.

Ha! Like hell I'm not going to interrogate her on it, but...knowing her she'll probably turn it into something kinky.

Alright, get your head in the game mister!

"Gentlemen!" I shouted to the gods. "Today we fight Aesir, a time/space controlling Creator God. He's literally pure evil, he's arrogant as all fuck, and is very pissy at the moment. You all know the plan," Aesir finally appeared before us, an ugly scowl on his face. I pointed at him.

BGM: Bayonetta 2 OST - Aesir

"Group up, and hit him till he dies!"

Bloodthirsty grins adored both gods faces. "With pleasure!"

Verethragna used [Gale] appearing behind Aesir and then used [Bull] in an attempt to land a haymaker on Aesir's face. Unfortunately, Aesir blocked the punch with his hand, but he didn't notice the lightning striking down above him, Verethragna switched to [Goat] to absorb it. Lightning struck both gods, the electricity that hit Verethragna supercharged his [Authority], in an instant both Melqart and Verethragna unleashed an incredible mountain of pure electricity against the chaotic god.

It didn't do a damn thing.

Aesir had both his arms outstretched in the direction of both sources of lightning, his hands crackling with chaos energy and lightning.

"Is this the best this world's gods can do?" Aesir materialized on of his blue ethereal arms and threw Verethragna up into the air, he used his blue arm to punch the war god, sending him into Melqart at blinding speeds. Aesir had punched Verethragna so hard that when the war god impacted with Melqart they both were sent flying. "Pathetic."

"Well shit," I said blandly.

Aesir snapped his head in my direction.

"You!" he wailed while I just smiled. "You, worthless, infuriating, asinine, scum!"

"Don't hate, mate!" I shouted gleefully

He charged towards me, but in his anger, he never saw the giant lighting charged club heading his way. The last thing he saw before the club hit him and sent him straight into a mountain was my knowing smirk. Verethragna appeared next to me in a gust of wind, the side of his head was bleeding heavily.

"He's got quite the one track mind doesn't he?" he asked rhetorically.

"Only when he's pissed," I said.

"And you tend to anger him very easily."

"I'm starting to think it's my natural talent at this point."

"Think you can keep doing that?"

"All too easy."

Suddenly a golden forcefield surrounded us, a large blue laser impacted it causing it to crack in various places. More cracks quickly spread across the barrier, but even still the barrier stood strong. Once the beam of chaos energy ended, Verethragna and I looked at each other.

"Less talky, more fighty." I stated.

"Agreed." he acknowledged.

Suddenly, I got a funny feeling, it was as if my entire being was coated in chaotic energy, it wasn't a very nice feeling.

"You feel that, right?" I asked Verethragna.

He nodded.

The Earth shook as Melqart made his way back to us.

"Thanks for the assist," I yelled. "But I think play time's over now."

The mountain Aesir was hit into was suddenly consumed by a bright blue light, vaporizing the entire formation. Then Aesir did something I wasn't expecting, he just straight up appeared right in front of us. One of his blue arms already coming down on us, if I hadn't rolled out of the way the moment I saw Aesir I would have been a bloody stain on the ground.

Shit! I knew Aesir was really damn fast, hell, he fucking flash steps during his boss fight. But the speed he displayed right here, and with no after image, it was like he fucking teleported with warning whatsoever. But I noticed something when he attacked, the feeling of chaotic energy left my body.

What the fuck is going on!?

Verethragna rushed Aesir with his golden sword, he slashed at The God of Chaos. Aesir's hands glowed red, causing the same feeling of being washed over with chaotic energy. He suddenly appeared behind Verethragna, two giant blue arms materialized and smashed the war god into the ground. Melqart shot a bolt of lighting at Aesir from his club, the same thing happened with Verethragna, glowing red hands, feeling the chaotic energy. Aesir appeared in front of Melqart and upper cutted the Ancient King with a giant blue fist sending him flying through the air.

It was at that point it finally clicked.

"Guys, whenever you feel his energy wash over, pulse your own energy out!" I instructed. "He's slowing down time!"

Verethragna rushed Aesir once again with his golden sword, Aesir's hands glowed red once more. But this time Verethragna sent out a pulse of gold energy, canceling out Aesir's chaotic energy. The God of Chaos never saw it coming, Verethragna slashed him with his divinity cutting blade at blinding speeds, leaving more and more gold slash marks on Aesir's body with every second.

Melqart was descending from the sky, his lightning-infused club raised high. Aesir tried the same thing with Melqart, too bad the Ancient King let out a pulse of divine energy, countering Aesir's own. The resulting impact shook the Earth so violently that it knocked me flat on my ass, but the sheer look of "OH SHIT!" on Aesir's face was fucking worth it.

"Melqart, that fucking awesome!" I shouted.

"Thank you young Jack!" the giant bellowed heartily.

Aesir burst free from the ground, his from marked all over with golden cuts and surging with electricity.

"You meddlesome human!" the furious god shouted.

I smiled condescendingly. "What's wrong? Starting to run out of adjectives?"

In response, he let loose many blue orbs of chaotic energy that zigzagged across the ruins. Verethragna and Melqart were busy blocking and dodging the one sent their way, I, on the other hand, stood in place confused as to why the orbs sent my way were hitting the area around me instead of at me.

"Wow, when it comes to me you can't aim for shit," I said blandly.

"Or can I?" Aesir said vaguely.

Oh, it's going to be one of those, isn't it?

I took one step back and deadpanned as the structure behind me started falling down, I stood there not moving a single muscle. I watched the beach without a care in the world as the structure fell on top of me, my body harmlessly fitting through the large square hole in the stone wall as it fell, bring up some dust.

I looked at The God of Humanity disappointingly. "Aside from your aim, you need to learn how to shut the fuck up too."

Aesir flashed stepped away from us and raised his hand over his head, massive amounts of chaotic energy could be felt emanating from the god. Multiple blue portals had opened up behind him, out of the portals came countess golden high military grade missiles that were from Balder's island from the first Bayonetta. Our surroundings were bathed in golden light with the golden sword stabbed into the ground. as Verethragna fully activated the full power of his [Warrior] ability. The war god pointed his sword at the missiles approaching us, and with a wordless command the swords raised up from the ground and shot themselves at the missiles.

None of the propellant explosives were able to get close to us as the golden swords kept flowing without end.

I'll be honest, Verethragna's [Warrior] looked like what would happen if Gilgamesh from Fate/Stay Night got Unlimited Blade Works.

…Dear God, that's horrifying!

Get that thought out of my head!

Once the onslaught of missiles ended Aesir opened up a larger portal, from this portal came a group of valkyrie military transports that dropped bombs large highly powerful bombs on us. Melqart used his divine protection, covering all of us in a golden force field. The bombs impacted the divine barrier, the explosions shook the surrounding area but left us relatively unharmed.

Aesir opened up another portal, this one much, much, larger than before. Out of this portal came the "System 19" Stunparon satellite laser. Now, most people would shit themselves at the sight of what is basically a giant space cannon, I was not most people, having two gods team up with you kind of boosts your confidence up by a lot. Then Aesir put his hand on the satellite and began charging it up with chaotic energy further enhancing the already devastating power of the weapon.

Without warning, a large blue beam of pure chaotic energy shot out of the satellite. When it hit the barrier, it shattered as if it wasn't even there in the first place. The large beam went straight through Melqart's chest, leaving a huge gaping hole where it pierced. I stood there shocked at what I saw; the storm clouds in the sky dissipated revealing the setting sun.

Wait a minute, where's Verethragna!?

"Get off of me!" I snapped my head in Aesir's direction to see Verethragna holding Aesir in a full nelson, most likely using [Bull], and [Goat] to keep his hold on the chaotic god. In a move I had wouldn't have ever expected, Verethragna willed his golden sword to impale himself, along with Aesir. Both gods spat up a large glob of blood.

BGM End

"DO IT!" Verethragna shouted.

Immediately I raised the Grimoire and fired it right in the direction of Aesir's face.

The Sun rose with the [White Stallion] heading to their source.

A bright light consumed the whole area, blinding me. Once the light died down I was greeted to the sight of a depowered Aesir, his skin wasn't glowing blue anymore and he wasn't emanating absurd amounts of chaotic energy, returning him to his form of Loptr. Both Loptr and Verethragna plummeted back down onto the beach bringing up a lot of sand. Once the sand cleared up it revealed Loptr standing up, the stab wound through his abdomen slowly healing. But Verethragna layed there on the blood-stained sand, dead.

Wait something is wrong here!

Why am I not in agonizing pain from my brain and blood being boiled by the curse of the Grimoire!?

I took out my smartphone and quickly went to the camera app, I used it to look at my eyes. The right eye was blue and the left eye was red, here's the thing, there was no power being produced by the eyes! They were dormant!

"Oh, I hate my life so much right now." I deadpanned.

"Believe me, I hate it much more." I heard as I received a powerful blow to my head, sending me all the way from the ruins to the beach, the sand breaking my fall for the most part.

I groaned in pain. "Okay, yeah, that fucking hurt."

I stood up on shaky legs, a warm wet sensation traveled down my face, I was bleeding pretty bad. I looked ahead of me to see Loptr walking towards me, pure disdain in his eyes. I was given no time to react as his fist embedded my stomach, sending me off my feet and launching me a few meters back.

Fucking hell that hurt!

I got on my knees, holding my stomach and coughing up copious amounts of blood.

"You know, you would have met a less painful death if you had not stolen what belongs to me." I heard Loptr said as his steps grew closer.

"Oh really now?" I said sarcastically.

Loptr painfully grabbed me by my hair and raised me to his eye level, Icey blue rage-filled eyes meet a defiant red and blue.

"But now I'm going to make you suffer." he declared.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, I promise it'll never happen again," I said with as much sarcasm as I could.

I got an elbow to the jaw for that, the force of the hit sent me spiraling into the sand. After the world stopped spinning for me I got up slowly and spat out a gold of blood along with a mauler tooth.

"And yet you keep mocking me!" Loptr yelled through gritted teeth.

"I'm sorry sir if you're having trouble with our customer service, call 1-800-Go eat a dick!" I shouted, grinning despite the pain.

"That wasn't funny," Loptr said in an unusually calm fashion as white mist gathered around his hands, it formed a blue sword made of crystal.

He took the crystal sword and stabbed it through my leg, it took everything I had just to not scream in pain.

"This is the greatest day of my life," I said through a pained and strained grin.

Loptr ripped the sword out of my leg causing me to grunt in pain, and grabbed me by my collar, lifting me up forcing me to look at his crazed face.

"Do you mind!? I'm trying to kill you!" he shouted hysterically, I think I broke him when I took away the Eyes of The World from him.

I laughed. "Hey, if I'm gonna die anyway, least I can do is make sure you don't get to enjoy it."

His eyes started twitching.

"Die." he punched me in the stomach, I coughed up a lot of blood.

"Die!" punched again in the stomach, coughed up more blood.

A giant blue glowing fist materialized around his arm. "DIE!" he shouted, punching me in the chest.

Rip!

My shirt was ripped off due to Loptr's grip on my collar as I was sent flying...right into a rock formation on the beach. Unbelievable amounts of pain coursed through my body as I crashed into the formation, it cracked and caved in under the force I was sent into it, along with many of my own bones. Long story short I was buried under a small layer of broken stone.

I have only one word to describe the amount of pain flooding through my body right now.

"Ouch," I said weakly.

My consciousness was starting to fade, but I held on strong, if I was going to die, I was going to do it fighting to my last breath.

"A thought comes to mind." I heard Loptr say. "Why are you even here?"

What? The hell is he talking about!?

"Were you trying to play hero? Trying to save the day?" he asked as I heard his footsteps get closer.

I grit my teeth at just how hopeless this was, I stole the eyes, we somehow beat Aesir.

*Ba-Bump*

"You only prove me right, human, free will is a joke; nothing but a worthless illusion. You need only to obey me, the will of Aesir."

But it was all for nothing, Loptr was going to kill me and take the eyes back, Melqart and Verethragna sacrificed themselves in vain!

*Ba-Bump*

"You have shown me that I have been too soft on you humans, I'll have to make some examples to show why you should not disobey me."

Each word out of his mouth only served to piss me off!

*Ba-Bump*

"I'll start with you, then those two irritating wretches, then that boy that was with you too."

I let everyone down!

*Ba-Bump*

"Alas, I grow tired of your meddling, die."

Pure hatred and fury coursed through my being as I saw a giant blue fist coming down upon me. Hatred for Loptr, hatred for these damn eyes for not working. But most of all, hatred for myself for not winning, for letting down Erica, Lucretia, Arianna, but most of all Godou. He gave me the Grimoire, even after keeping secrets from him for years, he trusted me, believed in me to win, and I failed!

"Should I just give up?" I thought as the fist grow closer.

SNAP!

BGM: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance OST - Rules of Nature

The sound was heard through the entire area, my arm burst through the rubble I was encased in.

"What!?" I heard Loptr shout as my arm, coated in a fiery red aura, stopped his arm.

"Fuck! That!" I shouted in uncontrollable anger.

The ruble that encased me was vaporized as I shot up from the rock formation. I pushed the blue fist out of my way and grabbed Loptr by the face.

"Never said I was a fucking hero!" I shouted. "I'm a bit too gray on the inside to be one of those. Besides, I don't believe in heroes."

The time has come to an end
Yeah, this is what nature planned.

I punched him in the stomach, causing an angry red shockwave to appear out of his back, and getting an citing a yell of pain from him. I kneed him in the ribs causing another powerful red shockwave, the force of the blow sent him up into the air. Grabbing Loptr by his leg, I slammed him into the remains of the rock formation, completely destroying it and leaving a crater in my wake.

Being tracked by a starving beast
Looking for its daily feast
A predator on the verge of death
Close to its last breath

I lifted Loptr up by his leg and threw him into the sand, the force at which I threw him left a large fifty-meter trench in the sand and sending him crashing right into the ruins. He used his ethereal blue hands to launch himself out of the trench, he looked at me shocked.

"How!? How did you suddenly get so strong!?" Loptr shouted.

Getting close to its last breath!

Moving faster than I ever thought possible, I appeared before him. I gathered as much power as I could muster before he could react, my fist was so consumed with the red aura that I could barely make out the outline of the appendage. I reared my fist back and punched Loptr in the face as hard as I could.

RULES OF NATURE!

The resulting impact sent a shockwave throughout the ruins so power, it annihilated what was left of it, leaving a meteor-sized creator in my wake. Loptr was sent flying back to the beach, skipping along the waters of the ocean.

"Fuck you, that's how!" I shouted.

And they run when the sun comes up
With their lives on the line
ALIVE! For a while
NO CHOICE! Gotta follow the laws of the wild!

BGM End

As Loptr got his bearings back I randomly started coughing up blood, the thing was that it was sizzling and bubbling...as if it was boiling. My mind now free from rage was able to put the pieces together, it was the curse! Why did it choose now of all times to kick in!? Colossal amounts of pain surged through my body, more than anything I've ever felt before! It was as if my entire body was trying to deep fry itself from the inside out. But amidst the pain I finally noticed the red aura surrounding my body, confusion filled my mind until a certain word came through.

"Mantra," I muttered to myself.

Wait! If the curse is active, are the eyes active now too?

The Eyes of The World gave humanity the ability to create and oversee history. So let's create something. Despite the agonizing pain I was experiencing, I raised my arm forward, blood red light flooded my vision as I imagined what I wanted to create. As the light died down, I grinned savagely at what I was holding in my hand.

It was a very oversized sword, if it could even be called a sword, more like a heap of raw iron. The weapon itself was bigger than me, it had no crossguard; the blade itself being both wider and thicker than the grip, functions as an improvised one instead. A single bolt holds the blade and hilt together.

It was the Dragon Slayer sword from Berserk.

I guess my dormant Mantra keep me from using the eyes; if I wasn't in incredible pain I would have fangasmed over this sword. But I'm on a timer now thanks to the curse, I'm going to die today, that much I know. A sudden surge of pain and pure rage surged through my body, I dropped the sword and gripped my head in pain, I felt fluid leak out of my eyes. I looked the ground beneath me, droplets of boiling blood feel from my eyes.

Is this because of my Mantra?

I wasn't given time to think about it as extreme amounts of pain and rage flooded my head, I could barely see anything but red. I picked up the Dragon Slayer off the ground and looked at Loptr who was heading my way at high speeds.

I had only one last thought before I gave into my wrath.

BGM: Berserk Golden Age OST - Hundred Years War.

KILL!

"AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!" I let out a roar of pain and rage so bestial it was practically inhuman.

My fiery red Mantra flared out like a blazing inferno, shadows covered my eyes leave only a blood red glow that represented my left eye and a deep blue glow that represented my right. The ground beneath me shook with every step I made.

The Earth cracked beneath me and I lunged Loptr with my sword raised high, Loptr reared one of his blue fists back. When the two blows meet the very ground underneath us shattered, but so did Loptr's blue fist. I head-butted the pyramid haired man, causing him the grab his face in pain. I spun around, using my momentum and the ridiculous weight of the Dragon Slayer I hit Loptr across the abdomen with my sword as if I was using a club. The former god was sent flying, but I didn't let that stop my assault. I sprinted at Loptr, easily catching up to his flaying form and started rapidly slashing at his body.

None of the slashes I landed did much damage, most likely because I'm not using a divine weapon, but I was always good at improvising. I raised my sword high, my red and blue eyes glowed with sinister intent, the Dragon Slayer was coated in a mix of red and blue chaotic energy. I brought my sword down with as much force as I could muster, a gargantuan sharpened slash of pure chaotic energy tore through the ground at speeds I'd never thought possible. Loptr attempted to block it with all six of his blue arms, it didn't do a damn thing, the blue arms were cut through as if they were paper. The moment the slash of energy came in contact with Loptr it exploded, causing a large smoke cloud to emerge, the former god was propelled from the smoke due to the sheer force of the explosion. A large deep heavily bleeding cut across his chest.

I sprinted into the smoke with my sword dragging along the ground, I jumped through the smoke, catching Loptr by surprise. I shoved the hilt of my sword into his stomach causing him to double over, I stabbed Dragon Slayer into the ground. Bringing my hands together, I delivered a powerful blow to the back of Loptr's head, sending him straight into the ground. I raised my foot up and started stomping on his head repeatedly, I stomped on his head one more time before I grinded the heel of my sneaker into his head, once finished, I kicked him in the head, sending him spiraling onto the beach.

I let out a growl of pure rage as I casually walked to Loptr on the beach, Dragon Slayer dragging across the sand.

"How dare you!?" he shouted as he made a pathetic attempt to get off the ground, but only succeeded in stumbling back into the sand.

As he attempted to get off the sand I raised my sword up high and brought it down on his head. I raised my sword up and brought it down again.

And again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again!

I raised my sword up once more, chaotic red and blue energy coating the blade, I held Dragon Slayer in an icepick grip and stabbed the blade down into Loptr's shoulder. The former god screamed in agonizing pain, I twisted the blade slightly causing him to scream in pain even more. A sadistic smile made its way onto my face, I kicked Loptr into the air and created a ball of chaos energy in my hand, I slammed it into his chest.

What I didn't expect was for him to have the same idea and slammed an orb of chaos energy into my head, sending the both of us flying. Loptr used his blue arms to land safely on the sandy beach, while I ungracefully tumbled across the sand. But with that blow to the head, I finally gained back my mind from the rage that consumed me. As I regained my bearings I looked at the damage I had caused Loptr.

BGM End

I grinned. "Looks like I put you through the ringer while my body was on autopilot."

I gave Loptr no time to answer as I quickly closed the distance between us, but before I could land a blow on him he was consumed in a bright blue light. Once the light died down it revealed Loptr in his child form.

"You wouldn't hurt a small child would you?" he asked in desperation.

I immediately punched him in the stomach. "Of course I would, it goes along with my beliefs as a pacifist."

"Then why the brutality!?" Loptr coughed out in pain.

I grabbed him by his hair. "Cause I'll pass-a-fist through your face!" I shouted as I punched him with a Mantra coated fist.

The force of the blow sent Loptr flying a great distance across the beach, during his tumbling down the beach he transformed back into his adult form. He used his blue arms to regain his bearings, he looked at me with a mix of hate, confusion.

"I will not be bested by a mere human again!" he shouted. "I refuse to endure that humiliation once more!"

Loptr's body was engulfed by blue chaos energy, but the surprising thing was that the amount of energy he gave off was comparable to Aesir. Then suddenly, two gargantuan portals appeared, far bigger than anything he's ever done before. One was pure gold and the other was a mix of red and black, all manner of angels and demons spewed out of them, ever angel and demon I had ever seen from the Bayonetta continuity were here, including Bayonetta's demonic summons.

He just ripped two portals in space/time, right into Paradiso and Inferno!

"Okay, this is some bullshit!" I shouted outraged.

BGM: Dare by Stan Bush

Sometimes when your hopes have all been shattered
And there's nowhere to turn
You wonder how you keep going (going)
Think of all the things that really mattered
And the chances you've earned
The fire in your heart is growing (growing)
You can fly, if you try, leaving the past behind
Heaven only knows what you might find

I started violently coughing up boiling blood, I used my sword to balance myself as I hacked up more blood. This was starting to look hopeless again, but I wasn't going to back down now! Not when I was so close to victory!

"You put up a good effort human." I heard Loptr say. "But now you will fall!"

"Oh really now," I said sarcastically. "Well, if I'm going to die, I'm taking you with me!"

He narrowed his eyes at me. "Have you lost your sanity!?"

"Sanity is a requirement for my kind."

"And what kind would that be!?"

I smirked. "The kind of reincarnation you don't fuck with!"

Dare, dare to believe you can survive
You hold the future in your hand
Dare, dare to keep all of your dreams alive
It's time to take a stand
And you can win, if you dare

I jumped into the fray of angels and demons as my Mantra flared out like a blazing inferno. Blood and limbs of various sizes and shapes were all that was left in my wake as I tore through angel and demon alike. A Beloved brought its giant golden axe down on me, I dodged at the last second and sliced its arm off. I grabbed its huge axe and chopped the Beloved's head off with it, then reared my arm back and threw the giant axe like a frisbee, causing a cyclone of blood and limbs to fly everywhere.

Everybody's trying to break your spirit
Keeping you down
Seems like it's been forever (ever), oh
But there's another voice if you'll just hear it
Saying it's the last round
Looks like it's now or never (never)
Out of the darkness you stumble into the light
Fighting for the things you know are right

A Fortitudo fell on top of me in an attempt to crush me. I held its large foot up and threw it off me easily, I jumped into the air with it, dodging the fireballs it shot at me. As I came down I slashed my sword at its blue head, cutting it off effortlessly. I quickly sidestepped, dodging the redhead that snapped its jaws at me, it too met the same fate. I grabbed its tail and started spinning around in place, it's huge body crushing anyone dumb enough to get close. I threw the large angel as hard as I could.

"So long, gay Bowser!" I shouted at the top of my lungs.

Dare, dare to believe you can survive
The power is there at your command
Dare, dare to keep all of your dreams alive
It's time to take a stand
And you can win, if you dare

An Insidious flew towards me, shooting lasers at me from it's eyes, I threw my sword into one of the laser firing eyes. I jumped high off the ground just a Temperantia punched where I stood, bring up a lot of sand, I landed on it's arm and ran up it's stone appendage. Rearing my fist back, I punched the Temperantia in that face, shattering the stone mask, revealing the hideous beast inside and sending it spiraling through the air. I jumped of the angel and the Insidious with my sword stuck in it's eye. I took hold of my Dragon Slayer, and with my Mantra enhanced strength, I slashed downwards, splitting the demon in half. The Insidious crashed into the Temperantia and the both of them crashed into a Sapientia. Still, in the air I raised my sword up high, coating it in red and blue chaotic energy, and slashed downward. The energy beam from my blade exploded on impact with the angels and demons, causing it the quite literally rain blood.

When I landed I sprinted across the battlefield as fast as I could, as I did I noticed a few particular demons fight their own brethren and angels alike. They were all female demons with insect like appearances wearing revealing dresses; Madama Butterfly, Madama Styx, and Madama Khepri were their names. The destruction they brought to the battlefield was incredible, and as a sadist myself, rather inspiring.

Loptr was finally in my sights, I coated my fist with as much chaotic energy and Mantra as I could and kept adding more despite the danger. I slashed at any unfortunate fool dumb enough to get in my way on my path to Loptr. At long last I finally made it to the former god, I slashed my sword down as he tried to use his blue arms to defend himself, slicing the ethereal projections into pieces.

I rammed my overcharged fist into his stomach, embedding it into his organs.

"ARGH!" Loptr screamed in pain.

I leaned in close. "Now let me put this a way you'll understand. I'm about to blow my load all over your insides."

The entire battlefield was grew quiet the moment I said that, I feel the eyes of every angel and demon on me.

"W-What the-"

"No homo." I interrupted.

Dare, dare to believe you can survive
You hold the future in your hand
Dare, dare to keep all of your dreams alive
The power is there at your command, oh
Dare, dare to keep all your love alive
Dare to be all you can be
Dare, there is a place where dreams survive
And it's calling you on to victory
Dare, dare.

I unleashed the mix of chaotic energy and Mantra in my fist, the result was an energy beam blast the size of a mountain, shot at Loptr point blank.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Loptr scream as his body was vaporised, leaving nothing but his blue transparent soul.

I couldn't stop at just the body, if I did, he would just open a portal to another era to be reborn. I kept pushing more energy into the blast, making it two times bigger than it was before.

Loptr screamed fearfully as his very souls was being vaporized. "N-NO! STOP! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!-"

I collapsed on my back as the colossal beam of energy faded away, that was it, I was done, tapped out of power I had left in my body. Before me vision faded to black, I caught the sunset one last time.

I smiled with content as Death's embraces at long last took me.

Chapter End.

Big, BIG thank you to reviewer Amatsumi for helping me edit this chapter! Thanks, bruh!