The World Only God Knows / 神のみぞ知るセカイ

By Tamiki Wakaki

I don't own TWGOK!


~ A Certain Romance ~
a fanfiction by Takagi


Route 4: "Memories and Wars"


Author's Note: Special thanks to Organization Number 15 for reading my bad English story and willing to beta-edit it :)


The words in Italic are their inner thougts or an original name and i don't own TWGOK


"Please conquer Haqua!" Elsie pleadingly begged.

"What… are you talking about?"

"Haqua always acted strange when she's with you. She frequently comes here pretending she came to see me, but that's just an excuse to see you, Kami-sama! Like when she came all the way here to have us helped her with her report," this caught Keima's attention, although his face remained expressionless. "Haqua is not someone that would ask other people to do things for her. She… certainly came over just to see you, Kami-sama. She loves you! I knew it!"

"…" Keima just stared at Elsie. The god was speechless for once.

"That's why, Kami-sama… I don't want her to be heartbroken. She's… the most precious thing I've ever…"

"I couldn't care less!" Keima cut Elsie's effusion and turned his back. Elsie was shocked.

Keima fixed his glasses and continued his talking.

"In games, as I told you before, boys chased girls while girls give flags! She didn't give any flags, even when I'm alone with her! And worse, she always hurt me with her huge scythe!"

"Let me tell you something useful," Keima fixed his glasses, the light gleaming off of them. He directed his piercing gaze back at Elsie.

"A girl visits her crush's house must spend more time with him! She has to make good memories that will remain forever in his and her brains! Haqua didn't even attempt to make contact with me. She spent more time with you. She only accidentally barged in to my room because the blackout! If she was a true heroine … She…" Keima stopped and blushed, reminded by Haqua's sleeping face he saw that morning.

"..."

"...hmm?
"She what… Kami-sama?" Elsie tried to deduce Keima's expression.

"N- Nothing!
"Leave my room now!" Keima threatened her.

"Huuu… Kami-sama is such a meanie!" Elsie cried out loud and ran out from Keima's room.


"…"

Keima's mind was flashing with memories with Haqua now. He couldn't concentrate on playing anymore.

He felt that Elsie's request was actually considerable, since it was just the same with the God of Conquest's deduction about Haqua, and moreover, he now also felt that the red-eyed demon had already spent more time with him than he ever thought before.

"That Haqua... A heroine? Does she…love me?"

"…" Keima blushed and went crazy.

"NO! What's wrong with me? I… I… am the resident of the game world! I shall not respond to any feeling from the 'real'! I didn't even conquer her and although if i did, i don't think a devil can posses a goddess! Why would she...?"

"…"

Slowly, piece by piece, Keima's memories about Haqua were projected in his head.

He was reminded about how the purple-haired demon acted confidently in the past but also… exposed, like a bird trying to fly for the first time…

The god began to remember the events they shared together…

About the unrecognizable, foreign beauty of the devil when woke up next to her.
A pair of big beautiful ruby eyes that are very sharp, keen enough to throb anyone's eyes who gazed upon them, a smooth silk-white skin that has unlimited potential of beauty, and a long straight purplish hair that are very strong and dense. If a game has ever written a more beautiful scene, and Keima could think of a few, he would idolize that company.

Right then…

Time halted in Keima's mind.

It stopped at the image of Haqua when he walked with her in that stormy day.

He heard that tricky, pitiful question asked by Haqua that time once again in his mind.

"You've been playing games since you were born right? Have you ever felt lonely? You don't even make any friends at school…"

"So have you ever felt lonely even once?"

Keima remained in silence.

For once, the god did not have a retort, a smart remark, not even an answer. The god could not even see the route…

After a while, he heard a girl's voice coming from the door.

"Keima-kun…"

"Huh?" He opened his eyes slowly and stared at the figure that stood at his room's door.

It was Tenri.

"Tenri? How long have you been here?" Keima moved up from his bed to take a look at the intruding girl. She looked at him concerned.

"Umm… around 27 minutes I think."

"Get out of my room," Keima averted his gaze from Tenri.

"Eh… But I'm not in your room." Tenri pointed out.

Keima gazed at Tenri.

She was right.

She didn't even make single a step into his room; she is still standing by the hallway.

Keima sighed and asked her what she wanted to do.

"Actually, I saw you this morning, Keima-kun… You seemed so troubled by something… S- So, I'm thinking if I could cheer Keima-kun up a bit by showing you some magic trick…" Tenri said as she dragged her big magic box. She held on to it tightly and began pivoting the box towards Keima's bed. Keima pondered for a second how Tenri gained such strength, and then remembered that Diana might be helping her.

Keima just sighed and told her to continue. This brightened Tenri as she heaved the box onto his bed and climbed into his room. Once inside, she picked up the box and dropped it in the middle of the room. She opened the box, showing Keima-kun that it was empty and then handed him a wand.

"Now, please hit this empty box with this magic wand!"

"As usual, being a spectator and assistant…" Keima said as he knock Tenri's box.

Suddenly a smoke came out from the box along with something.

"Yayyy!" Elsie yelled as she came out from the box. Keima kept his expressionless face as he then forced her back in and swiftly wrapped the box with tape. Tenri couldn't do anything but smirked a little at this unusual scene. They could hear the sound Elsie of hitting the box from inside. Keima told her to be quiet then sit on the box.

"Thank you Tenri, for the show. It made me feel a bit better."

"Umm, Keima-kun… You don't need to lie, you know…"

"… That's right. Sorry, Tenri. I still am hesitant of sharing a lot with you to avoid getting you into trouble. It's been a habit I picked up since that time we fought Nora."

"T- That's fine, Keima–kun. We… We are childhood friends after all!" Tenri said as her cheek reddened because she remembered that time was her first kiss with someone she really adored.

"…" Keima became silent again.

"So, what bothered you Keima-kun?"

"Nothing, I'm just feeling a little bit tired." Keima lied again.

"Well, I'm relieved then. Because the Keima-kun I know is always calm and strong!" Tenri said cheerfully.

Keima asked Tenri to leave; he said he wanted to have some sleep. She immediately took her magic tools and tried to lift the box, but couldn't do it. Tenri forgot that Elsie was still inside the box.

"Elsie-san is still in the box!" She quickly un-taped the box and released Elsie from the box.

"Kami–nii-sama! Why do you always ignore me?!" Elsie yelled at expressionless Keima.

"Katsuragi–san. Thank you for not treating Tenri coldly this time." Tenri suddenly switched with Diana.

"… Well, it's me who caused her all the trouble of her coming here." He replied.

"Okay then. I shall take my leave now."

"Sure"

"But r- remember this! Your body and soul belongs to Tenri! Any perversions with other girls are prohibited! Understood?"

"Hmm… Yeah…"

Diana sighed. She elevated the-now-empty magic box and went to the Keima's room's door then headed home.

"Kami-sama, are you sure about 'not having perversions'?"

"Why are you still here?"

"I thought we are gonna make some plan to conquer Haqua!" Elsie yelled.

"Who said that? Leave now!"


Keima was now alone in his room. He had just abandoned his conflicting emotions, only for them to have found him soo quickly. However, during the fleeting moments with his clear, calculating mind lead him to see a route that furthered the God's internal struggle.

"I'm positive now that Haqua does love me… But why? Since when?"

"And what about me? Do I love…"

"Well, compared to Tenri… She is different somehow…"

"…"

"GAHHH! I can't do this!"

"This is like when I was in Yui's body! My brain didn't work well! My body is hot!"

Keima rolled his body like crazy on his bed and hit his forehead to the wall accidentally. He passed out immediately.


Keima stood on a stage. He wore a green general's uniform with a band across his right arm depicting the arrow keys on game controller. He took the spotlight before a podium.

"I can't let this feeling attacked me!"
"I am the god of Conquest! Love is my element! My expertise! Love is more important than the whole world (in games)!
"So brethren! I hereby declare war against the real world from now on!"

The audience, in which were several thousands of Keima, applauded and roared, "Long live 2D World!"

Suddenly the stage changed into a battlefield.

"Commander! We are under attack! Real world's army has reached our safe house! We must abandon this area!"

"No! I won't let them seized this zone! Everyone, chaaarge!"

"Ouuugh!"

"Take this, real!" A Keima soldier threw a grenade.


Meanwhile in the Real World Army's Base...

"Sir, our forces have successfully conquered 30 of 2D's routes!" A silhouette of a girl came into a command room, where her leader, a man with glasses and wake-up messy hair, looked over at her.

"Good, darling. We'll show them the passionate love from Real World!"


At the 2D World army's main base, the admirals, more copies of Keima, were having a conference.

"We are turning the tide in no time, gentlemen! Now, we are gonna attack here and here!"

"And we are gonna assault their Fleet Admiral by launching a…"

"No! I'll stop this battle once and for all with our super-weapon!" He said as he brought out a switch.

Other admirals were shocked about this.

"You can't do that!" one of the Keima's warned, "It will affect our civilians severely!"

"But what else could we do?!" Another Keima frantically questioned.

"Fight harder! Remember what you are fighting for!" Keima declared.

The admirals imagined Yokyuun running in the middle of windy field of grass peacefully. One of the Keimas ran up to her desperately.

...

...

"Yokyuuuun!"

"Keima-kun! What brings you here?"

"I… I don't know Yokyuun… I just… I just want to see you, Yokyuun!"

"Keima-kuuun…"

"Yokyuuuun…"

...

...


"Now that's what I called love! Those wretched loose souls of Real World's army are going down!"

"Yeah! What's so good about those vague girls?!"

"Sir!" A Keima scout rushed into the command center, "We're already under siege!"

"Darn it! What do you…"

Suddenly their image about Yokyuun changed. Her hair's color faded from red-light to purple and her iris' color changed from blue into red.

"NOOOOOO! YOKYUUUUN!" The Admirals have gone crazy and one of them accidentally pushed the switch.

"What are you doing, command…!"

The whole world turned black.


Keima shot up from his resting place. His head felt dizzy, and he brought his hand up to his forehead. He slowly turned his eyes to a clock at the wall.

"It's 7.40 PM?" Keima sighed.

"That means I skipped school… Well, it doesn't matter."

Keima sluggishly exited his chambers into the hallway. The hallway seems like an eternity before he made it to the stairs. Keima's mind was slow, uncoordinated, something in which was foreign to the God of Conquest's usually efficient, calculating mind. He advanced downstairs and met his mother and Elsie at the dining table. He realized it was already dinnertime.

"Oh, Keima," Mari noticed Keima sitting down at the table, "I thought you were still asleep." Mari got up and paced herself as she walked into the kitchen to get Keima's meal. She looked at her son concerned. He didn't even have his PFP with him.

"Keima, how are you feeling?" Mari asked her son as she placed his dinner in front of him.

"NO, I don't have any feeling towards any real girls!" Keima blurted out, then covered his mouth.

What are you doing?!

"What are you blabbering about?"

"… Nothing, mom" Keima answered, continuing to eat his dinner.

"Are you sure you're alright, Kami-sama? You've been acting strange…" Elsie stopped as she saw Keima get up from his seat.

"Elsie" He beckoned for her to follow him to the café away from their mother. Elsie silently agreed and they moved to a secluded corner of the café.

"What is it, Kami-sama?" Elsie's asked.

"After thinking this logically…" the God of Conquest turned his gaze to look at Elsie dead in the eye.

"I will start conquering Haqua tomorrow!"


TO BE CONTINUED


Author's note: Thank you very much for reading!

It's getting much more understandable now, right? It's all thanks to Organization Number 15!