Just so there's no confusion, this chapter is named 'restart' for a reason. It has nothing to do with me dropping the story or anything. The reason behind the name of this chapter will become clear later on.
As Kaii was having a panic attack, he failed to notice his grave mistake. He told his future name to someone in the past, and the man he told it to had disappeared completely. Kaii did not know this yet, but he had created a paradox within time. A paradox is an inconsistency within a timeline, which can lead to radical changes, both in the past, present and future. And a large enough paradox can completely alter a world.
In the present, 2 months later a devastating event was supposed to happen to Kaii, in which all his comrades would betray him, leaving him broken, with Indra "taking him in". This was also supposed to be known as the demise of the world.
This will be referred to as Timeline B. Think of that as a bad ending that would have happened. However, the tiny paradox that Kaii made completely shifted the present and future to a new timeline. Known as Timeline C, this future is far worse, and would surely lead the world into chaos. But this is further away, basically delaying the inevitable.
But since Kaii had completely shifted timelines, this also means the past was changed, to a small degree. A new being had come to existence, as soon as Kaii created the paradox. That paradox also changed the order of events in his past.
The Present
Back in the pits of Tartarus, Tenma, Alastair and Adrammelech stared at Kaii's artificial Sacred Gear that was left on the ground.
Tenma stared at it for a minute before smiling and crouching down to touch it. "Nice try."
As he tapped it, Kaii's body reappeared and formed around it.
"Whoa, what's going on?" Alastair asked.
Tenma stood up and put his hand under his chin as he stared at Kaii's unconscious body.
"There are rules for time traveling, two in particular. The first, is that you must leave your body behind to do so."
"So the creature inside his Sacred Gear attempted to hide it." Adrammelech said.
"Right. And the next is the most important. There must be a version of yourself in that particular time. I suppose that's fair."
Alastair and Adrammelech didn't bother to ask where or why Tenma sent Kaii, as he always kept his plans to himself.
Tenma then placed his index finger and middle finger on his forehead and closed his eyes.
'He's using his telepathy huh...' Alastair thought.
"Attention Demons, there's been a slight change in plans. At your earliest convenience please return to Tartarus." He said, which reverberated through the minds of all Demons.
Calamity and Naamah ceased their battles at that time, but their opponents were near defeated, aside from Ajuka, who had nearly been on par with Calamity.
Ajuka was panting when the Demon disappeared, and looked at the ground with a slightly annoyed face.
"Well, I guess we have no choice but to call them in."
Shinji who was barely conscious looked over to him and rose an eyebrow. "Who?"
"...The Zodiacs."
The Past
It only took about an hour, but Kaii finally got over himself and could think straight.
"Alright... I'm totally alone... trapped in the past... on the day my family gets killed... damn."
He then thought about the possibility of trying to stop his older brother and father. It could benefit the world greatly, considering the Valefor were one of the most powerful houses. His dad also wouldn't have joined the Khaos Brigade and soon the Qlippoth, which is one less enemy to deal with.
Kaii was 'in the moment' right now and not thinking about the dangers of changing the past, which could potentially screw up the future into something worse. However, the possibility of fixing the past could also be called a poisonous high-grade wine that would make someone go crazy. After all he went through, it would be hard to blame him.
And so, he waited in a park outside the main house of the Valefor, as they all gathered today for a family reunion, which is how his father and brother managed to get to them all in one night.
He looked pretty normal to people passing by, but he had his eyes sharpened as he looked over to it, and was containing a disgusting amount of bloodlust.
As it became dark out, he kept his eyes peeled on it, until finally the sky turned red and a giant pillar of fire came flying out of it.
It dispersed in mid-air, and seemed to attack the nearby areas with fire, as people's screams could be heard.
And so, Kaii ran quickly into the area, not risking flying as his wings could be flipped by the fire... and that wouldn't be very fun. As he did, he slowly turned his head to the cliff that overlooked his former house, and noticed something on it.
Something was the key word, as it lacked any description, just a black something shaped like a person.
This time, he flew to it as he would not let whatever this was escape. His gut feeling was this thing was more important than his father and brother.
Kaii felt his body temperature drop rapidly as he approached it. It was using some form of magic to cover itself. Age, gender, height, nothing could be discerned from it. The magic it was using made a soft vibrating sound, which meant it planned to be here, in that state.
He cocked his arm back, and threw a spear of demonic light at it, to which it didn't dodge, but it vanished and reappeared a second after it went through it.
"...?"
It turned it's face to look at Kaii and hummed for a minute.
"Just when I thought... are you Kaii?"
Kaii could not see its face, but could tell it was interested, and stood in a shocked manner.
"What's more is the traces of the Sacred Gear inside you... what's going on here?"
It tilted its head at the sight of Kaii, not comprehending what was going on still.
"Why are you here? Why are you attacking me?"
Kaii scowled and formed a large blast of aura and fired it at the person, who easily sidestepped it.
"...That's definitely Kaii huh. Then the only thinkable way is... time travel. Did that Demon really do that for you? That's very unexpected I must say."
Kaii didn't bother to ask the stupid question of 'Who are you?', considering if they really wanted him to know then they wouldn't be using magic to block themselves.
"...Did you help them? Did you help them kill them all?" He asked with a trembling voice.
"...Huh? What are you talking about?"
Kaii's eyes widened slightly when he heard that. He found it pretty hard to believe that such a shady looking individual (literally) would coincidentally here when this happened.
"Then what is it you want?"
"Hou... well I guess there's no harm in telling someone from the future. But before I explain... I can see how things play out in your future. You're some kind of hero aren't you? Recklessly charging into battle, 'for your comrades'?"
"...Not quite." Kaii said with a slightly sarcastic smile.
The person seemed to make a strange sigh after hearing that, and continued.
"I'm going to do what no one could ever do. -I'll save this world, because justice and righteousness can't save it."
"Don't be ridiculous. One act of hatred will just lead to another, thus continuing the process of it."
"Haha, and you're such a role model? But I should have no reason to explain myself to someone like you. Things such as honor and glory are trivial, and you, a warrior is a prime example. A mere warrior cannot save the world. Warriors call some methods of fighting good, and some evil, acting like there is a degree of nobility in killing someone."
Kaii was taken aback by the words of this person, basically criticizing his entire existence.
"But you don't see it do you? Because illusions were made throughout history by so-called 'heroes'. Those illusions led countless people to their deaths, all for the sake of this so-called 'glory' and 'honor'. And thus, you hit the nail right on the spot. One act of hatred leads to another. So tell me, how many people have you killed? How many dreams and families did you crush? All for the sake of being 'good'?"
"..."
"And so in wars, both throughout human and supernatural means, leaders will call it a victory when the winning side wins, but do you know what happens to the other side? One sides victory is two sides' defeat. And so the idea of there being 'heroes' has cast away our ideas of that logic. And that's why in every generation, a dazzling hero comes to save the day, and blinds everyone with their 'legends'."
Kaii had a sad expression as he looked at the person, merely speaking with a soft voice.
"...I don't know what caused you to lose all hope, but every person who ever has had a drive for moral change such as yourself, are always those who once believed in justice... you wanted to be a hero too, didn't you?"
"I'll do whatever I must, even if I must shoulder all the hate in the world, and die with that burden, then I will."
Kaii went to reply, but he suddenly felt dizzy, and lost consciousness after hearing one more thing.
"-I definitely won't fail. This time, I know I can do it. After all, Kaii... you're mine. You are my weapon. I'm the one who will put the Evil Dragon into your Sacred Gear someday. It's all planned out."
His last words before passing out completely were: "...This...time...?"
The Present
Tenma stood over Kaii's body while putting his hand out, trying to do something.
As he was concentrating, Alastair noticed something and widened his eye. "Something's coming...?"
Adrammelech lazily looked up and his eyes shot open in shock "Humans?!"
On the other side of the room, Ajuka and his group made their presence known by knocking on the wall.
Tenma opened one eye and looked at them while sighing. "Calamity, you couldn't even finish off a few Angels and Devils?"
"My deepest apologies, your majesty. But one of them appears to be a Super Devil."
"You say it as if I should care. Deal with it."
CRASH!
Everyone turned to see someone crash into the center of the room, and slowly stand up, revealing a man that appeared to be in his 30's with messy dark blue hair, wearing something that looked like a white and red battle-themed kimono with a black outfit underneath.
Tenma turned to look at him with a large amount of disgust. "A human?"
"Sorry to disappoint you." The man responded.
At this point, Kaii had started to wake up, once again in the present. He slowly backed up, trying his best to conceal his presence, as this man had taken Tenma's attention.
"...You dare talk back to me?" Tenma asked with a trembling voice. "I am the King of Demons... a mere human should not even be in my presence!"
Tenma then crossed his arms as two black magic circles appeared behind them, and expensive looking weapons came out of them, flying towards the man.
BOOM!
Kaii looked on with wide eyes, completely shocked. 'Is that really a human? It was almost too fast to see with the naked eye, but he grabbed the first weapon and used it to destroy the other one literally within a fraction of a second!'
"To lay your filthy hands upon something created from me... do you want to die that badly, scum?!" Tenma yelled.
The black magic circles behind him started to rapidly multiply, until there had to be at least a few hundred of them, all with weapons being created in them.
"That's ridiculous! Those weapons have as much magic power in them as a Longinus!" Shinji exclaimed.
Tenma's pupil constricted as he launched them all at the man once again. "Let's see how long your luck can keep you alive!"
The first weapon became a javelin that the man caught, but it had enough force to push him back a great distance.
SLASH!
He quickly spun the javelin around, deflecting and destroying a number of incoming weapons instantly.
As he continued to do so, the javelin in his hands finally broke, so he threw the two broken parts of it at more incoming weapons, then putting his right hand outward. As he did, a large silver broadsword came from a magic circle, and he began to use that to destroy the weapons that still attacked him.
"Y-You..." Tenma said with a very angry voice.
Another javelin came towards him, so he grabbed it with his free hand, and slammed it into the ground, using it as a shield to split the next weapon in two, forcing them to go flying behind him and into the wall, creating a large tremor.
Tenma then spawned a spear that was surrounded by an intense amount of magic energy, and sent it at the man, who simply moved his head to the side to dodge it.
BOOM!
The magically charged spear exploded upon impact to the ground, creating a large cloud of dust. Using this as an advantage, the man picked up the javelin he put in the ground and threw it at Tenma, who easily dodged it.
"How dare you... HOW DARE YOU?! TO ATTACK ME WITH MY OWN WEAPON?!" Tenma screamed in anger.
"Whoa calm down-" Alastair started.
Tenma gained a furious expression as the seemingly never ending magic circles behind him once again started to multiple, reaching absurd levels.
"No way..." Kaii quietly said with his jaw dropped. "Hundreds... no thousands now."
"YOUR IMPUDENCE HAS SEALED YOUR FATE, HUMAN!"
"There's more coming." Calamity said.
Tenma's attention was diverted instantly as he looked over to the other Demon.
"How many?"
"At least 5 more."
Tenma sighed as he covered part of his face with his right hand. 'It would be a simple matter to just crush them all here... but I must control myself.'
"There's been a change in plans. Go to site B everyone." Tenma said aloud and also through telepathy to the Demons who weren't present.
"Running?" Kaii asked while leaning up against the wall, looking very tired.
Tenma flashed him an evil grin as he stared into his eyes. "No, I just enjoy the hunt."
Kaii felt chills go down his spine as he heard those words.
{-This is...!}
Calamity, Naamah, Adrammelech and Alastair left through a rip in space made by the latter, as Tenma stayed behind, looking at Kaii with a perplexed face.
This was because Kaii was once again glowing like in his fight against Hades. His hair once again was jutted upwards, but this time his hair was turning white to match his aura.
'Order... you want me to stop him?'
He took the lack of response as a yes, and went to attack Tenma with his 'super speed'.
However, right before Kaii's punch landed, Tenma easily dodged it with his eyes closed and a smirk.
This was basically impossible for everyone else to see, but it was like slow motion for Kaii and Tenma, who looked at each other, with the former having a shocked face.
"Just how strong are you...?" Kaii asked with his eyes only getting wider.
Tenma slowly opened his eyes and answered in a frighteningly low voice. "Not even the Ouroboros Dragon can defeat me."
The difference between Kaii and Hades was great while in this form, but the difference between Tenma and Kaii, even with the power of a Primordial Entity could only be called abysmal.
Tenma then brought his leg up into Kaii's body, slamming it into his chest while making a sickening crack as his rib cage broke like a toy.
With his right hand, Tenma grabbed Kaii by the throat and slammed him into the wall, causing him to gag on his own blood.
The man with blue hair went to rush after him, but Tenma was no longer playing around, so with his left hand he created a barrier around him and Kaii.
"I am done fucking around." Tenma said as he then took his left hand and plunged it right into Kaii, who screamed in pain.
Ajuka's group and the man began to attack the barrier in an attempt to take it down, but it didn't even budge.
"You fool, Order giving you power is exactly what I was waiting for. With the pure power of it, your inner darkness is completely isolated in your body."
Kaii struggled to speak as Tenma's hand was actually in his body, but his soul. "What... are you talking about...?"
Tenma looked up at him and almost laughed. "Who do you think possessed you? You did!"
Outside of the barrier, everyone aside from the man with blue hair had confused faces, while inside the barrier, Kaii had a shocked face.
"You aren't supposed to be good. You're supposed to be vile and evil like us. However, Order, the lonely Primordial Entity, took pity on you, and infused itself into your own soul in attempt to 'purify' you. But instead it ended up making another 'you'. The 'good' you, and the 'evil' you. The evil side of you represents your true nature, your power, your bloodlust-"
"Shut up..."
"Hmm?"
"That's not the real me... I am me."
"What nonsense are you spouting now? You do have-"
"No shit...! Of course I do! Everyone has a good and bad side to them. Some more than others, but you just don't get it..." Kaii said, as a white line came from inside him.
"...What in the...!" Tenma quickly pulled his hand out of Kaii, as multiple more white lights started coming from him.
Kaii's hair turned black again, once again falling down, along with regaining his heterochromic eyes, and all his aura disappearing.
The barrier was completely engulfed in a blinding white flash, for a good minute, until Tenma's scream could be heard.
CRASH!
The barrier around them was destroyed as Tenma was launched through it, and skidded on the ground all the way to the other side of the massive hall.
"Gah..." Tenma looked in pain, and had steam coming off him, as if he was burned by steaming hot water.
He slowly picked himself up as he looked at the light that was shining still, and made a mocking grin. "If you came out, then I'd say that's enough for today."
He went to go walk through the rip in space left by Alastair, but before he did, he turned around and looked at Ajuka's group and the man with blue hair. "The Qlippoth declares war on every faction, every mythology, and every religion."
"What?!" Michael exclaimed.
Tenma laughed as he walked into the rip, leaving them with some final words. "You have 5 months until the end!"
"The end?" Shemhazai asked.
"The end of the world."
The rip finally closed, and all Demons had gotten away, none of them losing a single battle.
The light surrounding Kaii started dying down, revealing a scene that shouldn't have been completely shocking to Kaii and Shinji. The man in the blue hair looked confused beyond belief, and Michael and Shemhazai got a good laugh out of it.
Kaii looked down with a face of disbelief, shaking his head as if he was denying the situation in his hands, literally. "Order... huh."
Shinji couldn't take it anymore as he fell to the ground, holding his sides from busting out laughing.
Kaii looked at what was in his arms with a blank face. He was holding a girl in bridal style, that had a face that was as beautiful as a doll, with long silvery-white hair, and eyes that were dark blue on top, and lighter blue towards the bottom.
"U-Umm..." The girl stuttered.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" Kaii screamed at the top of his lungs.
The Void
The void, it was never ending place of nothingness. In this particular realm, two powerful figures from a long time ago existed. One was the man looking around. He looked dignified and righteous, but also fair. He was an old man that was well built, wearing a white robe and a long beard. This was the God of the Bible.
The other being inside this realm, was a shadowy figure sitting on the 'ground' of the realm, with its legs crossed, as if it was bored. This dangerous being was what we know as the Zero Demon.
"So you were watching them all along." God said.
The Demon was quiet for a minute, and then smiled.
"You were the one who killed me all those years ago, yet you act like we're friends. Are you still planning to be revived?" God asked.
The Demon hummed in response. "It's already been decided. Over the course of the several hundreds of years that we've been here, I've watched many generations come and go. Conflict between people, hatred, wicked hearts... I'm always intrigued it the new generation will purify all of that. How many times has it happened?"
God of the Bible looked at the Demon with narrow eyes, as the latter continued to talk.
"People repeat themselves. They commit the same mistakes over and over."
"Even so, they still live."
The Demon slowly stood up, as it opened its purple colored eyes. "No, they haven't lived. Not in the truest sense... the race called 'people' has become extinct."
"Are you done waiting?" God asked with narrower eyes.
"Yeah. After thinking about it for 17 years, I've reached a conclusion." The Demon then turned to face God, sending a slight chill down his spine. "If the world refuses to fix itself, then I shall fix the world myself."
"This generation. Those young ones... they will protect the world." God said.
The Demon ignored him and continued to speak. "I will bring harmony and regeneration."
"Will there be a war?"
The Demon's purple eyes constricted, giving him a frightening expression. "No. It will be a genocide, of every single person. I won't allow a single being to survive."
That must of hit a soft spot on God, as his bountiful golden colored aura exploded around him. "This generation's Longinus users will destroy you."
One hour later...
The Demon once again was sitting on the ground, with one of its legs crossed, and was patting something on its lap... God of the Bible's head. His body was on the ground behind him, motionless.
"Kaii, it's almost time."