You are now Cherry. You have no idea why, but you've been called to meet you're asshole of a father.

You enter the room of the house. You recognize this as the house where you met the even douchier version of your dad, Brandon. You see your asshole, ghost dad sitting at the table with douchebag kid-dad sitting in front of him. "Why are you here?" You ask in a hostile voice.

"I got called here to talk to captain asshat." Brandon answers, "Wait, weren't you trying to find him?"

"Yeah, already found him. He's not a very good father, and neither are you."

"What is she talking about?"

"Simple," Grimm responds, "She's your daughter."

"Shit," Brandon mutters, "That means I'm the same person as you?" He asks with a distressed look as he points to Grimm.

"Yes, we are the same person."

"Damn, I become an asshole in the future."

"Nope, not time travel."

"Scratch session?"

"Yes."

"Fuck! I don't want to have to scratch my session!"

"Scratch session of a doomed timeline."

"How the fuck would that even work?"

"The 1% Divergence Barrier."

"What does anime have to do with this?"

"It's not about the show, it's about its ideas of time. They're dead on."

"So what? Because they're a full point off on the time-grid then they don't end up doomed?"

"Yes."

"Hold on!" You yell at them, "What the hell are you guys talking about? What's this 'divergence barrier' and how does this explain everything to you people?"

"Oh," Brandon begins to respond, "I'll explain. To put it simply if you were to take all timelines and measure them on a grid, they would start with a number, point whatever, so for example: 1.23456. The decimals are each a change in a timeline. For example, world 1.000 is different from world 1.001 even though you may not see it at first. The 1% Divergence Barrier is the difference so great that it changes the whole number in a timeline. A change so big that you go from world 1.000 to world 2.000."

"What does that mean exactly?" You ask what probably seems like a stupid question to them.

"To put it simply it's a change so massive that the world is set on a completely different course than it was before the change. This type of change only occurs during major events. These events are usually things like wars, or major inventions, of course the end of the planet's inhabitants is a big enough event to warrant this kind of change."

"I still don't get it."

"Under this theory that douchy adult me is proposing, your session is on the opposite end of this major change. That's why there are doomed timelines and stable timelines. A stable timeline would be a changeable whole number with set decimal numbers. Anything that shares the exact same numbers after the decimal would be stable, anything else would be a doomed timeline of the closest stable timeline."

"So what if I'm undertstanding this it means that there can be lots of different sessions from the same planet?"

"Well, yes...kinda. It would be the same planet but in a universe so different you wouldn't be able to tell."

"Got it!"

"Good, now why are we all here?"

"Well," Grimm begins another explanation, "we're all here for a little family bonding!"

"Fuck that!" Brandon declares.

"What do you mean 'fuck that'?"

"I'm not doing any family bonding with you, Captain Douchebag. I don't need to know any more about myself, I'm not as self-absorbed as Mark. I frankly don't give a shit about you as a person."

"Wouldn't you like to know what would happen if you grew up to live a full life on Earth?"

"Raised by grandpa? No. I am fairly sure that it ended up very similar to her as an adult raised by that man." He indicates to you when he says "her", "I become boring parent with a middle-class job and a love-less marriage, if I was actually able to convince someone to marry me."

"You were able to get a wife, and everything you just said was pretty dead on."

"See? I know myself well enough, I don't need a soul searching bullshit fest."

"Wait, I want to know about myself as an adult!" You proclaim.

"Oh, no problem." Brandon begins to explain, "Imagine him/me, but female, looks like you, and is a racist."

"What? I was racist? Damn, I'm starting to not like adult me."

"As well you shouldn't, adult versions of ourselves are the same as us, but raised in shittier times with more crushed dreams."

"Wow, that's depressing."

"Anyway," Grimm continues, "the whole point of this meeting is for you two to get to know each other as you'll be entering the same universe soon."

"We've already met." You explain.

"Wait, what?"

"Yeah, and no matter which version of you you are, you're an asshole."

"But you two meeting already ruins the whole big reveal and heartfelt talk between mother and son/father and daughter!"

"That sounds fucking stupid." Brandon declares as he leans his head back over the arch of his chair and groans with boredom.

"Don't be rude to other you!" You yell at him.

"No. I can do what I want as you have no actual authority over me based off of genetics alone."

"Why are you such a piece of shit?"

"Umm, blame my parents."

"So it's my fault?"

"Nah, I'd really blame my father for taking all my aspirations and just crushing them under his boot."

"What kind of terrible person did adult me marry?"

"Someone who has no idea how to raise a child. My father is the embodiment of anger."

"Could it really be that bad?"

"Once my brother woke him up in the middle of the night by being too loud, so he punched a hole in the wall."

"What? That sounds like someone who's overly violent."

"My father is the only person I could think of who would never teach their child the basics of how a computer works then get mad at the child for not understanding how to build one."

"Wow, adult me married an asshole!"

"Yes, yes she did. What about your mom? What kinda person did this asshole marry?" He asks as he motions to Grimm.

"My mom was the greatest! She was caring and nice, the pinnacle of what a mother should be!"

"Bullshit! I refuse to believe that any version of me could land that kind of catch! Have you seen how much of an asshole I am? Was she evil? Was she a demon? Did he sell his soul to the wife demon for a wife?

"No, I frankly don't know how this asshole of a father got such a good wife."

"What did you do Grimm? Brainwashing? Did you luck out on an arranged marriage? Sell your non-existent soul to the devil as I said before?"

"No!" Grimm replies angrily, "Do you honestly beleive I am incapable of getting a lovely wife who is also a terrific mother?"

"Well..." Brandon continues, "Seeing as I'm you, yes I very highly doubt that. Have you talked to yourself? Well now you have and if you've been speaking with me this long then you can understand how I doubt the legitimacy of this story."

"Wow, I just can't win! Yes, I actually did convince someone to marry me without the use of petty tricks of games."

"What's the catch?"

"Why do you think there's a catch?"

"Because there is! I know for a fact that there had to be something that led a perfectly normal person to see a huge asshole and go, 'Oh, great husband material!'."

"She was a perfectly normal person."

"I don't care, I'm still gonna choose to believe you sold your soul."

"Shut up about selling souls, that's the dumbest thing ever be ever heard!" You declare to the two pieces of shit in front of you.

"Yes, let's do that!" Brandon says.

"Cool, let's talk about how I'm leaving and not talking to you assholes!"

"Wow, someone's a little salty about the bracelet."

"Yeah, I am! I don't appreciate my things being destroyed!"

"Sorry about that but it was a necessity."

"Really? Being an asshole and destroying my things is a necessity?"

"No. You not being in the session is a necessity. I can't let the team get weak."

"What do you mean by get weak? Do you think I'm going to make your team weaker? As if I'm some kind of hinderence."

"No, it's because you're too powerful as a healer."

"Wow, that's the biggest lie I've ever heard. Saying that you didn't want someone's help because they'd do the job too well."

"No, it's not about doing a job or anything, it's because you're an incredibly powerful healer. We don't need a bunch of gods who can expect for their lives to be saved every time they get in trouble."

"I'm going to end up in the same universe as you guys anyway. What does it matter?"

"It matters plenty. If I let my team grow into a group of weakilings who can't pull their own weight, then who's to say that some other threat couldn't defeat us. Who's to say that there won't be other gods, ones who are more powerful, who know how to work as a team."

"Why would there be other gods?"

"It's not a matter of other gods appearing, I'm preparing us for the event that our friendships will fade, and in that place hatred will form."

"Wait, you're preparing your friends for if they have to kill each other?!"

"I am, humans are terrible creatures. We lie, we cheat, we steal, humans betray the gifts given to them by whatever created us. We are evil at our core, and I can't deny that my friends and I are like this as well. If one of us turns, tries to destroy the others, tries to stop what we worked so hard to create, then the others are gonna have to put them down."

"You say this like humans are animals, like they can just be put down when they get a bum leg, or make a mistake."

"Humans are animals, every religion in the world shows this. Every belief system with the exception of Confucianism will show you this. Humans have always been animals, and they always will be. I detest humans, I'm glad we destroyed Earth."

"What!? How can you say that?! Humans have come so far as civilization, we've built the pyramids and the Statue of Liberty. We created great empires and wonderful thinkers! Humans have achieved so much!"

"Humans have only grown by killing one another. Humans built the pyramids on the bones of the fallen slaves who labored on them, those empires were founded by the destruction of others, and those thinkers unknowingly created the weapons to destroy human life that those groups used."

"So what if they did? So what if they made mistakes, can't they be forgiven?"

"No!" This was not only said by Brandon, but also by Grimm.

"Humans also can't survive without other humans, what if you destroy each other entirely? What if you kill out humanity by trying to destroy its faults?"

"Then that would be one less stain on the fabric of history. Sadly that stain still remains, until it's completely removed from the fabric it rests on."

"What?"

"I'm saying that the only way humanity can be forgiven, is for it to die out."

"What's wrong with you?"

"I'm a realist. The world isn't all sunshine and rainbows, you should know that."

"Don't try and push your beliefs on me!"

"I'm not trying to, I'm stating my beliefs, and the facts amongst them. If I wanted the whole world to think like me, then I'd make a world where I was the only person. I appreciate input from others, if it has an intelligent backup."

"So if I could convince you humanity was good, then you'd accept it?"

"Yes, but I doubt you could do that."

"I guess you're just a lost cause, just like this piece of shit is!" You say as you point at Grimm.

"Really?" Grimm asks, "You're still holding a grudge, Sakura?"

"I hate that name, and yes I'm still angry!"

"Wow, you fucking weeb!" Brandon says to Grimm.

"What?" He looks at Brandon confused.

"Bro, kid-you was a weeb, and adult you fucking was one!"

"I know what a weeb is, but adult me wasn't one."

"No, you weren't a weeb, you only named your daughter common Japanese name A."

"It's 'cause I found her on a buisness trip to Japan. I took her to the nearest hospital and she got the name as a placeholder until we found no her parents. No parents were found for her, so I took her home."

"Yes, attempt to hide the weeb, but I still know!"

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" You ask.

"Nothing." They reply in unison.

"Bullshit! I came all the way out here, abandoned an entire universe to just sort it's own shit out to find my father, and this is what I find?"

"What?" Brandon asks as he looks at you with a strange face.

"You are a sociopath! You are literally arguing with yourself right now! Do you know how fucking crazy that makes you? My father, the man I used to look up to is a fucking sociopath who argues with himself!"

"You'd do the exact same thing over n this situation."

"No! I'd understand how other me thinks and feels, then move the fuck on!"

"No, because once you talk it out, and older version of yourself will hate that you're on a path to mistakes they made; you will hate them for trying to order you around, when they really are trying to help. Nobody truly understands themself."

"So you have full understanding of what is happening here and still choose to argue?"

"No. I in no way have full understanding of this situation. I can think and ponder and compare it to what I know, but this is still completely incomprehensible. I don't fucking know what my life has become. I was just doing my thing, living life, now I'm gonna become death, I have a mom-daughter, and I'm arguing with older me. I might just have gone crazy."

"How can you act so calm about this then?"

"Because I've just stopped giving a shit. The amount of total shits given about anything has hit a total of zero."

"I don't even know how to respond to that."

"I'd suggest just leaving, because this is already a way too fucked up conversation. The second I started talking to adult me this became absolute bullshit."

"Fine, I'll leave. I'm just done with this."

"Good, I am too. I should also add, avoid talking with people from my session, we can speak once you arrive, but talking in the dream bubbles only complicates things and results in more of these bullshit conversations."

"I'll do as I please!"

"Cool, I honestly don't care. I'm gonna continue to murder things in my session now."

"Asshole." You mutter. You wake up in the spaceship.

END OF CHAPTER 36

Hey, remember when this piece of shit was updated last? Neither do I! This is the author and I just wanted to tell you that I could have been writing this but I had actual shit to do! I also know that there are probably only like 4 people who read this so have fun with this hastily finished chapter that I wrote half of in one month and the other half at 1AM because I got bored!

Fuck this story, it's absolute shit but you will probably keep reading,

- The High King of Dralk