Briefing & Arrival Upon This Beautiful World:
Maximus awoke sitting on a chair that was in dark room with a small amount of light illuminating all around him. The entirety of the place felt as though it could stretch on forever with no visible horizon. It was as though he were sitting in the middle of a void with no concept of time or structure. In front of him was another chair that was a bit more fancy looking than the one he was sitting on and next to it was a nightstand with drawers and a thick book on top. He was in his usual black outfit and blue trench coat.
"What is going on and where exactly am I?" He wondered to himself.
The next moment he heard the footsteps approaching from behind and he turned around to see a beautiful lady walking up toward him. Her beauty was beyond any other woman he had come across before. She had a slim figure with ample breasts, long toned legs, blue waist-long hair that is partially tied into a loop with a water-molecule shaped clip.
Her clothes carry a blue color scheme, her attire consisted of a blue vest with a single white lining that glided down the middle. Her arms bore white detached sleeves with blue edges, white thigh-high leggings, with blue edgings, that spanned up to her mid-thighs and long boots blue in color reaching just past her knees.
She also had an extremely short miniskirt with gold edging, and a transparent blue underskirt. She also wore a divine relic in the form of a translucent pink Hagoromo that wrapped around her arms. Her sharp blue eyes had a graceful gaze that could pierce through ones own soul. The blue outfit helped brought out the color in her eyes and hair.
"Hello, welcome to the afterlife, I am the Goddess Aqua," She said with grace, pausing for a moment and took a long look at him. "He's far better in person than I would have imagined. This will work out perfectly for this world I will ultimately send him to. I know it was something I shouldn't have done, but I got to help that world out somehow." She thought to herself.
"Wait, hold up, you said this is the afterlife, correct?" Maximus quickly asked to confirm what she said.
"That is correct." She responded.
"Okay next question, how did I get here?" He inquired with a little anger in his tone.
"You died on your world, my condolences on your untimely passing. Normally I fairy souls from the land of Japan to this world, but for some reason you were sent to me. So, I get to offer you two choices to go from here." She briefly explained.
"Hold on here, how did I die on my world? The last thing I remember was getting a night's rest when suddenly I felt a cold hand upon my chest where my heart was and finally awoke here. How does that add up?" He asked further.
"You died of a heart attack in your sleep." She shot back quickly trying to hide her grin.
"Wait, how could I have died from a heart attack when I was the picture of health back in my world?" He protested and noticed she was trying to hide her smile that was growing by the second. "What's so funny?" He inquired feeling annoyed of the look on her face.
She began to laugh hysterically as she was slightly reminded about a young boy who was before him. "Oh, it's nothing truly important, this just reminded me of a pathetic boy who died a far worse death than you did. You should have seen the way it happened to him, he thought a girl was going to get hit by a truck when in reality it was only a slow-moving tractor and he pissed himself he was so scared." She blurted out and began to laugh even harder. "He arrived at the hospital only to die on the spot by a fluke heart attack and his parents were so embarrassed they didn't want to see him at all." She continued.
"I can't help but laugh a little yet this is still not very funny either way." He said to himself.
"Anyway, there's no good thing like a good laughter to brighten up your day. Although I will confess, I was somehow able to not make fun of him when he was here. Who knows what could have happened if I had let it all out?" She said.
She stood from here chair, her Hagoromo disappeared from view, and she approached Maximus.
"Now then, to let you know about your choices you can select from. The first option is rather boring to be honest. You can choose to move on to heaven and take the form of a spirit where you will sit around and do nothing all day every day for the rest of eternity." She paused to lean close to him. "Oh, and just so you know, taking that route is highly overrated. Since you don't have a physical body in heaven, you won't be able to have sex with any of the ladies there."
She turned around and walked back to her chair. "So, you should pick option two and be reincarnated on a new world where you can be an adventurer and go on many quests." She said with her arms in the air as though it were meant to be a joyous occasion and a light shined down upon her.
"Okay, hypothetical question here before I choose. Why should I even bother with another world's problems when I had my own to take care of, can I not choose to return to my home world?" Maximus inquired folding his arms.
"Unfortunately, you only have those two options to choose from and," She paused for a moment to lean down in front of him. "The world I will be sending you to is being ruled by a vicious tyrant known to all as "The Demon King" and many people are being trampled before the might and onslaught of his armies and followers. They rape, pillage, commit horrible atrocities, burn cities to the ground, and commit… horrible atrocities." She shouted out loud raising her arms once more.
"As if I didn't have my own problems fighting against several Demon Lords on my home world, which you may or may not have doomed by the way. I am supposed to care about one single low life scumbag on a different world now." He said standing up feeling annoyed clinching his right hand. "Why doesn't this world have effective means or great heroes to battle this fiend?" He inquired.
"The heroes of the past in this world all died in the first wave, now most people just go on quest as a job nothing more than that. Plus, the population is dwindling and we need an intervention of a sort to combat this evil." She explained. "Jeez, why don't you just go down there so we can get this underway, I've got better things to do than just wait for you to decide what you are going to do."
"Fine, I will go to this world." He said feeling annoyed curbing his anger. "By the way I have to ask another question." He said to her and she listened intently. "Will I be able to retain all my physical form as it was before I died, that is, keep all of my abilities?"
"Yeah, it will be a piece of cake to do that." She responded.
"One more question, in my previous life there was a curse placed upon my ancestor that followed down the line through the ages to me which kept the vast majority of us from accessing our full potential. Will you be able to remove such a curse?" He inquired and waited for her reply with great interest.
"Yeah, that would be a cinch for someone as high level of a Goddess as I." She replied.
Maximus looked down at his hands knowing full well what would transpire from being released and he could finally be able to truly master his Nephilim powers. A renewed smile appeared on his face that had a sinister look and feel to it.
"Then let's get to it." He said calmly.
"Alright, first you will need to decide what one thing you wish to take with you. Upon your arrival into this world you will be able to communicate with everyone as the common language will be downloaded into your brain. You will be able to read and write it as though it were natural to you. There is the slight rarity that the information overload will make you go "poof" but that almost never happens at all." She explained.
"Wait, what do you mean by poof? Did you just happen to say something on the lines my brain will be splattered and try to pass it off as it were not a problem at all?" He inquired.
"No, I didn't." She quickly shot back closing a book.
"Yes, you did." He fired back with annoyance in his voice.
"Alright, here are some things for you to choose from to take with you on your journey." She said with joy throwing two stacks of paper at him.
Moments went by and Maximus was having a hard time choosing what to bring with him.
"I can use a mighty weapon or have the ability to use magic. Both would be more preferable; however, I am only able to pick one thing." He sat on the chair deciding what to choose.
Aqua was sitting on her chair eating away at a bag of chips. "Come on hurry it up already, like I said before I've got better things to do than sit here all day waiting on you to choose. Not that it's going to matter anyway. To think that someone I brought over here to help this world would take so long to choose." She said with a snotty tone.
Maximus' ears rung with a few select words that stuck out the most. "What did you just say," He stood up feeling his anger begin to boil. "You mean to tell me that you caused my heart to fail and brought me over to be reincarnated into this world against my will after all?" His voice deepened and his eyes bore a raging glare.
"Yeah, I admit it, now are you going to pick something or what?" She inquired chewing on a chip.
"I'm going to make your life a living Hell for this," He whispered as he lifted his finger to point at her. "The one thing I choose to take with me to this new world is, you." He said calmly keeping his anger in check.
She finished chewing on the chip as his previous words hadn't caught her attention just yet. "Alright, Maximus, just stand in the circle and don't move outside it," She stopped for a moment. "Wait, what did you say?"
The next moment another circle appeared below her that was followed by a woman with wings on her back. Maximus glanced over and saw the angel gliding down before them.
"Your request has been heard and will be carried out, along with the agreements you had made previously." She said.
"Wait, there has to be a mistake here, he can't take me, I'm a Goddess after all!" Aqua said feeling nervous and was on the verge of panicking.
"His wish complies and aligns with the contract agreements and is therefore honored by all of the Gods." The Angel replied. "Fear not Lady Aqua, for in your absence I will fill thy post until your return. When you defeat the Demon King, I will send an escort to fairy thee home."
"Wait seriously, I'm a healer not a fighter, I won't be able to defeat the Demon King! You can't do this to me, I'm a Goddess!" She screamed followed by her frantic crying. The next moment she heard Maximus bursting out with laughter.
"That will teach you to interfere with someone else's life. Once we get there, you'll know exactly what it's like to be a mortal. With all of that said if you stick with me, you might have a chance to get back to your home. Who knows, you might even like it there so much you might just change your mind. Once you have a taste of what our mortal lives are like, it might be better than sitting on a chair all day fairing people to and fro." He proclaimed while pointing at her.
She was unsure how to respond to him as she momentarily remained silent.
"Maximus, should you be successful in defeating the Demon King you may have one wish granted upon to you. Any one thing that your heart's desires will be yours." The Angel declared unto him.
"You're serious about this, alright I think I know just what I want." He said out loud.
Aqua turned back to him and wondered what he could be thinking as his gaze was set upon his hands.
"Fare thee well, may you have many joyous quests on your journey." The Angel said.
The next moment a bright light shined before the two of them and momentarily they were getting off a covered wagon. The next instant the two of them regained their focus and found themselves standing in the streets of the town of Axel. Maximus looked around to get his bearings, seeing what was around. Aqua was still in a state of silent panic, her face was showing no emotion just yet as reality had not taken its toll on her.
"So, this is the town where we are to start off, I guess. The people dress like many people I had met on my travels through the various small towns and villages of my world." He said out loud casting his gaze in all directions. "Well, I suppose it's time for…"
Before he could continue Aqua instantly latched onto his coat her silent panic had now escaped her mind and she was frantically trying to shake him.
"Send me back please, I'm a Goddess, I don't belong in this world at all. If I stay here, I'll end up going insane and wind up being dragged away force to live out my life as some slave!" She shouted at him with tears in her eyes.
The next moment a "Pause: Press Start Button" appeared before them and time stood still for a few seconds before continuing. Her panicking cries had everyone's attention and Maximus was starting to get annoyed.
"She calls herself a Goddess, this is not the way one should act, unbelievable." He said to himself.
The next moment he took hold of her shoulders. "Aqua!" He raised his voice to get her attention and she quickly stopped to listen. "Your acting very immature for one who calls themselves a Deity. Surely you can act well-mannered in a public setting and not like a helpless halfwit. You call yourself a Goddess, then start acting like one." He finished what was on his mind and she let his words ring in her mind a little bit more.
"He's right, I shouldn't be quaking just because I now reside in the mortal realm." She said to herself and stood a little taller letting go of his coat. She slightly coughed a little before continuing. "You're right, it's not befitting for a Goddess to act in such a manner. I am glad you were able to help me see that light." She said with a little confidence. "So, what are we going to do from here?" She inquired stepping close to him.
"Well, if we're going to defeat the Demon King, we will first need to become Adventurers, go on a lot of quests to gain some experience as well as know the layout of the land, grow our abilities, see what our strengths and weakness' are, perfect our fighting abilities, get to know our opponents nonchalantly so we can effectively plan our attack…" Maximus paused for a moment and noticed Aqua was standing there with a dazed and confused look wearing on her face. "You know what, let's start with the first step and go from there." He said with a small smile forming.
Maximus turned around and saw a man walking by. "Excuse me, mister, do you happen to know where the Adventurers Guild might be." Maximus had raised his hand to get his attention and inquired.
"I take it the two of you are new here," He stopped to point with his thumb at the street behind him. "Just go down this main street and it will take you to the center of town where the Guild Hall is."
"Thank you, my good sir." Maximus nodded and he grabbed Aqua by her hand, who was still looking dazed for some reason he knew not and proceeded down the road.
Aqua was unsure how to react when his hand grabbed hold of hers. It wasn't too tight or too soft. "His grip has a gentle grasp to it as well as a feeling of concern. I'm surprised he would take charge like that instead of leaving me behind only to panic and rush after him. Not to mention he's called me by my name instead of Goddess right off the bat." She said to herself. A small smile began to form and she admired how he was handling the situation.
Minutes later the two of them were standing before the Guild Hall.
"Alright, behind these doors our adventure will soon commence. I'd say we are both past the point of no return from here on out. There is no telling what might happen so I will only say this once," He stopped to turn his head to her. "Stick beside me and you will be able to make it through all of this and be able to go back home." He said.
She nodded her head with renewed confidence.
"Alright, let us start our journey." He said and took a step towards the doors of the Guild Hall.
Before his second step the two of them heard the sound of glass breaking and shouting between multiple people. Aqua flinched in fear of what was going on, turned to Maximus and noticed he was unfazed.
"Great, our first day here and there's already a fight taking place. Couldn't they do that someplace elsewhere, as in outside the city grounds. Oh, well, let's get this over with." Maximus said feeling annoyed of the situation that was brewing before them on the inside of the Guild doors. He turned to Aqua and noticed she was feeling fearful of what was going on. "Stay close to me and whatever happens keep your wits about you."
She hesitantly nodded at him and cling to his right arm. Maximus kicked the doors and both instantly swung open.
