Chapter 5: Revelations
I somehow got out of bed without waking up Aqua and Luna.
I'm not really sure how I pulled off that miracle.
Well...I was naked but beggars can't be choosers.
Cthulhu decided to have some mercy on me by gifting me some boxers and a pair of grey sweatpants.
Also I got a new skill out of sneaking away to the bathroom!
[Stealth] (Passive) LV 17, EXP [96.9%] This is your ability to sneak around. As the skill EXP, you will be able to make Solid Snake stand shocked in awe for how good you are at using cardboard boxes for stealth. Be the box, motherfucker. Be the box!
Holy shit the skill EXP buff is still going!
Smirking at the new skill, I swiped the black holographic screen away. I looked into the mirror in the inn's restroom.
I gazed into the blood red eyes that were now mine. It's weird, being in a body that's not your own - that shouldn't be your own. But here I am, looking at the reflection of the complete stranger in the mirror.
I sighed as I splashed cold water onto my face.
This was going to take some time to get use to.
In all honesty, while I love this new body, I was going to miss my old one.
A lot of Rule 34 witnessed with that one.
Message from Gaia: One day. One singular day. I left you to check on Jee-Han, and you've already had a threesome! While I'm honestly impressed that you lost your virginity on your first day as a gamer, and in a threesome no less...What would your mother think?!
Damnit, Cthulhu probably told her!
Well...Um-I-She!
My mind halted as I thought about my mother and family in general.
Oh. Shit.
I felt the blood in my body run cold when I realized something very horrifying.
Message from Gaia: Jack are you ok?
Message from Dante: You're as pale as a ghost kid, the hell happened?
Message from Zelretch: Come on Jack, speak! Preferably before I decide to throw a pissed off Pikachu at your face, mid-Volt Tackle.
Message from Alucard, Lenka, Eddie, Ragna, and Geralt: Dude, are you alright?
"I disappeared at night, during summer vacation, when I should be sleeping in at home. I haven't seen or contacted my family for an entire day, more than long enough for my parents to notice that I'm missing." I said out loud, wide eyed, my voice was barely a whisper.
Message from Cthulhu: Never thought I'd be able to play this song.
BMG: Jeopardy - Think Music
I stood in front of the mirror with a blank face as the song played.
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Fucking hell it's this kind of shit that makes me want to stab people.
BMG END
*Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!*
Message from everyone except for Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep: Oh. Oooooh...Oh shit!
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Cthulhu, I could really use your help right about now!
Message from Cthulhu: Jack I need you to calm down.
Calm down. Calm down!?...Yeah you're probably right I should calm down, give me a second.
I took a deep breath, it calmed me down tremendously but my mind was still running high off panic.
Message from Cthulhu: I want you to go to the bedroom and sit down. I...need some time to figure out a way to break you some...bad news.
I heard the desperate tone in his voice.
Cthulhu, when you get your thoughts together, give it to me straight. No beating around the bush, no bullshit, got it?
The room was completely silent for a few seconds until Cthulhu finally gave me an answer.
Message from Cthulhu: Okay.
Thank you.
I walked back into the bedroom, Aqua and Luna were sleeping peacefully in the queen size bed.
A small smile graced my lips as I observed the relaxing and beautiful scene.
I walked over to the small work desk next to the bed and sat in the chair, leaning into it pensively. Sighing, I looked back at all the crazy shit that's happened so far.
I got the Eldritch Gamer, got sent to KonoSuba - my eyes moved to the sleeping forms of Luna and Aqua - and got into a threesome with two girls I've barely known for a day.
I would have prefered to get to know them for at least a few weeks before we did anything like...this.
No wonder mom said to stay away from alcohol!
I'll stick to anything but that horrid wine.
Being transported to the Mindfuck Eldritch Council of Doom.
...Are you fucking with me right now? That's what Cthulhu named his personal Velvet Room!
Now that I think about it, I'm part of that council too.
I've got the perfect line for whenever the Necronomicon lets me mindfuck things!
"Doctor Jackie recommends mindfucking!"
Consciousness will be transported in 10 seconds.
Sighing, I leaned back into the chair and looked up at the ceiling.
10.
9.
Can we hurry this up?
..
Huh, ask and you shall receive.
The world around faded to black.
Linebreak
My eyes snapped open.
The Velvet Room was different this time around. Instead of it being an exact replica from the Velvet Room from Persona 3 it was a black void. I was still sitting down in a very comfortable chair in front of a large table, draped in velvet blue cloth. Despite being in complete darkness, the table and chair emitted a blue light from them, allowing me to see the others sitting at the table.
I saw Cthulhu sitting across from me, still wearing his Slenderman cosplay.
"In all honesty, you weren't supposed to be here until you finished the tutorial world." the Great Old One sitting across from me said.
I stood up from my chair and walked over to Cthulhu, passing Dante, Eddie, and Lenka.
"Haven't you heard?" I asked "No plan survives contact with the enemy."
"All too true." Cthulhu said.
"Don't flatter yourself Cthulhu, you were never good at planning things." said a new, but beautiful voice that was right next to me.
I moved my head slowly to the right.
She had long gorgeous ankle length dark green hair, deep ocean blue eyes, luscious lips, and peach complexion. She had slender legs, a remarkably large bust, and a well curvy figure. She wore a low cut form fitting green dress that displayed a vine pattern on it, the skirt of the dress went down to her ankles and was split at the right side, showing off her legs a bit.
I'll be honest here, she was Highschool DxD levels of drop dead gorgeous.
Dante, Alucard, Lenka, Eddie, Ragna, Zelretch and Geralt all had their jaws dropped at the sheer beauty of the woman standing before us.
Above her head show her name, title, and level.
Goddess and Will of Earth
LV ? Gaia
I raised an eyebrow at that.
"My eyes are down here young man." she said.
My eyes shifted to her large breast.
I put my hand on my chin, my brows furrowed as if I was thinking hard about something.
"Are they? Are they really?" I asked in a fake confused tone.
"You're doing this on purpose aren't you?" Gaia said in a flat tone.
I brought my eyes to look into her beautiful blue eyes.
"Guilty as charged." I said with no shame.
Gaia sighed as she walked up to me and hugged me tightly, her chest squished against mine as she rested her head in the crook of my neck.
I was honestly surprised by the act and felt the heat in my face rise.
Why did I blush when I already had a threesome the other night?
I was drunk, that's why.
Once I regained my composure, I hugged her back.
Then I noticed that the hug was lasting a lot longer than I expected.
"Um, Gaia-"
"Shut up Jack, this is the first time I've ever had a physical body and you are not ruining this for me!"
"Okay, okay."
I looked over to the table to see everyone besides Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu shocked.
"Fine, I ask the question." Dante stated. "Who the hell is this!?"
I turned to Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu.
"You want me to tell them." they nodded. "Ah, alright, this is Gaia."
"WHAT!?" shouted Zelretch.
"Hold up Zelretch, I don't think this is that Gaia." I said.
"Oh, I am from his world." Gaia said gleefully.
I paused, Zelretch and I looked fearfully at the woman I was hugging.
I turned to Cthulhu.
"Are you for real right now!?" I almost yelled. "She hates humanity!"
"Well while that's true," I cringed at her casually admitting that. "You're not human anymore, and anyone here that is human isn't a part of Alaya nor are they my responsibility."
Zelretch and I looked at each other, shocked, and then looked back to Gaia.
"Oh." the two of us said simply.
"I do hate the Crimson Moon though." Gaia said. "Fucker thought that he could get away with throwing a fucking moon at me and thought I wouldn't have been pissed. Try reviving yourself now that I've programed Primate Murder to stop any possible attempts for you to come back."
"So you gave Cthulhu a copy of the Gamer ability?" I asked the Will of Earth.
"Yes, now as to how I even know of the Gamer ability, think of Zelretch's kaleidoscope and how he uses it to go through the multiverse and come in contact with other versions of himself."
I nodded.
"I myself can contacted other versions of myself throughout the multiverse as well, but only through advanced forms of telepathy which allow us to see from each other's perspective."
"Interesting." Zelretch said.
"And highly contrived." I added.
"That too."
I turned to Gaia who was still hugging me.
"Alright, it's time to let go." I said.
She looked up at me and pouted adorably.
"Fine." she said.
Gaia let go of me, but before I could even move she closed in once again and grabbed me by the back of my head; pulling me closer to her face, it happened too quickly, by the time I realized what was happening we were already engaged in a deep kiss.
Well at least I was sober for this.
"GOD DAMNIT!" I heard Dante shout, as he banged the table with his fist. "Why does he get all the hot chicks!?"
Ding!
New skill made!
[Kissing] (Passive) LV 32, EXP [49%]. This is quite obviously your ability to kiss someone. As the skill EXP increases you will become a better kisser. Now go out there and turn some poor girl's brain into mush by teaching them the art of French kissing!
My mind was blank as Gaia explored my mouth with her tongue. She pulled back, a string of saliva connecting us.
"W-Wha...?" was all I could get out in my dazed state.
"Jack, while the Gaia of Jee-Han's world thinks of him as a son, what I think of you, is completely different." Gaia said with a mischievous smile.
"Gaia, I used to be human!"
"Jack," Gaia looked me right in the eyes. "I don't give a fuck. You're not a part of Alaya, you produce your own mana, you're my champion, and I'm very, very lonely. Let me have this."
I looked blankly at Gaia who still had her arms wrapped around my neck, sighing as I hung my head down, I looked to Nyarlathotep. She had a downright angelic smile on her face.
"She can join the harem, but I'm going to break you." the outer god said, still smiling.
"What!?" I yelled in horror.
"Like a Kit Kat bar."
"...What!?" I shouted in confusion.
"Don't worry kid, me and Zelretch just got a metric fuck ton of viagra for your bitch ass." I heard Dante say.
My head snapped to Dante and Zelretch, who just so happened to be leaning on a fucking huge box labeled in black bold letters.
Viagra for the poor low level scrublord!
"What!" I shouted with extreme saltiness.
"What country you from?" Dante asked.
"What?"
"What ain't no country I ever heard of. Do they speak English in what?"
"What?"
"English mother fucker, do you speak it!?"
"What?"
"Say what again! Say what again! I dare you, I double dare you mother fucker! Say what one more goddamn time!"
I looked at Dante blankly for a few seconds.
Then very quickly, a shit eating grin made it's way onto my face.
"What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what...in the butt."
Dante looked at me blankly for a few good seconds.
"Fuck it, you win this round." he said begrudgingly.
Gaia removed her hold on me and walked to Nyarlathotep.
My head turned to Cthulhu.
"Alright Slenderthulhu, lay it on me, what in the fuck is going on?"
Cthulhu sighed, his head turned, looking at everyone in the room and stopped when he turned to me.
"What I'm about to reveal involves everyone in this room." the Great Old One announced, his voice stone cold and serious.
Those sitting on the table leaned in closer as to not miss a word Cthulhu was going to say.
"Time on the entirety of the multiverse has been reversed, because Azathoth was almost awakened."
My eyes widened when his sentence finally sunk in.
Everyone sitting on the table besides Nyarlathotep looked confused as to who Azathoth was.
Azathoth is the father of Nyarlathotep, the Nuclear Chaos, the creator of existence itself.
The Blind Idiot God, who is oblivious to what he has created due to his everlasting dreaming.
If he was to ever awaken from his sleep there would be no more worlds, no more gods, everything would literally cease to exist.
This means something happened to the lesser deity that continuously lulls the Outer God to sleep with it's music.
"What in the fuck happened that woke up Azathoth of all things?" I asked growing increasingly distressed.
"In a particular version of the TYPE-MOON universe, Kirei Kotomine got his hands on the omnipotent wish granting device, the Holy Grail. His wish was for all of existence to end." Cthulhu said grimly. "Angra Mainyu also known as Avenger whose spirit corrupts the grail's power granted his wish in the most destructive way possible. It burned all of existence in fire. None of the Outer Gods could stop the flames of destruction that the Angra Mainyu brought, the best anyone could do was slow it down."
Everyone, myself included, had a looking of utter shock on their face.
Nyarlathotep began explaining the rest of the situation.
"It got so desperate that my siblings, Nameless Mist and Darkness, had asked me to help them reverse time to stop the wish before it happened. Unfortunately, thanks to the grail being truly omnipotent, the wish transcends time and space, meaning that no matter what happened the wish will follow through even if Kirei is killed before he can make the wish. The only way to stop it is to completely destroy the grail; we dubbed the...incident the Event Horizon."
Zelretch started to look a bit uncomfortable in his seat.
His eyes seemed to lose the light in them, and any mischievousness that seemed to radiate off of him was gone.
"Is this grail from my specific universe?" asked the Wizard Marshall.
The room was silent for a few seconds until Cthulhu finally spoke up.
"Yes." he said simply.
Zelretch grit his teeth in frustration and his hands clentched in the fist so tightly that his knuckles popped audibly.
"Okay, we know, what's happened, but why can't the kid go back home?" asked Eddie.
The lovecraft deity turned his head to me once again.
"Zachary," my eyes widened when the Old Great One used my real name for the first time. "when Kirei made the wish that started the Event Horizon, it didn't start in their universe."
I did not like where this was going.
"It started in your's, more specifically, it started with you."
"After the reversion of time, the Outer Gods couldn't interfere with the Holy Grail lest they prematurely wake up Azathoth. Since the wish goes beyond space and time, the moment time was reversed the Event Horizon started right away, once again, in the exact same spot."
I looked at the black floor wide eyed at the revelation.
"Since we couldn't intervene with the grail or the Angra Mainyu we needed to create a singularity, but none of us knew who to make that singularity. So, we gather up some of the multiverse's most, in our opinion, interesting individuals to help us decide who would be the singularity. Everyone chosen failed our little interview, except for you; we had to repair your soul almost completely from scratch, good thing your memories were still left, or else we wouldn't be even having this conversation."
"Then the Event Horizon happening right now! What's keeping it from spreading and burning away the rest of the multiverse again!?" I asked, panicked.
"To stop the Event Horizon from spreading, most of the Outer Gods used their power to help trap it in the first universe it appeared." Cthulhu looked at me somberly. "I'm sorry Zachary, I truly am, but there's no home for you to go back to."
It all hit me like a ton of bricks.
My family, my friends, everyone I know and care about, everyone I've meet.
All dead.
Gone.
No way to save them.
No way to bring them back.
I'll never see them again.
Suddenly, memories rushed into my head.
The unbearable pain, the fire, the whispers mankind's evils in my head, the sight of everything around me burning as I did, and then the feeling of wasting away.
No...no, no, no, no, No. No. No. No. NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
This can't be happening! This can't be happening! This can't be happening! This can't be happening! This can't be happening! This can't be happening! This can't be happening! This can't be happening!
The feeling of a hand on my shoulder snapped me out of my panic.
I noticed that I had fallen to my knees and was hyperventilating, tears run down my face while I griped the sides of my head.
Nyarlathotep and Zelretch were by my sides, they helped me up to my feet and walked me to an empty chair.
I sat there, tears continuously pouring from my eyes.
I didn't feel the need to wipe them away, I wasn't as pathetic as to hide my sorrow.
Through my blurred vision I was able to see the reactions of those in the room affected by the revelation of the Event Horizon.
Gaia and Lenka had similar expressions of shock on their faces.
Dante had his head hung down, his hair shadowing his eyes.
Geralt had his hands together and a frown etched into his face.
Alucard grit his teeth, his pearly white fangs gleamed with deadly intent.
Ragna clenched his hands into fist so hard that his arms started shaking.
Zelretch held his head in his hands.
My mind replayed the constant whispers all of mankind's evils as I burned.
MURDER
RAPE
BLOODSHED
BETRYAL
WAR
DESTRUCTION
MASSACRE
SCORN
HATE
Every Violence! Every Victim! Every Crime! Every Criminal!
Atone For Everything!
Die...
Die. Die. Die.
DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!IE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!DIE!
I felt all of it's hate, every act of violence that has been committed and would have been committed.
Every single crime of humanity.
I grit my teeth in rage.
"How long do we have until the Event Horizon starts again?" I said in an eerily calm voice.
"Enough for you to take your time getting stronger, after you're done here, I'm sending you to Fuyuki City."
"Good."
"What's the plan kid?" Asked Dante.
"I'm going to give Kirei Kotomine and Angra Mainyu a taste of their own medicine."
"And what do you have in mind?" Alucard inquired.
"I'm going to enjoy watching them BURN!" I said through my girt teeth with as much hatred as possible.
Chapter 5 END