It all started when I requested my students to come to a hospital.
"Oooh, spicy" Neptune commented.
"Neptune, shush." Noire put a finger to her lips.
Shin has just arrived at the train station and gets a text from one of his friends to meet at a nearby park.
"Wait a minute... were you there?" Neptune pointed at the teacher.
"No. I wasn't"
"Then how did you know-"
"I'll explain later."
"Okay."
"Nep, just let her continue her story." IF reprimanded.
He arrived at the park, only to find it closed off to the public. A reporter for an occult magazine was there. He would introduce himself as Hijiri. He was reporting on an incident that transpired in the park.
Shin once again gets a text from a friend telling him to meet at the Shikigami hospital.
His next objective was the hospital as he left Hijiri to find it. Once he got there he was greeted by his friends. Both of them my students. A girl named Chiaki and a boy named Isamu.
Shin stayed to have a small chat with Chiaki and Isamu went off to find me. After their small chat Chiaki sent Shin to find Isamu. After finding him they go back to the front entrance.
Isamu found a key to go to the basement and he sent Shin to go to the basement, because he was scared.
So he goes down to the basement and enters a room.
In the room there was a cylinder-like device, called a terminal, but a man sat in a chair facing away from Shin. He spun around and told Shin he was not worthy enough. A black shadow appeared behind the man, it was emanating from the terminal, a demon.
"A demon?" IF raised her eyebrows.
A nod was given.
Everyone else's eyes widened as they wanted to hear more of the story.
Now the logical thing to do was for someone to run when a shadowy figure appears, but Shin... He stood his ground ready to fight, even though he's never fought before. Fortunately I was there to intervene.
"You are one brave soul." MAGES. complimented
"Man, I bet you would've won anyway." Neptune gave a thumbs up.
"Indeed. The ones with brave souls shall always prevail." Vert added.
After convincing the man, Hikawa, to let him live, I told Shin to come up to the roof. He did. I told him the reason I brought him to the hospital. I told him the world should begin anew as no one was innovated. I told him he would be safe in the hospital as the world would be renewed. I told him of something that will end the world. The Conception. Then right there, it happened. The Conception, the world ended as everyone not in the hospital was erased from it.
"What?" Marvy raised her voice.
"The world ended?" Blanc repeated back.
"How? That's not possible, the world is still here." Noire pointed out the window, showing the ever so happy world.
"Yeah. It doesn't look like the world ended." Compa added.
"Looks as healthy as ever to me." Neptune said.
"I think it would be best to let her continue the story." Vert and IF said at the same time, earning a loving glare from the former. The former would glomp the latter, though in a way so that the latter could still hear.
Unfortunately he would wake up in the morgue, changed. He became something... something that wasn't human, yet still was. He became something that would be known as the Demi-Fiend.
"Demi-Fiend?" Neptune tilted her head
"Not... Human?" Compa repeated.
"What do you mean by those? Does that mean?"
"Not currently, no." Shin interrupted Noire.
He would exit the morgue and enter the room Hikawa was previously in. Just to be met by Hijiri, who told him he was glad that he was alive. He was studying the terminal and told Shin he'll relay back to him.
He would try to go back up the elevator, but an old man in a wheelchair and a lady in black appeared before him. They disappeared quickly after telling him not to disappoint them. He would try to enter the elevator, only to enter a room with red walls and floors and possibly water.
"Those two sound important." Neptune commented.
"They are, but mostly they just relayed information." Shin answered.
"Ah. So the exposition dumps."
He would have his first combat experience there, surviving with relative ease. He mainly used his fists. After he was done he would find himself in the elevator, apparently passing the test. He was set on finding his friends as he wandered around the hospital. He fought some demons as he wandered around, until he met a locked gate, that he needed a key card to.
Fortunately there was a demon there to help him, a pixie. This demon would turn out to be one of the first allies he would acquire and later on the most powerful.
"First?" IF managed to say, before being crushed by hugs.
"Yes, to survive I had to convince demons to join my side. Pixie was the only one that was constantly at my side."
"Awwww." Vert let out.
"I guess that would explain the most powerful part, right?" Neptune beamed.
They got the key card and made way to the entrance of the hospital, only to be stopped by a powerful demon. Since he recruited a few demons to help him, he won with ease as it was weak to ice.
After getting back to the outside world he wandered about to take in the sights of the destroyed world. The Vortex World. It was mostly a desert like landscape with a sun-like being called Kagutushi, who empowers the demons, along with Magatsuhi. Basically Magatusuhi is the life force of everything, Humans having the most.
He would make it to what was left of a place called Ikebukuro. There he would find Chiaki, but she was scared at the new world. I don't blame her The world suddenly changing and filling with demons, no one can easily adjust. She would leave soon after.
After that he would find Hijiri again and find out the terminals can be used to transport mass and energy from one place to another and record things. Shin would use it, but he ended up trapped in the system for a bit, before arriving at his destination, Ginza.
"Ms. Yuko, I have a question?" Compa asked the teacher.
"Yes... Compa?" Yuko remembered her name.
"Where were you in all this?"
"Trapped in a tower." She answered truthfully.
"So, like a princess in distress?" Noire asked.
"If you think of it like that, then... yes."
"Did Shin save you, like a knight in shining armor?" Marvy's eyes seem to glow at that.
"I'll get to that later."
He would try to get into someplace called the assembly of Nihilo, but he wasn't allowed in due to not being a member. He had to take a long route through a tunnel and get to the Mantra. There he met the manikins sources of Magatushi, though they are sentient. After going through the manikin village in the tunnel he made his way to the Mantra.
"Before that I ran into Matador. A fiend. He was the toughest enemy I've ever faced up until then. Yes we've fought him before, Neptune. Here he was just treated as a rare spawn."
Neptune closed her mouth.
At the Mantra he would enter a large building where he would find his friend Isamu, but he was currently in an argument with Thor, a god of thunder.
"Hang on, a god?" IF questioned.
Shin was the one to answer the question, "Thor is just one of many gods that exist. All gods and goddesses exists, if they didn't exist before someone can just create a new religion. I've actually had many of them join my side and fight for me."
The entire room would stay silent after he said that. The four goddesses in the room couldn't make heads or tails of this. The humans in the room couldn't either.
"So that means-" Blanc started.
"What you're telling us is-" Vert continued.
"That we-" Noire said.
"Are-" Neptune's eyebrows furrowed.
"Not the only goddesses around!?" They all yelled. Forcing some of the residents to cover their ears.
The boy nodded his head.
The group of goddesses could only continue on in silence.
"Well, I for one would like to meet them!" Neptune hoped up on the bed.
"I wouldn't recommend it." Shin replied.
"Why not?"
The boy didn't give an answer as he silently cracked a couple of knuckles.
"Moving on... were there any goddesses that had 'assets' that could rival mine?" Vert jiggled a certain place at the word 'assets.'
"Of course you would be the one to say that." Blanc deadpanned.
"Yes." Was all Shin said.
"So... does this mean you could potentially take us on?"
The boy nodded once again.
"..." Noire was going to say something, but couldn't bring herself to.
"Well he did just admit to basically taking on gods and goddesses for breakfast, lunch, and dinner." Neptune made a small joke.
"This is getting more and more peculiar as you go on. Please, continue." MAGES. wanted to go on with the story.
"What happens next?" Compa was interested in the story completely.
While Isamu's back was turned Thor struck him and sucked out a majority of his Magatushi.
"I just realized that you're basically saying tushi."
"Is that important, Nep?
"No. It just sounds funny."
A sigh came from you know who.
Shin was immediately arrested at the front door and the only way to prove his innocence was to fight in an arena.
"Where's the logic in that?" Noire interrupted.
"The Mantra believed in a might makes right ideology." Yuko answered.
"Oh you mean like how in my training to become a ninja if someone accused you, you'd have to rip their clothes off to prove your innocence." Marvy provided a strange example.
"...Strange example, but yes?" Yuko broke a small silence in the room.
'She's a ninja?' Shin thought.
"What type of pervs... trained you?" Noire slowly let out.
"The best of the best in the ninja clan." Marvy jumped.
The room would remain silent as the teacher would go on with the story.
After fighting for his innocence, Thor being his last opponent, he quickly exited out of the building to go get some supplies. When he was about to return however he ran into a man named Dante. It ended in a draw, but Dante was obviously having some kind of fun.
Shin went to the top of the tower to see the leader Gozu. He allowed Shin passage through his territory and gave him some power.
He would then go underground to try to get to the assembly of Nihilo.
After he resurfaced he would fight demons and free manikins that were trapped in an old building. He would once again find Isamu in the old building, but he held resentment towards Shin.
"Resentment? For what exactly?" Neptune questioned.
"He disliked Shin, because I sent a distress signal to him and not Isamu." Yuko told.
"That... makes no sense." Blanc eyes widened.
"I did not understand either, but that was only the beginning."
Shin was lead to the main base of the manikins and was requested to clear out their sanctuary as demons invaded it. He did and heard of a manikin that was on a rampage killing other manikins and taking their skin as clothing.
A couple of gasps were thrown around, obviously a couple of them were shocked, but who wouldn't gasp.
Shin would once again go underground and try to get to Nihilo.
He makes it just in time for the Mantra to attack their base. He would once again face Hikawa and try to get Shin to join his side, but Shin rejected. Hikawa would make his escape as he left one of his demons to hold off Shin, but not before firing off energy that would suck the Magatushi out of the Mantra and kill their leader.
Shin would obviously defeat the demon and exit the building to find the tower that I resided in. He would face off a lot of demons who were aligned with Nihilo and finally get to me. He would free me from my prison as Hikawa used me to end the world. I didn't have a reason and at the time... I didn't know I was the one supposed to make a reason.
"Hang on what is a 'reason?'" Noire asked the teacher.
"Your ideology and how you want to recreate the world. It's only humans who can create reasons. Since the world ended, someone has to recreate it." Yuko gave a brief summary to the goddess.
The room would stay silent... the story was confusing them somewhat.
I told him to meet me at the park, Yoyogi park to be exact, it was currently occupied by a group of faerie. It was then I was possessed by a goddess Aradia. At that point I gained knowledge of Shin's journey and the absolute truth of the Vortex World. I was actually powerless, but Shin wasn't. I asked him to collect a small pyramid and bring it to me, not caring if there was Magatushi in it. It would benefit him more than me.
He would encounter the manikin killer, who drained all the Magatushi from the pyramid and summoned a powerful demon that could deflect physical attacks. As you could tell it would've been a long battle, after the demon the killer would try to strike Shin with magic, but to no avail.
On his last breath he told of a human girl that survived his grasp, obviously this was Chiaki. He got the pyramid for... Aradia and she asked him a couple of questions.
"Are you afraid, boy?"
Shin answered no.
"Do not lie to me! Are you afraid?"
Shin still answered no.
Aradia congratulated him and gave him power, before taking me away with her, as she was currently in possession of my body.
Even though no one was asking questions, they were still listening to every word she said.
Shin would begin to wander about, until he entered the defeated Mantra's tower. Up the tower he would find Chiaki with a missing arm and she was kneeling over Gozu's body, she was pleading to be able to get stronger. With the last of it's strength Gozu gave her that power, with it she turned into a false fiend. She proclaimed she would go on to create a reason of the strong ruling over the weak. The reason of Yosuga.
The former Mantra members joined up with her... as well as angels.
"Angels?" Compa asked.
The student and teacher nodded.
"But... why? Why would angels side with such a reason?" Compa once again asked.
"I don't know." Shin replied.
"Aren't angels supposed to protect the weak?" Marvy asked.
"Not these angels." Yuko told them.
"So... what? Are angels the bad guys and demons the good guys?" Neptune inquired.
"There is no good and bad, only one side against another." Shin told the girl.
"What does that mean?"
"It means that they are just two sides, no bad guys or good guys." Blanc answered.
No one had anything else to say on the topic, just... stand there...
After that Shin went Shin went to a diet building, where Hikawa was ready to summon a god. After going through a lot of demons to get to Hikawa he had the gall to ask him to join him. A world of silence is what he wanted. He naturally declined, to which he sent a demon to deal with him. After Shin defeated him Hikawa was still there.
Aradia would appear to berate him for his foolish wish to create a world of nothingness. Hikawa didn't listen as he summoned his god to represent his reason, Ahriman. Aradia would vanish along with my body and never been seen again after that.
Shin would once again wander about for a bit, before going back to the manikin sanctuary. He arrived just to see them all slaughtered, and behind it were the angels. The one behind the slaughter was Chiaki, she murdered them all just to summon her goddess, Musubi"
A loud collection of gasps were once again heard.
"She slaughtered them all?" Noire covered her mouth.
"Yes, she needed a finite amount of Magatushi to be able to summon Musubi. The best bet was manikins. She called them weak and they didn't deserve to live because of that." Yuko answered.
"Why would anyone say that?! The system sounds like it would inevitably fail." Vert added in.
No answer was given as they would continue on with the story.
"I fear that's not the worst thing." MAGES. said.
After summoning her goddess and fusing with it Chiaki squandered off, to continue building up her army.
Next was Isamu, who Shin encountered once again, but he too was a false fiend. He wanted a world of solitude and where no one would help the other, you would have to do things by yourself.
"That... doesn't sound very ideal for a world." Blanc shook her head.
"Self sustainment is one thing, but doing everything yourself... isn't ideal." MAGES. jumped on.
He employed the help of Shin to summon his god, Noah.
"Wow. He already broke his own ideal." Neptune said.
After Shin did a tedious puzzle activating four giant pyramids he would once again meet up with Isamu and Hijiri was there. Isamu sacrificed Hijiri to summon Noah, since Hijiri held a lot of Magatushi in his body.
"Why is everyone just dying left and right?" IF questioned the insanity of the situation
…..No one would respond to that.
Shin would once again find himself climbing a tower, but it's the same one from earlier, now transformed as a way to get to Kagatsuhi. It was a long and tough battle to get near the top, but Ahriman stood in his way. Shin quickly dealt with him, all his rage directed towards Hikawa. It was a victory long foreseen. The battle would end Hikawa's life.
The next person to stand in his way was Noah... Shin 'dealt' with him as well. After a long and tedious battle... Isamu was no more.
The girls couldn't find anything to say at the moment... he killed one of his friends.
His final opponent would be Chiaki... well it was a long battle... Shin ended up winning and killing her too... Her final words were:
"S-So strong! Why? Why didn't you choose the way of Yosuga?!"
"You-you killed your friends!?" IF blurted out.
This earned a wince from the boy, but he nodded.
"Iffy! Please, don't blurt out something like that." Vert reprimanded the wind walker.
"Sorry... it's just..."
"Was that the only way to stop them?" Compa asked the boy... fear was in her voice.
"...No... but it was the only thing I could do. They wanted to prove to me their ideals were in place and I accepted." Shin took a deep breath.
"Shin...?" Neptune questioned.
"Please... just continue..." Blanc told the teacher.
Shin was the one to take the mantle.
After I defeated Chiaki, I would immediately head up to face off against Kagatsuhi. I remember his words and what he told me
"How can you stand before me? You who bears no reason. Human who was once demon, you would deny a possibility of a new world?! You have no reason! You dare show up to me? Only fools would follow the path of none! With my light, I shall erase your existance!"
I'm going to tell you right now... Kagatsuhi was an absolute joke. He mostly just attacked me and never healed. Even when I lowered his defenses he would rarely raise them. He caught me off guard once, but that was it. For something that was praised and acting all high and mighty. It was a weakling.
After I defeated it, he began to crumble and the light died with it. I found myself in front of a little boy and an old maid, congratulating me on defeating it, he told me I completely stopped it. The boy turned into an old man and the maid turned into a young maid. They said their final farewells,before sinking into the darkness.
It was then that I was reborn with my memories intact as a baby and the cousin to Compa, into this world simply known as Gamindustri.
The story was now finished.
No one dared to say anything at first. They were trying to analyze what they have just told them.
Noire was the first to speak up... "So you were reborn here?"
A nod was given.
"Does this mean you are the reason I exist?!"
He shook his head.
She gave sigh of relief for one question answered, "Thank goodness... I didn't know what I would've called you if that were true." That was ONE question answered.
"Well... I guess I would've been ready to call you 'Papa' for starters." Neptune chipped in.
"Yeah... I would've- No. Disregard what I was about to say!"
"Still the way you said 'reborn' and 'Gamindustri', are you?" MAGES. began.
"Not from this world... no I'm not."
Everyone understood what he was saying, but wouldn't question it as other matters were important.
Blanc held a hand on her shoulder, "You said at the beginning along the lines of 'the conception would happen to all worlds.' Would it also happen to this one?"
Shin shook his head, "No. I stopped the conceptions of every world. All my rage and anger was let out on Kagatsuhi, I guess it had a more profound effect on things then I originally thought."
"I- I don't know what to say honestly." IF continued to back into Lady Vert.
"Would you be willing to kill us if it's the only way to proceed?" Vert asked the boy.
With a heavy heart, Shin nodded.
Silence could only protrude throughout the room. No one dared say anything.
A flash of white appeared where Neptune was. Purple Heart stood proud and tall as she walked over to the boy.
"Neptune?" Vert questioned the goddess' action.
Purple Heart placed a hand on Shin's chest and silently stood there, closing her eyes just to imagine his heartbeat.
"I can feel your heartbeat more clearer than I have before. It's like all the troubles it had before have almost all vanished. Shin... whenever I'm around you transformed or not... I could feel a certain sadness that dwelled in your heart. However as time went on the sadness slowly started to vanish... this is actually why my other form likes to be your sleeping buddy. She liked the feeling of the sadness slowly going away. I just never had a chance to talk to you about it... since it felt like there was no way to talk about it."
Purple Heart lifted Shin up and embraced him in a hug. "Thank you, Shin. For allowing us to hear your story. I promise you... whatever happens from now on... I'll protect you... no matter what... I don't want to feel sadness in your heart anymore."
"Neptune..." Shin patted the back of the goddess that was hugging him.
Shin broke the hug and stood tall, looking towards Compa.
He jerked a finger out of the door, to speak with her in the hall.
She complied as she silently followed him, leaving the rest inside the room.
He made sure to shut the door.
The two would silently stand there, waiting for one or the other to start talking.
"I-I don't know how to feel." Compa blurted out. "There is just so many emotions going through me right now. I don't know which one to start out with..." Tears were starting to form in her eyes.
"Shin...What should I say? Are you actually my cousin, or someone who took over my real cousin? Should I be angry, should I be sad? Am I not a real cousin at all... am I just-"
Shin immediately hugged her, making her stop. A couple of tears rolled down her cheeks, "Right now, you are my cousin. I wouldn't have asked for a more sweeter cousin than you. You're kind and gentle. Anyone would be lucky to have you as a cousin or anything for that matter. I love you Compa. You're the best person I could ever have as a cousin. I swear, I don't want anything to happen to you."
She would take in his words. She stopped her tears, wiping them off with her sweater. After a few seconds a small radiant smile would appear on her lips. "Thank you... Shin. I honestly have nothing else to say, but thank you. I love you too."
Compa would proceed to pump her fist, "I already promised it was my turn to protect you, but now I'm going to double that promise! Shin, I will protect you no matter what. If Nep- no. I CAN protect you. Shin. I also want to see you be happy. So please just stay happy."
Shin smiled as he nodded to his cousin.
Compa returned the smile, before asking a question.
"Shin... are you, human?"
"Yes... I am." Or rather as of right now anyway. Nonetheless he gave a smile towards Compa, who opened the door.
The duo walked back into the room.
…...
Well here you go... basically most of the chapter is just a recap of Nocturne to my memory, so please excuse me if some things are out of order. If not, then here's a recap.
It's obvious that the labyrinth of Amala wasn't talked about, but let's just say it slipped the mind of the teacher and the student. Didn't even mention a Magatama either.
Sorry if they didn't ask enough questions, but I was mostly focusing on remembering Nocturne. Seriously that game was so spaced out.
Next time: Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series... Just kidding. However a certain fairy will appear in the nearby future, not Histoire, that would be obvious.
