Chapter 126.3

First World, the Final Day - Part 3

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There was darkness but then a light appeared.

He opened his eyes because he felt something drop on his face.

Once he opened his eyes, he saw a face.

A face was directly above him.

“Emily…?”

Emily was sitting on his stomach and was leaning down on him.

And she was crying.

“D-d-d-d-do you remember?”

She looked scared and was crying.

Nazar’s eyes opened wide once he remembered what happened.

He waved his hand and Emily was thrown away.

Nazar sat up on the bed and found himself in his old home.

“Huh?”

He was back in that very small room he lived most of his life there.

He also found out that Emily had been thrown through the wall to the next room, which was Emma’s.

“Nazar, I am sorry but--”

Nazar narrowed his eyes.

He used his super-speed and picked her up by her neck.

As he did, she started to struggle.

“Puh--ple---please…. Lis---listen to--”

“Listen to you?”

Nazar said in an emotionless tone.

He could not feel his emotions again.

“Wh-what are you doing?”

Hearing Emma's voice, Nazar looked at her.

He immediately let go of Emily as his eyes went wide.

Emily coughed as she caressed her neck.

“You… You are alive--?”

His chest welled up in happiness after seeing Emma.

But.

“Huh?”

Something is wrong...

He analysed her.

“You are 669 days younger…?”

“That’s… That’s what I am trying to tell you...” Emily spoke in pain.

Nazar looked at Emily.

“He… he...”

Emily’s mouth unconsciously formed a thin smile.

Nazar’s body stiffened.

He was about to attack but Emily held her hand at him, stopping him.

Emily took a few deep breaths and the smile vanished.

“Nazar? Emily? What the fuck is going on?”

It was early in the morning, so she was asleep when Nazar threw Emily through the wall.

She woke up to seeing Nazar, who looked different from before, holding Emily by her neck.

“Give me a minute. Let me explain what happened,” Emily said out loud, stopping Nazar from giving an explanation when he does not know anything.

“The minute you do anything weird, I will kill you.”

Nazar’s cold tone did not surprise Emily. But it did, however, surprise Emma, who was still a little sleepy.

Nazar waved his hand and the wall was fixed now.

Emma’s mind went completely blank. She had no idea what was going on.

“Talk!”

Emily took a deep breath.

“Once he killed me, he brought me back. And then he placed something else inside my mind. I don’t know what… but we share the same body now. I don’t know how that works either.”

Nazar was confused.

“So, once you brought me back, he took control and then I don’t know what happened until I saw Emma. But for some reasons, he has more power than ever. And he was going to destroy everything. But then for a split second, I took control and stopped it.”

“What?”

“You see, he was going to destroy everything until May 2000, starting from the end of time. So, the future until now has been destroyed.”

Nazar knew why that was the case.

He did not have to ask questions.

He might want to steal me when I am newborn… Or--

He looked down at his own body.

Wait… Neither I nor Emily has de-aged as Emma has. We are still the same as we were before that white light.

The answer was simple but it scared him.

He had known for a while, but never wanted to think about it or admit it.

Time does not affect us...

“I don’t know how it works but the future is destroyed. Time will continue from this point on and the future will be created as you go along. But if you have nigh omnipresence or something like that, you won’t see anything beyond this point.”

Nazar scratched his head.

“I managed to stop it at this moment but if he takes control again, everything will be gone.”

“Interesting.”

While he put on a brave face, he was anything but. He was scared and worried.

“Eh? What are you guys talking about…?”

Emma frantically looked at Nazar and then Emily.

“One more thing.”

“Hm?”

“I think he put you in this loop. If you don’t change the future and prevent my death, you will be stuck inside this loop for an eternity.”

He frowned, “What?”

“So, kill us both now and then change the future. Do it differently. If you don’t save me, no matter what you do, he will use me. That’s my destiny.”

He felt a little bad for his friend.

Maybe he shouldn’t have been very hasty towards her.

“You don’t know, huh?”

“Know what?”

Nazar was confused.

“You are supposed to be his successor and I am his host. Even if you kill him, he will be able to reside inside my body. Because I have this abnormal energy within me. You are his successor, the 「Great Destroyer」. And as a contingency plan against you, I am supposed to be his host. So, if he doesn’t achieve his goal, he will come back and destroy everything until a certain point in time. He did this so he can start over with you. He thought you won’t remember and then he will raise you as his own and then steal your power.”

“But--”

Emily held up her palm, stopping him.

“If he destroys everything until the moment of your birth, and then he can start over with you and me. Manipulate the things the way he wants to. He can ‘raise’ you the way he wants and then steal your power.”

But how would that work if we are not affected so far? Or did he make it so that I won’t be affected for now?

“Can you kill him? If you kill us both, the threat will stop. You will kill us then change the future as it was. Do it completely differently. And make sure you kill him forever. Don’t even give him the chance to survive---argh!!”

She started to lose control for a second.

“Please!” with teary eyes, she begged him.

Nazar straightened his posture.

“Of course, I can kill him. And you. I have killed him once before.”

Emily started to relax a little.

“So, how did you survive in...”

Nazar trailed off.

He went close to her and analysed her.

“Ah.”

He saw what was keeping her alive.

“A barrier. Interesting.”

She looked like she was in pain.

“Please do it quickly.”

He placed his right hand on her shoulder.

She looked at him in confusion.

“「Breaker Touch」*,” Nazar said with force.

Nazar wanted to give himself a new power but he noticed that he had all of his powers.

He touched the barrier around her which shattered into nothingness.

“Do it quickly… before--”

All of a sudden, Emily vanished into thin air.

“Wh-what just happened?”

Nazar didn’t answer Emma’s question.

He vanished into thin air right after Emily.

He reached the 8th Dimensional Plane of Existence at the same time as Emily.

He saw her as she got shredded into small pieces and died.

Both Emily and the Nameless One died.

Right...?

DAMN IT!!!

Nazar stayed there to see if something would change but nothing did.

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After an hour of making sure they died, he went back home. He found himself in the small room.

While he saw them die, there was still some doubt in his heart.

Are they really dead?

But if they were, what should he do now?

“What is it?” he groaned in annoyance.

While he was thinking, he heard a knocking sound.

Emma entered the room.

“Okay, what the fuck just happened?”

Nazar remembered that he has gone back through time, so right now she doesn’t know that Nazar had superpowers.

So, he sighed.

If this is it… If the future really doesn’t exist then I would need to start again. From this moment and that would mean I will have to do things differently.

He smiled warmly.

And it starts here.

“Do you really want to know?”

I need to save Emily too, no matter what, so I can avoid that... Whatever the hell that future was.

She gulped.

“Y-yes.”

“Well, then…”

Nazar stood up, leaving the small bed empty.

“Sit down over there. It’s a long story.”

Since the room was very small, there was not enough space for Emma to sit anywhere.

“O-okay.”

She was kind of surprised to find out how nice he was all of a sudden compared to the Nazar she knew until yesterday who was always cold towards her.

But she didn’t really care about that now.

So, she sat down.

Nazar sat down on the floor.

Whenever Nazar wants to talk seriously to someone about something, he sits down on the floor and looks down.

Perhaps it is to be beneath their eye level since he always feels guilty about something.

“I am a "God".”

“....”

She gave him a blank look.

“I am the person who created everything.”

“Haha. Nice joke.”

“No, I am being serious.”

“....”

“Let me tell you how it happened.”

Nazar told her about the year that passed for them but it was not destroyed.

He told her how he killed all those people but they were actually the undead, then he left Earth. Then he told her about the angel and the demon. The superhumans and aliens. His god and the destruction of everything and how he created everything afterwards the way it was. The Gods and the cosmic entities.

He also told her about how they are a real family. He told her how their real family is still alive. He told her that they have a brother and what kind of people their parents were.

He told her about the death of Emily and then the death of their adoptive parents. And who they truly were.

He also told her what the deal with this Emily was.

It took him a long time to cover all the details about what happened in last (?) 22 months.

“.....................What……………..?”

“I know it's hard to take this all in… but that’s the truth.”

She stood up and left the room, not because it was too much to take in, but because it sounded like a terrible time travel movie.

“That was to be expected,” Nazar muttered under his breath.

He stood up and stretched.

“Now, what am I supposed to do?”

He thought about what will happen if he doesn’t change time.

If he changes the time, things will happen differently and he wouldn’t know what kind of effects it will have.

But if he does change it, he will be saving a lot of people.

And more than that, he will be saving himself a lot of trouble. He doesn’t have to die countless times again.

He lied down on the bed for hours as he thought.

This was the first day of the year. It was 1st of January 2018.

Nazar died last night and got his powers.

However, to him, it seems like it was an eternity ago.

He stayed in the same place for hours and hours and asked the same questions: shall he change the future or keep it the same?

Keeping it the same means that he will be reliving the same 22 months over and over again.

But if he does change it, he doesn’t know what will happen.

He has made up his mind. He wants to change it. But at the end, he kept asking himself the same question and hoping a different answer would come up.

“What should I do?” He muttered.

He let out a sigh.

“Maybe I should just go to sleep…?”

He let out another sigh and closed his eyes.

But then immediately opened because he got a call.

And then he immediately let out another exasperated sigh.

He picked up the phone.

“What do you want...?”

His eyes widened.

EMILY?!

He sat up frantically.

I KILLED YOU--- Nevermind.

He sighed.

She did mention how there is a version of her… Huh? Wait! Something doesn’t add up.

He shook his head and thought it through.

My body got replaced when I came here, but Emily’s didn’t? If we are so similar, why are we different at the same time? How does that even work?

He threw away those thoughts and decided to be nice to her.

“- Dude, where the hell are you? I thought we were supposed to go somewhere. -”

“Is that so?”

Nazar, of course, didn’t remember what she was talking about.

“Can’t. Have… some stuff to deal with.”

“- What? No. You are coming out today. I-- -”

“I can’t. Sorry. Maybe some other time.”

She stopped talking because she was confused.

“Things happened so I have to deal with that.”

“- Oh. Wanna tell me what happened? -”

“You won’t believe it, so no.”

“- I see… Well, I am coming over. -”

“Huh?”

“- See you. -”

“No wai--”

She cut off the call.

Nazar didn’t want to see her because of what happened with the future Emily.

So, how will he avoid her?

Well, he can always just vanish into thin air and leave the planet.

“But for how lon--”

“Nazar!”

He heard a shout from downstairs.

As soon as he heard that, his heart skipped a beat. It was the voice of John, his adoptive father, whose true intentions were still hidden to Nazar and Emma at this point in time.

Nazar turned off his emotions and continued to pretend nothing was wrong.

“What?”

“Emily is here.”

“Hm?”

Nazar paused in his place.

How did she get here so quickly…?

He went inside her mind.

Don’t tell me…

He was expecting the worst but it was nothing like that.

So, she called me when she was just outside? What an idiot!

Emily opened the door to his room and entered without permission.

“What is it?”

“Nothing. Just wanted to see you.”

“Is that so?”

Even though time was different, Nazar still saw her as the Emily that he killed today.

Right now, the one standing before him is an innocent girl not knowing what the future holds for her. Death and despair await the destroyer.

Either way, he wants to avoid her at the moment.

“Now you can go back.”

“Dude,” she sounded annoyed. “What is wrong with you? We were supposed to meet last night. And then you never showed up.”

“Things… happened.”

He died.

He was killed by an unknown assailant.

However, he had been teleported to this room.

“What happened------ What the hell happened to you?”

The Nazar she knew was a chubby guy - he thought it would hide him better - but this one was different.

“Dude, what happen--”

She trailed off.

Nazar should have noticed, but did not.

“Hehehe...”

Out of place, evil laughter left her mouth.

Nazar froze in his place.

He caught onto it too late.

“You thought you could get rid of me that easily? Hehehehehehe…”

Nazar knew it was that it was easy but he still believed he had killed them.

“Damn--”

Before he could even say anything, a bright white light appeared.

And then.

And then.

And then it was darkness.

Darkness.

Darkness.

But this darkness felt different.

It was warm and felt nostalgic. He had been here before.

And then all of a sudden, he felt a chill run down through his whole body.

His eyes slowly opened and found that someone was looking down at him.

It can’t be!

It was a doctor.

Nazar’s heart skipped a few beats.

He hates doctors because it reminds him of his parents.

I am…

And then he realised it.

He realised where he was.

He realised what was happening to him.

I am a child?!?!

Emily had already told him something.

The moment--

“Of your birth.”

He heard a voice.

Even though he was a newborn, he looked around.

He found out everyone and everything was frozen.

Time has been frozen? Does he want to steal me without anyone knowi--

He gulped.

I… I remember. I have not forgotten. So, I was correct. I am not affected by

”Now you are mine, after so long.”

Two big hands were coming close towards him.

His vision slowly started to distort.

And then it was filled with darkness.

“Now then, let’s go and destroy everything and then recreate it in my image.”

In this darkness, he heard a calm, cold and dangerous voice.