Chapter 147.2

Arc 14.5 - God of Stories - Part 2

Every story has a Protagonist.

I, too, was once a Protagonist of a story no one read. Put into situations I did not ask for to introduce an extensive list of cast and world.

But why?

Why would their kind do this?

Do they not realise the stories are real?

Do they not realise we are real?

In between the scenes, we have lives of our own, mostly happy.

Between the scenes, we go through struggles. Struggles so hard, we die. Our loves ones weep, but their emotions are thrown away when the camera focuses on us once again. The dead have come back from in between the scenes yet nobody knows.

And when we die in the scene, we are forcefully resurrected, and sometimes, without an explanation.

My question is: why?

Why do this to us?

Why can't they realise, that what they dream creates worlds, what they think creates universes, and what they write creates multiverses.

But…

I killed them.

I killed them all.

I killed everything including the ones who created us.

Because someone made a mistake.

For the sake of shock value, he made me something which I did not want to do. He forced me into a position of a greater power.

A true omnipotent.

Now, I stand above all there is and there will be.

Be it story or reality, be it people or objects, I am above.

I hate this.

So, I question again in this void which holds nothing…

WHY?

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X was standing in Nazar’s room.

“Fix this,” Nazar ordered him angrily.

X, however, shrugged.

“Hm, sure. But...”

X held out his hand at Laura.

“!!”

Nazar’s body stiffened in fear.

He tried to move but the universe expanded and expanded, moving him backwards.

What the hell?

“Did you know, you started in a story, just like me and her?”

Nazar was busy, forcing himself to move so he could protect Laura, but the control of X over the universe was greater.

“She fell in love with you because of a story and it’s half-assed explanation by forcing an ancient character to do what neither of you at that time wanted.”

“...”

Nazar stopped trying to fight and instead, started listening.

“Huh?”

He did not understand anything X said.

What’s he talking about?

“So, I am here to “retcon” that.”

Nazar scratched the back of his head furiously.

He did not understand him, so he tried to ask a question.

“Leaving that aside, tell me, who are you?”

“Well, that’s a secret, God. I cannot reveal myself this early on, not since I am so close to my goal.”

“What is your goal?”

“That, I won’t tell you,” from the man, a spike of energy shot out and stabbed into Nazar’s heart.

However, it seemed as if Nazar was not fazed by it at all.

“In any case, stay away, I need to do my work.”

X’s hand extended towards Laura.

Nazar created dozens of barriers, stopping the attack.

However.

“「Retcon」.”

He attacked Laura.

But Nazar could not do anything to stop it.

It was a conceptual attack, which could not be recognised.

“I used your Transfinite Infinitus Theorem. I am surprised it worked. To bring down an infinity, it’s interesting, don’t you think?”

A bubble of energy covered Laura as her eyes went wide in horror.

“I brought down the World by certain infinities to make this work.”

“Hrk.”

Laura held her neck with her hand as she tried to breath.

“In this world where stories don’t exist, I am creating a narrative that will destroy the foundation of her love for you.”

Although Nazar could not see his face, he could tell that X had a thin smile on his face.

“Without that foundation, it will all fall apart, thus she will hate you. Her way of thinking will change and--”

“STOP THIS RIGHT NOW!”

Nazar’s right eye lit up with white energy while his left with black.

The energy shot out, covering his body. Half of his body was taken over by pitch black darkness while the other was radiating with white energies.

Destruction and Creation, two forms of energies were at harmony for the first time.

With a flick of his hand, he threw an energy ball at X, but X shrugged it off with a yawn.

“DON’T YOU DARE--”

“Don’t I… Dare what, exactly? You cannot save the one who loves you. You never could. Every time, they fell into the palm of my hand as I crushed them.”

The white and black energies spiralled out of control as they shot out in every direction.

“You have been living a happy life so far, I don’t like it,” he spoke in a cold tone, “so, I am getting rid of that happiness. Happiness does not suit you.”

X’s red eye flared brightly.

“Look at the beauty I have drawn, my greatest piece of art,” he clapped his hands and pointed at Laura.

Nazar turned his head at her.

With a horrified look on her face, she took a step back.

“Y-you...”

Her face twisted in fear.

She swallowed her saliva.

“You disgusting murderer...”

Laura was confused, she was scared, and she was angry.

The way she looked at the world was different.

She hated this man, always did. But it seemed as if she was forced to fall in love with him. It seemed as if she was forced to be happy.

Her life flashed before her eyes, it felt so unnatural and disgusting.

She never loved this man, nor did she ever care about him.

She never wanted to become close to this man, but it seemed she was forced to do so.

“...what have you DONE TO ME?!” she screamed at the top of her lungs.