chap 1: meeting with god —
my name is Hiro katsugawa the one who was reincarnated as a powerful goat in another world, everything started like this
I was an ordinary high school student, I was going to and from school like anyone else in today's society. The only difference was that I was a magazine lover, especially those based on mythical animals that inhabit our world...
"the goats"
everything fascinated me about them, whether it was their silky and comfortable fur, their small robust horns or their rectangular pupils that pierce your soul, reminding you of the deep and frightening gaze of the devil himself, these little creatures rose enormously in my esteem and shared my daily life, I could talk but all I did was write reviews in cheap magazines found in the capital
[World goats] a gigantic company that studies goats and observes their evolution through the ages in search of rare specimens such as
[the mythical goat that had been declared to have lived for more than five hundred consecutive years, it is the greatest record that can exist in the history of mankind
"So Hiro, still into goat magazines?
the voice that made this sarcastic remark was my classmate and best friend [ruijin ohomira] he's a nice guy, I know him well enough but sometimes he can be really heavy and I hate it when he makes fun of goats
"stop ruijin, I told you to respect the goats, they deserve it
I had just answered with my usual fragrance, now maybe this time - he will take their existences a little more seriously
"oh!"
he looked surprised, ruijin gave me a friendly clap on the back, which unbalanced my gait almost making me drop my beloved magazine
"Hey be a little careful- asshole"
my mouth overtook my brain and my remark was exclaimed like a self-commanded chorus, but Ruijin remained unmoved, it's common to insult even if you don't really mean it, after all we are best friends
"stop being a jerk or we'll all fall behind in class and be scolded by Tachibana sensei
and finally, the one who just spoke answers to the name of [nanase ichinose] she too is a childhood friend of ruijin and me, under these airs of sweet and cute girl hides what we can call a tomboy, her favorite passion are the [base-ball- football-and karate-] anyway difficult to distinguish her with such a flat chest, I almost feel sorry for her _
Nanase suddenly turned to face me, as if she had been evading my thoughts, but one thing was for sure - at that moment - no matter what the angle - Nanase was really flat.
"Did you just call me flat-chested?"
that surprised me, would I have thought out loud? -no- nanase could clearly read others' expressions and guess their thoughts- something even science itself would be unable to define-
"no- my lie was straight and direct-
we walked a long way before arriving at the station, as usual it was full of people of all kinds
men, women and children were flowing from all corners - just like us they were waiting for the 7 o'clock train to the center of Kyoto
the trains in this station all move in chronological order, without fail - a new system has been developed - ours, the one that leads to [kakujo] high school, will arrive in about 15 seconds - as I was saying, you can already hear the vibration of the metal wheels rubbing on the iron line and the sound of the engine spreading in the wind lines
[Attention all of you] - a voice resounded from the speakers located all over the station
[the train for Kyoto central station will soon be in line, everyone is asked to stay behind the yellow line for security measures]
the same voice as yesterday - a female voice with an American accent - it was probably the hostess in charge of the place
from her booth - surely surrounded by screens connected to cameras located at every corner
- like every morning - she was giving us the instructions to follow before each boarding, it had become a routine to listen to her monologue indefinitely - as if time was turning in a circle
"...Hiro"
At that moment, I was lost in my thoughts, I did not listen to the voice of nanase who kept calling me
"...hey Hiro, watch out..."
a gust of wind came up instantly, surely because of the weather - we were in early winter so it's understandable a few gusts of icy wind - my magazine was swept away by the gust of wind that had just blown into the eastern station of Kyoto
- without hesitation,. Without a second thought, my body reacted instinctively, faster than my brain, faster than my will, without understanding what was going on, my body threw itself on the passage of the train, - with the intention of catching my beloved magazine - the timing was too perfect to be real, my body was floating in the air trying to catch a goat magazine - in front of a barely slowed down train - my life flashed before my eyes - like an endless stream of data - at the last moment - the last thing I could hear was the screams of terror from the crowd and the screams of the girls - reminding me that in all this time I had never crossed the safety line - I was dead, dead trying to catch my beloved magazine - the timing was too perfect to be real.
I was dead, dead trying to save a goat magazine.
"where am I? am I dead?"
I found myself in a white empty space - devoid of any conception-
"ah"
suddenly I remembered the events that led me to my current state - it was pouring into my soul like a flood of information - I had sacrificed myself to save a goat magazine that was eventually destroyed.
I had sacrificed myself to save a goat magazine that ended up being destroyed along with me. A wry smile spread across my face as a pure white light illuminated the already white space.
"You have been chosen, Hiro Katsugawa.
The voice that came out cut off my thoughts and reflection, what was standing in front of me now was not human at all, standing on four legs, two horns were embedded on its frontal area, each at the end of its two ears, its fur was a special black that reflected the stars and the components of the universe - its eyes were piercing and full of authority, just looking at its rectangular pupil left me speechless with the most logical idea that came to my mind
"Are you the devil?
I had just asked him this question on the spur of the moment, after all, a creature with such a physical form - finding me after my death - could only be the devil himself, that's what I thought, but the answer cut short my reasoning
"No, I am not the devil.
He had just denied the only possible answer that came to my mind, I was once again meticulously observing his appearance so bizarre when a remark flashed my mind like a lightning, he possessed hooves inked with black instead of huge sharp claws that the devil portrayed in the myths, I refused to believe it, it was an impossible that a god goat exists, to end my doubts and my overflowing imagination, my lips moved of itself
"Are you the goat god?
the fateful question - I was impatient for his answer, if there is indeed a goat god then it exceeds even the existence of the mythical goat.
"Finally, kid, it took you a long time, yes, I am the goat god, the one who rules over all the goats and animals of the worlds, BELIATH.
Under the pressure of this revelation my heart missed a beat, this discovery was far too great, greater than I could have imagined in my lifetime, I was in ecstasy of joy, when these next words reminded me of the sad reality.
"You died, Hiro Katsugawa, but the action of your bravery moved me, your futile sacrifice to save that poor goat magazine moved me..."
Did he say vain? It's hard to say if he was complimenting me or reproaching me - he was a god - it was impossible for me to understand his existence and the eloquence that emanated from him
"Of course my radiance is divine, I am a god after all.
uh! I was surprised, I didn't say it out loud, did he read my thoughts?
"Yes, I read your thoughts and your memory but that's not the most important thing.
a god who could read the thoughts and memories of others, it's so cool to be a god
I was full of admiration when the face of the god BELIATH took serious features, as if he was about to say something of great importance
"Hiro Katsugawa, you are the chosen one, the only soul who can save this world from destruction.
His statement followed by a heavy atmosphere resounded in my head, a world? destruction? would the world where I come from be in danger? all these questions were running through my mind when the goat God BELIATH continued in his speech
".... the world of Alicia, a world different from yours and it is currently in grave danger that will undoubtedly lead to its destruction..."
Alicia's world? what is it? a world different from mine? ahahah it's impossible that another world can exist .... no wait, if there is a goat god then the probabilities for an alternative world are not zero, it's logical, for now let's listen to the rest
"thousands of years ago the king-demon and his acolytes had been annihilated and deprived of the cycle of reincarnation, but recently manifestations of his return have occurred, the sudden creation of several moons in space, the natural laws that are disturbed and accentuate the growth of monsters that lose their souls and destroy without moralities,
the king-demon ASTAROTH is a perfidious being filled with malice and a desire of destruction in precedent, to stop the race of the events and to prevent its resurrection, we the Pantheon of the gods concluded an agreement to allot the task to a being of a pure soul being able to make shine the stone of jinxx and to open a passage towards the Elysium, you are this soul Hiro Katsugawa"
I was baffled, me the hero who will save the world from the king-demon ASTAROTH? it was way too big for an ordinary high school student like me
"what is the stone of jinxx and Elysium? "
these were the two questions that kept running through my mind, my eyes turned to BELIATH hoping for an answer
"the stone of jinxx is a creation of scintilla goddess of the purity and the brightness,
-loaded with dust of infinite purity, it shines in contact with the pure soul and without evil intentions
unattainable of any corruption and opens the doors of Elysium, the place where we are now".
this was not the answer I was expecting, the jinxx stone that detects the impurities of the soul and the Elysium that is this vast infinite space -
"Elysium was not always so empty and covered with white - there was a time when it was resplendent, of unparalleled beauty where we gods took tea and had a good time - it was our domain - but the evil energy of the king-demon managed to affect this dimension yet detached from the space-time continuum and erased everything there - impossible to foresee or anticipate we gods managed to narrowly escape and join the upper worlds
BELIATH floated, slowly but surely towards me
"Hiro, your role is to prevent the king-demon before he plunges Alcia into chaos and destruction
- this story was getting bigger - how could I, an ordinary human, defeat the demon-king that even gods are incapable of - it was getting too big - I was about to reject when BELIATH cut me short -
we have given you the right skills for your quest, you just have to say the command [status]?
[status]? like in rpg games? is that really possible?
"Status"
I said these words without any real expectation but a transparent fluorescent blue window actually appeared, it was like magic, no matter where I moved my head it seemed to follow me, as if we shared some kind of bond
"Is this a status window?
I asked myself the question, as if to calm my amazement, some strange inscription was written on it, a foreign language that I couldn't read at first, but with a minimum of concentration, the characters seemed to me similar to Japanese kanji, I was able to read them clearly
name: Hiro Katsugawa
level: 1
race: human
title: ????
evolution: none
age: 18
class: ????
pv: 9999
MP: 9999
Hp: 9999
E.p: 9999
magic: 9999
attributes: water- wind- fire- earth- lightning- darkness- divine- chaos
skills:
shadow move ( 1/10 )
telekinesis ( 1/10 )
skill theft ( 1/10 )
appraisal ( 1/10 )
passive skills:
healing ( 1/10 )
auto translation ( 1/10)
presence detection ( 1/10)
protection of the Pantheon Trinity ( 1/10)
I was speechless in front of this abusive skill list, it was borderline cheating
"Passive skill protection of Pantheon trinity?
this skill intrigued me so I clicked on it by reflex, or maybe the habit of video games in my previous life, another window was displayed instantly in superposition with. the other after my finger touched the skill protection of the Pantheon trinity
* protection of the Pantheon trinity
she grants you the goodwill of the deities of the Pantheon of alcia
scintilla: goddess of purity and brightness
ishtara: goddess of love and sexual pleasure
BELIATH: gods of goats and animals
*by raising this skill to its maximum you can summon the avatar of a god to assist you in battle
"oh! interesting skill
I exclaimed my opinion without restraint, these skills were a real gold mine, but none of them gave me access to my moose world and a question was always on my mind.
"God of the goats BELIATH, if ASTAROTH the demon king is so dangerous, why not eliminate it yourself? you are still gods. "
I let her express herself, this question that was nagging at the corner of my soul, if they are able to assign skills of such a level, then why not use them to defeat the king-demon? would it be some kind of restriction that prevents them!
"I understand your question..." replied BELIATH
"We gods have lost our connection to the worlds of our creations after the essence of Elysium itself was obliterated by the miasma of the Demon King, we have lost all interaction with the lower world.
BELIATH had given me the answer I was hoping for, but deep down I knew something was wrong, but I refrained so as not to bore him with questions
"sigh..."
After a few minutes of reflection I accepted the proposal of BELIATH and the Pantheon on the condition that I would be resurrected in my original world once everything was over
" of course, we the Pantheon gods give our word".
Several magic circles appeared instantly and enveloped me along my body, a dazzling light suddenly appeared, ~~~~ I was being teleported ~~~ no matter how, I was not yet used to magic
"uh..wai...whait... "
the light suddenly disappeared, Hiro was no longer in the Elysium , it was at this very moment that BELIATH remembered to have forgotten to make the reincarnation avatar selection to Hiro
"oops"