God And His Three Friends

I don't know how many years has it been since I became god. Likewise, I don't know how many years has it been since I created Angels and Demons. Back then, I threw away all the mechanisms that governed the world and created my own. But now, as I watch Dues ex machina, one of my creations, trying to throw away both the races, I wonder if the old system was better.

"Won't you stop it?" a voice of someone who does not exist anymore asks me so. It is the voice of someone who was a friend to me.

"Why would I stop it?" I ask that voice, despite knowing that it is nothing more than a figment of my imagination.

"Well, Dues is trying to destroy all Angels and Demons. Aren't those two races your most proud creations?" He asks.

"Well, they definitely are. But, I have to be impartial and accept changes."

And so, I would stay impartial and accept this change too.

"I see. But still, wouldn't it hurt you to see your greatest achievements being destroyed like that?" He asks.

"Yes, that may happen. But, merely feeling sad is not enough of a reason for me to interfere with their affairs, is it now?"

"No, it's not." Another voice that is just a figment of my imagination comes and says, "You made a vow to let things play out as they do unless a threat that wipes out humanity comes. And this is not a threat that wipes out humanity."

"Yes, I know that very well." I say. As soon as this voice came, the previous one disappeared and I doubt it will come again unless this one leaves. That's how it always is. I guess even projections of my own mind have limits. Or these two personas just don't like each other. Knowing the past, it's probably the latter.

"Hey, tell me." He says, "You decided to transcend from a human to a god and become someone who sees over humans, protecting them whenever they really need to be."

"Yes, that is why I am God these days." I say in a slightly laughing voice. But, he continues in a very serious one,

"Do you regret choosing to do this?"

"I don't, not at all." Though, if I were to be honest, it is a pretty boring task.

"Hah! You really don't feel regret over it?" He says, "That's quite admirable. I guess you really were the savior of the world. Despite the differences we had when we were alive, looking at how you have seen over humans for these many years without trying to back out even once, I can't deny that you are a hero."

Oh! How I wish the real you, not just a projection of my brain but the real you who died long ago could tell me that! But, that is impossible. Even for God, that is impossible.

"Wanting to see us all again?" Another voice comes, this time of a woman. And just like before, the second one disappears.

"Yeah, I do miss you all a lot." I say with a smile.

"Of course you do." She says, "It would get really boring here all by yourself, wouldn't it?"

"Oh, you don't know the half of it."

"Neither do I want to know." She says while chuckling. "Anyway, since you won't try to stop any of it, Dues ex machina will kill all the Demons and then she will come after the Angels. That would mean that the order you built up will be completely destroyed. Even if Dues' plan to take control of both Heaven and Hell succeeds, it will take some time to bring back order to them. In this time, humans may suffer too."

"Perhaps, but not so much that my intervention would be needed." I say, "I can't stop human suffering completely anyway. That isn't my purpose. I am here to protect them when things go so out of control that they can't save themselves anymore."

"Hmm …" she asks, "do you think something like that would ever happen?"

"I doubt it. But, who can say?"

"Hah!" She sighs and says, "Alright, I will leave you to it then. Don't miss us too much, okay? Get a hobby or something!"

And with that, she disappears.

Get a hobby? Seriously!? I have been living for thousands of years now. There isn't a hobby I have not tried, aside from destroying galaxies or like – which, obviously, is not a hobby that God should have.

In any case, it seems Dues' plans are proceeding rather well. Kaylith Glice is now standing in the coliseum's field alone. Irium, his son, has left. I suspect Kaylith would now tell Roswaisa how to master Absolute Frost Requiem and then die. As soon as Roswaisa learns that ability, she will be called back to Heaven as her purpose would be fulfilled. If some delay happens, after Kaylith, the person who summoned her, dies, she will definitely be called back. When that happens, the time-period Irium and Danny came from will have a little change happen. Aknin Vielos would have died and Roswaisa would have survived. That would leave Dues to reach out to Roswaisa, use all the power she has to mind-control Roswaisa and make use of Absolute Frost Requiem to its fullest potential. By absorbing half the energy Dues has gathered over thousands of years, she will make Roswaisa destroy Hell. And by using the other half, Heaven will be destroyed.

Then, Dues ex machina will be left as the strongest person in the world (not counting me of course) and so, it will be over.

I remember the time I saw this idea come to Dues' mind the first time, I remember how it grew in her head and how it finally manifested into this plan of hers that took about a couple thousand years to bring to fruition. I saw it all. And now I am going to see the end of it. It feels like I have watched a really long drama.

It was quite a spicy one, if I do say so myself. But now, it has to come to its conclusion.

It's just that – I don't why, but I feel like Dues' success would not be the end of this story.

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