1 Dying world

Fweeee!!

The sound of a loud wind could be heard within this cold world plastered in ice, what can one expect, it has been so for the past three million and fifty-two years.

Everything in this world was covered in unforgiving ice, everything was dark there was no light, there nor was life, nor was there anyone or anything in this world, in the truest sense, the world was done for, the world was dead, the world was gone.

The environment didn't even have mana, this bountiful world that once had a limitless amount of mana flowing within the atmosphere all over the world was nothing more than a barren wasteland.

The very living conditions of the place, couldn't even harbor life, there was no sun after all, while the temperature of the place was unacceptable, so the chances of any form of evolution taking place was unacceptable.

But even though everything was covered in thick layers of snow and ice, even though life could not develop properly in this frozen wasteland.

The truth of reality begs to differ, you see a small old cabin that was laying steady on a frozen mountain could be seen, and if we were towards it then we would be able to see a lone man with platinum color hair on his neck, he was at least 5'11, he wore a full white cloak with a hoody on it.

Although one would not be able to see the face of the man, clearly due to the hood blocking half his face.

But if the hood wasn't there, you would be able to see the face of a man in his mid-sixties.

He had a long white beard that was braided perfectly into one, he had a couple of Wrinkles plastered on his face, while a white eye patch covered his right eye, meanwhile, his left eye was an empty swirling void that shine a dull purple, it was as if the person itself was nothing but an empty hollow.

This man was the last remaining living thing in this unforgiving world, the last sage and the warlock and holder of all witch factors.

The immortal sage, and the Warlock of Sin Natsuki Subaru Aka the All-father of sin and the one who embodies them, the man second only to a forgotten legend of the past, Reinhard Van Astrea.

--Subaru Fpov--

"How long has it been since the world was embraced with the essence of life that is the grace of the sun, the never-ending ice age that devours the possibilities are the harsh proof and evidence that the world itself will never be the same, and overall my existence only serves as both a memory and calendar to such predicament."

"Sigh...at this rate the planet will completely be destroyed in a week, Od laguna has long died as well with everything else, all that remains is naught but a hollow shell, and since that shell is crumbling as well the planet will blow up in a week time without a doubt."

Spoke elder Subaru, as he stroked his braided beard downward, as it is one of the only three things he can do to pass the time, although he has a limitless amount of it.

"Truly this is trifling, the eons I have spent alone, to watch over this world is truly unjust, for it to succumb to such fate is saddening, my immortality has truly reached an observed level... Nay! I take back what I said, instead my immortality is what many would say has reached a level where it is now in the realm of bullshit."

"To think that I would even outlive the planet one day."

But just as I was thinking about such a tragic fate, the voice of a woman who has haunted my soul for millions of years, began to ring in my head, as I began to feel something sitting on my lap and rubbing my face.

"Fufufu... Such is the perk of the authority of Vanity, no matter how hard you try you won't die, that is the price for perfection, but then and again you will soon fall to my level, you will soon become like me, you will soon see things properly."

Spok the soft, tender, evil, and conniving voice, as it whispers its accursed slanders into my ears.

Meanwhile, as I sat on my old wooden rocking chair, I gaze upon the very embodiment of my torment, the very embodiment of my imperfect vanity.

A woman with a petite build, and porcelain-colored skin, she had dark blue eyes with a draconic slit at the very center of it, she wore nothing but a white sheet over her small petite body.

The very woman itself could have undoubtedly been one of the most beautiful women Subaru has seen in years.

Or that's what he would love to say if he didn't know the woman's true nature.

"Just shut up and get the hell off me you, you are nothing but a fragment of my imagination, a never-ending torment that manifested to remind me of my guilt and failure as a person."

Plop

I stated as push Pandora to the ground, but even after I did that she suddenly teleport behind me as she said.

"A figment of your imagination you say, hmmm... maybe you are right, but the reality is sometimes harsh because your dead wrong, I will never be a memory oh great all-father, I'm am part of you, you can even say that I am you and just so your are me, we are the same being both mind body and soul."

"Shut up."

"Fufufu... Did hearing the truth hurt your pride, well you can always blame it on your age, after all, by the time you defeat me and acquired the true immortality that is vanity and envy you were already 69, and your poor fragile mind has long sunk to the very depths of insanity, despair, and sorrow at that age."

"I told you to shut up, just leave me alone already."

But the voice and the image of that accursed woman would not leave me, she comes and goes whenever she pleases.

I can't even escape her in my dreams, even in death she was always there, I have outlived everything even Satella, and Emilia, hell I even outlive the sword saint and all other sword saints after Reinhard.

I have outlived everything within the meaning, I might as well be called the oldest living being in this world, I wasn't there in the beginning but I was excited to see the end nonetheless.

"My fragile heart to think you hate me so much, but let be honest Su-ba-ru."

Spoke the voice of Pandora as she floats behind me and whispered in my ears.

"I'm the only one you have left, you outlived everything, I'm the very thing that is saving you from truly succumbing to your insanity in this lonely world you now live in, but even this world is leaving you behind soon."

"This place is your hell, a prison that embodies your very existence, no one talk to, no one to touch and make love to, no one to protect, no one to share your suffering nor story with, that what this place is, a wall the isolate you everything a world full of eternal silence."

"You brought this upon yourself."

"I said shut the fuck up!"

I shouted as fired a giant fireball the size of a mountain towards the thing that has haunted me for millions of years.

Of course, the price was my small wooden hut, that I have spent my time alone in.

Booooom!!

The sound of a giant explosion could be heard as the very mountain that I was on, was completely disintegrated into nothing, as a sea of fire stretched so far, even with my enhanced vision there was no end to it.

"Tsk... Look what you made me do you bitch."

"Hmm, that was a nice "Ultima goa" by far the most powerful I have seen you use so far during our past 10,212,908,345 arguments, your lucky this world was dead or you would melt away at least 10% of it."

Stated a voice from a familiar figure who suddenly appears on the shoulder of elder Subaru, as she crosses both her legs, as the woman proceeds to clap with vigor, satisfied with what she is seeing.

"Fuck why why why why why why why why won't leave me alone, your must my delusion that taken form, but why out of everyone I can imagine in this lonely world, why are you the one out of everyone else that haunts thee so."

"Maybe because my mere presence was the most impactful one on you."

"You took everything away from me."

"That was necessary to complete you."

"You killed Rem."

"She was a hindrance and needed to be taken care of."

"You drove Emilia to insanity, in the end, she killed herself."

"That child was just a weak-minded sow, who couldn't live without a fat cat."

"You kill Reinhard's daughter and also my best student."

"She attacks me first."

"You made Garfield into a cripple, after destroying his spine."

"No one told the cat to protect the kingdom from the meteor I call fort to assassinate crush Karsten when she was giving a speech for her coronation."

"You turn Crush into a puppet you made Felix into a maniac and you even kill the sword demon Wilhelm Van Astrea."

"Crush was kind enough to sponsor the cult, Felix has always been yandere for Crush, and Wilhelm was already old, his existence had no use for me nor would he have been useful, I did him a favor, and send him to Theresa."

"Your horrible, you're the absolute worst, I hate you."

"That's like saying you hate yourself."

"I do hate myself, everyone suffering, everyone despair, everyone hope and dream that were brutally destroyed because of the witch-cult was all my doing, I caused them that pain, I caused then that grief I'm to blame for everything that has happened till now, in the end, I could have stopped it all if I was stronger, in the end, everyone my friends, my family, everything was already gone after acquiring this power."

"All seven witches sacrifice their life to create the monster that I have become, all to defeat you and put an end to your madness and destruction upon the world."

"Satella's limitless magic, Echidna's limitless knowledge, Carmilla's limitless love upon all things, Typhon's twisted sense of justice, Minerva's limitless and naive kindness, Sekemeth's lazy but wise view of the world, and finally Daphne twisted vision of life."

"All their powers run through me, their wills and dreams shall forever live on within me, although in a different form and shape they still flow through me, even hectors grief and pain that is his life is a part of me now, and as much as I hate to say it, even your twisted ideal is now apart of me as well, although out of all nine you are the only one that has a form."

"Are you my insanity, are you my grief, are you my regrets, no your none of them your nothing but a pest that I am stuck with."

"And it trues what you said you will never be a memory, you will always be a reminder, a representation of my weakness, when I see you everything that has happened to me playback in a slow and vivid motion, I'm sick of it all, I just want to die and enjoy the ether that is death, a world of true silence, where there is nothing but death and death alone."

I spoke with sadden face, that still had an emotionless feel to it, but just as I was saying this the curse that is Pandora sat around my neck, as she use my head as a pillow.

My sight was blinded with nothing but pure platinum, as she closed her eyes and said while playing with my hair that was also platinum.

"Hmmm if you're tired then just end it all already, both me and you know if you use me, we could escape this hell together just me and you, and out of all your abilities I am the most powerful, and that is a fact."

"Use the power to rewrite the truth of the world, if you accept me, then everything that has happened till now will be nothing but a lie."

"SHUT UP... YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A LIE."

"YOU ARE NOTHING BUT THE ENDLESS VOICE IN MY HEAD THAT TAKES PLEASURE IN TORMENTING ME!!!"

I shouted with everything I have.

"Nope I'm the truth, and you know this, I'm the truth that can complete you, I am the truth that can free you, I am the truth that can free you from this lie that is your loneliness."

"Use me Subaru, use me, use me, use me, use me, use me, use me, use me... You know you want to use me, free us, free me, free yourself, let's us correct the world, let's us start from zero."

"Silence, just let me think, you are persistent today, my head can only take so much just leave me alone."

I said in a trembling manner as I stabbed both my ears drums to silence the voice of the menace that is my head.

I then began to fall from the sky as I canceled my flight magic, and all that could be heard was me breaking through the ice of a frozen river.

The water was cold, but I felt worse, I began to sink endlessly as all I could do or all that I wanted to do was to end this hell.

But even I know my power won't fix this world even if I go back, because when I return by death it will just lead me back to the same day I acquired this power, and by then everyone would just be dead.

What's the point, and I haven't mastered Envy time manipulation hell, for some reason it was like out of all the authorities I have, envy is inactive almost as if it went into an eternal hibernation.

So even if I use return by death which is Satella's power and not the Envy sloth factor, nothing will change, the only power I can use to fix this hell that I have created is is is is is...

"Our Vanity... If you use the power of your "false truth" and combine it with "Odin's eye" which is the authority of greed, we can truly start from zero, the power to rewrite reality by creating false truths and the power to see through an infinite amount of it using Odin's eye, together we escape this dying world and start from zero."

Those words flow in Subaru's head like a raging needle, even though he has thought of many ways to escape this hell, without the aid of Pandora's power none of his plans has been successful, but he won't be able to escape it if he doesn't use Pandora's power.

A power that he swore he would never use, for the sole reason that his authority grows the more you use it, and if the vanity factor is causing this monster that plagued his mind for over three million years, what would happen if it grows stronger, an answer he doesn't want to find out.

This woman before him was Pandora but at the same time, not Pandora, she is a lie created from the truth, a figment of his imagination, an oddity he created in his spiraling madness, a memory with a form, a memory that stills haunts him even now.

But even so, he had to speak his mind and come to terms with reality as he said while sinking in the never-ending depth of the river.

"In the end, you are nothing but a lie, I will never accept that you are the real Pandora, I killed you, I murder you, I completely obliterate you and your fucking cult, and that is the truth, that even you yourselves cannot deny."

I said while my right eye suddenly began to glow a deep ocean blue from behind the eye patch, as I continue to talk.

"But your right everything is gone, my promised to Satella, my vow to that emotionless bitch Echidna and that stupid naive dunderhead Minerva, my last promised to Reinhard, my contract with both Odlaguna and Beatrice, and finally my will to live."

The light in my eyes began to shine even brighter as I began to remember everything that has happen to me throughout my long life.

"All of this was your fault, and since my will to live has crumbled to most lowest of soil, then the purpose of my existence is unnecessary, but just thinking about the torment I went through, I shall make it my business, as I will return this favor a million folds, just this once I shall return using your accursed power, however, I'm not returning to the world we once laid waste to."

"No I shall take us somewhere far away, somewhere you nor I have no dominion over, a place even I do not know of completely, I have laid waste to this world along with everyone around me, to do this again would just be selfish of me, I'm not going to make you have your way, this ends now Pandora."

And before I transport myself to another world, that is not here, all I shall say is.

"I'm not letting you have your, if I'm stuck with you, we play by my rules, and my rules only."

"Hahaha... my goals have already been completed, so I don't have much to say or do if anything teasing you is my way to pass the time because in time you will become exactly how I want you to be if Iou likes it or not.

"I will never be you, I can only be me."

"But you already are."

"Silence, just shut up and let me concentrate."

With those words said, Subaru began to look through the entire realities and see different versions of himself, and he found one that was similar to Earth, but instead of Subaru, he was called Araragi Koyomi.

"Good, this place looks like a decent place, it's normal and has a lot of magical energy in it, well then, let's get this over with."

"I was never here, to begin with, after all, I am Araragi and that is the truth."

With those said, Subaru suddenly disappear from the world.