Prologue F

Prologue F

RUDE AWAKENING

BSHH

Dionysus' skull got slammed into the glass box. Of course, Cerberus was right on his heels to punish him more.

SLAM

"GAH!"

Dionysus had his back stomped on by Cerberus. Cerberus twisted his foot on his back, and Dionysus continued to struggle on the ground.

"You know, I was always taught that insects exist to be stepped on, but…"

Cerberus continued to twist his foot as he said this.

"You're so weak that it isn't even satisfying."

'I… I have to… get out of here…'

Dionysus summoned a curtain in front of him and attempted to slither towards it.

"Oh, wanna make this public? Be my guest, go on ahead."

As if Dionysus was a soccer ball, Cerberus kicked him into the curtain which led back to the main street.

GASP

Dionysus was struggling to breathe and was squirming on the ground. Cerberus walked out of the curtain that had been summoned and proceeded to walk over to Dionysus. The second he reached Dionysus, he lifted his leg up into the sky and clearly aimed at Dionysus.

"Weaklings are no fun to play with."

The leg began to descend, and Dionysus closed his eyes.

"BASSSSTTTAAAARRRRDDD!"

From behind Cerberus, a scream that would rip apart any normal person's ears was heard.

Cerberus swirled around.

"SHUT THE FU-!"

SLAM

Cerberus got sent flying into a building which ended up collapsing on itself from the sheer pressure that came with a person being sent flying into it.

'Huh?'

Dionysus had opened his eyes just in time to see what had happened, and realized that this was his chance.

'Hold him off, I'll patch myself up quickly!'

"Yeah..."

The last thing that Dionysus saw before he dragged himself into the curtain was the silhouette walking towards the building that Cerberus had been sent flying into.

'Where is it, Where is it?!'

Dionysus always had medical aid in here for scenarios such as this one.

Well, he specifically had a single item prepared for this.

'There!'

He found the goblet that he had put in here a while ago. He dragged himself over to it and, very reluctantly, drank from it.

At first, it seemed as if the goblet was empty, but then wine suddenly appeared within it, and Dionysus gulped it down. After gulping it all down, he stood up and threw the goblet away.

--- SEQUENCE 2 ---

Right after being punched into the building, Cerberus stood up and coughed out some blood. However, there was something quite strange about him.

It was the smile. It had returned to his face.

"DAMN RIGHT, THAT'S HOW A PUNCH SHOULD BE!"

After screaming that, he began to look around for the silhouette.

"COME ON OUT, LET'S SLUG IT OUT! I'M TELLING YOU, THERE'S NO BETTER THRILL!"

SNAP

Cerberus heard something snap like a twig behind him and immediately bent his back backwards and was looking up at the sky when a black arm covered his vision.

"Hiding in the smoke and fighting? Fine, we can play like this for a bit!"

Cerberus immediately shot himself up into the air with a jump and looked around, but the silhouette had already disappeared back into the smoke.

'That thing isn't a normal monster. It has some sort of thought process and seems to be able to use strategy.'

Cerberus sliced at seemingly nothing, but a hole appeared in the sky. He went into the hole which disappeared right after he went in.

'There!'

He saw a soul, and immediately knew that it was the silhouette's. He prominently summoned the hole and lunged through it while aiming his kick at where the silhouette was at.

CRUNCH

'huh?'

Cerberus felt immense pain from his foot, but he immediately swerved around to face the silhouette.

Or at least he tried, but he ended up stumbling.

"Oh."

Cerberus looked down at his foot, or where it was supposed to be. Yet, the only thing that was there was a stub with blood gushing out.

"Well, that'll be hard to make up."

However, if anything good had come out of all of this, the smoke had finally cleared up. They were fighting on top of the ruins of the building that had collapsed. The silhouette was clearly standing in front of him and had nowhere to hide.

Cerberus actually had a somewhat ragged breath, but he wasn't even close to giving in. Meanwhile, the silhouette simply stood there and stared, or at least it would have been staring if it had eyes out right now.

FWISH

All of a sudden, a curtain appeared to the left of the silhouette. Dionysus came out from it, and took a hold of the silhouette.

"Come on, you can fight another time."

"..."

The silhouette stared at Cerberus for a bit before it nodded and followed Dionysus through the curtain. Cerberus plainly stared as the two figures disappeared along with the curtain.

SIGH

A while after they disappeared, Cerberus finally let out all his pent up breath with a sigh.

'I'm going to have to call it a day unless I actually want to die from bleeding out.'

Cerberus began to hop away on his single foot, with a feeling of satisfaction in his mind. Along with that …

… he still had a smile on his face.

--- SEQUENCE 3 ---

"Oi, I know how we're going to get out. It was stupid of me to not do this before."

Dionysus looked at the silhouette which just sat on the ground in front of him with its legs crossed.

'Here's what's going to happen. We're going to go right up to the dome, and by using my ability, we'll enter the glass box while inside the dome and emerge on the outside.'

The silhouette gave absolutely no type of response.

SIGH

"Let's get out of here."

Dionysus quickly scanned the area before he went out of the glass box.

"Oi, go into your dimension, using you as a hood and cape is useless at this point."

"..."

The silhouette disappeared into nothingness, and Dionysus summoned a curtain and walked into it and emerged on the main street. There were many people who were staring at the collapsed building which was very recently a battlefield. Dionysus walked towards them and slipped into the crowd.

'The second that I reach the dome, I win!'

Dionysus knew that all he had to do was use his ability and he would be on the other side and well on his way away from here.

BANG

'Huh?'

SPLISH

A man that had been standing towards Dionysus' left got shot in the head. He was holding a kid in his hands that began to fall, but a woman caught the baby.

"H-HONEY!"

The woman, still holding the baby, dropped to the ground and looked at the body of the man. After staring at him for a while, tears began to come out of her eyes.

'...Wait a second.'

Dionysus finally recognized them as the family who's apartment he had barged into.

'J-Just a second ago they were sitting around the table and enjoying themselves…'

"FUCK!"

Dionysus decided to just book it and began to shove people out of his way as he ran as fast as he could to the edge of the city.

VHWOOM

To his right, the silhouette appeared and wrapped it's arm around Dionysus and began to run in place of Dionysus.

"Shit, I missed the shot."

"Don't worry about it, just don't miss next time."

Two men were sitting on the roofs of two different buildings and shooting at Dionysus. The one that had just killed the man stood up and got into a throwing position.

"Give me the next thing to throw at them."

"Got it."

A quill appeared in his hand, and he took aim at the silhouette's legs.

'DROP DEAD'

Just like that, he threw the quill at the legs, but he missed once again.

"RAHHHH!"

The silhouette made some sort of cry, and began to run even faster.

"Oi, you don't think that it's going to try and ram the dome and create a hole, do you? It looks pretty capable…"

"Don't sweat it, it can't even dream of denting that thing."

However, as soon as the silhouette reached the dome, a curtain appeared in front it. The two immediately realized what was going on, and began to get desperate.

"SCREW IT!"

The one that was in charge of throwing things ripped off his own finger, and threw it as hard as he could at the silhouette that was carrying Dionysus.

FWISH

However, Dionysus and the silhouette evaded it by going into the glass box.

"SHIT!"

Meanwhile, Dionysus and the silhouette had just gotten into the glass box. Dionysus ran to the side of the glass box that would take them outside of the dome if they walked through a curtain, and made a curtain appear.

"Come on, we don't want another incident like the Cerberus one to happen again."

The silhouette nodded, and followed Dionysus through the curtain. After walking through it, they appeared on the outside of the dome.

"Alright, let's get out of here."

The silhouette once again took hold of Dionysus and began to run off into the distance.