War of Admins (3)

--- Okamura Hiromi's POV ---

Gaining personnel was easy.

The guild is now officially the strongest among the big three.

But the "Strongest" doesn't necessarily mean we have so many members.

Most of the guild members in the Liberation Guild are someone we know.

I would refuse other players who came to join without bringing a proper introduction, even if the tip of information is already in my hands.

Which means, you'd have to get a connection to get here.

And despite that, I already know a few of the applicants are spies for the other guilds. Mostly to the Divine Dragons.

I assumed this time will be the same but to my surprise... When she opened her hood and veil, I saw myself.

That deep baritone voice of a man she used to introduce herself was long gone right after her face was revealed.

That... Is undoubtedly, Me.

Her eyes are murkier than mine.

The identical murky eyes that I gave Shino Asada.

Yet the long brown hair and the obsidian eyes are still there, mirroring my features.

"I am you, from the future."

Figured.

If it wasn't an alternate universe, it should've been an alternate timeline.

My mind races to draw a conclusion.

Is she a product of this timeline?

Will one of us disappear now that we've seen each other?

Which is it? Which is true!?

Can I really trust her words!?

*Snap*

"You will become me, and I will become you."

As if referencing some other pop culture game, the girl with my face stated thus.

And before I knew it... I blacked out.

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I've never felt so worse in my whole life.

During my blackout, I saw myself on the ground with my motionless big brother in my arms.

The world seemed to have been destroyed.

In this apocalyptic world, nothing seems to move except my soar, hurting throat and the sound of screaming.

I could only lament at my brother's dead body with a hole in his chest, when I finally realized the owner of those screams: Me.

The scream of agony turned into something I could never imagine.

«Report: Hero's Egg has been hatched. The evolution condition to a True Hero was not completed. Complete awakening of Demon Lord is possible.»

I become a failed product of a hero that desires the world's destruction more than anything else.

Then I discarded everything.

My brother, my world, my identity...

In order to take revenge on the one who is responsible for this timeline.

But once I have gotten my revenge...

"The Cup of Reincarnation can only be used once now... Not to mention, I doubt it'll affect the other multiverse too... Are you still going to use it?"

The guy known as a "Ruler" stated.

"That's funny." The me from the previous timeline seems to have much more plan to that.

"You know I already know about that. Why did you even think I asked for it?"

It was in JinWoo-san's world where I had taken the Cup of Reincarnation from.

I spent the next thousands of years of journey through the multiverse to find anything that can amplify the relic.

"At last... The 'Cup of Origin' is completed."

I managed to turn the artifact into something unimaginable...

Something beyond any gods and constellations understandings...

The Cup that when executed:

Let you reset every single multiverse to when they started; to when the first Big Bang happened.

I had become an existence that existed before the universe came to be.

From then I waited...

And waited...

Then finally, the planet where everything started will appear...

This is it... This is what I've been waiting for.

But... If I just let the planet stay like this, those self-proclaimed gods would definitely come here.

That's why I just had to do it.

For a being to evolve, something needed to be done.

"I must say, that does sound very intriguing..." The owner of this voice was the man I had known ever since I obliterated a few multiverse out of boredom.

This guy is actually a mid-tier deity.

He's far below my level.

But I disguised myself as equal to his power level just so that he let his guard down.

His name is Cthulhu.

That's right, the squid man with wings.

He listened to my plans with my past homeworld, to create a death game in a mortal world.

To gain more power through other constellations' donations. Thus we worked together to create (plagiarised) the VRMMO game called Sword Art Online made by a mortal called Kayaba Akihiko.

We have unofficially claimed the normal earth as our territory.

Then Cthulhu finally invited a small-time deity called Ghatanothoa.

That thing that looks to be made from oblivion changes its shape into a humanoid form inside a blue hood. I nicknamed both of them K and A and the three of us become the admins of Aincrad.

Of course, it was just a part of my plan.

After making both my future self and my beloved Onii-sama much more powerful than before, I will make my move.

This time... Nothing can separate us.

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And that memory ends there...

Seriously, was I really that much of a bro-con?

I did masturb*te to Onii-chan's photo a few times when I was in middle school.

I even think of assaulting him myself when he's asleep, even though I'd like it more if he assaulted me.

But that was my young self speaking.

I knew immediately afterward that we siblings can't be together, well after finding out we weren't blood-related later on...

But right now I can't be bothered with that.

[Energy Absorption has been stopped. The system will no longer bears parasitical symbiosis with you]

[The system will guide you in the utmost way possible to reach a new strength]

[New title (1) awarded:]

- Administrator F

[You have learned a skill, 『K% = Admin Authority』]

[You have learned a unique skill, 『Manifester』]

Those notifications were accompanied by an override of the memories that overload my brain.

It hurts.

But I endured the pain...

[You have learned a skill, 『Spiritual Body Manifestation』]

My body is being broken down into pieces and got patched up back in...

[You have learned the Ultimate skill, 『Demonic God: Demiurge』]

It was the worse thing I have ever felt.

But the memories gained more of my concern than the crippling pain.

Administrator K, Administrator A, The multiversal Armageddon, and finally...

The figure evil young man, seemingly to be the catalyst of everything that will happen in the future...

Yuuki Kagurazaka.

Everything I've gained through Administrator F's memories was all crucial events that leads to our chat group's demise.

In the first place... There wasn't supposed to be any "Aincrad" in this world.

My brother will hide the chat group away from me.

This world should've been a normal world on Earth.

Rimuru-san, JinWoo-san, and Shiro-chan would've been the only members of the group chat.

And all three including my brother received a terrible end during the previous timeline.

This... Is horrible.

I don't want to see it.

The sight of Nii-chan's motionless body... I hate it.

Whoever made that kind of scenario, I want them to die by my own hands.

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To be continued.