Dream Cycle.

(A/N: This chapter took a lot of rewriting. So show me some love. After that enjoy the chapter.)

----

(A/N: Killer Queen Dai-san no Bakudan: Bites Za Dusto!)

Gilgamesh closed the manga as he let out a satisfied breath. The story was great, except for the first half, the first half was shit.

He closed his eyes to temporarily shut down his brain. The last time he did this, he lost his connection with Jouichirou who was attacked, and almost lost his life.

But he still did it because he wanted to visit that place again.

Gilgamesh opened his eyes to find himself standing in front of a landscape similar to Kur; The Underworld of the Sumerian culture. But there was a difference, instead of there being ashes like in Kur, this place was empty.

He was standing on something, but this something wasn't matter or any sort of construct. It could be called space.

Meaning he is somewhere similar to outer space.

But... Butt... why is there gravity in outer space?

"I will leave that question to the future me," Gilgamesh said as he made his way through the empty space.

"But this is strange. I am supposed to be in a dream cycle yet I have the freedom to move." He kept on moving until he came to a sudden halt.

He was half a step away from death.

Half a step away from falling into, what can only be called an abyss.

He retracted the step he was about to take and kneeled down and checked out the place he was about to die on.

'Mystery, so this is the leakage point.' Just as he thought that he turned around as he sensed someone or rather something.

'A person... no, more like an automaton with some human parts.' It was a Cyborg. Some parts of its face and a mummified spine were however human.

Gilgamesh recognized that face. It was the face of his summoner Honjo Jouichirou. Although only partial, it was still distinguishable.

Two numbers were running through his red mechanical eyes, 0 and 1. Constantly flickering, as if some sort of binary program was running through them.

The entire space suddenly changed. The scene turned into that of a blond man taking a bath in a pond after carefully placing a cloth on the shore.

Gilgamesh remembered this scene, it was the time when he finally ended his journey for immortality. The time when the snake ate away the plant of eternal youth.

But where is the snake, he looked around and he didn't see any snakes. But there was another cyborg this one only had part of its face, the spine part was metal like the rest of its body. It was different from the one before.

And most of all it was carrying a white ball with a smiley face, an instrument his summoner used in battle. The cyborg lifted his hand with the ball in a very familiar way and threw it, right towards the plant wrapped in cloth at the shore of the pond.

The ball in front of Gilgamesh's eyes transformed into a white snake and ate the plant. His younger self ran from the waters of the pond and tried to catch the snake.

But it was already too late, the snake had transformed into a ball and went right into the cyborg's hands.

The scene changed as time itself accelerated, Uruk fell along with the Mesopotamian civilization, but new ones came in its place, and it continued, civilizations were built and destroyed, along with countries, wars were waged, and peaceful times were cherished.

The entire history of the earth unfolded in front of Gilgamesh, from the genesis to the end, from the Age of Gods to the Age of Man and even beyond, even after humanity's end, it didn't stop, once the Earth died out, another planet's history was shown before him.

Alien life, alien civilization, alien history. And it didn't stop there.

The Universe had reached its limit, it was restarted and even then, the cycle didn't stop, even in another Universe, another history, another genesis. The cyborgs didn't stop.

They were collecting some black substances which Gilgamesh recognized as Evil, Negativity, Sins, Curses, Misfortune, etc. And these were not just from humans but also from alien lifeforms.

All these black substances which now looked like mud were being drawn to a specific cyborg who held a rope with 7 knots in his hand. Just looking at it Gilgamesh felt himself losing his sanity.

Once all the black mud was absorbed inside it and the cyborg moved to a well, it threw the rope in and then jumped inside the well itself.

After the cyborg jumped a man or a woman neither human nor alien, came out of the well, purified. Gilgamesh peeked inside the well to find cyborg(s) and rope(s) inside of the well.

He quickly looked away so as to not be affected.

He found something was strange with his body, and it was. All of his body, except his head, was now made up of cyborg parts.

He fell to the ground as he found himself back in the outer space-like place. He looked to his left and found himself and himself, all of them looking in the same direction as him.

He looked to his right and saw the same thing, a never-ending amount of Gilgamesh with robotic bodies looking to the right.

The scene only ended when he looked to the front and found the indescribable person from earlier holding out his hand towards him.

He unconsciously grabbed the hand as his robotic body was replaced by human flesh and the indescribable person became a cyborg with only a partial face similar to Jouichirou's.

'What was going on? What was happening? What is this place? Who is Jouichirou?' These thoughts ran through his mind.

His questions were answered when the cyborg from the beginning, the one with the mummified spine.

The cyborg looked directly into Gilgamesh's eyes as information flowed inside his mind.

Until now he hadn't realized that the place he entered was a mind, a mind of a machine, which was the CPU of a machine, and here dreams don't exist. Only data exist, data that he can access like a computer user.

Once again he was back in Uruk.

Everything was the same but there was news that King Gilgamesh had achieved immortality. The servant was confused. This wasn't supposed to happen, he wasn't supposed to gain immortality.

He soon found time to be accelerated again as he saw Uruk grow, and fall right before him, yet his immortal version didn't do anything.

Mankind suffered and destroyed itself yet he did nothing.

It was at this moment at the Caster servant realized, that this was a reality where he had obtained immortality.

His worst nightmare had come to be.

He had turned into a plant.

When Gilgamesh was offered immortality by a tree in exchange for him becoming a tree himself, meaning losing all free will and emotions, and everything that made him human, Gilgamesh refused the offer.

Yet, having obtained immortality he had no more purpose in life and had become a tree.

He was saved. He was saved by Jouichirou. He was saved when Jouichirou took away his opportunity for becoming immortal. And not just him.

Jouichirou was helping and recusing everyone, whether it be by taking away their problems or helping them solve their problem, or even helping them in suicide or to die so that their suffering could end.

He wasn't just helping humans though, he was also helping aliens, throughout the Universe(s) by taking away their evil.

0 and 1.

Evil and Good.

Nothingness and Everything.

The collector and The giver.

1 can't become 0 no matter how many times you divide it. Hence, 1 represented Messiah, the savior, the one who gives away everything to everyone.

0 represented nothingness, it can hold everything. Hence, 0 represented the collector, the other Messiah who didn't give but instead took from everyone. This was Jouichirou. A machine built for the sole purpose of collecting evil.

And this empty space was where all that was collected by the cyborgs was stored. A place where an infinite amount of things could be stored. This place was 0 or nothingness, and since it was nothing it could hold everything.

And this nothingness existed within Jouichirou.

With this information, Gilgamesh was kicked out of there. When he woke up, he found his summoner with an unknown boy who to him was annoying.

But looking at Jouichirou now, an image overlapped him. The image of Enkidu overlapped Jouichirou's.

Respect started to develop in Gilgamesh's mind as he held Jouichirou in high regard. His respect for his summoner was second only to his respect for humanity.

But this also brought caution to his mind as it meant that his summoner and anchor to this world was a Beast candidate.

But for now, this was not a problem as there was a system that prevented this.

He still had many questions. But he left them for his future self.

----

(A/N: I am dead. I have no life. I am choking on coffee.)

(A/N: Writing philosophy is not easy. I need some love. Give me some love.)