Hello guys
I am currently in the process of rewriting and improving the chapters
I have finished the first two chapters
You will sometimes find the name aeon written as aeon or eon or ion
The correct spelling is aeon you will see it in the chapters after the 13th
But before this in the beginning it will be eon and ion
Although this does not change anything but it may cause some confusion so sorry for the inconvenience...
While also you may see the dialogue too long more than necessary but it was important to make it more natural and not just filler
So you can skip it if you want and transition directly to the memory of aeon when he received the message
And
I am very sorry I could not find a way to make a new chapter to place it between the first and second chapter
Therefore the first and second chapter will be merged together
It will be very long unfortunately but I have no other solution unfortunately
Thank you guys
Enjoy
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"I... died."
This was the last thing Alfred thought before his consciousness faded into the endless darkness, he did not know if this was the feeling of death or that he was simply unconscious, he could not see anything nor feel anything as if he was stripped of everything only his consciousness swimming in the darkness that has no end.
He did not know how much time had passed sometimes he feels it was days or weeks or even months then other times he feels it was just a few seconds.
In the endless void his thinking was unnaturally clear he saw all his memories since he was a small child growing up until he matured into a handsome young man at the age of 19.
The memories were like shards passing through his mind specifically the memory of his last day before he "died"?
Those memories flooded back strongly and he recalls them as if he is living them.
Three young men sat in one of the restaurants they used to visit after school.
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A young man with black hair and slightly long bangs with blue eyes like the color of the ocean spoke he was handsome making a girl turn to look at him at least twice on the street
"Alfred you study maniac why don't you relax a little and stay up late with us to play, man the third part has been released you must try it you haven't even played the second part man"
He was called Mike... despite his handsomeness he was obsessed with games to a strange degree to the point of neglecting even girls.
Alfred replied he is a young man of the same handsomeness black hair tied in a short ponytail with deep black eyes
"Mike maybe only a cheeky person like you can advise someone to rest from studying then stay up late to play games" Alfred could only frown playfully a little at Mark's cheekiness
Then he turned towards their third friend, what drew attention was his blonde hair and his bright green eyes but what really makes people turn to look at him... is his weight he was moderately fat there were several plates of food in front of him eating gluttonously he was called Rio
"You pig you must stop stuffing your mouth with all this food, didn't you say you would follow a diet? man your love rejected you just because of this damn gluttony" Alfred said while looking in astonishment towards his friend Rio
He was a handsome and athletic young man but since the game Exodia was released he drowned in it and forgot even himself and his studies then he started gaining weight abnormally he always repeated that he would return to his fit body after finishing the second part... but just upon hearing that the third part had been released that determination disappeared like a wisp of smoke.
"I told you right? I will follow the diet once I finish the third part this is a promise as for Jasmine once I return to my fitness she will come crawling to me" He said this while putting a fried chicken thigh inside his mouth.
"Hahaha what if the fourth part is released will you postpone the diet until you die of a heart attack from too much eating?" Mike laughed as he heard Rio's excuses then smiled maliciously when he directed his attention towards Alfred who was pinching the bridge of his nose while looking at Rio
"Oh Alfred I forgot to tell you but do you know what? That favorite character of yours appeared in the third part"
Alfred turned quickly towards Mike his eyes full of childish excitement
"Really??! But this is impossible right? the company said he is just an extra character"
When Mike saw Alfred's sudden excitement he felt bad when he forgot for a moment the extent of Alfred's obsession with that character.
Pfft
Rio laughed suddenly then started coughing suddenly because he was talking while eating, Alfred handed him a juice that was in front of him and patted his back gently
Rio took a deep breath when he regained his breath then directed his gaze towards Mike
"Why do you deceive him like this man, he hasn't even gotten over his death yet and you tell him this man you are so mean" Rio said mockingly towards Mike
Mike scratched his cheek with his finger he felt a little embarrassed of this.
"Tch I knew it was a trick already, am I this desperate for just a game character like this" Alfred said with a little sadness
"Well you are not alone I found a whole forum that admires and glorifies this character and demands the company to make him a playable character hahahaha" Mike said
Rio widened his eyes then laughed when he heard Mike's statement
"Really? for just a character that barely appeared 5 times in a game? hahahaha if there is truly a forum like this I am sure their leader would be Alfred"
Mike was surprised when he heard his words then laughed too this possibility was very high, while Alfred stiffened a little and his face turned red but he hid that... because he really is the founder of that forum but he will never reveal this
"Well man you can't blame them right? the character of aeon was so great man, just look at the entrance exams no matter what you do even if you gather all the main characters against him it won't matter he will win no matter what tricks you try on him" Mike said contemplatively as he remembers the character of aeon in the game Exodia
"Tch just an extra flashy character added by the game developers to make the game seem more mysterious, although they succeeded indeed" Rio muttered with slight annoyance it seems he is not a fan of the character aeon
"You fool didn't you read the character's description and his past. The company said that aeon has a torn spirit and dormant bloodlines he could not awaken. He certainly has a mysterious background and also that strength of his he reached it only by his own effort" Alfred said while he seems excited about talking about aeon.
"I really don't understand you Alfred how can you love just an extra character, Arthur is better than this" Rio said with slight surprise
"Stop Rio you are beating the water, Alfred stopped playing the game because of Arthur in the first place he doesn't like him at all" Mike said while drinking his beverage
"Ah don't start again about the talk of principles man" Rio said with extreme laziness
"Haaa what Rio you don't like aeon because he is the complete opposite of your character? Well you can't blame him like someone who steals the abilities of others and acts arrogant with them" Alfred replied
"What does it really matter? As long as the result is what matters why should you care about the process? Arthur possesses the copying talent he would be stupid if he didn't use it while your character cannot even use mana of course he has to work hard" Rio replied as if aeon's words had hit the mark
"The result is important but the process is of the same importance and maybe more in the end the process is what shapes and refines your core and makes you what you are but if you skip the process directly to the result then you are just an empty balloon a day will come and the shortcuts will end and you will burst" Alfred shook his head towards Rio's words then continued
"But I agree with you that if you have copying and not using it is just stupidity, the truth is I don't hate copying or the system or whatever form of cheating what I hate is the characters who obtain this cheating how they act with arrogance and conceit and coldness they are unqualified for it, do you remember that scene of Arthur when he saved that city from the monster and the residents praised him and he started acting with condescension while he defeated it easily because he stole that girl's ability? He didn't even put in effort but he acts arrogant without basis"
"Guys stop stop I don't want to hear this talk of yours for the millionth time guys don't you get bored of this?" Mike said this while his hand was on his forehead
This was not the first time his two friends had this conversation but almost every time they talk about aeon or Arthur it ends in this way between the stubborn-headed Rio and Alfred although he leans to Alfred's principles but in real life naturally you will side with Rio's principles in this case
"No, really man imagine with me that you study hard every day then someone comes who has for example a cheat system steals the content of your knowledge just by shaking your hand then starts acting with arrogance and starts dealing with coldness as if he did something glorious" Alfred replied with slight agitation, even he did not understand the reason for this agitation exactly.
"Alright man stop throwing your moral principles on us and eat this chicken thigh" Rio said while putting a chicken thigh in Alfred's mouth.
The three continued talking laughing
Alfred was in this void sinking silently in these memories, he was wondering if this is that idea that says that a human when he dies sees his memories completely.
The shards of memories continued to pass until the last memory came which is the reason for his strange death.
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Alfred was sitting in front of his computer he was preparing to enter the game based on the advice of his cheeky friend Mike but before this something drew his attention a message that reached him in his private email
What surprised him was the sender it was from the Exodia company.
In the morning of this day he had sent them a message asking them if it was possible to add the character aeon to the game as a playable character, this was the extent of Alfred's desperation with this character that represented all his principles
The character of aeon Drakis was a mirror a complete embodiment of the values that Alfred advocated.
The company's message said
[Hello dear aeon87, after reviewing your suggestion we saw that you can be offered an exclusive experience just for you, if you agree please send your approval in reply to this message]
Alfred was surprised with astonishment specifically what astonished him was the time of the company's reply as it was only two minutes after he had sent the message
This was extremely fast for a huge company like the Exodia company
Alfred felt extreme excitement
He rushed to reply to the company then sat waiting
A minute passed and two
While waiting he checked several times that the company's email was the same official email and not a fraud process.
3 minutes passed before the ringing of the message's arrival reached Alfred's ear he rushed quickly to check the email
The company replied
He clicked on the message and read its content
Astonishment bit him as soon as he started reading it
[Welcome back aeon*****]
Welcome back? aeon?
He could not read the last word it was blurred as if his mind could not comprehend it
Then suddenly he felt cold spreading from his limbs and moving quickly towards the center of his body
This cold was not external but from inside as if his body was malfunctioning the blood stops in its place and becomes cold and dims.
The cold spread quickly, Alfred was terrified by this he tried to move but he could not even stand causing him to fall from the chair
He tried to speak but found his tongue heavy like a mountain, soon the cold reached his heart and he started losing consciousness slowly Alfred tried to keep his eyelids open but he could not and soon he drowned into the darkness
The last thing he thought of was
"I... died"
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Alfred thought that once he saw his last memory his consciousness would fade but he remained in this state he truly did not know if he would remain like this forever because this matter is truly terrifying, imagine that you stay conscious in a place for years maybe tens of thousands or even millions of years even time is distorted you cannot even know how much time has passed.
But
Soon Alfred started that his consciousness is being pulled away as if he is moving across endless distances he felt a tingling although he does not have a body at all soon what appeared in front of him was a small white dot and it started growing bigger and bigger until its features appeared the shape of a pure white cube had it not been for its edges you would not be able to distinguish that it is a cube.
The speed of pulling Alfred's consciousness increased faster and faster until he hit the cube and passed through it.
Inside the cube despite its smallness from the outside but its inside contained a giant forest below the cliff that Alfred stood on
Stood?
This aroused Alfred's surprise when suddenly he turned his gaze downwards and saw that he has become possessing a body of the same length as his previous but transparent white without features or clothes.
When a voice sounded from his side suddenly
"Alfred right? Or should I call you aeon now?... Please sit"
Alfred turned towards him and was shocked by what he saw, what he saw was beyond the comprehension of the minds of mortal humans
In front of him was a white wavy entity formless but one could simply identify its body but its features did not appear
The entity was sitting on a mat on the ground and in front of it a jug of wine it was facing the gentle breeze of the forest below
"Do not stand stunned like this I will explain to you what I can" He said again in a calm tone the voice was strange to Alfred he could not determine if it was for a woman or a man.
Alfred moved mechanically and approached the mat he hesitated a little then sat cross-legged in front of that entity.
Then he asked with hesitation
"What are you?"
"Hmmmm did you really not recognize me? Even though you asked me to try playing as the character aeon?" The entity replied while handing his hand the wine jug and putting it to his mouth.
Alfred was shocked by this he said with agitation involuntarily
"The Exodia company?!! But how? And also I only asked to try the character not to die"
His voice rose and a hint of anger leaked from it without his feeling
He had his own life friends and he was close to graduating from high school.
The entity was silent a little then said
"I apologize young comrade but you must die this is for the world rather your death is already decided even if I gave you the choice between returning you to your body or dying now, the moment I tell you what I will tell you now you will prefer death"
Alfred was shocked by these words then became silent trying to control himself
And his emotions.
The silence continued for several minutes then he said calmly
"You called me aeon and not Alfred in the beginning why is this?"
The hand of the entity stopped a little when he was trying to drink the wine then he laughed loudly
"What a truly strong mentality, in this difficult situation for any mortal human person he will find difficulty even in thinking let alone focusing on what is truly important?"
Alfred was silent and did not speak and waited for the entity in front of him to continue
"Alright, call me the older brother Exodia from now on, well the matter is simple to some extent. Because you were never Alfred at all rather you have always been aeon"
Alfred was shocked by the illogical words he opened his mouth to speak when the entity in front of him shook his hand
"Let me continue then speak. Simply you are a part of the spirit of aeon.... The core of the true spirit of aeon was damaged and torn when he was an infant because of some enemies, we could not treat his spirit but we barely managed to save the torn spirit and because aeon was an infant reattaching his torn spirit was a very dangerous matter on his life rather the success rate reaches near zero so we could not take the risk but we could not wait until aeon grows up to be strong enough because the torn spirit started to decay and would not last but a few years before perishing and disappearing from the world... and we could not plant it in another person because it is not allowed to have two spirits inside one person and it will be swallowed by him or several other reasons I cannot tell you because you will not understand them anyway and there is no benefit from that... the important thing is that we found the solution is to transfer that spirit to another world a weak world that does not possess even mana or any form of energy that might threaten erasing the spirit... so we found a world called Earth and I personally planted that spirit in an orphan child without a family and he was already dead because of homelessness... I treated the child's body and planted the torn spirit of aeon inside him then I placed him into the orphanage by manipulating the memories of the orphanage director... well you can imagine the rest right? And who is that orphan?"
Alfred sat silently, this information attacked his head violently he did not know how to deal with it... with denial or despair or sadness or anger? He did not understand what he feels about it currently
He sat silently for an unknown time
In the end he thought about everything he went through in his life from the orphanage to his friends to his dreams they were just a fabric crafted by another person who had decided his death already..
The entity Exodia in front of him did not press him and continued to drink his wine.
It seemed that an hour of long thinking had passed, Alfred exhaled deeply.
"You say that aeon is a real character and a full real world, is the game Exodia that I played me and my friends on Earth represent that world you talk about?" He asked with a calm voice
"Yes it is real, I created that game for special reasons" Exodia replied
"Then what will happen to me? I am sure you did not bring me here just to talk right?" Alfred continued asking the right and important questions as for the rest he will leave it for a later time
-to be continued- ch1 end
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Chapter Two
Exodia was slightly surprised by Alfred's composure even though he threw at him a truth that shakes the core of any person to the marrow.
He shook his hand indifferently and said
"You want honesty? I brought you here just to talk this will not change anything in the plan and also I thought this would not be fair to you if you died just without knowing the reason"
"Not fair?" This sentence aroused confusion in Alfred.
"Yes because you as a torn spirit possessed a separate consciousness you will return to the original body to reintegrate with the core of the original spirit"
Alfred trembled when he thought of a certain possibility
"Then what will happen to my spirit? No, I mean what will happen to my consciousness me as Alfred?" Alfred asked the most important question.
Exodia was silent a little then put down the wine jug and said calmly
"Your consciousness will be erased and you will become just memories, because you are a separate consciousness and not a main consciousness and you are originally aeon and not Alfred even the core of your own existence itself is aeon and not Alfred even if your consciousness is not erased because of this it does not matter in fact the final result is the erasure of the identity of Alfred as a person"
Alfred listened calmly to Exodia's words then raised his head towards the sky
The sky was very beautiful an ethereal blue with pure clouds he felt a strange feeling of peace he really did not understand why he does not feel anger he tried to get angry but he truly could not like a person created for a specific purpose then died for it, rather he felt he was blessed in the first place because he lived a beautiful life while he was not supposed to exist in the first place.
Alfred extended his hand towards the wine jug, Exodia did not stop him but simply watched while Alfred sipped the wine slowly, Alfred did not understand if this was a real body or not but the wine felt soothing his whole body.
"What a beautifully tragic matter" Alfred wiped the wine that was on his mouth then placed the jug on the mat again.
"Yes what a tragedy, it was scheduled that you live 30 years at least and in the best cases until the age of 40 but the enemies turned out to have an extremely mysterious background they thought that the original spirit died as we planned but they set their sights on the torn spirit early and started searching everywhere until they sensed your location in a mysterious way if I left your spirit for more time on planet Earth it would have been a matter of time before they locate your solar system, although the mortal wall will prevent them from reaching directly in person there but they can send monsters of low ranks and this would be enough to annihilate all forms of life there"
Now Alfred was truly shocked although he did not understand 90% of what Exodia said like the mortal wall and other things but he could feel that these alleged enemies are very strong to the extent they can search the entire universe
"Can I ask about who these enemies are?" Alfred asked although this matter does not concern him but he felt that this might help aeon maybe.
"You ask this in order to help aeon? But let me tell you unfortunately all the talk we spoke about here will be erased from your spirit once you exit this world, because this world is not supposed to be inhabited by living beings and if any beings exit it their memories about this world will be erased and also even if your memories about this world will not be erased I will not be able to tell you because this matter involves a higher level of--" Exodia stopped talking quickly as the world started shaking suddenly this continued for less than a second then the matter stopped as if it was not but the sounds of the animals in the forest and the birds scattered in the sky tell you that this was real and not just an illusion.
Alfred felt terror while Exodia took a sip of the wine then exhaled slowly
"Did you see? Even when I tried to cheat and tell you vaguely who they are the sky sensed me and gave a warning, if I continued speaking a little more we would have been annihilated this matter involves a large and complex amount of cause and effect"
Alfred swallowed his saliva with difficulty this was an insane matter while Exodia took the matter as a joke while provoking the sky itself.
Alfred took several breaths organizing himself and calming his disturbance while Exodia himself seemed to not care about this.
"Then can I ask what is the game Exodia that was on planet Earth?" Alfred asked again with hesitation although he will disappear and there will be no benefit from these questions but he felt curious about this matter.
"You ask a lot for a person who will die shortly... Well it is the same matter as the previous I cannot tell you as well because it is of the same danger as the previous matter but let me say, I am the person who created that game, damn learning your stupid sciences to make that game even with my spirit's power I exhausted a lot of time" Exodia said despite the annoyance in his voice but he cannot hide the tone of pride within him.
"Well it cannot be denied that you put great effort into this" Alfred laughed at Exodia's annoyance
"Of course in the beginning I made it stupidly and did not care I was going to force you to play it even and alter your memories but passion took me in developing it and publishing it to the whole world" Exodia replied in the end staying in this world silent was deadly for him so he took it as a hobby and he enjoyed it surprisingly.
"Hmmm I did not expect you to be tender to the point of spreading happiness to people" Alfred said with surprise he could not get this impression about Exodia while talking to him
"Spreading happiness? What do you want me to vomit? The arrogant great Exodia stood on the top of the world and looked down on all races with disdain you say that I spread happiness to some mortal humans? What made me develop it is my enjoyment in making those evil game companies go bankrupt and making them realize the difference between me and them" Exodia laughed arrogantly while talking about himself with great glory.
Alfred looked at him with surprise then shook his head
"Alright then? How long will I stay in this world?"
"I brought you here to give you a choice to return you to earth and you live there for a few more years but you know what will happen already after that or to transfer you now" Exodia replied
"I think you know the answer already right?" Alfred replied with a gentle smile on his face while looking towards the forest as if he was engraving this view in his mind.
Exodia looked silently at Alfred he indeed felt great admiration towards this person in front of him in his whole life few are those who possess such a mentality and personality let alone that he finds it in a world of mortal humans, he did not hesitate even for a single moment
He could only sigh while remembering a certain scene specifically not a scene from the past but from the future a scene of aeon while he is surrounded by hundreds of thousands of corpses beneath him from all races whether they were evil or good all of them were beneath his feet
Their blood forming long rivers of blood.
"Alright, then it is farewell" Exodia said calmly
While Alfred did not reply but kept his gaze towards the forest with that same smile.
Exodia waved his hand
Alfred's body started disintegrating into gentle white points of light blowing with the wind then disappeared from this world.
Likewise Exodia himself started fading in the same manner but in a slower way than Alfred
Exodia looked towards the horizon
"Well my mission here has ended... Who would have thought that the arrogant great Exodia would disappear from the world and his only regret is that he will miss the taste of wine?" He laughed loudly at this then disappeared the next from this world.