Chapter 5: Time Reversal; First Apocalypse, Fallen Angel

  In outer space, where it seems to look like a void. Everything was just giving humping sounds as if you are sitting on an airplane at a very tall height, zooming out would see a whole galaxy, the Milky Way. But extending zooming out would give an overall look of every shiny beautiful star, in other words, it is a universe. It is a domain where almost everything is just dream-core and mysterious; humans can never reach this because it would take billions of light years. Even if humans could get it, a bunch of threats would pose out there since only zero point zero percent of the universe was explored or maybe not. The universe is expanding at an incredible speed, to the infinite point so contacting another civilization will take a very ridiculously long time. A conversation was happening in the distance of four billion years light between aliens...

  “P SA WIDNS AWKS FWBAWK WADN”

  “WAD DSIJW OAWJD?”

  “WAJD DAWJDWS”

  “ASJW WOADSJ OAWDJ”

  A language that cannot be understood yet, it is from outer space; surely there must be a highly evolving civilization out there. The day has come, the day in which another powerful civilization comes to greet us without giving any appointments. Classifying into two types, one will make a contract with us, in other words, they do for good purposes. While the other…brings the end to the world, an apocalypse by invaders.

  What mentioned was not applied in this case. Five white figures were indeed talking together, planning something while watching their supreme monitor with a…probably four generations ahead or further imagining than what it was like. The monitor was showing a rural and foggy place, it seemed that they were going to head for an exploration to that place to progress something.

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  ching!

  A big sound echoed from two swords frictioning.

  I exchanged a lot of strikes with my sister’s maliciousness. She was very serious with her examination, it made me have no words to say in order to keep silent as much as possible because talking would ruin our concentration. I was searching for her weak spots so I could end with one fatal blow; it was just like searching my opponent’s weak spots such as foot position, mindset, and other specific stuff in soccer.

  I was able to make connections with soccer but not able to execute the play, it was because I had very little experience in using a sword. Looking at my sister, she must be an expert in the battlefield, which meant I had no chance against her at all, her fighting skills were just impeccable, from striking and defending, those looked effortlessly, yet accurate and powerful. I did attacking at normally weak spots of a human body, I took every chance I could when these appeared but my sister already figured out and guessed I would land my attacks on these spots so she parried as fast as sonic speed; not forget to mention, her speed was extraordinary quick, I guess she was just using two percent and it was already nearly outlashing my eyes.

  Then, she spoke the first words after five minutes in this on-going match. She was feeling empathetic towards me. I felt a little irritated, of course, she has much more experience in fighting, and she choked me like that, which seemed very unfair.

  “From what I am witnessing, you have to train more, Kinter.”

  “I know sister, I have just learned how to use a sword for a month. I have not trained my strength, yet. This is my pure strength without any practice.”

  “Great potential. Right now, you are just a piece of meat.”

  “…”

  That is how my sister responded to her missing brother after a very long time, a sense of humor I felt unexpectedly.

  Knowing that I cannot beat her, I nodded.

  “This is just an examination, not a real fight anyway.”

  That got into my mind as soon as I released the tension from my head, breaking out of a short period of time from over thinking habits.

  “That is why you will never make any long-term relationships.”

  “…what do you mean sister? You can read my mind, too?”

  “It is a secret. Leave it aside, you cannot articulate your feelings well enough so people cannot understand you.”

  I knew it must be a type of telepathy prosthetics like the figure lurking inside my body. I just did not know how the system worked, it was like hiding the truth thus I must be the one to get left out, similar to me in real life. People might stand in front of me while I was sitting there, feeling invisible to them. To me, it is nothing to be serious about, I just do not get what is the point of having a person blocked in the middle way? I know that I might be delusional, I just do not feel comfortable about being in that circumstance, or was it “instinct” making me feel that way?

  I always have a bad feeling when staying with someone for too long, it would make me uncomfortable to reveal my true identity. Because all I was trying to do was avoid the other person’s madness. I thought it would be better to avoid conflicts, then, I realized the covering was just destructing my self-consciousness, taking away my ability to think clearly. Now, I can get rid of these surroundings, but the process of healing will probably take long.

  Since the day the figure told me to get over, I could show who I am without the fear of getting hated. It writhed all the way around because I realized playing alone was so much better. But when someone tries to interact with me, I would say all out what I thought and what I felt, if the person shows a grimace face, then be it. If they try to do something to me then I would love to see what they are going to do. But one thing I can assume is that…they cannot hurt me, even if they can, I would not let everything be so easy. But mostly, everything would not get that worse.

  Open up your right eye, Kinter.

  I heard the figure telling me to open up my right eye; the eye that I cannot open since the left eye awakening, it felt drooping and hard to open when I tried to do so. What I thought was another ability must be lying on this side, an ability, which is more benevolent to acquire.

  The fusion has gotten far into me, I exclaimed.

  Opening up my right eye, nothing was too special, I tried to discover what was the feeling that embraced me. My vision is just as ordinary as before, neither enhanced nor hue changing.

  “Oh you had that already?”My sister asked in revelation

  “What did you see sister? Normal isn’t it?”

  “Your right eye…”

  The moment I heard her, a tick-tack sound adjusted my span of attention. A clock, it sounded just like a clock running on the wall, a circular one, commonly present in every family’s house. Thus, its ability…must relate to control time, I suppose. A cool ability, relating to the atoms, no, everything. Time is the condition law in order for everything to happen, develop, or annihilate. In other words, everything begins with time.

  “The ability has the opposite meaning.”

  “Reversing right, sister?”

  “It allows you to travel back from the present, depending how much time you want to go back.”

  My sister stopped to explain for a brief moment, then, she maliciously held the sword tightly and jumped with the speed I cannot keep up.

  I looked at her in amazement but her motion suddenly accelerated slower and slower, then stopped completely. Trails of colors in a rainbow together went through my ears, my eyes, my whole appearance. A moment of witnessing such a non-logical and dream-core phenomenon, I felt funny. So, this was my ability—returning from the past.

  The past, the present I wanted to redo.

  I was standing at the time when my sister was explaining, similar to before, she jumped at me with incredible speed. However, I saw that and dodged the devious attack, looking at her back. A moment of her shirt flapping in the air made me fall in love with her posture; a true expert in dominating the word swordsmanship.

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  “You can still stand until this moment, meaning you saw it coming, didn’t you?”

  “Uh…uh…so this is the power of my right eye. It coordinates with how everything is created. Atomic manipulation and time reversal, huh? Very interesting.”

  “Alright, shall we continue?”

  “Yeah, I’m looking forward to it.”

  No hesitation, I gave her a horizontal slash, a powerful frequency, which broke the ground with dust and rocks flying, pairing with the way the slashing traveled. She arched her back ultimately to the ground,

  Magic particle energy coated the backside part of the slash, creating a surface. She used that as a momentum to jump on and quickened to my face. A direct vertical strike with unbelievable speed almost took me out because I dodged to the side, dodging it. My heart was beating so fast, which told me that I was scared.

  I quickly slashed her while she was in mid-air, she parried my sword back with higher force. I was sliding back a bit because of the parry. I was frightened, frightened, very frightened. She created a dagger for the close range; She closed the gap between me and her, then, she started to give me multi-slashes to break my posture.

  Oh my days, this was the hardest fight I’ve ever had, she was on another level, I was defending the whole time, searching for an opportunity to flip the table.

  However, it is not over yet. I kicked her in her chest, pushing her back just…a little bit,

  “What a masculine hit.”

  “Shut up! I couldn't do anything else.”

  “Tell me when you give up and I won’t attack you anymore.”

  “What do you mean? I will never give up! I will never give up until I pass away!”

  “Oh yeah, I nearly forgot that you have this stubborn personality. Well then! Show me more!”

  I summoned the non-existent dragon from the encounter I had in “Hell”. Its role was to support me in strength. It was beneficial about having two on one, it was always like that; quantity dominates.

  But she seems careless about what I did. She stood there watching the whole summon, grinning with a dark face, which I cannot see what she was looking at. I guessed she was just so confident in her power that these things appear too normal for her, or easier I assumed.

  “Are you really sure about this? Do you think that two on one would give you an upper hand?”

  “I like to test anything even if this doesn’t work out, it would give me more experience so I can adjust later on.”

  “Well bullet point, I’m looking forward to it.”

  “The experience between you and me is too great. I might just pull out all the tricks I had.”

  “Pull whatever you want. But remember,”

  “Ye?”

  “I have time reversal, too”

  “...”

  Reminding me that she had the same ability as mine, I felt like this is not going to end well for me. She might just have more experience in using it, when and who to use. But I didn’t really care, I just wanted to utilize myself.

  “That thing didn’t scare me as much as you want anyways.”

  I and the dragon jumped to her, both standing at a different position. I stood in the front while the dragon stood behind my sister. We slashed her simultaneously.

  I and the dragon jumped to her, both standing at a different position. I stood in the front while the dragon stood behind my sister. We slashed…Wait! She used— the time reversal.

  Showing off her ability and knowing what we would do, she quickly did a tornado kick, throwing out our weapons; her shirt almost revealed the pleasant sight, quickly covered down. I got the neck held by her as well as the dragon, the fight didn’t begin long, and she ended it just in a minute.

  –

  I tried to reverse the time before the catch but it did not work. Trail of lights appeared on her left eye, the tick-tack sounds of a clock walking slowly with its yellow dusty three-dimension clock showed in front of my face. That meant—she reversed time.

  She used time reversal to counter my reversing time, she used the concept of taking poison to kill poison.

  I ran out of tricks. At that moment, I thought I would accept defeat for the first time. But…an unusual occurrence happened.

  Behind my sister(I would be given her name after this rivalry) appeared a circular portal, a figure I thought was looking half-human-half-alien going out from the portal silently. It focused magic particle energy onto its hands, creating a majestic blue purple dimensional square,

  In the next second, the diabolical but beautiful magic launched directly at my sister who was still facing me.

  “Sister!”

  “I know! Who do you think I am?”

  Fastening the process of creating something, particle energies quickly got into the shape of a sword; however, that sword was different from any different aspects of a Katana(Katana is the best looking sword, right? So I chose the Katana for comparison). It looked huge and long from the frontal, the hold was small enough for the person who wielded it. It looked just like a sword from classic combating games similar to soul games.

  But her sword must be an artificial type because I saw her separating the attack into two different routes going aside my sister—I guess it was a specialist for parrying I assumed.

  “HAJDWDNASJ”

  The half human said something I could not understand, it has its language I guess, well, it was obvious since its appearance was not something in this world.

  While I was looking at the figure, she did something to me and her. I could see the lights like smoke disappearing after a second.

  “Such nonsense…This world is a ridiculous creation of our father, how can he let this world continue to live? It was a good choice that we betrayed him…”

  “Excuse me, may I ask how you can get into here? And that attack wasn’t saying that you are a good person.” My sister cut his line of speech.

  I can understand what he was saying, probably my sister used a translating magical ability.

  “Oh? Pardon me! I was trying to assassinate you, I just want to end you softly as well as your…another person I guess?”

  Trying to assassinate us? I once had this kind of thing with that medical clinic doctor, and…the thing inside me must have killed him.

  “Now it’s clear. You are an enemy, and that means…I have to kill you.”

  “Such big words, I just don’t have feelings for creatures in this world, especially you, humans.”

  “Why do you hate humans that much? I know that somebody deserves to be hated. But, I threw that evil thought away because we can change it, we can get rid of all negative feelings human beings have. With my power and my little brother’s efforts, we could change this world for the better.”

  “No! They are just a cunning species. Humans have infinite possibilities of causing anything. What do you think all humans have at first? It was the ability to think! They have the choice to be kind and friendly. Instead, they destroyed many things which were there to be conserved. They destroy ecosystems, biodiversity of animals, having them to be extinct, awful right? I know they have to do it to develop, to grow but instead they used it for worse purposes you know all of it right?”

  I didn’t know where this alien came from but I was assured it had an amount of knowledge of a secondary kid or maybe higher like a high schooler. I agree that humans did a lot of destruction that caused extinction for many animals; however, is it the only reason?

  “The era of dragons and the era of dinosaurs, all disappeared just for that one species which is smaller and weaker took the lead, it sounded like a setting, right? Human era is the worst of all because of the destruction it has given to this world. Nuclear bombs are an example of this point, with these missiles, it could restart this world in no time. Humans have the ability to adapt and change, what made you possibly think the clearness of hatred and conflicts would stay forever? That humans won’t compete again? Humans have infinite possibilities, they could think of impossible things even getting rid of the concept of hate because some freaks may just find it out, and we call that psychopaths or geniuses . All living things occur simultaneously, and they have to fight for their habitat. Competition was made for balance, and you humans were too good at it. Many people living in this world will later take all the lands, and the next wouldn’t have chances to live. Before the complete destruction, I must start an exorcism because human’s extinction will definitely rescue this world, everything will go back to its place again. I will prove that my point is right, my dad will have to admit it.”

  Ok ok, I kinda understood what this extreme garrulous freak with an autocrat personality was saying. It was crazy to think all of that but because it was obvious that the thing in front of me wasn’t a human, and anything that has an unusual look and mind would be the most dangerous thing ever. This is something relating to mangas with apocalypses; then I think I and my sister are the main protagonists in this story, not being narcissists or something but why everything happened consecutively to me like this was something that a main character could interface with.

  I forgot to mention, this alien has blonde hair, its eyes are white completely just like ghosts, it wears a white cloak covering its hands and lower body completely. A crystal in the middle of the cloak with four lines intersect, creating a sense of god-like thing. Its power was still unknown, I wasn’t the one who took its strike. So, my sister was the one who knew it the most.

  “Careful Kinter, this is not easy as it seems. The power from the first strike made my special sword for parrying get a little broken. We must take this thing out before it erases human mankind, humans can still change I believe it, its desire is just extremist.”

  Huh? My sister said to be careful and made me anxious nonstop. My sister has a speed of light, her strength can destroy the Earth if she wants and she hasn’t given her all yet. So the thing in front of me could be stronger than my sister? That is ridiculously difficult for the two of us.

  I can use my head to fight with stronger opponents, just that.

  From its story, I thought the alien is a god, and this god had some problems with another greater god who is its father I guess. It betrayed its father and came all the way here, just to start its thing. The type of god that has lost its trust in a major event like Satan, it started to betray and revolutionize its concept, just for one day that it could prove to this world that it’s right. I called it,

  —Fallen angel, and this is the first apocalypse I have to face.

  Creating dual swords, each hand held one. I started to get in the flow, which was to eliminate its concept.