Chapter 69

Phanes punches me directly. His punch rips a hole into my body and my corpse crashes onto the ground again. As my lifeless body stares into the void, I see them. I see Hira. I see my mother, my father, my grandfather… I see the people of the town, I see my classmates, I see… everyone. Everyone I once loved stands there.

“Go on!” Hira screams. I look at her, my eyes dead.

Yeah. I will. Thanks… Hira.

As I slowly close my eyes, I open them just as rapidly. Blood is running down my eyes, my mouth and my nose. I can barely stand anymore and yet I look at Phanes.

“Just what kind of enemy are you?! You ought to bow to me! Do you not know who I am?! I am the Primordial Creator! I am the very God that this God shall bow down to! I! AM! GOD! BOW!”

“FUCK YOU!”

I run at him. Each step hurts my entire body. Each step makes me break each and every body in my body once more. We stand right in front of each other. I punch him as he punches me. I barely harm him in any way: Though I do destroy one of his hearts just through my hit.

My head explodes as he hits it. And yet, at this very moment, just when he hit me… I see nothing.

I see pure darkness. But, in this darkness, I suddenly do see something.

Long white hair. A thin smile. Next to it blue hair and blue eyes.

They watch us.

And I realize that I am not alone.

I cry out.

My head instantly reappears and I slam my fist at him again and again.

Each time I hit him one of his hearts breaks. He spews blood again and again. The pain he feels must be high, but it is nothing compared to me.

As he spews blood again and again, perplex and unaware of how the hell he is even taking damage and takes damage… I attack.

I have started to ignore the pain. Well, no… You can’t really say that either. I do know of the pain. And I feel it, I truly do. Yet, I feel something else. I feel something much stronger, much stronger than the pain hurts. And thus, I can only feel blessed.

I feel blessed. For, even during this fight that can only be described as a humiliation and the very destruction of myself and pure torture… I enjoy life.

Phanes realizes. He realizes that he is losing. He realizes that, if not for the bunch of hearts he had absorbed… He’d already be dead.

His eyes glow. He only has one heart left.

I grab at him. At the same time, he grabs at me.

As he rips out my very heart out of my chest and crushes it in his hand, I touch his heart and thus make it explode.

…

The two of us fall down onto the ground. Neither of us survives. He stares into the sky, stares at the heavens which he could never truly conquer. I look up into the sky as well, staring at those people in heaven who I fought for. I hope that they are proud… and I hope I will meet them again in due time. I wasn’t that bad of a person, so I hope I’ll go into heaven… Or get reborn. Yeah, I would like to get reborn. I would like to taste food once more. I would like to talk with my old friends or even find new ones.

I think that is the thing I wish for most right now…

And thus, I slowly open my eyes once more.