Chapter 0:

Préludio

Beyond the Shattering Glass - Volume 1


I remember it all too well. The leakage of souls, the portal itself. In my 4 billion years of existence, I've never seen anything like it. All of a sudden, the universe had a hole. No, it's more akin to a window breaking in a mansion when there's toxic air outside. Ah...why am I even trying to describe it...it's basically impossible. The void isn't called the void because there's nothing, the it's because it's devoid of any reason. It's honestly terrifying to think about the fact that it's not a different state or perspective, like the Ether or the Aether...it's everywhere around the universe. It surrounds it.

We still haven't found the reason as to why this happened. But, I do know what came of it. Mangled and corrupted souls that succumbed to the madness of the void. The isolation ever forever present, while simultaneously together in an instant. It's no wonder why these souls would be so violently dismembered like this. Usually souls are in circulation between the afterlife and reality. But sometimes, some souls wander too much off the path, and get lost. Eventually, some of these souls drift outside the universe, never to be seen again. At least, until now. But we couldn't recognize them. No one could, not even themselves. We came to dub them Amissa Anima, or Amianima for short. It was the easiest thing to use latin, every angel understood it and humans tend to use latin roots for names, right? Poor things likely don't even have a purpose anymore. We took a sample of one, and the luminosity ratings simply didn't exist. I'm not really sure if we can even call them souls.

We know all of this came from Earth because the event was concentrated there. We had to fight one hell of a fight, but in the end we drove them off. Unfortunately, we knew we didn't eliminate all of them, so we had to begin to hunt them down. My sister, the angel of death, is searching her hometown of Japan. I started searching America, but to no avail. There was no evidence of any amianima activity, so I'm going to start searching the other side of the Earth. I think I can start with some African countries since my sister already scouted the north and west side of this region. 

I began to scout ahead to search for any city that might have amianima, and saw a ruined city, but not a completely destroyed city. So, I suppose I found my first target.

I touch down close to the city, and begin to walk towards it. Strangely, I feel as though I'm being welcomed home.