Difference between revisions of "Beyond the Gods"

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Prologue

When I lived in the orphanage, I always loved playing video games.

I loved playing video games with good endings.

They say that people love Slice of Life or fantasy stories, not just because of cool special effects, women with huge honkers, and men with daddy physiques.

You know, I think it's ultimately because it appeals to an ideal, and oftentimes this ideal is something people never will get.

What would be my ideal ending?

Opening the door to my home, where my wife Sarah would be waiting for me, our kids approaching me with open arms, along with their adopted sister, Sakura in tow.

Will and Nora next door, greeting me. Alive and healthy, with big smiles on their faces.

Master Jun, Bryce, Annie, Robbie, and June, coming over to celebrate our wedding anniversary.

And Yeling...

Yeling with his ideal partner after years of searching and yearning for someone to love him.

That would be...

The best ending ever.

"Ha... ha..." I muttered, staring into the sky.

The best ending ever... but not something I could possibly achieve.

After all, this was just an ideal.

And the reality is often unfair.

Maybe this was what fuelled Yeling into feeling the way he felt.

Because as I stared into the distance, the figure of a gargantuan, towering flaming monstrosity approached me, then at my mangled, burnt body, which was well burnt beyond repair, it was as bright as day.

This wasn't a story about happy endings I guess.

I didn't even have the strength to speak anymore.

This was it.

All my promises that I made to Sarah, all the lies I said.

All the people I had...

All the people I had given a ray of hope to. My Auxiliaries. Yeling. Diana.

And my own daughter, Sakura.

God... god dammit...

The monster hovered over me, the most terrifying smile plastered on its unnatural-looking face.

"RED EYED LIAR. SHALL TELL NO MORE LIES."

Inner Shadow Evangelion...

The Black Legion's most brutal and animalistic Inner Shadow, the fourteenth Hinokami biologically engineered to destroy the thirteenth Hinokami, opened his fangs.

For it to end like this.

Was straight-up cruel.

I coughed, making eye contact with the Inner Shadow which had defected to Loyce's side.

Channel it one more time. Remember them. Remember your friends and how they made you feel.

And let the chakra run through your body one last time to give the command.

"Shadows..." I croaked.

Sir Dainsleif. What shall be... your final order. The Shadows surrounded me.

Evangelion eyed me with morbid curiosity as if the mindless berserker found entertainment in ruining the lives of many people by killing their cornerstones.

Ah.

Who am I kidding?

As if I'm any better.

I'm literally an agent of the Black Legion Organization.

Killing is my occupation and ruining lives is my career, like every other member of this group.

Sure I hated gods.

But to say that I didn't ruin at least something from every god I killed would just be plain ignorance.

"My final order... is to... send my Auxiliaries... to Yeling. And entrust them... to him."

It shall be done. It was an honor serving you, Aaron Hope.

"Ha... haha... y'all actually... called me something other than Sir Dainsleif for the first time" I smiled, as Evangelion's aura began burning the rest of my body away.

Everything's turned dark.

Sorry if I... let y'all down.

I did my best, but as I said before, this isn't a story where everybody gets what they want.

The reality is that sometimes, people die. Even the ones you would least expect it.

Yeling...

It's all up to you.

My role is done.