Capítulo 49: Family conversation
Everything is as in my previous life.
It's the same house. The only difference is that it's on the moon in another world.
As I walked in through the door, I was surprised to find that the inside was exactly the same as in my previous life. From the smallest detail like the families photo's that would make us look like a loving family to the biggest like the layout of the rooms.
I took off my shoes in the lobby out of habit before walking down the hall. My brother followed my example by removing his shoes.
The interior of the mansion was mainly made of high-quality wood for the floor while the decor appeared to be from the Victorian era.
I soon found myself in the living room. It was furnished with a low table surrounded by several armchairs and sofas. A crystal chandelier hung from the ceiling, illuminating the room with the help of a large picture window on the left wall.
On the sofa facing the door sat an old man with white hair combed back. He was dressed in a black tuxedo with a white inner shirt and a black tie. He was reading a book he was holding in his left hand and a cup of what appeared to be coffee in his right hand.
Although old, he didn't seem at all affected by his age. His eyes looked as clear and vivid as they were in his youth.
On the side of the sofa was a bedside table on which sat a vinyl player that was currently reading Lettre à Elise ! by Beethoven.
With my brother, we looked at this old man in silence for about a minute before I stepped forward to sit across from him with my brother sitting to my left.
My domain was constantly deployed since I entered the house. From now on, I should be as careful as possible.
We waited in silence for him to speak first. And after a few minutes of silence, just when the music stopped playing, he said smiling calmly
"I will die soon"
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" What? " Replied Noah
The old man looked at him with a smile in his eyes as he answered
"I am going to die for sure. This is the only thing I know of. Even if you didn't kill me, I would still die. So instead of spending my last moments killing us, how about one last chat with your old father? Noah, Ash "
"Explain yourself" I replied
*sigh*
"It's a long story ... Where to start? ... Well let's start from the beginning"
He closed his eyes then as if recalling deeply buried memories.
"The three of us are here today because we died in the plane crash. After that, I don't know how, but we are not dead. When I regained consciousness, I was in the body of a newborn baby." He said
But wait a second, did he just say he woke up straight into a newborn baby's body without going through the Void? Interesting, let's keep listening.
"At first I thought I had survived the plane crash but was in a coma and everything I saw was just a figment of my imagination. But as you guessed, it wasn't. I was born in a very, very strange place. People spoke a language that I did not know, science was very undeveloped and whether it was culture, architecture, or society as a whole, everything was foreign to me. I realized very quickly that I was born during the era of the Roman Empire "he sighed
'Wait what? He was reincarnated over two thousand years ago? !! How is it possible? Could it be because he didn't pass through the Void? But even like that, it's still too long. It would mean that the temporal ratio between the worlds and in the Void is different. That would explain a lot of things. 'I thought
"I lived my life in an ordinary way, I was born into a good family which opened the doors to politics for me. So I did a good job, handled a few people here and there, a few betrayals here and there, and eventually found myself in a position of power and enough money to live the rest of my life without worries and it would still be enough to fill a pool with money. Well, all this until I kill one of my political opponents. That day, I felt something strange. I didn't know how, or why, but when I ordered the corpse to raise, he followed my orders. "
'So basically you became a FUCKING made in china Shadow Monarch? !!' I screamed in my mind while keeping a calm face.
"And that's how my life took a big turn. Now that I knew I had such powers, politics, money, influence. It didn't interest me anymore, 'if I have such power, I shouldn't be the only one' I thought at the time. So I gave up everything to go in search of people like me who had powers but who hid in the gray areas of society for fear of being called monsters or devils. And I found some. Some pretended to be healers, others as God-blessed warriors. Some even called themselves 'gods'. Neptune was just a simple guy who controlled the ocean to a greater or lesser degree. Jupiter was another guy who could control lightning. At one point they started to call me Pluto or Hades for the Greeks. But well, I ended up fighting with Mars. Obviously, I killed him but when I revived him I noticed a strange thing. He could still use his powers… "He said with a big smile.
I really want to punch him in the face.
"And so you're probably guessing what happens next. I killed all the 'gods', I incorporated them into my dead army. Then I traveled the world looking for more power users. My army was growing day after day, becoming more and more powerful. I found many interesting powers, some could prolong life, others enhance the powers of others, others could detect the powers of others. And that's how I lived all this time until I found a power that could sense spatial disturbances. And that's how I found the first person other than me to be reincarnated. When I remember the scared look he had in his baby body when I started talking to him I can't help but laugh Hahahaha "
After calming down a bit he continued his story
"In summary, every few years there would be another reincarnation that would happen in this world. I think you can easily guess that they are all dead. Oh, I remember, around about the year 1580 I reunited with your mother. But well, we're a family so I let her live 18 years before I killed her. I took the opportunity to pick up some power users who called themselves 'witches'. "
"And why did you organize all this game?" Noah asked with a real curiosity in his voice.
"Oh, the game? How to say, around the 1700s, I started to get bored on Earth. I had walked around all there was to see and started to want to explore the universe. So I prepared a little farewell party. And guess my surprise when you arrived in this world right at the time of the final preparations. Noah, I let you live longer than your mother. I was too busy to take care of you. Take this as a gift from your father. And Ash, you'll only lived 16 years, so you can ask me something for the two years you should have lived. After all, when I die you are going to get stuck here. You are going to suffer a lot." He said
Wow, I almost forgot he was trash for a moment.
"Do you plan to take all the countries of the world with you in death?" I asked
"Of course, otherwise it wouldn't be fun" he replied nonchalantly.
"Well leave Japan alone for ten years then. I still need it for some things "
"Hmm…. You ask a lot, you know? ... But I'll give it to you. After all, you have always been my favorite Hahaha "he said laughing
Noah interrupted him with a question that interested me too
"Tell me, father, you told us your death was inevitable. Can you tell us why? Have you reached the end of your life? "
"Hahaha my life you say? But I am immortal my child. No, in fact, it was totally unexpected. It was "someone" who took away my "right to live" or so he said. He just put his hand on my head before pulling it back and I felt like I was going to die. It's inevitable that's all I know. He was also the one who killed my entire army. I probably had thousands of power users with me, but they couldn't do anything. One moment he was surrounded by several thousand enemies, the next moment they were all lying on the ground with a perfect circle on their chest, "he said with a calm expression as if he had accepted his fate.
"Did you see what he looked like?" I asked curiously
" His look? Hmm… he looked ordinary, a black t-shirt and shorts with black hair and black eyes too. It was really weird, it was like I couldn't really see what he looked like. He also had an old rusty sword on his back. The strangest thing about it all was that even when he was very close, I couldn't see what he looked like exactly. "
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This description ... it's the man I met at the river. Why did he do this? Really strange.
" And so? When do you think you're gonna die? " Noah asked like he didn't care
Father didn't seem to care and put his hand on his chin to think
"Well… if my math is correct, I only have 12 minutes left. "
Noah then stretched as he stood up from his seat before walking away to the exit.
"Ok, try to die in silence. Bye~ " he said, waving his hand.
I got up to leave too, but before we could leave the room, my dad pulled out a remote control from his pocket before pressing a big red button in the center.
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The three of us looked at each other in awkward silence. Then Noah spoke up
"What was that button supposed to do?"
Father then looked at us with… pride?
"Well, it's a tool to control the explosion of bombs in both of your hearts. But it looks like you had removed them already. As expected from my sons. "
"Wait, does that mean all the other bombs exploded too?" I asked
He then looked at me strangely
"No no no, that was unique to you two. See it as a father's special care for his children's " he said with a warm smile.
Noah shrugged his shoulders saying
"Now if you have nothing more to say, let's go. Are you coming, Ash? "
"Yeah, I'm coming! Goodbye father "
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