บท 13: Part 2 - Thanatos: Origin
[THANATOS POV]
I lived long ago around the Taisho Period, post World War I. At the age of 20, there was a growing gang in Hokkaido that was never revealed to the public.
I was part of that gang.
All the gang ever does is commit crimes. Theft, murder, push illegal drugs, etc. Most of the time, they ask me to assassinate a couple of points of interest. I did not like what I was doing. I was only in the gang because my father was the head.
At the age of 22, I already have assassinated more than a hundred people. Most of them have debts to the group, and most of them are people who could expose the existence of the gang.
The more I have killed, the more I got used to doing it.
At that time, I met a beautiful woman, who I would marry a year later. Because of that, I decided to leave the group for good and raise my own family with the woman I love so much.
On the day of our marriage, we were getting married outside a temple in Hokkaido. We were reciting our vows when I was hit with an arrow behind my neck.
Apparently, I have killed someone from another gang and now, one of their gang members has assassinated me.
I lied down there, blood spurting out of my neck, unable to make words.
At that time, I believed in Japanese mythology. I was expecting a shinigami to guide me to the afterlife. But it was different. I parted with my human body and began to descend into the light.
There was darkness. All I see is the pitch-black darkness, and my naked body floating through this darkness. Slowly, a ray of light began to shine in my direction. And then I heard a voice.
"You have committed a lot of sins in your lifetime. You are responsible for the deaths of a couple of humans, half are innocent."
I was ready to accept the punishment that I will receive.
"But your heart is pure, and that you did not want to commit this act. You will not suffer, however, a punishment will be given to you. You will serve as a death angel and guide souls to the afterlife, heaven or hell, until the ends of time. You will be the embodiment of Thanatos, a death deity of the Greek. Unlike him, you must guide souls, whether if their death was brutal or not. Fulfill your duty and you will be rewarded.."
The voice was gone and the light grew larger until I was blinded.
I now stand in a small shrine in a mountain. There, a statue of Izanami stood. I read the golden plate:
Izanami - Kami of Creation and Death.
Izanami Mountains, Rabenda City, Hokkaido, Japan
Donated by the Zaibatsu Family
1989
I was taken to the year 2000, in a city called Rabenda City. There, I dwell around, waiting for deaths to occur and escort them.
Throughout the times as a death angel, I realized that I can do different things. I can change my clothing anytime I want, I can create rays of lights like portals to appear whenever I'm picking up a ghost, and poppies grow every time I do that but I can teleport from places to places. But there is this thing I can do. I can make souls feel alive again. By using this ability to the souls, they can eat, they can touch humans, but humans can't see them. For a death angel, this seems unfitting for me. I decided to not use this much because the souls might run wild and disrupt the life cycle and cause an unbalance between life and death.
And since I am now Thanatos, based on a Greek death god, I decided to truly embody him. I carry a sword by my side and I held an upside-down torch every time I pick up a soul. Though I decided to dress fancy.
One day, around 2010, for some reason, I can't escort ghosts to the afterlife, well, most of them at least. At this point, the population of souls grew larger. I can't just leave them like that, so I tried to find a way.
As I was doing that, I met four shinigamis. They were Haru, Natsu, Aki, and Fuyu. All of them represent the four seasons. They were all experiencing the same problem as I am, so they decided to help me find a solution to the problem.
For the souls, they have a place where they can reside. They took us to an abandoned building next to a spa, which is now a Casino.
The place was very abandoned and messy. Scraps and rubbles lying around everywhere.
The souls were already depressed. This place is making them more depressed. I decided to do something about it.
I used up all of my ability to make someone alive and now, the entire building is under that power. All of the souls who enter the building get to feel alive again, even me and the shinigamis. Though, if the ghosts leave the place, they go back to normal.
The shinigamis and I decided to make the place prettier for the ghosts to enjoy. We repaired all of the rooms here. Bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. We also repaired the rooftop and the spa room, which we turned into a purification room for the tainted souls. The water came from the Izanami mountains, where the water that flows there is sacred and is used for purification way back then. I heard that the water that this place used back then was from the mountains, and they were true.
One day, one of the ghosts began to glow pure white. This was a sign that the soul can be taken to Heaven or Hell now. I asked the ghost what happened.
"My younger brother just graduated High School. I promised him that I would stick by him until he graduated, but I died early and I didn't want to leave him yet. But when I heard that he has graduated and that he topped his class, I feel like my duty as his sister is fulfilled and that I am at peace now."
This made me realized that the souls were not at peace and that they still want to do something in this world before they can truly leave.
We were happy with that discovery, but it will be hard because some are not achievable without the help of a living being, so we just stayed here, waiting for a miracle to happen.
And that miracle happened when I saw you!
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