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Holo Alter

作者: R4IN

章節 1: Prologue.

Inside the space where the infinite white expanded, with no horizon to be found, 2 beings was talking.

"You died due to an accidental mistake by god so I shall reincarnate you where bunch of animes' universes is combined. Do your best to make your own harem and entertain this god."

Without an actual form, nor was there sound, but the voices of the life-being who self-acclaim himself as god, has transferred the unfortunate person to this space-due to the god's mistake-

As the soul being had no actual form, it couldn't even completely control it's soul, nevertheless, talk or nods it head, but the souls' will was clearly understood to the god in front of him or rather, it was one-sidedly misunderstood by the self-acclaimed god.

"Your expressionless answer is adequate for my wills. I shall transfer you to that world now!"

The white void suddenly twisted in strange manner in front of the unfortunate soul's viewpoint as his being has disappeared from the void without a single traces.

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When the unfortunate soul has awakened it eyes, the sight filled with the unfamiliar ceiling, and a fan motor that was spinning in a rhythmic manner.

"Kuro... welcome to Japan..."

What greeted Kuro was, his mother whose eyes was weakly trembling, and her body was as thin as it can be.

Due to an strange forces, it felt as if her lifeforces was being taken by something, and with a blink of an eyes, her appearances has once again, changed.

It was only a matter of time before Kuro's mother died, and current humanity's technology couldn't restore this curse-like illness, in fact, it hasn't even been confirmed as illness because this kind of ill never happened to any person before.

***

Since Kuro's mother's death, 18 years has passed.

His life as average as joe can explain, excluding the fact that he escaped from his father.

The father aside, Kuro found great friends. 2 great friend which he is staying in their house right now.

This was an great surprises for Kuro. He may have lost his past memory, but he have inherited his life-experience, or rather, life instinct in his past. Though even he didn't think of it strange, he was smarter compared to normal and has actually matured more quickly compared to other children.

The causes of quick maturity can be because of the lost of his mother and the abuses of his father, but one of the reason was because of his past life. It's like a professional basket-ball player lost his former body and was moved to newer body but he can make use of his past 'brain memory' to shoot a good percentage.

That Kuro who had no friend, couldn't get understand by everyone around him, was abused by his father and finally, made a friend. This is an surprisement and it is easy to understand the opposite sides, Kuro's friend.

Only a similar person can truly attract and be attracted by similar person.

***

[Urban Legends].

a type of [Desire] that evolved from rumor.

It begun as rumor, but as accidental occurrence take places in a row, it slowly garner the interest of the humanity, and finally, it will evolve to [Urban Legends] that shall be written in the history, and talked throughout the history.

What human is not aware of was, the [Urban Legends] wouldn't only come to its form through the countless accidental occurrence but, it can also come in form through the true story.

Here is an example of such a r̸̙̻̬͉͚̥͙̫̓̚ͅû̵̺͍̖̝̅́͌̍̚m̵̨͖̀̔̈́͝o̴̳̓̓͝ȓ̸̛̲͋̈́̅̆̌͒͝͝ [Urban Legends]. It's a rumor, whispered around earnestly on the internet, of a gamer named " " (Blank)...

... Ahem, I am sorry. Wrong script.

Then let's talk about the different [Urban Legends]. Have you ever heard of the history's strongest loser? The 'strongest' term here is not of how strong the person was physically, but of how skilled of that person was in game.

Being the 3rd greatest player, that can excels in almost all games, that person has never beaten the Top 2nd & Top 1st, truly a step that seemed so close yet, infinitely far.

The number of matches they have undergone far surpass 1,500,000 with the lost count, from 1,498,038, win counts as 0, and the rest is draw—the genre can go from Strategic Game to Action Game to FPS Game to, Dating Simulator games, yet, that 3rd greatest player couldn't beat the 2nd and 1st greatest player.

Despite the lose count, no one underestimated that player and acknowledged him as the 3rd greatest player. The reason behind it is very easy—because a single look between the 3rd and 1st & 2nd greatest player's match is enough to understand how far the level of these 3 peoples was and 1 match of them was akin to 5 days of long analysis from experts- besides... he is the only player to have not 'completely lose' against " ".

a single moves that is filled with countless calculation. a mind games, that completely ignores the genre of games, at this point, skill alone was nothing, but the minimum conditions for a person to be in these 3 peoples' boundary.

Their faces and name is unknown, but there was only 1 thing about them known—they lives in Japan.

***

Inside the dark room where not even a single light in the window was permitted to enter, 3 person was moving the sticks sometimes, violently, sometimes lightly.

"... 1 more times! This time I will win. You heard that, right? I will really win so let's rematch!"

In contrast to this room which was dark at its origin, there was one man who shouted in a rather cheerful voices, despite losing the match.

"*pant* *pant* HAH! Kuro, You have certainly improved but I am still 9,000 steps ahead of you.."

Responding to the energetic voices who behaved like masochist, the person whose hair is messy, Sora said to Kuro 'calmly' with a tad bit of tiredness. Sora himself, trying his best to hide his panic—calmed down his breathing while resetting his tempo to normal.

"Oh, before we re-match, go buy me Yakisoba-bread. It's our promises, right?"

In order to respond to Kuro's challenge, Sora calmed himself before ordering Kuro.

"Nii... I am hungry..."

"Now, now. Hurry up Kuro. My cute little sister is already weaning weakly, aren't her too pitiable? If you don't buy foods now, including me and you, she will die a pitiful death."

That's right, Sora, Kuro, and Shiro hasn't been eating, and the spans of that is not a single day, but a 4 days in consecutive. With water can they just barely survive and play game.

"Tch, fine then. Come to think of it, I am also hungry myself."

Unwilling to go outside but Kuro obediently obeyed Sora. It was a bet and Kuro wasn't the person to break his promise; made by game.

Kuro exited the room and opened the door, that invaded his view. It's a light Kuro finally seen after 4 days.

The impact of it was like a flashbang to person, or even worse. This was worse than changing discord's black theme to light theme. If Kuro wasn't a human, he may have already died.

but suddenly, the reality in front of Kuro twisted in strange manner, giving him the strange deja vu.

***

"What is the meaning of this, Kuro. I have been watching your boring life for 18 years. Where is the entertainment you promised me 18 years ago? I did all the for your sake but this is how you repay me, your god? Your god who resurrected you to another world?"

Opening his conscious, he was left to the strangely unfamiliar yet, familiar places, and it all finally came to understand after some time was passed. The memory of both this life and the past life has returned to him.

"First of all, it was you who caused all of this. and I don't remember accepting your offers. If I had a chance, I would have declined you and make me return to that world, even if it cost me my memory, hoping that destiny would make me meet the Vtubers again."

Kuro was surprised a little bit this time. He didn't expect that he could talk but since he could now, he would express his answer, his regret to this self-proclaimed god.

"What are you saying? Isn't it a common sense for someone to hate his own world and moves to his idealistic world? Do you even understand how much I worked hard for you? I had no choice but to compensate for the accident I have brought and all of this was for your sake!"

Kuro sighed a little bit after hearing the god's words.

"Hey, god. Are you really a god?"

"What do you mean by that."

"You are so easy to read. Even the human friend I made could manipulate his tone much better than you. Your tone express your greed, your seek for entertainment and your lies. Instead of accident, isn't it more right to say, intended accident? Was it fun killing an average man's life for your entertainment? Nothing you ever did was for my sake."

"If you wanted to do something for me, why did you kill my mother? Why did you let my father go insane? With your 'godly power,' couldn't you do something about that? Just in case, I don't take a 'world's rule' excuse so come back when you thought of something better."

Kuro sealed the god with his talking skill.

"You-... In front of god... You're getting too cocky! I can't hold it anymore. I shall sent you to somewhere dangerous without giving you a way to fight back."

"God, you're so boring."

Kuro didn't let out a single whine, but he sighed himself. If you beat the god with your talking skill, he'll get pissed. If he gets pissed, he'll use his power to do something about you.

Rather than god, Kuro felt like he was dealing with kid. If you don't do as that kid told you to do, he'll throw tantrum and tell it to his mom. Truly, the most boring god to exist.

In the white void, that seemed to expand infinitely, Kuro's soul was pushed outward heavily as his soul has travelled, easily surpassing the speed of light.

***

Kuro's soul suddenly stopped due to an strange forces, he was captured by something but, it was as if the kinetic energy from before was a lie, Kuro's infinite speed was decelerated to null.

"Yah, Kuro-kun. I have been watching you."

"... Tet!?"

Upon realization, Kuro widened his eyes. It was because that his memory has regained, could he understand the true identity of this children in front of him.

The person who stopped the Isekai Sensou which has been continued for century.

The god of play, who made the 10 absolute rule which completely changed the world.

Finally, the god who have never been beaten..., for now, or did Sora and Shiro battled him already?

Kuro had no way to know.

"Kuro-kun, did you just thought of me something I would get angry over?"

"Uh!?, no, I didn't..."

"Ahahaha! I am just joking around, Kuro-kun. As you thought off, " " have beaten me, and I intend to kidnap them to my world. Are you interested in coming over?"

Tet went past the little jokes and got straight to the main point.

"I am sorry but I have to decline that offers, god."

Tet flied around the space as he stared at Kuro a little bit shockingly.

"Oh? Why is that so? With your future knowledge, couldn't you easily conquer that world?"

"Don't you already know the reason, god? It's precisely because of that reason that I don't want to. I don't want a future that I already know and meanwhile, that guy is already going over there."

"Hmm.... That's also true. Then, as his friend, and an apologies for my similar being, I'll sent you to somewhere. That you will be interested in."

Tet then leaned closer to Kuro and said something that only Kuro could hear.

...

"WHAT REALLY!??!?!?!?!?!?! HOLY SHIT. YOU'RE BRINGING ME TO THAT PLACES!? I MEAN, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW..., wait, it does exist but that just doesn't have its own fictional story... BUT SERIOUSLY!? I AM THANKING YOU O' GREAT GOD TET!"

Kuro broke his usual calm rather easily. If Tet wasn't a god, he may have already leaned forward and kissed Tet's cheeks out of thankfulness.

"Yep. So as I said, are you willing?"

"Yes! Please bring me there without a delay."

"The contracts has been established, Kuro-kun. Good luck have fun."

"Alright!"

While Kuro could barely contains his excitement, Tet lightly clapped his hand as the small light has born from the tiny gap between 2 little arm.

The light expanded, and eventually completed engulfed both the 2.