Ikuta couldn't believe that through all his life he had been working towards nothing " Oh and you Ikuta it's good to watch you turn up " Ikuta didn't know how to process this , all that mystery just coming down with a reveal that was different from his expectations .
" At first when I made you I thought it would be good for me to reveal myself when you were young I didn't think you would suddenly fear me so much " " So you let me see you ? " Redun and Atsuki were put back and the denier continued to talk .
" Yeah you turned up really well I had to make sure you have friends , staying at home training all your life isn't healthy at all " the more they talked the more it seemed there really was no real threat at all .
" Then why did you make us ? " Aichel asked " I just wanted to a kid , I knew I couldn't make one with anyone so I did it on my own " ' so it's really that simple ' " Come on now really stop being so on guard on me , I'm not going to do anything this time all of you are all together now "
They looked at their parent one more time " I thought you were going to kill me " Ikuta said " Oh come on with the era as of now everything would be alright , the otherworlders would take forever to get through the world's protection . "
" So you weren't ever going to do anything ? " " I had a plan when I made you , make up an excuse where I show you that you had other siblings before you but after you found out about me , you just kept going on your way "
" Then you made Ezio meet me ? " " yeah it's not healthy for you to go without friends " Claire came close to them and patted Ikuta on the head " So I made sure you meet some it's great to have one you know "
Ikuta recalls the memories of Ezio introducing Nisse to him " Yeah it was good " " I'm really glad that all of you turned up like this " they all processed what they were feeling and Ikuta couldn't process it very well and so did Atsuki as she never really got to know her parent .
" Well you guys should get out now , maybe it's a good time to introduce me Chaos is curious how you are calm under their presence " Ikuta nodded still thinking about all the time he devoted in his life to getting stronger .
The feeling was lost leaving a gap and now all he could think about was his father's actions " So that music box you gave me was just a gift ? " " Yep , I thought it would be good since it seems very normal compared to everything else " Ikuta takes it out thinking about the thoughts he went through when he received it .
' May as well ' as he twist the music box something appeared " Finally I got you " the denier turned to see an otherworlder holding a strange sword . The denier was stabbed and felt their existence break apart .
" DAD " Ikuta yelled and everyone threw an attack at the otherworlder but they disappeared before they landed " Dad are you okay " " Ahh so this is what dying feels like , it's been so long " they disintegrated and Ikuta felt a hole appear in his heart .
' No , dad ' " you still haven't told me everything , I still haven't apologised " " Ikuta " Everyone went to check if anything happened to him and at their parent's bodies their eyes were still wide open with Louis having one line and Claire and a cross on both of her eyes .
Ikuta's heart felt empty from his father's death and he looked at Louis and Claire as they fell " Mother " " Father " everyone except Atsuki went to their respective parents to check their condition after confirming there was nothing wrong with Ikuta .
" Ikuta are you okay " Ikuta hears everyone check on Claire and Louis " Something is wrong " " Mother has something strange in her " " Father too " ' Ahh it's so noisy ' Ikuta stared looking at everyone . He drops the music box and it starts to play .
It spread the feeling of emptiness that he was feeling to everyone through silence ' my eyes hurt it's too bright ' darkness started to spread from Harkness and the hole in Ikuta's heart starts to spread ' Why was I such a bad kid , dad just wanted a kid and I saw him and never told him '
Everyone was frozen still in the darkness ' I don't wanna think anymore or exist ' as he thought of that the hole on his heart grew wider and spread through the world turning everything back into nothing . Even everyone else couldn't react as it was instant .
A giant black hole grew in the entire world and the fate threads of the siblings disappeared " What's happening ? " Clotho looked at the well to see if it could tell them anything but it showed not a single reflection . Chaos sense the disappearance of all of them and wondered what happened .
They saw what was occurring through the mirror world and were surprised by the empty void ' this is nothing ' only a cross and a line existed in that space the void Ikuta created only had the presence of the denier's powers .
Ikuta felt this presence and quickly the void returned everything " Dad ? " Ikuta looked at Louis and Claire remembering how they were both always around ' They feel like Dad's around ' Ikuta went to them and checked their condition " Dad is really here "
Everyone gasped wondering what they just experienced and Ikuta quickly checks Claire and Louis ' there's something in them ' Ikuta reaches it and takes it away " Ikuta ? " Atsuki looks at Ikuta who turned to her " what " she was surprised to see his eyes have a cross and a slash in different eyes .
" Something's on your eyes " Ikuta checked and felt a familiar feeling on this power " what just happened ? " Ikuta didn't care what they were talking about and checked the power he just obtained " these are dad's powers " Ikuta summoned a seed poking it with a dark dart and watched it vanish without a trace .
He sees a cross appear ' what's he doing ' Zhack touched Ikuta " Ikuta , are you okay ? " they turned to each other shocked to see what they saw " YOU HAVE SOMETHING ON YOUR EYE " Zhack yelled everyone else looked at Zhack and Ikuta both having a cross and a slash in their respective eyes .
" What happened ? " They stared at each other " you have it too " Chara quickly calmed everyone down stopping them from pointing out the change in their eyes " we still have to figure out how to take care of the aftermath " They all thought about their current situation .
" That's true then we'll pick this up later here you go everyone " Chara cast a spell on everyone to appear . But when they did go to Estrea to take care of the aftermath most of the time they were wondering what it was .
" I can't stop thinking about it " Zhack takes Ikuta " Let's just let Chara and Harkness handle that we need to know what's going on with this " The boys all sat in a room " First off Ikuta please explain how dad's powers work "
" It's a weird power related to his title as the denier , it's like anti matter but even stranger , he can erase existence but also nonexistence, but you have to kill something first in order to create it unless he knows a way to skipp killing " Ikuta said .
" I remember Chara explaining to us about it , father can only make something if he had erased that something " " That should explain why I got this then " Ikuta showed a cross with the image of a seed inside it .
" And we got her power " Stork said " It certainly is strange , but doesn't this mean you can divide it ? " Aichel asked " That's true I was made from different humans , every one of us are " Aichel summoned one too .
" So how did they die ? " Aichel asked " I'm not sure " Ikuta said " Wait maybe he simply lost the thing that denies his own nonexistence " Locke mentioned .
" Chara told me that father had to die first before they could live maybe the man was able to do something like removing the event of father's first death ? "
" Then if that's what it takes for them to live we'll have to ascertain the nature of this " Aichel pointed at the seed with the cross " I heard stories about Primordial gods being unable to handle their power they self destruct but to think our parent would benefit from it "
" Shouldn't we try to test these thing out then ? " Zhack showed a dark dart " That's won't be neccessary " Chaos said as they appeared before them " Chaos ? " everyone sensed killing intent from Chaos and quickly armed themselves " It seems you sensed my intention , this will be faster then "
Chaos looked at Ikuta " Ikuta I have observed the phenomenon you have caused " " What did I do ? " " It seems you weren't aware but you completely turned a portion of my creations into nothing "
They were surprised to hear that as they weren't able to tell what had happened " You are a threat to my creations , while I have said I never plan to interfere as long as there is a future but you had caused that to occur , now even that eye of yours lose its fate beside Urdarbrunnr "
Ikuta looked at Harry " But he didn't get father's power " " Father ? " Ikuta was surprised that Chaos doesn't know about his father " Yes , even though I've talked with my father through the phone it's just some way he uses to talk to me , he's probably the reason I wasn't shaking when I was in your presence "
Chaos turned their attention to everyone else observing the same emotions " Hmm so you all are the same " " Which means if you try anything I'll do something " Zhack said " Alright then , I want to see if you can let me trust you to live "
Chaos pointed at Ikuta and teleported him into the mirror dimension " IKUTA " everyone panicked seeing this " Where did Chaos take him ? " Locke asked . Zhack looked at the floor and saw them " Alright everyone pardon me "
Zhack punches the floor and shatters the thin line surprising Chaos . Locke , Aichel and Stork dove in surrounding Chaos who had Ikuta with him " Come here " Zhack controlled the space to pull Ikuta while the floor stayed intact .
" What do you want to do to him Chaos ? " Locke asked with much killing intent toward the primordial creator " I want to ascertain that he doesn't become a threat " " By what killing him ? " " That is one of the options but I see that you will be against that "
Chaos observed them " It seems all of you have that strange power I'm not sure if it was the thing that caused each of you to not be found in the future I saw through my foresight or the cause of the disappearance of the vision of your fates "
" Tell you what it probably isn't the same thing that Ikuta has , he's definitely the one that emptied up creation " Stork said showing a recording .
" That's what happened " Aichel asked " I was gonna bring it up " Stork said . Chaos watched Ikuta's body turn into a black ball as it expands " So we all have this power and it's different from Ikuta , you don't exactly know what it will do but we do " Stork said .
Everyone was curious about what he was thinking and avoided using the telepathic network while Ikuta understood what he wanted to do " Is this true ? " " Yes me turning everything into nothing is different from the power we got from our parent "
' I'll have to be careful ' " Alright I won't do anything to you but I will participate in your discovery of these separate powers so I can understand them and you earn my trust " Chaos said " We accept " Aichel said looking forward to what data he'll gain from Chaos's participation .
They reappeared in the real world and the girls came in " Brother who is that man ? " Redun asked " This is Chaos we had some trouble talking about mom and dad's power for now we want to investigate it "
Chaos looked at Harkness thinking about how she had killed their child " I hope you don't kill my other children " " Don't worry about it I can bring you Erebus's soul at the very least after I get enough memories from them "
Chaos frowns looking at Harkness emitting a choking air which Chara protected both Redun and Atsuki from " For now do not tell anyone about mother's presence , the fact that there has been an unknown entity that could match Chaos's power and their death that occured could shake the world easily "
" Take us to the moon duchess , I'll get the memories from Erebus for you and you will hand me back his soul " Harkness nodded " will you be okay ? " Atsuki asked " Don't worry I will be " " Hey Chaos you better not do a thing to Harkness " Locke said .
" I won't , just because I'm mad doesn't meant I can't control it " Chaos leaves with Harkness and they exchanged information with the rest " I can't believe that's our parent " both Atsuki and Redun were equally shock .
" Me too I couldn't learn anything from them , even Chaos was easy " Harry said " Why can't you learn from dad ? " Ikuta asked " Because unlike Chaos , your dad's information keeps changing between two states I keep getting confused when I delve deeper and spread the map even more "
" Oh yeah , I know that , dad's powers are like plus and minus both of them keep changing between each other " " Then why didn't I get it ? " " Probably because you weren't like us , Atsuki was made by dad but I don't know how he did it "
" So was he the forbidden knowledge at the end of Yggdrasil's life ? " Ikuta nodded and everyone waited for Harkness to return " You're back , what about Chaos ? " " He dropped Erebus with Nyx and the other gods to keep them from protesting "
" Well , I have a plan for that " Chara said " Stork you will be helping rebuild mount olympus " " Oh got it but shouldn't we talk about mother's power ? " " We will " Chara said and started " First we must start talking about how a god's gifts works "
Chara told them about how a mortal could have a god's power " So a part of the divinity has to be given to the person in which they must attune to the fragment they received " Chara shows a dark dart .
" In our case , we already are aware and capable of using our parent's power the problem is how much of our parent did we inherit " nobody has size up their parent's total power " I have been checking if I received anything along with mom and dad's power and I found this "
Aichel showed everyone a cross on a human " Maybe we not only got the power but also other things like these " everyone groped around their soul and found it .
Stork found the cornucopia " I remember that Plutus had this " " Hmm these must be the cultist that were after me " " It's a few titans " they all wrote on a board to write a list .
" Yggdrasil is here too , do you think we can bring her back ? " Chara asked " If you intend to do that then I'll bring back the god of dragons too " " Is that not Fafnir ? " " No Fafnir was a dwarf , dragons come from the lizardkins "
" I heard he had a crush on Nidhogg when Vedrfolnir took her in " " The problem with bringing them back is the cost " Aichel said " we can try with this " Ikuta showed a cross with a human " I don't know who this is because they look like someone dad killed last year "
Ikuta activated it and watched the human appear " Huh ? " they were surprised to see that they had appeared in a place after they had just run from the cult . they quickly disappeared and they looked at Ikuta " Who was that ? " " I don't know it was just a very recent one apparently "
" So how do you feel ? " Aichel asked " Very fine " " You did lose something your soul seems smaller " " Maybe it's something like our soul had absorbed these " Stork said and activated the Cornucopia bringing it back .
" That makes sense " Chara stabbed the cornucopia and felt her soul fill up " So it's related to our soul , we did establish that the abyss ore was able to contain mother's power so this further proves that theory " Chara said .
" Then should we bring back Yggdrasil and Drakon " " Seriously that's their name ? " Zhack asked " Where did you think the name dragon came from ? " Locke said " Then start with bringing back Drakon "
" You want us to use the fates again ? " Locke asked Chara " Of course the fact the Chaos is helping us is enough for them to listen and help us hide our parent's existence " Chara pushed out a cross with a part of yggdrasil .
" For now you guys should piece back yggdrasil so we can bring her back Locke and I will take care of Drakon " they watched them leave and started to give out pieces of Yggdrasil " Ikuta will we be okay ? "
" Why ? " " Dad's gone and not with us , I feel like we won't be " they looked at the youngest and lastborn thinking about how to comfort her " Don't worry little sis you have a big family and you literally fought a titan that stood against Zeus the mighty god " Stork said .
" But it's Ikuta's power " Atsuki said " Well it's okay you just came to this world a week ago , how about this , you just have to be stronger , grow just as fast as Ikuta " Atsuki thought about it and nodded " Ummp I will , Ikuta you better grow fast "
Ikuta thought about what his father said about Ikuta having longer hair ' Atsuki those look good ' Ikuta summoned a sword and cut his hair our " You're finally cutting it " " Yep it's better this way anyways "
" So what about the beastkins and humans ? " " We should be able to bring their lifespan back Locke and Chara already planned to bring back their benefactors " " I'm sure I can convince the souls at the forge to give the dwarves their blessing right ? " Stork asked .
" You can get the original will of the world , dad was the one that got rid of it but it was slow so we have to bring them back by piecing them together "
" But it's gonna be a lot of trouble with the people since they know about me " Harkness said already understanding the possiblity that she'll be questioned the moment they get the oppurtunity .
" Wait what will happen to dad's puppets then ? " " I'm checking right now and it seems they all retired at separate times , leaving the inheritance to you " Harkness said . They all got up and watched all the crosses form into a giant tree .
" That should be Yukina's mom but how does she fit in ? " Ikuta asked " You know the geocentric theories ? " Aichel asked " Yeah " " Back then the sun actually revolved around our world , this seems to be true even now "
" Oh I remember that I heard some scholars having problems as to why some of the planets weren't turning in the right direction " Zhack said " It must be related to yggdrasil being around , urdarbrunnr is sort of connecting her to us " Stork said .
" So we just have to find the perfect place to put this ? " Zhack asked " Yes " Redun formed a construct " Wow that really looks weird " Redun showed the solar system with the different planets revolving around the sun "
" It must be because Yggdrasil isn't around but once you put Yggdrasil back you get this " a construct of yggdrasil starts to appear and the entire solar system changes " Are you sure this isn't a guess " Zhack asked Skeptical about it .
" No I believe this is correct , I've studied the knowledge of Atlas before " " That makes three of us " Aichel said and they looked at the amazing structure of Yggdrasil and sat down " Amazing so you can bring back what has disappeared " Chaos said appearing before them .
" Oh hey Chaos " " hello Ikuta I want to investigate that power of yours do you think you can use it ? " Ikuta shook his head " I was only thinking about disappearing " " Wow sounds like you need help " Zhack said and Locke hits him .
" What ??? He really does need help those words are the definition of suicide " " So it has to do with your emotions ? " Chaos said " yeah I think so " " Then you don't have to think of it like that all the time " Aichel said .
" Really ? " " Yes in fact I didn't need to wish to change just to create change , I just viewed it logically " Aichel said " really ? " " Yes I didn't need my emotions to guide me but instead I observed the phenomenon myself and recreated it " Ikuta recalls how he was able to do it .
He looked at a chair and thought about how he bought the void ' is it like this ' with a thought the chair vanished and the air and light quickly filled the void .
" Hmm a simple thought caused this , such a power couldn't have appeared out of nowhere " Chaos said and Zhack thought how it did appear out of nowhere .
" What did you feel when you caused everything to turn into nothing ? " Chaos asked and Ikuta recalled it " Well I've always made dad a big part of my life before I even had friends I wanted to be able to stand against him " Ikuta said " Hmm why ? "
" because of the fear , I worked very hard in my life to get stronger , I gathered as many things to be able to stand a chance against dad and in the end all that effort was for nothing and it made me look like a bad kid " Ikuta thought about how it felt when his emotions suddenly became empty .
" So when dad disappeared I felt like I had nothing to do , I thought I wanted to live but I was so focused on being able to win against dad that I forgot about wanting to live and maybe when dad was gone I felt like there's no reason for me to think about anything or even live if i couldn't fight against dad and struggle to win "
Chaos watched a hole appear and Locke hits Ikuta snapping him back " Look I know it can be hard even I thought it was impossible to fight against the abyss when it appeared " " Locke you won against the abyss it's completely different than losing a rival " Stork said .
" Ikuta you don't have to but our parent as an important part of your life " " I know it's just very hard to think about it I thought dad would be here for a long time but I haven't even become 12 and he's already gone "
Aichel wondered if everyone ignored his advice " Everyone stop I know it's hard to understand with all the difficulties about life Ikuta you don't have to dwell on that too long , you miss dad and because of your attachment a hole appeared in your soul and so use it as a weapon open up the void so that we can move forward "
Ikuta thought about it too " Yeah I can't just sit around " Ikuta fixed his face splashing cold water on it and drank some water " Okay let's do this " Ikuta recalls the feeling of turning everything back to normal and the chair appears .
" Alright let's summarize what bringing the void caused " Aichel creates a notepad and a pen " Chaos what did you say occured "
" You turned matter into nothing and can no longer appear in the future , moreover you also don't have any threads above urdarbrunnr where the fates can keep track of your futures , past and present "
" Interesting it seems this is related to the void that Ikuta bought in , let's just note them as void-related effects which seem to make us disappear from most of the things like future visions "
" It could also be the perfect vessel we needed " Stork showed a footage again " When mother died her power didn't go to anyone " everyone's eyes showed no change and only after Ikuta brought the void did it change "
" And father's power is erasing something from existence and bringing it back "
" Plus and minus . So that means Ikuta who bought the void which is nothing allowed us to accept it and our origins as our parent's creations allowed us to inherit it after we were turned to nothing so if we quantify it we basically turned to zero and become proper receiver's of our parent's powers " Aichel concluded .
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