It is only darkness that envelops me. Where and why I am here is not an important concern for me as I don’t remember anything before this. One scary thing to consider is that I can’t tell for how long I am here.
No sense of time, no sense of direction. The longer I stay silent, the higher the chance that I will lose my sense of self. It is all so strange that I am hoping for a change. But who would have thought that my hope is answered so suddenly?
“There you are. I am looking for you everywhere but you stranded in the Borderland.”
A voice? Where is it? I turned my head around but I fail to see anything different. So I looked up and find brightness all over it makes my eyes twitched and I have to cover my eyes after the sudden exposure to light.
“What is it? Is there someone else here?” I asked in hope that all of this will change my current predicament.
“Oh, I forget that you cannot see my form because of the light. Sorry about that.” Then I can finally face the source of light I find. In the middle of the brightness, I can see a figure with wings I have never seen in my life appear and drag me to its position.
“Who are you? You look so bright and that wings, it is as if the light itself manifest to form that wing of yours?” my amazement for seeing the figure does not fade away, it increase further. Sadly I cannot see the face because the figure wore the cloak. And let me honestly tell that the cloak was like the rainbow, so colorful and beautiful.
“In your understanding, I am what you called an ‘Angel’. Did my form surprise you? Many people surprised when they saw me but you are not so shocked. You are amazed by it instead.” The figure speaks neither fast nor slow tempo and the voice it lets out feel comfortable but not too over-friendly either. It feels like welcoming an esteemed guest that entered the luxurious hotel.
“Angel? You are…different but still beautiful. The wings of light, the cloak of the rainbow. And that voice of greeting me is quite pleasant. Could you explain my situation right now? What is this place that you called Borderland?” since there are other being than me, I might as well ask something important.
“I know you are going to say that. Right now, you are in the place where the soul that out from their flesh reside and rest. That is what I call Borderland, the place that outside the world of the living but not in the place like you thought. This place is definitely not heaven nor hell.” The so figure that identified itself as an angel speaks to me.
It even read my mind a bit! But of course, this is not heaven nor hell. There is nothing pleasant or something that will make me shudder here. But if this continues, I am sure the feeling is closer to what hell feels like.
“Then why are you looking for me? What reason do you have to get me?” when the statement about Borderland comes out, I think I know what happened to me. I am…already out of my flesh, in other words, I am no longer in the world of the living, I am thoroughly dead.
“Because there is a certain assignment for you. So would you like to come with me? You can reject the offer if you want to but since you are in this place, there will be no offer again after this.” The angel state something that I need to think it through.
Okay, this place has nothing at all. At least that is my opinion and in my perspective, this place is dark, silent, and eerie. But at the same time, I don’t know if the offer to get out from this place is any better.
“Well, since anywhere is better than this place, in my opinion, I would like to go with you.” At the same time, I have to quickly decide the things for myself. Sure I can think things for some time but overthinking it is no use since I cannot even do anything. I answered after a pondering so that I have a chance for a better future.
“Decisive, aren’t you? Since that is the case, you better brace yourself.” The angel said something rather vague there that someone will definitely question.
But that statement is actually something I should take rather seriously because then something envelops me, something similar to the cloak the angel wear. I am intoxicated by its beautiful color intertwined with each other that I forget the statement.
“Here we go…”
And then I feel like the entire body is being pushed to my spine. The sensation makes me dizzy in no time and all I can see is the blur around me. There are some strange lines here and there but that is all there is to it as I don’t know what is what anymore under the circumstances.
I should have listened to what the angel said, that is what I regret immediately. And then I feel something strange yet familiar. Yes, this feeling of your feet touching the surface as I stand for a moment is the most common I have when I am alive.
Standing on the ground with my own feet, only for a short while before I fell to my knees due to the dizziness. Even then I come to know that the place I currently in is totally different than before. The floor is so clean that it perfectly reflected my figure. I can see my face as I stare at it.
The tiles that formed the floor is something that looks like marble to me. But I have never seen one this pure and transparent enough to reflect my face like a mirror should.
Then my ears pick up several voices from several directions, I never expect that there are others when I arrive so I look up to see everything around me. The place is like a giant room for the richest person to have, with the pillow at some places made from the softest material covered with silk, the smell of milk that came from the fountain in the front of me, I realized the smell is definitely good for my nose because only anything good is in this place.
There are people other than me too in this place as I expected. Some of them already familiar with this place but as for me, I don’t have the slightest idea where I am now. This place is pleasing to the heart, that much I can tell.
“Well, follow me. We need to do something first. Don’t let go of your hand.” After the familiar voice said that, I find my hands clasped tightly to the cloak. I follow his suggestion and never let go of my hands. As we moved inside this place, I can only say that this place is huge!
Not only that but we moved so fast the people and anything else is like the one that moves while it is me that move so fast. After that, we stopped on the giant door with two being on each side of the door. Their wings are a lot more in the alert condition if I count it reacts to the beings that also turn alert as I and the angel who guides me here come.
They have something to a spear if I look at their weapon. But then something comes to my mind when I think about that.
“That is also a spear but it is mainly used like the gun you often see in your life before.” The angel explained what is on my mind, no the surface of my mind as it is the curiosity that let me think about it.
“Is that so?” I have to accept it for now. And then the angel speaks to the guardians of the door while speaking something I cannot even fathom.
“You may pass. Don’t force something to him, I suggest.” The giant door opened with a creak I can hear. The air from the other side flow directly to my position and I can feel it so refreshing as if my entire being is being cleaned inside out.
Following the angel who guides me inside, I find myself at the edge of the round room with many doors on the wall and I just entered from one of such doors myself.
“Now, the one we are waiting for is here. Looks like he receives the offer despite the fact that he stranded to the Borderland which is quite strange.” A dignified voice as soon as I step in can only mean good or bad either way.
“Because of the problem when receiving him, I spent more effort than necessary. Please, would you give me permission to rest for a while after this?”
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“Yes, you can. After this, we must investigate deeply into the matter in the Borderland.”
I can only hear that part but something is nagging my mind. Call it overthinking in this case but it feels like they purposely use the language I can understand so that I know the thing they want me to know. Perhaps there are things I don’t know about but I am not able or have the capability to either way. This is rather frustrating.
“Now, human. You do realize that you are not even in your flesh anymore. You already accept that the moment you hear what place Borderland is. Here is the right place to ask the important question in your mind. Remember, the most important since there are some things we need your own approval of.”
I can only hear the voice but where do they come from? Indeed, there are important matters to ask but first I want to know something around me first.
“Who is the angel that receive me as of now? I have the opportunity to ask now, right?” I scratch my head.
“He is Darius. Actually, this is his first time to work at this kind of job but this is good already. Is there any other question?”
I pondered again. Darius mentioned about this ‘Borderland’ as well as my condition. But the second thing I am worried actually is…
“Then what you will make me do? I heard someone want to assign me for something. Could you elaborate?” and I utter my second question. What kind of thing they will give to me is of the utmost importance to me.
“I have known you and some of your condition when you are alive. The thing is, you have an opportunity to be someone who is in charge of the world. The only problem is whether you want to accept it or not.” The voice then goes straight to the point.
“Wait a minute, someone in charge of a world? What do you want to do then!? If I am in charge of a world then does that mean I am the God of that world?” I somehow protest against it. Strange isn’t it when someone has the opportunity to be the one who can overlook the world, they will certainly accept. But I, on the other hand, cannot accept it, not without a very good reason.
I should not accept this. The strange thing is in my mind, I rather regret the decision I make when I met with Darius. What uses this to me? There are so many questions appeared on my mind when an answer is given to me.
It can be described as 5W and 1H.
“There is a vacant position in the world you will be assigned to due to circumstances. We don’t have much time so can you quickly answer this question of mine. Will you accept the position as the one who is in charge of that world?”
I don’t know how to answer that. Swiftly, I ask someone that at least consider things for me. That being is Darius, there is no one else besides Darius that can answer my doubt.
“Darius, why am I chosen? You at least know that right?” I basically plead to have an answer right here, right now. I dislike this ‘in charge of the world’ in my mind but my natural instinct tells me that this position is powerful and delightful.
Conflicted inside my mind, I need an immediate answer. Please answer my doubt or else…
“You are chosen because of the conflict you have right now as a person. The heavy burden of someone that has to manage the world and the temptation of its might and power, on the other hand, you think of it and consider things for both. Satisfied?” Darius answered without a pause, with an understandable and soft voice too at that!
“I doubt that is the case. So please tell me in detail what I should do hmm…” I forget to ask, who is the one that communicates with me just a moment ago? That is stupid of me.
“I am the Head of Angel, Gabriel. You indeed forgot to ask but that is fine with me since we rather rude to ask you to become the Overseer, the one who is in charge of a world.” So the one that is giving orders to many angels here is the owner of this voice.
“Overseer…then I suppose to take care of the world I am in charge to, is that right?”
“That is the case. You can do anything you want to do in the world you are in charge, what you wish, what you desire there is yours to make.”
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Right now I experience the same dizziness as when I got out of the Borderland. The next thing I know about this is the fact that I am traveled faster than light speed. Darius is the one who guides me to the place…ahem…the world I am in charge of.
Along the way, Darius explained many things to me about angels, about the Overseer, etc. Apparently, Angels are being that created from light. That is new to me and answered some things about their brightness especially their wings.
Their insane movement speed is something I understand it since the angel is the creature of light, their movement is akin to light, even some cases show that they managed to travel faster than light.
Next is about my position as Overseer. For the creations of that world, I am their God. Simple and easy to understand as that. Even though I can literally do anything in the world I am in charge of, I am afraid it is not as simple as that.
“Here we are,” Darius announces that we arrive at a world. I quickly take a glance and see strange things around me. The place that looks like the sacred place for worship ‘I suppose’ is in a total wreck.
“Huh!? This is in one of the population in the world right. What’s going on here? The people are in anarchy!” I pointed to the group of civilians that destroyed something they gathered from the sacred place.
“The bad news of the previous overseer is still in effect even to this day. Because of that, the believer now faced with persecution and crucified. You hear that scream even if it is low, don’t you?”
Darius pointed to something I hate to hear. The hell did he say about believer? The action by the civilian now is something that comes as the result of the previous overseer mistake and I better ask what that is.
“How can this happen!?” I am unable to process it. This is no different than my previous life, what to do?
“The previous overseer is lost to the other.” That is all Darius can offer to explain. While for me, I get a really bad feeling about this. I don’t know what exactly happens but there are others like me too. I don’t know how many Overseers there are but I better not make the one under my charge suffer. That is what I think.
“It is the result of losing against another overseer. The only thing we can do is to wait for things to calm down and prepare me for the acceptance ceremony isn’t it right?” I asked Darius.
There is one procedure before the world accepts me as its Overseer. That is to gain recognition from the world itself.
“The world now is in total chaos. I can only recommend that you restart it to understand things better.” Darius shook the supposedly part of the head.
“Restart, as in to destroy it and build it anew?” I hate to admit but when I see the status of the world, I cannot reject the idea. The people are in confusion, the mountain threw its load inside out as the see raging on. Around the world, disaster upon disaster occurred.
“Come, let us go to the center of the world.” Darius and I then go as fast as possible to the center of the world.
“Manifest yourself,” Darius tell. I don’t know what we are going to do at this place that there is no one to look at, I mean if you are in the middle of the desert in the middle of nowhere you will certainly ask what will you do, right?
And then a magical scene appeared before me. The cloud formed a vortex right above me as the sand below me also move in a similar manner. The wind also moved in the same direction as well along with the distant thunder roaring.
Amidst the vortex of that was a book. Darius does some strange things as there is a rainbow, I suppose, that grab the book and then Darius presents it to me from my right side.
“To gain recognition from the world, an Overseer has to be accepted by the Head of Angels before accepting this.” Darius explained one by one before he continues, “This book is the manifestation of the world we currently in. The book recorded everything that already happens along with every overseer it served before.”
I extended my two arms, shaking in excitement. When I touch the book, many information flowed inside my head. Everything about the world, the overseer that once in charge, the development they take, it’s all flowing to me.
“Overseer Number 100, identity is known as Hiroshi. Do you want to recreate the world from the very start?” a different voice comes to me. I can only say it is this book that already accepts me. I notice that my body is glowing with resplendent light, forming a pillar that reaches the very sky itself.
“So this is the sign that I am accepted by the world?” I murmur in excitement. In my mind though, I decided to recreate the world from the very start again.
“Please do this together with me, Overseer. This is the Megiddo Chant to do just that so follow it through.” What? There is a chant for that? I feel like the power of the world is channeling itself with mine, doing this is really taxing I suppose.
A chant appears in my mind. When I feel like my entire being wants to explode, I said it.
“The world that reached its purpose, do exactly what the Overseer told you with obedience. When the old wither, the new shall rise and replace it. Fall one and a thousand shall grow, for every failure is one chance to succeed. Be destroyed and born anew, O world!”
I don’t know whether I should feel embarrassed or sad. That line is straight up from the imaginative mind from a teenager. I feel sad because this world is going straight to destruction. The living being in it, the soil, the metal, the matter. Everything will be gone back from zero points all over again.
Darius also channels some kind of thing to me. The light of his cloak now swirling around me too as I control myself with the power the world gives me to just ‘roll’ the entirety of it to a singular point. The star crashed against each other, even the planet we currently in is similar to the seawater roll the entire land with its volume.
I don’t want to see it and I have to hear the scream of every living being in the world I destroyed. It is miserable and I feel like tears drop from my eyes. I sob, yes I cannot endure this sadness and after that, I lost my consciousness.
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When Hiroshi lost his consciousness though, the world is already on its hundredth start point again. Darius gently placed Hiroshi on the place the Overseer ought to be when they reside, the place called Divine Throne.
“Master Hiroshi, now you can do your duty. You will learn many things from now on so be ready to face it. And I pray for your success.”
After checking everything is fine and suitable, Darius goes away from the world Hiroshi currently in. For an angel, that matter is no difficult as the world under the management of Overseer is easy to reach. Only after some time that Hiroshi starts to get conscious again
“Hmm…” when I open my eyes again that I find myself sleeping comfortably inside something. Oh, I remember what I should do. Right, the world gives me the information necessary for an Overseer.
“I sleep on the Divine Throne. Yes, that is right. The world…is now in its first stage again and growing.” I clean the rest of my tear with my hand. That thing is something I will not let happen again, the destruction of the world, that Megiddo Chant, I will not do it again!
“The first stage of the world is on-going and will keep doing so. The expansion stage where space keeps forming and in turn increase the size of space. At the same moment, the concept of time occurred and keep flowing in one direction alone. This makes time travel to the past is a definite impossibility and looks like travel to the future is possible, what a sad day.” I comment at how time can only move in one direction alone.
Sure you can slow it down but stopping it is definitely impossible. You can only time travel to the future, know what I am talking about?
About space, it is just me that becomes the Overseer that I realize space is a double-layer one. What does that mean?
From my throne, I can see the mist of the universe scattered around as some of it condensed at a point. I am the one who used the power of space. Then after some time, the condensed mist suddenly grow hot and the mass increase further. If you wonder about that, I fast-forward the flow of time. But this is rather tiring as the entire law of time envelops and affect the entire world.
Especially the world keeps expanding and I have to fast-forward it for a huge amount of time. The power as the Overseer is good, I honestly thought. Since the acceptance procedure, I have many powers that I want to try but the power of time manipulation so far is the most often used power for now.
I fail to notice the passage of time and now when I see the world, it is now large enough, in my opinion, to test my spatial ability to the max. Truthfully, this time period when waiting for the world to grow is also the time I spend training and knowing my ability as an Overseer.
Very long time pass and I grow bored with it. The only thing that keeps me going is the fact that the stars in the world now have this thing spinning around them. Other than that, the second visit of Darius also washes away some boredom too.
“Ah, nice to meet you again Darius.”
“Yes, Master Hiroshi. How are you and your world? I have to give permission for your world since it is recreated to be on the No Disturb World list.”
I wonder what kind of list is that. So I ask, “What is the list about?”
“The world that other Overseer cannot interfere until a certain period. I have to put your world in it because of the recreation. That is the condition of the world under the list. The period of time is until you form your own intelligent being.”
I furrow my brows when hearing that. Looks like I need to plan things through from here onward. And so my first move as the God of my own world, the one-hundredth overseer is in its making.
