"Who.. who are you? I made sure no one found out about me , I even erased my own memories before I got summoned to leave no traces." I asked you.
"It doesn't really matter, your existence in this world is enough to alert me and some others." You shrugged and looked at me. "We're both meta-characters. So you have no reason to hide such things from me y'know."
"Unless..." You sent a curious look at me.
"You're not a meta-character, aren't you? You're not aware of the effects you have on the narrative, eh?"
"Well it doesn't really matter."
Chills go down my spine as I summon my sword and point it at you.
"Now then, stay still as I erase your existence."
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"Gughh!" You send a punch to my face, giving me no time to even raise my sword as your fist hits my cheek hard.
I staggered back and glared at you. "What's... What is happening...?"
"Don't you get it? I'm just fighting you in your own way."
You raised your hand at me but then my wounds began healing unexpectedly, I smirked and got up, looking at you as my party is behind me, in their own battle ready garments.
"Sir Hero, are you okay!?"
"Darling, it's okay to ask for help y'know~."
"I apologize master, I didn't know of his ulterior motives."
You just sighed and shook your head. "What a crying shame, you decided to hide behind their backs instead of facing me yourself. Well, it still doesn't matter."
Clara thrust her spear at you but you just raised your hand at her and suddenly sharp metal spikes began extruding from the ground. Piercing through her body multiple times.
"Oh, that confirms it, you're not a meta-character alright."
Miya tried to summon her water dragon but you teleported in front of her, grabbing her throat and choking her until she passed out and I dropped her limp body as it fell roughly to the grassy field.
"You're not aware of the narrative I see, this is just some normal boring reality warping."
Lydia points her staff at you but you just throw a rock at her forehead, kicking her out of her focus and you immediately knock her out hard with just a normal punch.
"Though your ability still somewhat affected the narrative, so, you'll be fit to be a semi-meta character."
"... isn't that right? Bored reality warper from a higher dimension that just decided to become an isekaid hero just for fun?"
You pointed at me with a bored look.
"Tch, why are you looking at me like that? Is me just having fun that boring for you?"
"Nah, I'm just curious, though I suppose I should be mad at you."
You sat on top of the unconscious body of the mage girl and looked at me.
"Who said you can just ruin the world that's in the middle of a story?"
You tap your feet in a rhythm that sounds familiar but I don't remember it.
"You make this world's story focus on you and only you. Such a bad taste, you didn't even think to make any spinoffs. Any characters that left like that Alice gal are just second thoughts to you. They disappear immediately from everyone's memories when your story has nothing to do with them."
You stare down at the unconscious Lydia.
"I wouldn't even call these girls human, you striped them of their own character development and everything. What they only think of is taking care of you and serving your every whim."
You sighed. "But you yourself are not human too, right?"
You got up and looked at me.
"So who are you? Azathoth's cousin or something? You roughly have the same powers or something like that, controlling the narrative and all that. Wait no, you're his dad? That sounds way more plausible. Azathoth doesn't control the narrative like that, they just create and destroy worlds or something."
You pointed your finger at me and suddenly my arms and legs got blown off and my limb less body fell to the ground.
"... You're a big pain in the ass, you know that?"
I sighed as black tendrils erupted from my wounds, forming arms and legs as I stood up and glared at you.
Sky turned black.
Plants growing old and withered.
I revealed my true eldritch, unspeakable form to you.
Consider this world your tomb.
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"Oh my, this may be troublesome." You said as you look up at me.
"My name is AT' TLAKLI and i'll make sure you regret even having the thoughts of living..."
"Edgy as hell yo."
You quickly ducked as a large red beam shot at where your head was at, disintegrating everything behind you.
"Shut... Up..."
"I strike a nerve eh? Go ahead and try to kill me."
You smirked.
"You'll never be able to do it anyway."
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"Why..."
You stepped to the left, dodging the invisible attack as it goes past you and causes stars to explode in the far distance.
"Why won't you..."
Reality itself starts to crack and tear apart while you just jump over his attack like nothing, as if the attack isn't an attack from the 20th dimension that's able to erase 500 universes at once.
"WHY WON'T YOU DIE!!!"
You put your hand up and send a punch and immediately, as if this is a dream, everything returns back to normal.
"What's..."
You picked me up on my feet, holding my collar and glare at me.
"Your story has ended, but since you're so persistent. I'll make you ready for any spinoffs or sequels."
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Alice Argatroid walked through the darkened woods, clenching her sealed book tightly on her chest.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." She kept repeating to herself as she got closer to what seems to be a cabin in the woods.
Alice got to the door, her hand hovering over the doorknob nervously before finally gathering her resolve and opened the door.
"Master! I failed... I'm sorry for my transgression, master." Alice said as she looks at the horned man sitting menacingly in the darkness.
The man stares at her quietly before getting up from the chair, shadow not hiding him anymore and letting Alice see his appearance.
He has short black hair with two horns protruding from his head with his left horn looking like it has been snapped off. His eyes are pure black with red pupils and he wears a black and red suit. Despite being a demon, he looks like a human.
"It's not your fault my dear Alice. The situation works out fine either way. That hero seems to have been dealt with by a third party." He said as he picked up a wine glass and twirled the liquid inside it before looking at her and noticed that she still isn't over with the fact that she failed.
"I failed, I failed, how did I fail? I even used the sealed book my master gave to kill him but he just shrugged it off like it's nothing. I'm a failure, nothing but a failure." Alice was breathing heavily, hyperventilating. Her eyes looked crazed, she can't believe she failed at what her master has ordered her to do.
The demon frowned and put his hand on her shoulder. He got closer to her and whispered to her ear.
"Calm down, my dear Alice. The hero has died and The Demon King has fallen. This is the most wonderful outcome for me."
Alice wipes away her tears and looks at her master. "Wh-what do you mean by that, master?"
He took a step back from her and smirked.
"It means that I'm the next in line to be the demon king after my foolish brother has failed to even defeat one of the hero's party members."
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The king of the Everest Kingdom looks panicked, ordering multiple people at once.
As soon as the current demon king died, another one had immediately risen and right as they wanted to ask the hero for help, they arrived to see the hero being sealed in a huge black square with such a complex magic that it would probably take 5000 years to free him.
This has never happened before. The time between each new demon king usually takes about 500 years according to the old texts but a new demon king has immediately appeared only 5 days after the demon king's death. And not to mention that the hero suspiciously got sealed only 2 days before the new demon king appeared. Something clearly strange is going on.
But whatever that is, it must be ignored due to the fact that the kingdom now needs to summon a hero again because the last one died.
But then a noble suggested something to him.
"My king. Due to how fast the demon king appeared, how about we summon multiple heroes instead of just one? That way we can seek the help of multiple heroes at once in case one of them dies and it would also help prepare us for the other upcoming demon kings if the current one has fallen."
And so that's what they did. But, unfortunately time is of the essence currently and they need to summon the heroes fast so instead of summoning multiple heroes from different places, they decide to focus on a place that has the most potential of heroes and summon everyone in that specific place.
And so with every preparation ready and such, Lydia Wynn ready her staff.
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A man in a Japanese school uniform sighed as he looked at the surroundings. It looks like he's in a white void, though at least there's someone else here, or rather something else, or maybe both someone and something?
"Your mere existence is a danger to the balance of fate, human!" A girl said. There are multiple girls here that have a golden spear as a weapon and it's all pointed at me, they each have various unique hair colours exclusively for them and they have red wings sprouting from their back, and there's that something else being them, a ball of wiggling red threads, it's colour for some reason reminded him of the red threads of fate.
'Fate huh...' The man thought as he looked at them. "Fate... Only us should control our own fate, not to be forced to follow it by some red threads."
A spear suddenly thrusted at his neck, stopping when the sharp tip touches his neck, blood leaks.
"Silent, human! You don't have any rights to go against Fate!" A black haired Japanese girl said with anger in her voice.
He also saw that some of these girls have name tags on their clothes. Pretty weird if you ask me.
The girl that's closest to him, and the one that's close to killing him with her spear tip at his neck is Hina Ehara, well, that's what her name tag says anyway.
In any case, he still needs to go, he has somewhere to be.
He grabs the spear near his neck and kicks the girl that was holding the spear away, knocking her out. They all immediately thrust their spears at him but he ducked under it all, he doesn't know if he should be lucky or not since all of the spears were thrust at where his head and neck was, making it easier to duck under them all.
He quickly dashes under all of the girls and gets closer to the ball of red threads, reaching his hand out for it.
"Fate should not force people to follow it without having any choices, Fate should guide them to their future instead and give them the chance to choose their own fate."