Chapter 11: This Time... Maybe?

*Avariena’s POV*

Annoyed that our Goddess just spawn killed us, I grabbed my phone, and was intent on complaining to Kaito about this. Unfortunately for me, the next second after I grabbed my phone, I was in Yuna’s office. And so was Kaito.

Thankfully, we had our uniforms on, and we also had our schoolbags. Most likely thanks to Yuna. Which, was really good. My nightgown barely covers anything. I would die from embarrassment if Kaito saw me in it. Wait… we have actually already seen each other naked before…

Yuna: “Avariena, snap out of it.” Yuna said.

Avariena: “Huh? Oh, sorry.” I say with an embarrassed tone.

Kaito: “Yuna, what the fuck? You can’t just kill us like that!” Kaito yelled.

Yuna: “I can, and I will, whenever you two can’t complete this door. Look, isn’t it better for me to kill you two? You don’t feel any pain, since I am the one dying for you.” Yuna replied with a shrug.

I mean… I guess that she has a point. Dying fucking sucks. And dying in a messed up way sucks more. We’re still annoyed, though…

Kaito: “Fucking fine… Just give us a warning next time.” Kaito said with a sigh.

Yuna: “I thought that I gave enough of a warning last time... Oh well, I’ll just give you two more of a heads up next time.” Yuna replied.

Since Yuna has made us appear in school faster than we usually show up, we had nothing better to do than just talk to Yuna. From what Kaito and I have noticed, she seems to be hiding something from us. As for what she is hiding, we have no idea.

An undisclosed amount of time later, we were trapped once again. And what fucking luck! I was sure it was the fucking ghost girl yet again.

Kaito: “Avariena, you hear the screams, right? Let’s just not even bother with the ghost. It’s fucked up, but letting it kill the faculty, and other students, will give us plenty of time to look around for the core.” Kaito explained.

Avariena: “Okay, good idea. I am not keen on dying quickly again.” I say with a confident tone.

*Many, many hours later.*

Well… fuck. We have searched the entire school, and we still haven’t found the core. The ghost girl has long since killed everyone else. At this point, it’s just Kaito and I.

Having to dodge its attacks is very annoying. Luckily, after we dodge it enough times, it gets pissed off, and floats away somewhere else.

Kaito: “It’s gone now. Is there any place that we haven’t checked yet?” Kaito asked.

Avariena: “What about the roof? We haven’t checked it yet.” I reply.

Kaito: “Alright, let’s head to the roof. We’re actually close to the entrance of it.” She replied.

Oh, she’s right, we’re close to it. How funny… Anyway, it only took us a few minutes to make it to the roof. On top of the roof, was fucking nothing… Not! There was a red crystal on the roof. If that isn’t the core, I have no idea what is!

Kaito: “Avariena, shoot it quickly!” Kaito yelled.

I took out my handgun, and shot the core. It, did, not, shatter… What the fuck?

Avariena: “It’s no use, my bullets won’t work, Kaito…” I say with a sad tone.

Unauthorized use: this story is on Amazon without permission from the author. Report any sightings.

Looking back at Kaito, she was being held up by her neck. It was not the ghost girl, but a woman with dark red hair. I could tell that Kaito was being choked to death.

Without thinking about anything else besides her safety, I shot the woman. Like the dungeon core, my bullets did nothing at all.

The woman then snapped Kaito’s neck, before carefully putting her lifeless body on the ground. Oddly, Yuna did not give us a quick death this time…

From me being in shock from watching Kaito die once again, I didn’t even notice the woman until she was right in front of me.

Like Yuna, I could tell that she is a higher being. Maybe even a Goddess. She reached out with her hand, and gently rubbed my head.

???: “Child, I am Hestia. I’m sorry about your girlfriend, but you’ll see her again in your next loop. Your “Goddess” has tricked you. She has played with you and your girlfriends lives like a pawns on a chessboard. Demand answers from her, otherwise, this loop will never end.” She said with a warm tone.

The next second, she killed me. Though, I was given a quicker death than how she killed Kaito. Not even in my room this time, Kaito and I are in Yuna’s office.

Kaito: “Oddly, even though I died, I remember what that woman told Avariena. Yuna, what the hell are you hiding?” Kaito asked with an angry tone.

Yuna did not reply right away. She seemed to be lost in thought. Either thinking about how she will tell us the truth, or thinking of ways to mislead us yet again.

Yuna: “We’re damned.” She said with a serious tone.

Kaito: “What do you mean?” She asked.

Yuna: “The door, I hid it in the earth’s core, so that no one else could find it. I was curious on what would happen. Yes, this whole situation happened due to my curiosity, and due to my experiment.” Yuna explained.

Avariena: “What does that mean for us?” I ask.

Yuna: “I lied.” She said.

Yuna then changed her appearance completely. She no longer looked like our principle at all. It was more likely that she actually isn’t.

Yuna: “I am not Yuna, nor am I Ruina. Though, I am a Goddess. You both worshiping Ruina, and your principle worshiping her as well, was just a perfect storm for me. My real name is Mana.” She said with an evil tone.

Fuck… fuck. Fuuuuuuuuck! Sure, to you, her real name means nothing. But to Kaito and I, we knew who she was. The banished destroyer. She destroyed this world once, and we only survived because the higher beings saved us.

We have been played this entire time. This isn’t even our world, she dragged us into her hell. I bet that we’re currently asleep, or in the hospital. Dammit! I should have known that Ruina wouldn’t bother to help me.

Wait… now that I think about it, Sara, I never saw her body at all. It must have been a fake, created by Mana. The rest are probably fakes as well…

Kaito: “Are we dead? Did you kill us, and drag us here?” Kaito yelled.

Look! Kaito figured it out as well! Mana’s appearance is well known, even to us mortals. She has deep blue hair, and similarly colored eyes.

Mana: “You’re both sleeping soundly in your beds. I just temporarily brought your souls here. You might not want to, but, please help me. Your world was almost destroyed by me a few years ago. But to me, that was hundreds of thousands of years ago… I can’t take this torture anymore.” Mana pleaded.

So… that’s why she lost so much of her power. And why the entire loop was terribly set up.

Kaito: “Why couldn’t we see you until recently?” She asked.

Mana: “Because I was desperate, and don’t have much power, I was only able to bring you two to this dimension. But your and my loops were separated. Now that our souls are connected, our loops happen at the same time.” She replied.

Avariena: “That so? You haven’t given us any reason to help you at all.” I say with a fed-up tone.

Mana: “Support! I’ll support you two forever! No matter how many times your soul reincarnates, I will always support you. I destroyed your world once, I am the most powerful being in existence! I swear on my entire being, I promise you two this. Look, I’ll even explain this to every fucking higher being, and mortal in your world. They will know what you two went through!” She pleaded once again.

At this point, Mana was on her knees, and she was sobbing a lot. It was actually hard to see such a powerful being cry like this…

Kaito: “Your crying seems real enough, but I think that you’re still hiding something from us.” Kaito said with a serious tone.

Mana: “You two… you can’t leave. Our souls are connected. Only when I am free, will you two be free. That woman that killed you two, she is my mother. Why did I pretend to be Ruina? Because she is my sister. So I can easily make myself look like her if I want to.” Mana replied.

Kaito: “What about the door?” She asked.

Mana: “My experiment was how I destroyed your world. If you remember correctly, their fix was reverting time back to before I did that. But keeping everyone’s memory. This is a separate dimension, which is an exact copy of when I did my experiment.” Mana explained.

Avariena: “She is telling the truth, unfortunately.” I say with a sigh.

We then sat down and talked to Mana. We need more information on how to deal with this situation. Now is the best time to do so. She has lost all of her cards, and she needs our help. So she has to be honest with us. Now we just have to hope that we can actually solve this problem…