In the distance depth of the dark universe, there shin the stars. Massive and beautiful, warm and colourful, their shine reaches the furthest depths of the universe, brightening countless worlds.

Drifting among this darkness and the stars is a lonely spaceship, which appears like an oval-shaped balloon, crafted by humans living in the age of industrial; powered by two rudimentary rockets, this spaceship drifts through space like a massive whale in the deep sea, slowly but very powerfully.

Inside this lonesome ship is an atmosphere totally different from the outside silence and emptiness. It isn't filled with eerie silence, or neither does it had a lonesome aura. Instead, it was bustling with people and pipes of metal that constantly pushed out steaming hot air. The voices and screams of the countless unmanned people echo through every inch of the ship. Even tho it's divided into floors with jail cells to lock these unruly people, their screams, and voices are not something a mare floor could prevent from leaking; however, even if it could, it would be pointless because of the giant hole right at the center of each floor. This hole, which appeared like a decoration, had two purposes: one was for figures on the floor to look down on lower floors, while the other being it's opposite.

Walking through each of these jail cells are the officers of the law, dressed in their titled dress, long blue pants, Navy blue colour tunic or frock coat equipped with brass or silver buttons. A round top hat on each one's head. They march through Each corridor of the floors, carefully checking for any unusual behaviour of these god-forsaken prisoners.

At the moment, on the highest floor of the ship where there is no any rakless sound or hot air filling the space. From inside a closed door guarded by two neatly dressed officers, a faint echo of a voice is leaking out...

"assault and battery, Murdure.. Mess murders, vandalism, Conspiracy, mess torture, physiology abuse, theft. Identity theft...."

Sitting in a comfortable chair is a chubby man, his leg placed on the table in front while reading a letter in his hand.

On the other side of the table where the seats for the guests are, a man with sunburned skin is focusing on the news pepar on his hand, minding his own business while blowing up a smoke.

The two are in a cosy room, a warm fire is burning beside the two, and the walls are hung with extravagant-looking paint. In one place, there is metallic armour; nearby to it is a box full of wands and colourful crystals. Some wands are even embroiled with gems, uprooting their value. They are all put in tightly sealed glass cases, like some highly value treasures.

"All this, one man? And they gave him to us? How are we supposed to deal with this"

At the end of his read, the chubby man placed the file in his hand on the table and looked at the man in the seat of the guest with a frown.

"Well.." responded the other man while turning a page of his newspaper, and continuing after " You were supposed to look into that before we depart, aren't you"

Twitches the eyebrows of the chubby man as soon as he heard these words, awkward and hesitated, sweat slightly came out from his forehead, " Ahem!, I see, maybe I have missed it, oh, right, there was that latter my beloved sent to me, I may have forgotten to check this while I have gone to retrieve it" he strained than rotated the seat of his chair to other side, facing back to the other.

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The man on the guest seat then lowered the newspaper in his hand from his eye, the level just enough to Look at the chubby man. To the thing other said, the man decided to stay silent. It's not because he believed whatever the things he blablled, not at all; he knew what others said was a lie. Why? From his own eyes, he saw how the captain of his ship Secretly sneaked into the nearby strip club before departing and having fun. Going out while there's the tone of work on the ship is forbidden by the law, and if reported, the punishment he faces would be severe. Even being demoted to lower ranks might be possible. And maybe at that moment, he, who is the current vice caption, will surely get the chance to be a real captain of a ship for once.

But strangely, despite knowing this, the man decides to stay silent, very painfully thinking about it. Not because he's loyal to this chubby captain of his, not at all. The answer is that the only reason he managed to see his captain in that strip club was because he was also already in there. If someone looks deeper into things and finds out about him, he, too, will get into danger.

"Forget it now, what happened already happened; what we have to do now is to do this job properly. After that we'll demand a bonus for this," said the captain as he rotated back to face him.

"Vice-captain increased the guard around the prisoner and monitor him continuously, and also, inform about his abnormal conditions to guards taking care of him"

Gave the command captain, vice caption folded the newspapers and put them on the table as he stood up "Yas captain"

Meanwhile, on the lowest floor of the ship, where the light dimmed and the constant sound of an engine roaring echos noisily while steaming air fills the space, three patrolling officers are seriously talking to each other, each one of their faces full of determination. Right beside the three is a cart full of food for the prisoners.

"Then there I was, sitting while searching everyone came in. There I saw her, beautiful like a star in the night sky, smooth and soft like a newborn baby. I asked her who she was, and she told me she was our new supervising ENGINEER.....And I'll be damned if I give this precious chance to be with her alone to anyone else," screamed one of the guards looking at the other two, all three holding their hands forward, preparing for something.

"Fellas, fellas, we all know we ain't got many female workers In here, right, so we'll gotta Share them don't you think? Just give me this chance to get to know her a bit,", said another guard, showing a cheeky smile on his face.

"What? Excuse me, first of all, chief gave this letter to me; he told Me to go and help her with the work, not you. So why do I have to bet on with you" said the last one, looking at the other two annoyingly. "Because there's no way in hell I'm going to give this chance to anyone else, I'm sure Chief didn't name you especially, he just want someone to assist her with the work, and also if I remember correctly you still owe me, when are you going to give back my money you got.. yeah, where my pants you borrow that day" the other two guards scream at once.

"All right, all right, let's go on with this," yielded the officer with the latter in his hand in a hurry, seeing things Turning in a worse direction.

The three focus on their clenched hands, and after a very challenging round of rock-piper scissors, the winner is finally decided. It was the guard who first saw the woman.

"This is fate, she and I, we are destined to be with each other," said the winner with a laugh." Tch, lucky bastard, but the bet is a bet all right, however, remember, the chief said you have to know the stuff in here to help her so you better remember them" the guard with the latter tosses the report at the other guard as he turns around to grab the cart full of food, no longer interest in staying there he began to push it and walk away. The other guard, who also failed, joined him, having the same thoughts.

"Why have we got only one engineer on our ship, also if she needed help from someone wouldn't someone with a bit of knowledge about that stuff be much more helpful instead of us, not that I dislike it"

"I don't know, man, they say, and we do; that's all I can say, and that's all I care", the two guards' voices turn from clear to a whisper as they move further and further from the other guard.

As they left, the remaining guard hurriedly opened the latter. He's impatient and just wants to remember the thing before rushing to see the woman. However, as he opened the letterer, he sudden froze; inside the damn letter were not words but numbers mixed with formulas and other stuff that were needed to do calculations.

"Oh, Come on", in the dark and quiet passage, echoed the painful voice of the poor guard.

Time flows unstoppably, neither too fast nor too slow, and when minutes turn into hours the two guards dragging the cart of food came to finish their work and stood in front of a closed metal door. The cart, which had been full of packed food, was now almost empty. in the previously quiet passage, now echoes the voice of the criminals enjoying their food.

The two guards stood in front of the metal door, and one took out a key from his pocket.

"So is this the new prisoner?" ask the other guards, who are apparently on the first time on the lowest floor.

"Yeah, and let me tell you, this guy is craazy," said the other while opening the door, revealing the other side.

As the second guard looked inside, he first noticed the deep darkness inside the room and the eerie silence that swallowed any sound, even the one that was coming from outside. However, more importantly, in the center of all this, there was one light, like the shine of the bright moon, descending from above, brightening a figure hanging just a step above the floor while wrapped by chains from his head to toe.

The whole scene apperd somewhat magical.

"Let's go", said the other guard while pulling the cart and walking into the room.

Looking at the chained figure, the second guard steps in, He somehow becomes a tiny bit scared, seeing the bizarre scene in the room. I

"Here, unlock the chins around his mouth with this, I'll prepare food till then" The first guard passed a key to the second guard despite he's being a newbie when they in front of the figure, " Think you can do that"

"All right,", said the second guard, taking a step forward, getting closer to the chained figure and standing in front of him. He felt weird, like standing in front of a statue, or a dead man. There was no breathing or sound of breathing coming from this manly body. A man? - when he first saw the chained figure he also got the question of whether is this a man or a lady, though his colleague had already addressed this figure by 'him' name, nothing cannot be sure until he saw it from his own eyes, be it is when he looks at the chest area that had no any bumps his suspicious disappeared like a mist in the sunrise.

His wave of thought got distracted by the first guard, who began to pick up the food from the cart; it caused a sound that echoed for a few seconds before disappearing into the silent room.

The second, guard picks up his peace, stretches his hand and looks for the part where he can unlock the mouth area of the figure. And he found it, right Behind other's neck, a little lock; unlocking it with the key, he removed the chains, revealing the lower part of the figure's face where bruised and deep cut marks could be seen across his face.

But at that moment, right when he fully removed the chains suddenly, the figure's mouth twitched, and the guard became uneasy.

"Boo.. "

"Arghh" stepped back the guard hurridly in fright, bumping into the poor first guard Who was trying to reach the bottom of the cart, at the moment when he was bumped he lost the foot outside and fell into the the cart.

"What the hell?" Annoyed, he screamed and tried to get back up, but then he realised, he was stuck.

"give me a hand"

The second guard, who is already apologising, hurriedly steps up to help; grabbing from the guard's leg, he pulls him up.

"Kha-kha-ha"

Echoed a loud laugh through the room, one sinister and nonchalant. The two guards look at the chained figure who is the source of this laugh.

"Ugh! Let's get this over quickly," said the first guard as he stepped out from the cart and picked one of the packed foods. It was not solid but liquefied food. As much as he hates the fact but for safety measures, he cannot give food to this prisoner's hand, and because of that, the guard needs to feed him like a baby.

Thinking about that the guard felt a headache.

"You step back and watch how this done," said him to the second guard, and he obeyed. Instead of one, he took a few steps, Getting far away as possible; it was then that he saw the back of this chained figure. There was an object, like a metal pole, glowing and shining, sticking out from his back, or rather piercing through his back. Upon seeing that, the guard shudders even more.

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"All right, pirate, time to get you're dinner; this would have been a lot easier if I could just use a 'Deus', but unfortunately for both of us, we can't use any in here,", said the first guard. A moment later, he tried to pour the soup-like food into the Melian mouth, but despite his effort, he failed to feed any of it to him. In his failed attempt, the guard sighed and said in a pleading voice.

"Don't make this difficult, man; now or later, you end up with this thing in you're mouth anyway".

It was Then He opened his mouth, not to eat but to speak, of course.

"A rich man eats with the hope that he will live another day in luxury, and a poor man, well, a poor eats hoping that one day he will be rich and happier ever after, quite delusional hope, I say. But I'm....I'm neither the rich nor the poor, you see, I'm a but a prisoner, shackled with chain in this dark corner. Tell me, why should I continue to feed this body, is it to live in this suffering, to continue to be in the dark, accompanied by chains"

It was a deep voice aligned with sorrow and tiredness.

As he was saying the memories of the past sprouted before his eyes, he was originally an ordinary man living in the street, In a change of destiny he bumped into the world of mana and Deus and walked the path of a pirate, the name pirate didn't mean a one that sails in a ship with a crew, in the world of Deus a pirate is someone who isn't willing to be bind by the law, he doesn't obey any law neither any morality, he only does things that benefit him, and for his greater good. In those times when he sores through the world, they addressed him by a name, the Puppeteer Devil Melian.

But a person like this is a curse to a well-organised society; people bound by morality, law and imaginary justice are willing to hunt a pirate as soon as they see one.

However, It isn't a fact he didn't foresee; it was a fact he's very well prepared. For a long time, for two hundred years, he's been a pirate feared by all. Things would have been greater when he robbed an ancient legacy ground. But something unexpected happened, and he fell into a trap, a trap set by the soul of an otherworldly cultivator. Invading his body, it tried to seize him. Fortunately, with a trace of luck by his side after a very decisive battle, he managed to overcome it. But some of the personality of the cultivator got absorbed into him and mixed into his personality. When it was all done and over, he escaped the tomb, but just like how cold winter comes after a warm summer, just after a lucky time, misfortune awaited him. From out of nowhere a long metal pole arrived and struck him like thunder, he Clearly remembered that moment, as soon as that cursed pole pierced into him all of his ability began to disappear slowly, as a result except for one tiny puppet thread that he's keeping with his pure will power all the other supernatural energy in his body has disappeared with the time. And as a result, he easily got caught.

Now he's restrained, waiting in the dark. Alone, until one day, they decide to hang him to death.

Melian words silenced the guard for a moment, but he soon regained his composure, "Nice talk, now please open that mouth of yours" he walked closer again and tried to pour the soup into Melians mouth.

Melian lifted his head; even tho chains were wrapped All over his head; he could still see slightly from the tiny gap through them. And through them he looks, to see the guard who's trying to do his job, pitifully knowing that he's going to fail this time too.

A moment passes, and something is weird and strange. Melian looks through the gaps again and sees the moving hand of the guard; they are indeed moving toward him, but very slowly. He looks ahead at the second guard, and similarly, he's unmoving or moving extremely slowly. One stuck looking at him determined, and one stuck looking at him fairly. It was like time had stopped itself, freezing everything.

"Is this some kind of a trick"

Bang!

Suddenly, there came a loud sound, and before anyone could react, part of the ship broke apart. Coincidentally, that part happens to be the back area of the large prison Melian is in.

The light(sunlight) hurriedly rushed in from outside, and the air hurriedly rushed out from inside. Melian felt a pressure trying to push him out, but fortunately, he was tightly shackled and bound by the chains that grabbed onto him like a possessed lover; though some had broken apart when the crash happened, the remaining of them managed to hold onto him.

However, the guards are not as lucky as him; the two uncontrollably and fastly pull to the broken passenger. While One guard manages to hold onto one of the chains that bind Melian, the second one is directly got sucked to the outside. Needless to say, his life would end there unless some miracle like 'Deus' were with him.

Bang!

Another loud sound came as a wall in the room ripped apart and flew out of the ship; when the wall broke, it revealed a few figures on the far; one was a man in a guard uniform while the other was a woman in neat and attractive clothes. Both are originally focused on the large engine in front of them, now frightened by the suddenly broken wall and the sounds.

"What going in here?" came the voice of a man, and the captain and vice-captain jumped down from high above to the lower floor.

"Argh... help" echos the voice of the pleading men from the hige above floors and then began the nonstop screaming and crying of men, when the crash happened not only did it affect the lower floor, but even the upper floor got destructed by it, but and as a result some of the prisons that caged unruly people got loose, letting out those mannerless ones to jump out and cause chaos.

Despite that, instead of taking care of the situation on the upper floor, the two people in charge of them hurriedly rushed to the lower one; the two very well knew even if they took care of the one above if the one below got loose, it'd be hell all over.

Seeing Melian still restrained by chins, the two sign in relief; at the same moment, a projectile-like blue cube surrounded the lower floor, and the pressure that fell on Melian body decreased a lot, though he was still slowly being pulled outside. It's really slow.

After stabilising the situation, the two, the captain and the vice-captain, began to pull Melian back toward them; however, just when they were moments away from grabbing the chains, a scream echoed through the whole floor, then through the whole ship.

It's like a cry of a bird, but It neither came from above or below, or somwhere else. For some strange and unknown gut feeling, everyone felt like this scream came from everywhere and at the same time from nowhere.

It was then that something unordinary happened.

The air above everyone began to desorbed and blur; through this blurred space, a bird, large and majestic, ethereal and shining, flew out.

Sometimes, it's In one place, and another time,e, it's In another place, all the time being everywhere and also nowhere.

Looking at this gorgeous mystical bird rush out from space, the captain and vice captain's jaw dropped. Meliana also peeked from the chain gap, as a pirate that roamed around the world for more than two hundred years he didn't need anyone to tell him what this creature was,

Although he or anyone else has never seen this creature with their own eyes, and it exists only through the tales of the books, however, once you see it, you can never mistake it for anything else.

"My god, the Almighty in the Daus of time, the overseeing twilight owl", in a shaking voice, exclaimed the vice-captain with his eyes full of awe.

And there it was, emitting a brilliant shin, like the shine of the sun, if not more. And flapping its giant wing. In one swing, it appeared in one place, and in another swing, it was in another place.

All the onlookers are stuck by its majestic and dominating aura. But as the moments gone, they notice some bruises in the body of the owl and some deep cut marks slice across it.

"Am I seeing this, or does it look like it hurt?" said someone. And others had the same doubt in their minds.

However at the moment, when the ethereal twilight owl flapped its wings once again the space began to blur, and within the next moment its figure slowly disappeared like sinking into some invincible water, after it went it was like time after the sunset, everything regains the darkness and everything return to the long lost silence.

Even the countless criminals stayed looking at the place where the owl disappeared, their eyes showing a Deep shock and little by little growing greed.

Because, Right before the moment the Twilight Owl disappeared, one of its feathers broke apart, and a part of this unbelievably mysterious being fell from its body and slowly glid through the air inside the ship.

There was a momentary silence in the ship, as if for everyone to process what actually happening, then when the moment passed, erupted the chose, more than ever before, everyone in the ship, be it the criminals or the officers or even the captain and vice-captain jumped and rush, to catch this mysterious treasure.

Criminals screamed, grabbing from one another and pulling one another back as they rushed; among this flood-like crowd were also some officers who were battling shoulder to shoulder with others to be the first ones to jump and catch the feather.

Soon after the screams and cries came, the floor got wetter in deep red, and the air got violated by the rotten stench of human blood.

But despite their efforts, the one who still manages to react faster than anyone else is none other than the captain and vice-captain duo; the lucky two are directly below where the feather is falling, and the captain starches his hand eagerly to catch it.

However, soon, the act of comradeship between them turns worse in an instant.

Chis!

Pieced a long sharp object through the chest of the captain, blood drooled out from his mouth, and with a kick from the one Behind him, the vice-captain, he fell head first onto the floor.

" I say forgive me, but an apology ain't gone do thing right, at the end we all work for our own good"

The vice-captain glanced at the twitching and turning body of the captain; his face had sorrow, but then he looked up, seeing the glowing feather slowly falling towards him, his face regained its happiness.

But soon he became panicked; the criminals arrived too soon than he expected, some directly jumped from above while some crashed through the door. All of their eyes were directed at the golden father as they jumped forward.

"No... Get away... It's mine," Panicked the vice-captain, jumped up, stretching his hand to grab the falling feather.

Swish!

However, through the air, something came rapidly and struck the vice-captain, sending him away more than a dozen steps back.

The vice caption becomes momentarily shocked, and pain, similar to being whipped, spreads through his body.

"You," said he, looking at the chained figure hanging in the air. Originally Meliana was hanging a foot above the floor, but now with the pressure from before pulling his body up he happened to be more closer to the roof than the floor,

Similar to everyone else, he also sew the golden feather, and upon seeing it, he too is filled with greed. He, as the big bad pirate, and a reckless man struggle while turning left and right and finally manage to break one loose chain and swing it across the air by turning his body, preventing the vice-captain from grabbing the feather.

Nonetheless, whether the vice-captain failed, or Meliana succeeded, none was mattered to the falling feather as it continued to fall.

Melians struggles up in the air intensified, and more and more chains began to loosen up; the vice-captain got up while suffering in pain. He first looked at the falling feather. Secondly, he looked up at Meliana and also at the prisoners and the guards rushing in.

The flood of people hurriedly came in, but the moment when they stepped into the room, an illusion-like cube reappeared surrounding the room. The fist-in-line prisoners to rush in bumped headfirst into the cube; some got hurt while some even fainted as the result of their own efforts.

"At least general security protocol is working properly", murmured the vice-captain; the cube is a protection device of the ship; it was the only one with the power of Deus in the ship. Unfortunately, no one can control it; it only activates on its own. After observing all that, he steps forward, rushing back towards the golden feather, which is now Getting closer to the floor.

Seeing him, Melian shook even more and finally, the chains around him began to lose from their joint places, but one chain pierced at the top of the roof didn't lose, and as a result, Melian fell while swinging.

Seeing that, the vice-captain sighed in satisfaction; the feather was already closer to the floor, and Melian, who was swinging in mid-air, was far from reaching it.

Vice-captain hurried his foot, and stretched his hand to grab the feather.

Up in the air, halfway of his swing, Melian gazes at the scene below; his face is expressionless and has no fear. And the slight thread of mana that he grabbed onto by his pure willpower twitched and pulled.

The mana thread stretched far away, out from his body, invincible to anyone's eye. It spread out from the room and went to the area where the engine of the ship was and ended up joining a woman with mature charm.

The woman suddenly twitched, like a puppet that was being controlled by threads. She moved, abandoning her original intentions, and she pulled a nearby lever and shut down an engine.

"Isn't that something important?" asked the officer standing closer to her.

In that instance, inside the room is protected by the projection-like cube. Vice-captain is stretching his hand to grab the feather at the tip of his fingernails, but suddenly, the falling father stopped falling and began to flote up on the way it came down. Even everything else in the air slowly begins to flote up, starting from objects that are lighter and not much heavier they beg to flote up.

The vice-captain panicked, "What happening to space, oh no..gravity"

At the moment he realised it, he was too late, Meliana swung across the room, and the feather slowly flote up; the two met directly in the path, Meliana who was still shackled by the chains, opened his mouth, which was the only thing wasn't bound by the chains and swallowed the whole feather.

The mouth that others forcefully feed to live finally got the meal it needed to live.

He felt something heavy sliding down his throat, and as it went down, its weight began to grow more and more, and a heat began to come from his belly.

But at that point, Melian didn't try to resist the heat or the heaviness in his body; he achieved what he wanted, he grabbed the feather of the overseeing owl, or more correctly, he swallowed it. In the end, the feather is with him.

He looks at all the below: criminals, officers, and vice captains. Their faces are dumbfounded, and some are even frightened, and the vice-captain has a deep hating face.

Melian felt ecstasy; it was almost like the times when he was a pirate, snatching other values and watching them suffer.

Before anything more happened, in the next moment, came a huge heat from Meliana's body, and with a huge sound, his whole body exploded to pieces.

The golden feather reappeared in the world from his shattered body, but soon it began to bluebird like it was caught in a flawing invincible current of water. Upon the surface of the feather, some mysterious mark appeared before it completely disappeared.

- - - -

A long time ago in history, the Times where humans roamed on Earth to conquer new lands. Under the Dark night of the sky, lights in the kingdom of England shined like stars.

Somewhere in this kingdom, where the light did not manage to fend off the darkness that much, stood an old and weather-beaten building structure.

From the round windows of the building dim lights of lamps can be seen from outside. But in one gloomy room, windows drown in the dark as lights of lamps cannot be seen.

Laying in a bed in this dark room, a young man suddenly opened his eyes as he awoke from a deep slumber. He rolled his eyes, looking around.

"This feels... Nostalgic," He muttered, looking at the roof of the room, "Do I have a rewinding of my past after death or..... Did I come back to the past?" The young man, who, for some unknown reason, happened to be Melian in his younger days, ponders in his heart. And it wasn't very clear to his mind about what happened. But one thing he is sure of is that he is still alive and safe.

"power of the almighty Deus is something.... Unbelievable," he muttered in a voice that had a deep yearning hidden within.

At that moment, from a nearby window, alluring rays of the moon fall onto his bed. In the shape of the window it just passed through, it landed right closer to Melian head, a bit away from his eyes.

In this dark room, the moonlight appeared like something divine, or something pure and holy; if Melian moved a little bit, he very well could bath on this radiance, brightening himself.

Looking at the moon rays, Melian got some ridicule through in his mind, as if these moon rays appeared pure and beautiful, inviting him to bath in the glory of the light, to turn a new page in this new life by reaching out from the deep darkness he was in.

A moment later, Meliana silently turned around to drown in the darkness he's very well known and used to. It gave him comfort and unrestrained freedom.

Not like the glow of the moon, which is something caged by its own light.