I have died.

I was utterly dead by now.

My eyes, I couldn't see a thing now.

My vision got blurry over time.

Now I couldn't see my friends, as well as my surroundings before me.

And I hear the dampening sound of a blood spraying.

Am I killed?

Thereupon my mind weakened as it slept again as though a baby. My body was now but a stone statue, and it gradually immobilized.

My consciousness faded away, then started to fell apart as it went to another, unknowable place.

Now I am somewhere in that place.

Is this -- the afterlife?

I saw a road. A road made out of stone led to somewhere. But, it was unclear, so I couldn't see where did it lead. Only a bright blue light emerged from the sliver of it.

I was relieved.

I was relieved I still have my physical body, yet it wasn't at the same time.

It wasn't a physical body, but--

I can still see my hand, and it automatically tried to reach that mysterious yet beautiful blue light.

It stretched forward as if it tried to embrace that shimmer from Heavens.

Along with my pair of feet, it tried to chase that fragment.

But somehow, it did misalign.

I tenaciously keep chasing it, stretched my hand to the front, but it kept misaligning, again and again.

As if I never reach that light, no matter hard did I try.

But I won't give up anyway.

I have hopes for myself, my friends, and others who fight alongside me.

Then, I see the world around me--no--it was all outside of me, and it seemed smaller.

Now, those worlds, those possibilities, infinite layers, hierarchies, and such that I was supposed not to surpass were but nothing to me.

And now I am regardless of my world itself.

Indeed, that was common for dying people.

But--

Am I dying?

Suddenly, another white light encompassed me.

It seemed ridiculous, though before, there was also light.

Perhaps, this was a continuation of that light before.

However, it was so different.

This one is much stronger as it broke everything, even Truth.

Nobody knew.

Out of the blue, now I was on top of the snow.

As well as my visions, from black, it changed to snowy skies everywhere.

It was so odd.

I merely wore plain white cloth there.

I didn't feel anything as cold and frostbite at all, even I didn't feel any suffering that came from it nonetheless.

The sky around me was so beautiful.

As if nobody ever imagined it.

Even though it was a blinding blizzard, but it was still beautiful either way.

I was now unmistakably on that stone road as I checked it more thoroughly.

Indeed, it led somewhere, and therefore, I followed it.

And it didn't have a way back, and thus, I had to go forward.

As I stepped and stepped further and again, the snow around me became more beautiful than some clouds in the sky.

I touched the one great mass of snow that fell around me.

Is this truly the afterlife?

Or was it something else?

Suddenly, a shadow represented someone behind the blizzard came closer and closer to me, as the true essence became more vicious over time.

There was nobody who could even stand this presence.

Even as for his presence right now, it did make the thick blizzard thinner and thinner over time.

And some white, dazzling beautiful flowers appeared alongside his steps.

But, as though he allowed me, now I could stand casually as his presence didn't affect me at all.

As the environment around me drastically changed,

A man clad in fancy white seemingly came before me.

But, for some reason, his head was still not visible before my eyes.

He greeted me with such warmth.

"...Yo, you there!"

said him happily. He continued.

"Rejoice. You are lucky."

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I am confused as he spoke. But I will ask him for sure as now I could talk already.

Spontaneously, because I was shocked, I asked.

"?!"

"Where am I?! And who are you?!"

He giggled.

"--Now that's rude of you. Please refer me as your Creator for now."

His tone sounded friendly.

"...Oh, my bad. I deeply apologize to you. But now, where am I?"

I lowered my tone as I changed it softer -- even I thought it was more polite than usual.

"Ahaha, no. No need to apologize. Just think yourself home."

He said as a bitter smile rose to his face.

Even though he was friendly, tremendous pressure and aura emitted from him. Anyone for sure couldn't deny their legs for kneeling before him respectfully. It was inevitable.

As I gave a response to him, suddenly I had a very thought--

'Don't tell me you are --'

"Yes. I am. But don't think about it. After all, you are my precious-- friend to me. So, don't burden yourself with it."

He suddenly answered. Perhaps, he could read my mind.

But well, he just said he was my Creator so, it was common sense, after all.

It wasn't odd.

As I realized this all, his very identity, then I gave him another quick response.

I suddenly bowed down as my body did tremble with unsettling fear, and to think many ways I still couldn't even best him --

That figure, even though I couldn't see him clearly, but at least his very presence was so overwhelming. In the end, I only bowed down to him.

The world around me abruptly evolved to a garden filled with white-snow flowers, I still couldn't see it, yet I feel it, and now a beautiful breeze rained upon me.

Suddenly, his finger went onto my forehead, and something happened--

A pitter of water sounded before me as it made a ripple to the lake.

As it resounded inside Endou's ears, that mysterious figure who claimed himself to be Creator whatsoever then suddenly ceased his presence as if he never existed in that place.

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"Gu-hah!"

Endou screamed as it seemed something new had swelled inside his body. And now, he knew where he was, and everything, now he got it.

That ripple water from before, Endou's mind then suddenly worked more and more intense, as its capabilities rose to an unfathomable higher extent. Now, it perceives the infinity, and it extended and extended without stopping. And then, as it progressed, a drip of water sounded again, loud and clear through his ears.

Upon hearing it, as he opened his eyes-now he saw-- the entire existence itself as well as its structures which encompassed it. His sight but still extended far, far away without end.

Therefore, he was aware of everything now. His mind, at first it was learning and learning without end, and the result, it was now but the knowledge that surpassed human--no--even all beings that still bounded by the system below this one, which the existence itself was nowhere near that system. His knowledge could be said equal to Supreme God, the highest being of all, but it seemed that The Supreme God himself didn't grant Endou for such things as that. Or on the other hand, he wasn't yet strong to receive the most amount of knowledge.

As he saw the entire existence, he saw everything. But, it was just different from his knowledge before, so it was so ridiculous even it was so inaccurate to these things that laid before his eyes.

The Universe itself, that thing that he used to know as "a thing that encompassed an unfathomable infinite set of Observable Universes that were infinitely bigger than those Fragments," was now but a mere theory of mortals. The Universe, in fact, was all that mortals and immortals know of, likewise in terms of size, it was unfathomable, expanding with an incredible speed and time that any one of them couldn't even imagine.

It also encompassed infinite dimensions, possibilities, and layers that build up its essence. As for layers, Endou knew each of the unfathomable infinity layers perceived the lower one as fiction works. Therefore, the lower one could not reach it.

He also saw many layers, gates, and more beautiful things that complemented the infinite worlds. He also saw many abstractions, as if that abstraction was now but something that never existed in the first place to him.

However, he was above that all. Thus, he could manipulate those freely by his will. Even so, the problem hasn't done yet.

With knowledge had expanded to its' nigh-highest extent, now he must overcome the past, present, and future as those things also weaved the existence.

Now he must overcome his past.

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The Creator's figure then reappeared again as now he stood behind him.

"Hahahahaha! Now, you realized. Even you had known it and explained it to someone? Oh, you didn't remember it."

He added.

"--You're the special one, though. You're tough, even from the start. If you wished to know the Truth, then I'll reveal it to you. Are you ready?"

Endou answered, as of right now, he seemed to pay his attention to him solemnly.

"Yes!" said him in high spirits as he bowed down to the figure.

"Alright. Starting over with you guys, did you know you are dead?"

"I know it. But I ain't supposed to come back and go to the afterlife, right?"

Endou replied as he furrowed a bit.

"That's obviously a-no. Back to the start, you're special, aren't you? After all, you are one of the main characters of this show. Don't think like that if you just erased with that thing."

That Creator answered as he continued again.

"And come to think of it, even if that man knocked you off, you still wouldn't die for sure. You know why?"

"Maybe it was because You said I am the main character?"

"Haha, that's right -- but not quite. Indeed, you have its' authority, but MOST IMPORTANTLY, because this world -- this entire existence that you all know was but a mere work of mine."

"This existence? A mere work? Fiction works?"

Endou's thoughts filled up his head again.

"Rest assured, The world and its abstractions that you know, you are already above that all. Even from the start."

"?!" Endou was a bit shocked as he heard this.

But, he kept listening to The Creator until it was said and done.

"Wait, I am?" Endou's thoughts talked to him again.

"Now, listen to me. Your friends, especially those witches, were heavens' candidates. And, there also exists the ones that reincarnated from their previous lives. Now, it's time for them to take the stage."

"Previous lives? AAH?!"

As Endou realized something again, now his head brimmed with something. But, it was more than a mere thought, unlike usual.

And, it did make his head hurt, as he held it with both hands.

"Ah?! What is this?!"

As he closed his eyes alongside with his said headache, inside the pair of closed eyes, suddenly the darkness projected something.

To him, it was distinct at the beginning, but after he saw it --

A figure of a particular man performed his appearance in the dark, with the same hairstyle as him, but a beautiful blue cloak also covered the entire head.

Furthermore, its color was the same as Endou before, it was beautiful, and it just had a distinctive-style silver armor that emerged beneath it.

That maybe did differ his appearance with Endou.

The rest, even his body and such, seemed so alike with him.

It was utterly the same. Perhaps, it was?

However, what was more distinctive of the figure was one of his hands clasped another weird-looking -- yet so simple wooden staff, which the apex was unclear at the start.

But as the said sub-conscious form of him focused to its apex, as it saw something that stood on it, it felt more pain, as if it grew intensely as that image attacked him more relentlessly.

It was a symbol, after all.

A fancy and weird impression mingled as it displayed its very essence.

It seemed worth to called extravagant, maybe due the finest lacquer was the origin of that thing.

As it identified the shape, it was no more than an Omega, the last letter of a Greek alphabet as another shape represented a long rectangle that mingled below the Omega symbol.

And it made a space between those symbols.

In the middle of it, an unknown blue light faintly sparkled as if it was the core of the staff.

As he saw that shape, he suddenly reminisced many things in the past, but it did take his essence to a rest.

His figure knelt his legs on the ground as his head and body faced down.

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It turned out what surrounded them was a fog that kept the Creator's figure unreachable by Endou's vision.

As Endou's body entirely faced towards the ground, suddenly that fog vanished as it never there in the first place.

Thereupon, the garden of beautiful white flowers became more beautiful than before as its countless petals fluttered around, as suddenly some groups of white birds assembled behind the figure of The Creator.

The figure of Creator himself, as the fog ceased, now it became as clear as clean, untouched water.

A good-looking man stood on the beautiful white gardens as his hand now felt the fluttering petals around.

He seemed so conspicuous. His hair gave a pure gold impression, as it was a bit curly. The intersection of his head was in the middle, and on his right shoulder, there displayed his tied, long hair.

His eyes, its golden hue was so extravagant as if none of his creations can best it. Any jewels and other beauties would be nowhere on its' level of beauty.

Those were eyes that saw everything. Thus, none could escape, evade, or hide from its sight no matter what. Every being will meet their ends as they erased from the beginning -- none could best the almighty one in All Existence.

The presence of himself, his figure was outside the entire existence, and it transcended laws, concepts, and even All Existence itself.

The true transcendent was here, as his knowledge was also endless, even beyond the spirals of infinity, superior to every single being in All Existence, even Endou himself. And his presence, he was everywhere. However, none will see him there due to their lack of power or essence.

His white robe with some black linings fluttered by the wind. He let those winds do so as he uttered some words. His voice was loud and clear as that voice shook that distant yet beautiful unfathomable realm.

"Hehehehe! The Blue Wizard is you, after all. Now you are regaining that back, and then, do your duty as my Creation here! By the name of myself, Merlin, you must Return! Die The Beginning and The End!"