----Third person PoV

Aaron was too consumed by his Hate to notice, but since he started breaking the curse a person appeared. He, God, was staring at him with a compicated gaze, filled with hate, love, and a little of guiltiness.

He stood hidden in the shadow of a pillar, motionless, like a mortal spying on his traitorous fiancée before erupting in a killing spree. It was an unnatural motion for a deity like him, that was able to simply became invisible, but he didn't realize that.

He moved only after the soul of the boy fainted, to bring him back in his palace. He moved slowly, as to feel the weight of the soul on his arms while moving. Finally he laid down carefully the soul on a fine bed. Immediatly after he moved his gaze and his divine sense in the depth of the soul, looking through the superficial layers until he reached a multicolored sphere.

It was the mind, a slowly rotating sphere; probably before going through the curse it was completely azure, to show the innocence of the soul. Yet, now the azure was only in the depth of the sphere, visible through the deep fissures that filled the surface of the sphere like a broken glass. The dominant colors where red, symbolizing rage and bloodlust, and black; a deep black that seemed capable of devour all the light. It was filling the sphere, not only the superficial layers, that were temporary but where arriving in the very core, scaring even God. Over the black surface a symbol was slowly taking form a series of concentric circles with  rhombus in the four cardinal points. 

With accuracy and delicacy God started iniecting friendly thoughts and dreams, relieving the oppressive atmosphere. The black stopped advancing, but it did not retreated following the desire of God. 

God slowly withdrew from the soul, with sweat covering his forehead and lamented "Shit this time I risked too much, I nearly gave birth to a shura, yet he was hit with the curse of Cain for killing inside the illusions" he was going to exit the room when his gaze, fixed in the black face, spotted two glowing tears.

Immediatly with a wave of his arm the tears flied in a wooden box that closed itself. God then muttered "two chaotic tears of a pure black soul, I thought they were a legend, I need to have them appraised" before vanishing in the hallway.

-----Aaron PoV

I awakened in a soft and fine bed and immediatly memories invaded my mind stunning me. Remembering the pool of blood made me want to vomit, but then I recalled of being a soul and face-palmed. This made me conscious of the changes in my body, the color was dark gray, nearly black, but different from his first transparent soul and from the jet black soul he was while in berserk, also he felt a little heavier. 

<> I asked myself while getting up. I then noticed the strange room where I was; it was a room wide around 25 sq m where the floor, the roof and the walls were semitrasparent and a calming tune was in the air.

While I was examining the room I felt a gaze looking at me, and turning around I started crying.<> In front of me was the face of my dead friend, only slighty more mature and older: that person was around one meter and eighty high, black haired and a pair of brown eyes and, a timid attitude and a wry smile

"The curse have ended, but you have to promise me to let me finish explain before becaming angry or interrupting me" He said, I calmed myself and after a while I nodded

"First I have to say that I am the deity you have met before" I tried screaming but I felt unable too, while thinking I realized that I was not even so angry"Second, you made a promise in your soul form, because of the nature of the mortal souls you are currently unable to break promises made with your soul or telling lies, so you have to wait until I finish to became angry and you can not interrupt me". What he did next stunned me "I'm sorry" he said and started crying him too; while I was questioning him with my eyes he said "actually I AM your friend, or it is better to say that he is me, he was one of my clones of Earth, he was really the person you know, the only difference is that he was made from a part of my soul, and after his death he returned in me. I know what he did and felt but I am saying sorry to you because I actually forgot you, and you became the person you are now because of me".

I took a while to realize what he was saying but basically he was my friend Manuel and also a deity reigning the universe? Holy shit 

Watching him still with his head low I made a grin and, after getting close, first I slammed a fist in his stomach, and while he was bent for the punch I raised his face and hugged him

This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.

After some minutes I felt a little lighter and moved away from him noticing that my color was a lighter shade of gray; I tried to ask him but I was still unable.

"Actually I need to say a little more" he said while averting my gaze "When the fragment of my soul left my main I gave him a strand of holy aura, that has the only effect of letting the owner in a friendlier way. I am not saying that we were friend due to my aura but it helped us becaming friends"

This last affermation blow my mind <>  "I know what you are thinking but I can assure you that I do not know a simil aura nor I will use it" he interrupted my thoughts with a sad smile

"why..."so I am able to talk again "why you changed this much from the last time? why I can see you? and where are we? Where are you really from?" I started questioning him about everything I wanted to know

"I needed to convince you about my power so I used a tecnique to hide my body and played the part of the arrogant god to know the truth about your answer, my true personality is more that of a scholar than that of an "Exalted God". I am from a world big around 3 times Earth with Qi in the atmosphere, something like the xinxia world i liked reading as Manuel, probably because I felt home" and made a wry smile again, I was really unable to think of him like a ceertain xinxia hero that liked going around cutting heads and ...kissing... beauties.

Earing my thoughts he flushed red "I am not a rapist and I have only two wifes!!" 

While I was left speechless again he quickly changed subject "anyway you are in my palace, like before, but this is a guest room while that was the hall. You were unable to see anything before because you were  only a mortal but you are not a normal mortal anymore. Before I was angry and thought that you decided to kill everyone together with that bastard that killed my clone only because you didn't have the courage to kill him yourself, so I used an old curse to make your feeling emerge.While you saw my death you nearly transformed in a shura, that is something like an immortal that lost all reason create his path with the blood of others in a unending slaughter. That will of kill corrupted your mind and you killed a person in the illusion. That carved in you a curse, called Mark of Cain, in your mind that can not be easily erased. Sorry."

I paled "are you able to erase it?" I already knew the answer but prefered to ask 

"No, but as you are a mortal and an immortal I am able to modify it in a way that you may like"

"What do you mean?" How can I like a curse?

"The original curse make the cursed reincarnate in a mortal crippled body unable to kill in every life preserving the momories of the past life for the eternity. As you are a mortal and I am the original caster I can reincarnate you in any world that you like giving you something like fifteen of your minutes between the death and the birth. If you find the right metod in one of the worlds you can even became a god like me; also the bodies you will reincarnate into will not be crippled from the curse and I will make you even select up to 10 worlds to were you can reincarnate; last but not for last some of the worlds are similar to some manga that we liked reading together, what do you think?I think that I will call it mark of the Wanderer"

How do I say that? *sigh* "Yeah, ok, thanks, also you can have became a deity but your ability to name things is still zero. Also I do not remem.." Interrupting what I was saying he dragged me in a inner garden where a fountain was in the middle.

"Ok, now I will give you a list of the planets in my section, make your choice" Damn he is as hasty as I remember

Immediatly a blue window appeared and I scrolled to select the worlds:

O          Berserk O          Kuro no pico O          One Piece O          Bleach O          Fairy Tale O          Sword Art Online O          Soul Eater O          Dragon Ball O          Galvan O          Harry Potter O          Naruto O          X-man O          Magi O          Hunter x Hunter O          Shingeki no Kyojin O          Detective Conan O          Hekáte O          Malator

I didn't remember nearly anything about mangas, I stopped reading them right after his death so he don't know "Yeah, the first three, the four in the middle and the last three"

He glanced me with a very strange gaze and took a step back "Are you sure? have you changed your tastes?"

"Wait then, let me think again" he glanced me that way right after I decided the first batch of world and while I remember a giant sword for berserk and some strange fruit for One piece I don't know anything about the central one, so I will take the world immediatly after. Also because because I don't want to be poisoned or killed or even worse being accidentaly near Goro I will leave Detective Conan.

"Ah right I read it wrong, it is not the second in the forth, ahahah, plus the four in the middle and the last two; I will take only nine, I am sure"

"...Ok if you say that...As an apology gift I will give you a self-analysis status screen and a spatial bag bound to your soul, so that you will not lose everything during reincarnation" 

I was going to say thanks but the words were unable to leave my mouth; while my sight was becaming hazy, I swear to have seen him say Thanks.