"Why... No... WHY... stares back... Infinite..." A man, laying on a bed inside of a beautifully decorated room mumbled as his body shook violently, veins bursting here and there, blood coming but quickly healing. His once white skin had turned purple, some spots even a reddish black.

"Your majesty, how is he?" A woman nervously asked. She was extremely anxious as she held the shaking man's hand and tried to coax him, to no avail.

"I... have no idea, but I have a hypothesis." A man, no, a demon with two horns and a leathery tail said as he pulled his hand away from the man's forehead. This demon was the Demon Lord, and the shaking man was Hiromi.

After leaving the room, the Demon Lord sat at a round table, multiple important figures sitting in other chairs.

"So? How is he?" A small girl with butterfly-like wings asked. She too was anxious as she twirled her hair nervously.

Sighing, the Demon Lord shook his head. "I have an inkling of what happened. I asked the Goddess herself, and she said that she gave him the answer to the Truth. Perhaps, he couldn't handle it, and his mind was shattered. That is the only explanation."

Gasping, multiple girls and even men began yelling in rage at the Demon Lord. However, a low voice calmed them all down. "Silent. Lyon, I believe you are partially correct, however, that is not a shattered mind. What you are seeing is a shattered soul."

A girl with a spirit-like body said as she floated on her chair instead of sitting on it. She was very beautiful, but the cold look in her eyes made her beauty seem dangerous instead of attractive. "I am very sensitive to souls, and the only reason I helped Hiromi in the first place was that he had an exceptional soul. I do not know what could shatter a soul as pure and strong as his, but now, I can only sense bits and pieces of it remaining, and the more time passes, the more they feel... corrupt." She said with a slight shiver.

"How can you say that? Hiromi would never become corrupt...!" "Yeah, you're just jealous because he hasn't visited you for so long!"

Meanwhile, as all of his harem members and friends discussed, unimaginable pain constantly racked Hiromi's body. The last bits of sanity he had had been destroyed after he was left alone. Despite his seeming unconsciousness, he could still think and feel. He knew that he had been left alone, and the pain in his body and the unimaginable knowledge he possessed began to create a dangerous reaction...

'They left me... They left me... I did everything I could for them, but I was still abandoned, again...' He thought whilst pain tried to smash his mind, however, a strange power prevented his very being from extinguishing. The forbidden knowledge in his body made his very soul burn and decay, but he would not die.

As time went on, the more radical Hiromi's thinking became. 'They betrayed me! Betrayed me!'

After yet another hour of nobody visiting, unknown to Hiromi, because they all went out to find doctors across the world, the pain only intensified as negative thought after dangerous thought appeared. 'Was I not good enough?', 'Did nobody love me?', 'I am worthless...'

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Just as he was about to give in to despair of loneliness, a voice came out from nowhere yet everywhere. "ThIs WoRld, iS It wOrTh sAvInG?"

Hiromi had already gone far past what anybody could call sanity. His body that refused to die and his soul that kept wanting to die made him into something that could not be described. Hence, hearing this voice, Hiromi answered by instinct.

"I will save this world..." Hiromi answered in his mind along with a bestial roar. Hearing this, the voice cackled in a distorted voice as it whispered, "SaVe A dEcAyInG wOrLd? wHy WoUld YoU dO tHaT?"

These words were like the whispers of a devil. The already shaking Hiromi felt shivers run down his spine as he didn't respond.

"SaVe ThIs WoRld? DoN't MaKe Me LaUgH! yOu ArE pAtHeTIc!" The voice laughed as a strange chorus of noises echoed withing Hiromi's ears. Voices from all the people he met, friends, enemies, strangers and lovers alike began laughing at him mockingly, intensifying the already unbearable pain.

Hiromi's will that was as hard as will and as dense as granite suddenly shattered. An incoherent and primitive roar was all that answered the voices as the distorted voice's laughter rang like thunder, "KeKeKe! YeS! BrEaK ThEm! WhY sAvE a ShItTy WoRlD? BREAK THEM!" The voices roared in unison as a strange phenomenon occurred.

The abyss is something unspeakable. Looking at it will grant you limitless power, but at a price, nobody can pay. The 'truth' that Hiromi wished to see was simply too... it is not possible to speak about it, for one can only understand the abyss after staring at it.

Hiromi's body stopped trembling. His purple skin turned pitch black and his eyes lost all color, turning into an abyss of darkness. His shattered soul began to come back together into something far greater, and far, far scarier than before.

Originally, a soul should be white for normal people, golden for the pure of heart and grey for evil people. However, Hiromi's soul had directly become completely black, and unlike normal souls, it was far more powerful.

With a roar louder than thunder, Hiromi got up from his bed as his abyss-like eyes revealed an insanity and bloodthirst never seen before. The voice inside his head was laughing madly as it yelled, "YeSsSsS! KiLl ThEm! DeStRoY ThIs WoRlD! TuRn It InTo ChAos AnD RebUilD iT! We WiLl SaVe ThE UnIvErSe! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!"

Since everybody but a couple maids had left, nobody knew what was happening. As the maids rushed up, Hiromi rushed down like an unstoppable meteor.

Seeing him, one of the maids cried out in fear, but Hiromi didn't stop as he shoved his hand into her chest and tearing her in two.

"TaKe HeR SoUl! BrInG HeR To SalVaTiOn!" The voice roared and Hiromi obliged. His hands turned spectral as he shoved a hand into each of the two pieces of the maid, extracting a small blue figure that resembled the maid.

This figure cried in pain the moment Hiromi touched it, but it was powerless to resist as Hiromi mercilessly threw it into his mouth and chomped on it, crushing it.

The same fate befell upon the entire mansion, and soon enough, Hiromi left the building, a pile of corpses with empty eyes remaining behind him. All of them had been brutally killed, some ripped apart, some beheaded and some even having chunks of their flesh bitten out.

Outside the mansion, Hiromi roared along with the voice in his head, "I AM THE ABYSSAL LORD! I WILL BRING PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE!"

As the voice in his head cackled madly, Hiromi vanished from the spot he was standing. The next day, when all the harem members returned, they were greeted with the sight of a thousand corpses randomly lying around, all of them with dead eyes...