"Truthfully... to become a Paradox, you need to have always been one. You need to have given birth to yourself in multiple different ways. If you were destined to explore constant time... you would open up the pathway yourself."

"I just want to see what it looks like... I just want to know."

"I'm sorry, but I can't help you..."

Leo became a little disappointed.

He then became mad.

"You can definitely help me... if you were able to do it, you can just tell me how!"

"Why should I share my deepest secrets with a random person I don't know?"

"I was there when you fought the gods! I have idolized you for a decade of my life!"

"So? Did I tell you to do that? Your image of me is wrong. I am not so charitable."

"I know your secret Zero!"

"Secret?"

"I know that you are the reason for the cataclysm... I know you are the reason so many people across the world have awakened powers. You are the reason for the chaos. You are also the one that has damaged time for this universe! How would you like me to release this information? Just tell me how to become a true Paradox!"

"You call that a secret? Go ahead. What could the world possibly do to me?"

Leo then pointed at Zero and said:

"Time Seal!"

Zero felt some of his TE drop.

But nothing happened.

"You're immune to my seal?"

"I do have temporal immunity..."

"How about this!"

Leo tried to reverse Zero's age progress.

But Zero was timeless.

"I see... there really is a difference between a true Paradox and a fake..."

Leo frowned then disappeared.

Zero then spoke:

"To be able to visit constant time without technology... quite an interesting power."

"Also... did you think I would let you leave?"

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'Travel'.

Zero appeared in front of Leo.

Leo was scared by his sudden appearance.

He then disappeared again.

'Travel'.

This continued for awhile.

Leo tried teleporting away from Zero.

But there was nowhere he could go.

Zero had finally had enough of this game.

He used his Infinite Time Guard to trap Leo.

Leo struggled...

But he only had awakened time manipulation.

He had no way to break out of infinity.

"Why were you running?"

Leo laughed:

"You fool! I control time!"

Leo reversed time all the way to when he had initially appeared in front of Zero.

He then said:

"I'll remember this."

Zero was aware that time had been manipulated.

He kept his memories after all.

Leo disappeared.

Zero didn't bother going after him this time.

Otherwise Leo would probably just keep restarting.

That would be annoying.

An hour later, the entire world knew that Zero was the reason for the chaos.

The government ordered an arrest.

They begged 'Paradox' to help them.

So even though Zero let him get away.

Leo decided to trap Zero in a time loop.

He kept resetting time for the stream.

Zero kept his memories, Leo had hoped for him to go insane.

Finally Zero grew bored with such a strategy.

He appeared in front of Leo.

Leo then said:

"Are you finally ready to show me your secret?"

"No... I'm taking away your powers."

"What? Nonsense... my power is from the world itself!"

'Temporal Edit'.

Zero rewound Leo's soul all the way back to before he had awakened.

He then created a loop for his soul... trapping it forever making Leo ordinary.

Leo saw that the lines of time he had seen.

They were gone!

"No! This isn't right... "

Leo tried to travel through time.

He tried to get away.

But his power was gone.

"Please... I'll do anything, just give me back my power!"

"No."

"If you had been patient, I might've took you in as a disciple in the future. But I can tell from how you reacted to rejection that you are unworthy."

Zero remembered when he helped Obsidian.

He wasn't against the idea of helping someone become a Paradox.

He wasn't completely against the idea of taking in a 'disciple'.

But he didn't wish for them to get erased from merely helping him.

But Leo had tried to inconvenience him.

He wasn't worthy.

Once Zero used 'reload 0'.

Leo would return to being ignorant.

He would also have his powers back.

But he would never know that he had lost to Zero.

Although now the entire world viewed Zero as a villain.

It wasn't just Leo after him.

'God' was quite mad at Zero.

Not only for what he had done to the hidden guardians.

But making powers mainstream.

Powers he couldn't even copy.

It made him no longer the most powerful.

Now that the government was looking to arrest Zero.

He decided to capture Zero himself.

He appeared in front of Zero and froze Zero in a cube of ice.

The ice cracked and then exploded.

God then started to fight Zero.

They clashed and flew all around the city.

Some building collapsed from their clashes.

Zero once more used his 'temporal edit'.

This time he made a thousand years pass by every second for 'God'.

God didn't notice anything at first.

But then he began to feel weaker.

His hair turned completely white.

He then became an old man.

Then he looked mummified.

Then he became bones and turned to dust.

"I win."

But then the dust reformed into bones.

The flesh grew around them.

He reappeared good as new.

"Congratulations! You've successfully pissed me off!"

Zero's head exploded.

It regenerated.

"What power was that-"

Zero's head exploded again.

Regenerated.

"Could you sto-"

Zero's head blew up again.

Regenerated.

"Alright. PAUSE!"

Time froze.

Zero walked up to 'God' and put his hand on his head.

He then used temporal edit and rewound his soul all the way to back when it had first been born.

Time unfroze.

'God' sat there in a daze.

Zero then spoke:

"Oh? No protection against having your soul reversed? What a shame. I win!"