"It's time." Olya asked for everyone's silence as we all gathered around the unconscious Shaid, "Schnell, you said you wanted to do the honors?"

"Yeah. We both got a wish each, so if you don't mind, I'd like to use mine for him." I asked calmly, "Of course, if anyone has any objections..."

"No, you go ahead, Douglas." The doctor nodded, "It's only fair that his best friend is the one to revive him. I believe Olyahim too doesn't mind one bit."

"Yeah, personally I just want that lecherous and annoying son of a bitch to open his damned Eyes again." Olya chuckled, "Schnell, whenever you're ready."

"Right. I wish..." I took a deep breath as I stared him down, "I wish that Shaid wakes up from his coma, so that he can be healthy and happy just like he was before we got to Sibirus."

"A fine choice of words." The doctor commended me.

"Come on...!" The girls cheered, only further adding onto the suspense, "This has to work, it just has to!"

As I used up my one wish from traveling to all the World Wonders, the six Green lights I had amassed on that journey had come out of my heart and lit up the room in a beautiful display. Ominously sitting there, right above Shaid's head, they had slowly began to sink into his Eyes. As we held our breaths, we instinctively closed our Eyes for whatever reason. Silently waiting for something, anything to happen, the first person to break the deathly silence was in fact...!

"Whoa." Shaid looked around at the filled room, "What the hell did I just sleep through, amigos?"

"Shaid!" Both Olya and I hugged him, not even giving him time to process the situation, "You're back, it finally worked!"

"It's a miracle." The doctor smiled, "In all my years of studying medicine, I do believe this is the first time I've encountered such a momentous occasion."

"Yaaaay~!" The succubus ladies joined in on the group hug, much to Shaid's enjoyment, "He's awake! Coma guy's awake! Hooray!"

"Whoa, calm down ladies! There's plenty of time for hugs!" He chuckled before turning to us with salty Eyes, "You two can let go though, amigos."

"Hell no, man!" I felt tears start to well up in my Eyes as I shouted my most honest of emotions, "You... You were gone for so long...! T-There was that light, a-and then we thought you were gone for good! Oh, thank the Heavens, thank the Gods...! You're back!"

"Alright, you're gonna need to do some heavy explaining here, Olya." Shaid comforted me with an awkward smile as he addressed him, "I doubt I'll understand anything this snotty, teary mess of a musclehead says anyways."

And of course, Olya obliged. We first had to move on over to the buffet room so that we could properly chat over a nice dining table. Explaining everything from the very start, we kind of laughed at all the incredible expressions of disbelief he was making. Of course, seeing as he was the star of the show, all the succubus ladies were giving him a ton of service while we were eating, but none of the other guys present really minded, since it was our idea originally to startle him with a full on titty attack.

"And so, after traveling to all the World Wonders..." Olya finished it off as everyone drowned themselves in the beverages from the other room, "We finally managed to wish you back to life. Well, conscious life, I guess."

"Heheee~" Shaid was barely listening as he happily sat there groping the ladies that somehow seemed even more into it than him, "Thank you for reviving me, amigos~! I'm so... I'm so blessed to have friends like you to revive me just so I could experience this bliss!"

"Oi, you cryin'?" I laughed out loud.

"Hell yeah, amigo!" He shouted seriously, tears still rolling down his face like a river, "I'm alive!"

Hearing this hearty roar from a friend I thought dead once truly did make my heart stop for a moment. It's incredible, with just those two words, he managed to silence everyone, before driving them to tears of happiness just a moment later. It's as he said - He's alive, and all of our hard work had finally paid off. The trio is back for round 2!

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"...And this here's the study, where we keep our most valuable-" I gave Shaid a tour of the lair before getting interrupted by Olya.

"Shhh!" He shut me up, "You guys hear that?"

Not even a second after he said that, we felt the rumbling of the doors opening at the entrance. This was something that had never happened before, and we knew that it could only spell trouble.

"Is it the captain, maybe?" Shaid asked, "He did say he would come get us after a month or so after dropping us off at Sibirus, right?"

"Yeah, but it's only been 24 days." I noted, "It's someone else, and they're inside the lair. Should we check it out?"

"No, it could be dangerous." Olya ran back in the opposite direction, "Come on, let's go get the Book and see what's up."

Running down to the lowest floor, past everyone who was none the wiser in their own respective rooms of fun, we had made it to the room where we kept the Book of Fortune. Unlocking all the tedious locks with ease, Olya opened the Book near the end to reveal what was happening.

"Ahem." He began, "The protagonists' lair is under attack. They are being visited by none other than the Sun God, who wishes only to gift them with divine punishment."

"What?" Shaid asked, "But aren't we on his side here? Look, the proof is on the back of our hands!"

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Pointing to the mark the Sun God had seared into us back in Havana, Olya and I had done the same without even realizing. He's right, we worship the Sun God Ouroboras, so why the hell is he here to deliver divine punishment onto us? This has to be some kinda joke!

"So what do we do?" I turned to Olya as he whipped out his quill.

"What else? If he's hostile, then we deal with him as we would any other enemy." He started jotting down all sorts of traps in his way, "This might be a bit overkill, but I'm gonna booby trap the entire lair above us. If worse comes to worst, we'll just teleport out of here through the portal."

"But then he'll just follow us through!" Shaid started to hyperventilate a bit, "That Book's magic, right amigo!? Think of a better plan than fucking booby traps! Fuck!"

"Calm down, I've got experience with using the Book of Fortune." Olya calmed him down, "Look, I'll write us in a one-way window that follows him everywhere. We'll have a live feed of where he is and how he's faring."

"Careful, we don't got much of the Book left." I noted, but he didn't seem to care.

As the magical floating window appeared in front of us, we had peeked inside to see what we can only describe as a short but menacing nightmare. The God's skin was tanned, and his White, long hair tied in a single braid that almost went to his feet had what I can only describe as an electrifying effect to it. He was obviously furious, but that was already obvious from the expression on his face. This is bad...

"He might be a God, but let's see how he fares against a puzzle!" Olya smugly chuckled as the God just burned a sizzling hole through the door, "Eh?"

"Looks like he doesn't have time for games, amigo..." Shaid replied, "Quickly, think of something else! Like something that is actually lethal!?"

"Okay, okay - Ahem!" Olya cleared his throat, "Then, a choice! Give him a fork in the road, and he'll...! Go in the right direction immediately..."

"Dude, he's a God, so he probably has insight into that kind of stuff." I voiced my thoughts on it, "Screw it, pit him against a beast. The deadliest beast you can think of."

"Oh, the megalomanic you guys fought in Mount Ivrys!" Shaid recalled our retelling of the journey, "It's invincible, after all!"

"Yeah, but for one thing, it can't fit in that tiny space." Olya refuted, "Second, there's no water, so it'd just suffocate. Oh, and thirdly - If Schnell, a human, can beat it with relative ease, then what makes you think the God can't?"

"Then you think of something, dammit!" I rushed him.

"F-Fine, uhhh...!" Olya thought of something on the spot, "A minotaurus! Its claws and teeth are deadly, it's body heavier than anything, and fur so thick nothing can slice through it! The perfect enemy for someone like... him."

"What is it doing!?" Shaid and I yelled at the stupid minotaurus as it cowered and ran away from the one-mindedly strutting Sun God with its tail tucked between its legs. Literally.

"Shiet, shiet...!" Olya couldn't think of anything else, "A-A labyrinth with no right exit! There's no way he can pass through!"

"But won't that trap us inside here forever then!?" We asked.

"Screw it! We got everything we need in here!" Olya yelled back, "Besides, as long as we've got the portal, we're all good! Better to be stuck here than die!"

R-Right, I just hope it works... Oh...? OH!? I think...! I think it's actually working! He's still walking around just as mindlessly as before, not stopping for even a second as he calmly walks towards his destination, but no matter how many corners he turns, there's just no exit in sight for him! All roads lead to the entrance! Haha, we did it, yeah!

"Hold on, what's he doing?" Shaid noticed him burning yet another hole through the wall, "He's... outside the labyrinth! He made it out!"

"No!" Olya broke down in tears from the fear, "Shiet, we just got Shaid back! Don't kill us, please!"

"Do sinners deserve their pleas to be heard by the Gods?" A scary and ominous voice erupted throughout the room before his footsteps made it clear he was just on the other end of the corridor, "I think not. Sinners who use forbidden means to alter fate deserve nothing but the worst."

"Y-You!" I shouted back, "You are our God, are you not, Ouroboras!? Why are you angry!?"

"Such a banal question." The God responded as he made his way out of the shadows, now in full view as he created a tiny Sun in the palm of his hand, "Schnell. Maverick. Douglas. Do you not realize how much you have changed this Universe Cycle? How you have ruined the Gods' plans and thus made us have to repeat this entire Universe Cycle from scratch?"

What the hell is this guy saying...!? He keeps approaching us with that steady pace, never faltering no matter how many weapons Olya throws at him with the Book. This... is the power of our God.

"Hey, that tiny Sun of yours is blinding as fuck, amigo!" Shaid shouted.

"The dead should not speak." He tossed the ball directly at him, cleanly cutting his middle part until only his seared forehead and feet remained, "This revival was not permitted by neither Selzion nor Prylos. Thanks to this, you will never rest in peace."

"Shaid!" I shouted, "Fuck...! Fuck! You think that'll stop us, bitch!? We'll just revive him as many times as you kill-!"

"And you too shall join him." He threw another tiny Sun directly at me, its speed jaggedly changing, making it impossible to dodge no matter what, "...Schnell Maverick Douglas. Your only wish was to be revered forever and ever. To accomplish something no man has ever done before you, and above all else, to share that joy with your friends. Rejoice, for your wish has been granted. You are the first and only people to ever get sent to Hell."