A seventeen-year-old boy looked towards the bloodied mass of so many people in front of him, with a smirk on his face. "I won, didn't I? Even after being betrayed, I defeated them all, right? I did it, I can't believe I won against the whole world by myself. Look at these fools trying to preach to me about love and friendship and see where it led them, to nothing but their own ruin. There's no such thing as love; it's a feeling, not an emotion, and feelings fade over time."
He had fallen in love with someone; it was the most foolish thing he had done in his entire life, after all, he was above such desires. He was a genius, a high human, a prince, the ruler of the entire world.
He closed his eyes to rest; the effects of fighting still lay heavily on him.
However, to his surprise, when he opened them, he was no longer sitting on his throne; instead, he was standing, and in front of him stood another man.
The man looked him in the eyes.
"Now that you have finally woken up, it's time to get to business. I'm Xenon, the creator of this universe. You see, Arielle, you weren't supposed to beat Nyqo; in fact, you were supposed to lose to him. You're the final antagonist of this story, which is why it greatly shocked me when Nyqo lost to you. Therefore, I'm forced to have this conversation with you, regardless of whether you believe in me or not. Nyqo was the hero, the one who was supposed to beat you. Now I'm going to send you back in time, so the story can retake place since the villain isn't supposed to win."
Arielle was still troubled by not knowing where he was; he couldn't even use his space magic here, and this man's voice was even more annoying than anything.
So he snapped at the man, "Let's say I believe you. Why would I want to be killed? Do I look like someone who cares about good or bad? If you really claim to be who you are, then aren't you a tyrant by stealing people's dreams from them, their freedoms? I won fair and square, and now you want to take my win away from me. If you had the power, then you would have tried to at least weaken me, were you that confident in your hero, or am I too powerful for you to interfere directly with me, huh?"
The man processed what the boy said and then started laughing. "You have always been a narcissist, child. I don't have time to argue with you, nor do I owe you an explanation for anything. You can try winning, but I'll keep rewinding time and sending you back so that Nyqo can finish his destiny as humanity's saviour and protect the world from your tyranny."
"For someone who acts as the guardian of selflessness, you sure are selfish and annoying. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do. I'm pretty sure if it comes to that, then I'll keep winning until you have no choice but to leave me alone."
The man didn't bother arguing with the hypocrite. Instead, he snapped his fingers, and Arielle disappeared.
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He opened his eyes and saw his head on someone's lap. The said person was ruffling his hair and tracing the facial structure of his head with her finger.
Fuck that bastard of a creator. At all times, he could have sent him back; he had to send him back at this exact time. This had happened so many times in his early life that he couldn't even remember if he was back to being anywhere from the ages of seven to fourteen.
The girl noticed that he was awake and kissed his cheek a bit too close to his lips. This expression made Arielle blush. His feelings were still too messed up towards the blue-haired beauty.
Just like he remembered, she had pale white skin, she was slim, had pink eyes, and the most beautiful face that he had laid his eyes on.
Ellis smiled, seeing him blush, and whispered in his ear, "It should be a sin for you to be this cute while blushing."
Arielle didn't know whether he was dreaming or hallucinating, but if that creator had really sent him back to his past. I'm back in the past, Elis is still alive, which means I haven't killed her yet.
So he got up from her lap, much to the girl's displeasure, and she grabbed him by his shirt, "I'm not done with you yet, so where do you think you are going?"
He looked around the room and was surprised to see himself back in his room in the palace. He pretended not to be surprised and
He put a finger on her lips, "How about I'll spend the whole day tomorrow with you, Ellis."
The girl let go of his shirt, then her expression changed; she looked as if someone had kicked her puppy, but deciding to tease him anyway, muttered, "Do you hate me that much that you'll do anything to avoid me, Arie~?"
Arielle tried ignoring the girl's playful guilt tripping and entered the dresser that was attached to his room. He opened the tap and looked towards the mirror.
Oh, how much he hated this face, this stupid body; he was back to being a feminine, physically weak self. He had done so many rituals to fix his physical body. From the mirror, he looked like he was back to being twelve, which means it has only been five years since Nordec and the Rivern empires allied. His full name was Arielle Norvin. The youngest prince of the Nordic empire, he had nine siblings. Historically, both the Nordic and the Rivern empires were enemies and juggernauts among themselves since they both possessed high humans. The rare race of humans that could wield magic. However, some time ago, both the empires patched up their differences and decided to ally with one another. To strengthen the alliance, the princess of the Rivern Empire could choose any of the Nordic princes as her betrothed.
It just so happened that Ellis decided that she wanted to marry him. His mother, the sister of the King of Wellem, didn't want a boy; she wanted to give birth to a girl child. When Arielle was born, since he looked like a girl child from his face, his mother decided that she was gonna raise him like a girl. Thankfully, his father, the emperor, couldn't let a prince be raised like that, so he was raised as a man, even though he himself heard the maids saying multiple times that he was just unlucky to be born a boy, which irked him so much. So when he was seven, the then nine-year-old Ellis had chosen him as her husband.
While he wouldn't deny that Ellis was beautiful, he also couldn't ignore the fact that she treated him like a pet and made sure that he was always within ten meters of her sight. It was so bad that she forced him to play house with the girls and accompany her on all those stupid tea parties with them. Thankfully, when she got older, she had no choice but to give him some space, a bit reluctantly, and he was still glad that he wasn't living with her and that she was the only princess of The Rivern Empire.
He exited the dresser, only to see that Ellis had already left the room. The girl was probably mad and was going to harass some servants, but who cares about servants.
He tried taking breaths in and out, trying to calm down from all that had happened in such a short span of time. Something he didn't have enough of, he wondered if he could beat Nyqo again, that bastard is going to be troublesome, but hey, he's a genius, so he's going to figure out something right?