Her words were like a crushing thunder bolt that descended over my head.

All this time I thought I was here as an advantage, a bug in the system. I always thought myself lucky enough to be here. Yet what she said added further to my shock and bitterness.

“In addition to that, who said you came here first before that dude? Who knows, he might be the one who actively sought coming here and you came as just a logical result.”

Well… Her words held a certain weight of logic indeed. But who would care about that? “I’m here now, and that’s all that matters,” I said in a tone that carried my self esteem and confidence.

“You don’t get it yet,” she sighed, “that bastard always does things on a grand scale, planning is his hobby.”

“I’m not a loser at least, or that weak to begin with,” I shrugged, not letting what she said get into my head, “even if he was the one who caused all this mess, I’ll make him regret doing this in the first place.”

“Sigh,” yet she wasn’t convinced by my firm belief, and I wasn’t trying to even do that in the first place. I was saying this to myself, defending against any doubt in my confidence.

As for that bastard… What if he brought one or an army with him? If I managed to keep pushing forward like this, then I’d end up winning this fight once and for all.

“I don’t care,” I added, “even if he has a plan, I’ll be the flaw he never expected in his plan. Just look around, I have amassed a force that has never been here before at this moment.”

“It’s quite remarkable indeed,” she said before shaking her head, “but unfortunately it’s far from enough. Do you know how we can win this fight?”

“By establishing kingdoms and unifying the world?” I asked and my response seemed to be quite expected as she snorted in return.

“That’s wrong! That’s what I was trying to make others see and understand all this time and failed!” she bellowed in her way and I couldn’t help but look at her and shake my head.

“What?” she asked, “do you think I’m crazy? Have you ever heard about the true battle going on in between our universe and another?”

“I know,” I firmly nodded, “I’ve also killed a Curasee race, one of those traitors who work for that hostile universe. Damn, I also got cursed once with one of their dirty gods!”

“You…” At this moment I realised she knew nothing, nothing at all about me. All she knew was what she saw here, and that I had her power of time travel.

“I have my own channel, established a grand force that’s now spreading over the entire area as we speak. I killed two archlords, one of the illusionists and the other was that dragon kid who created all this trouble for you. I have lots of power to back me up, I’m not a pushover!”

“This war isn’t one that could be won this way,” she shook her head before adding, “do you know that this is my thirty-ninth attempt here? Do you even know that I once unified the entire world and yet I failed?”

“What?!!” It was my time to get shocked. She managed to unify the world? What the hell was she speaking about?

Wait a minute… were I supposed to work towards unifying the world? Wasn’t our common enemy trying to take over this world? What the hell was going on here?

“Don’t be that shocked, this is the big lie the angels here tried to implant deeply in all of us,” she took a deep breath, filled with exhaustion and helplessness.

At this moment, I forgot all about her previous show of power. In front of me, she acted like a real girl, a weak and vulnerable girl who found out the whole world was standing on her shoulders.

The tone she spoke with was filled with tons of helplessness. She wasn’t a loser, but someone who long lost his guiding light, felt the entire world was a piece of pitch blackness with no way to see light or find hope again.

She was a lonely, weak and lonely little girl. At this moment I felt true sympathy towards her. How could a single girl stand against such a situation and also have to find a way out, not only for herself, but for her entire race?

The responsibility over her looked grandiose compared to her fragile self. Yet I kept my mouth shut, letting him continue even with such spirit brimmed with desperation and loss.

“I once got the chance to see the real schemes behind the entire apocalypse grander scheme. The ones standing behind this thing are just trying to make us all survive by filtering the weak and giving the promising ones chances to get stronger.”

I could partially relate to what she said. After all, I got my knowledge about the true war happening between the two universes from one of those behind the system.

“What they want to do is to merge the scattered worlds into one big new world called the grand Nala,” she said before adding, “so after unifying the worlds in this apocalypse, we still have something to do.”

“Like what?”

“Have you heard about other apocalypses going on at the same time like us?” she said and I nodded. I knew about this since I went to the Bringold impact.

“Then you can understand this,” her face turned all serious before adding, “we are all in a filtering game made up of pyramid-like steps. The first is to crush the other races here and claim this world to ourselves. Then we’ll be matched against other ended apocalypses that started with us. We have to keep winning, crushing all the other worlds until we become the sole world conquering them all!”

I was surprised, deeply shocked by what she just said. She came closer to me until I could almost feel her warm breaths over my face as she added:

“We have twenty different apocalypses running here at the same time. So in brief we would fight four times until we reach the final three fighting over the final merged world.”

“This…”

“We have to fight, keep fighting and conquer, not just one world but six worlds including ours. That’s insane! Do you believe humans are this strong, united, and have enough preparations like other races to fight for all this time against all these foes?”

“What the hell are you doing here so close to my man?”

Just before I could say anything or express my own thoughts and doubts, I heard such earth shattering shout that made me feel the threatening sense of danger.

“Karoline…” I turned and saw my girl take out her two swords before adding in an explosive tone:

“No girl is allowed to seduce my man, not when I’m alive! I dare you to fight!”

“Your man?” That girl looked at me in doubt before looking at our current position. She came close, so close that just a mere push from her back or mine and we would literally hug each other!”

“You got it wrong babe, she isn’t…”

“Don’t babe me!” she roared at me before pointing her sword at me, “you’ll get your share once I’m done with this b*tch!”

“B*tch?!!! How dare you…”

“Stop you two, this is a misunderstanding…”

I tried to move and stand in between the two girls before fire would erupt. But I miscalculated my step, hit her close up leg to lose my balance.

Just at this moment, all I felt was a warm pair of soft and jelly-like things touching my lips! And with that, the entire world turned into death silence.

We… Me and this girl… We just kissed in front of Karoline…

“You… I hate you!!!” Just before I could free myself from this forced kiss, Karoline’s voice that shattered my heart rang in my ears. I tried to push myself away from this girl to go and catch up with Karoline, but again I felt strangely soft things underneath my two hands.

“You…” a low roaring voice came from this girl while her azure red eyes glared in a threatening way, “what do you think yourself doing? Taking advantage of me?”

“N… No, I won’t dare to do that,” even when I said this, my instinct drove me to squeeze softly before pushing myself away. She didn’t miss this slight move from me, and I didn’t know what I should do now.

“Stop right there,” just before I could move a finger, she jumped and stopped in front of my path, “you deserve this as your punishment. I won’t move aside until this girl is a thousand miles away!”

“F*ck you!” I instantly roared before controlling my entire chariot. Unluckily Karoline was already out of my chariot, so my plan to trap her inside and go to talk to her failed.

If that failed, then I could just move my chariot after her! I didn’t need to go out and run on foot to catch up with her. “Just watch and learn,” just that man from the higher ups Yonker used to say to me, I repeated his signature words to this azured eyes girl.

“You… already spoke with the ones behind the system?!!”

“Not now!” It wasn’t time to speak about this again. I had to catch up with my girl and correct this misunderstanding with her.

“Wait! Just listen to me!!” I tried to shout when I spotted her just on top of that pit. She was moving better than any agile monster I ever saw! Girl… Just stop and listen please.

“Stay away from me, cheater,” she shouted and I could hear her tone shaking with her cries. Just hearing her like that smashed my heart in the most violent way.

“I’m not a cheater!” I tried to defend myself but her next words left me speechless for a while.

“I saw you two standing so close and acting as lovey dovey! You are a bad man Hye! A womaniser! I never expected you to be like this, never! I hate you.”

I turned to look at that girl who shrugged and turned her back to me. As she knew she couldn’t stop me from catching up with her, she seemed to stand silent and seemingly enjoying this show.

“Just wait,” As Karoline didn’t listen to my words, I had to stop her from running first and explain everything later on to her.

Just before I could reach my rope to jump off the racing up chariot, she shouted in threatening tone:

“If you dared to come near me, I swear I’ll fight you to death! Stay the f*ck out of my life, cheater.”

I froze in my place, not knowing what I should do.

“Girls are like cats, once stirred up they won’t stop hurting you with their claws. The only way is to let her go to calm down herself. Once she is better, you can go and speak with her.”

Just as I was lost, these words came as wise as f*ck. I turned to that girl and couldn’t help but take a deep breath.

And with it, I stopped the movement of my chariot. Who was better than a girl to understand the mindset of another? Especially in such a totally alien situation I never faced before?

I didn’t do anything wrong at all! That kiss was a mistake, nothing more. I didn’t even intend to do anything to this girl! She wasn’t my type to begin with, besides she was dangerous, far more dangerous than even my jumper!

Helplessly like that I watched my girl running away until she vanished off my sight. She went all the way outside the city, and vanished in the horizon of ruins.

“Come forth,” even if she said to leave her alone, I wouldn’t dare to leave her unguarded. I summoned a dozen of my soulers before giving them one simple instruction:

“Protect her with your lives.”

They nodded and moved fast with their smoke.

“A true man indeed,” that girl said in mockery, “but that’s for her. What about what you did with me? How are you going to declare your responsibility towards what you did?”

And with her words, I turned with pure rage, almost this close from going all out and killing this chick.