Chapter 22 - Flashback 1

(Flashback - 3 Years Ago)

Hikaru woke up in that same fog covered room, where he met with the disembodied voice a few weeks ago. He sat there, and he seems to be annoyed at himself.

"Tch, I knew that was a bad idea and I just had to go and try to defeat those two black knights! When I saw the reward, I just couldn't help myself! That was 80,000 souls!" he muttered under his breath.

"So Thou has come back, " the same disembodied voice said with no surprise in his tone.

He didn't bother to raise his head because he knew there is no point in doing that. He did not beat around the bush and said, "Yes, I'm back and I have more questions for you this time."

That's right! His death wasn't an accident because of his greed, instead, he decided that he should at least try and battle those black knights and if he dies, he could go back to this place and ask the questions he didn't asked last time.

"Hmm, what are thou's question for I?" The disembodied voice seems interested.

"First, who is the olden god I'm going to seal back in the Shinobi World?" Hikaru asked with his eyes all serious.

"That would be Chaortos, Mother Of Darkness. She isn't particularly strong but the number of her minions are massive, even I don't know how many her minions are. She also has the ability to suck the darkness around a world and with that, she could increase the numbers of her minions. Please, thou should be careful when facing her. For she was known to be quite a cunning woman back in the golden age of the olden gods, but, not only that. I couldn't say this to thee back when we first met but all Olden Gods have the magic powers to kill thou... permanently, " the disembodied voice gravely answered his question.

Hikaru's eyes widened and his pupils dilated at that last sentence. For once, he felt fear for his life. Then, suddenly, he came to a terrifying conclusion. If the olden gods were sealed, then doesn't that mean that someone had sealed them in the past. Then that means...

His eyes were shadowed by his hair as he said, "How many..."

"Hmm?"

"How many had sealed the olden gods in the past?!" He yelled at the disembodied voice.

The entire place was silent for a moment before he heard a chuckle coming from the disembodied voice.

"So, thou managed to figure that out? Yes, there were others before thee, 2 to be exact, and they all succeeded in their goal of sealing the 8 olden gods but at a heavy cost."

Hikaru's face grew serious as he asks, "Cost? What cost?"

"They were forever cursed to be immortals and to wander the infinite worlds. They can never die nor be destroyed, " the disembodied voice said.

"They're immortals, so what? That's more like a reward than a cursed, so what are you talking about?" He said, confused as to why they would consider it a curse.

"Thou shall know it when thou's time has come. Right now, thou is still too young. Maybe someday you will meet the two of them, those two fools, " the disembodied seems a little sad when he said that last part.

'Fools? Why did he call them fools?' Hikaru couldn't help but wonder. He decided not to dwell on it too much and just advance to his next question.

"Do thee have more questions for I?" the disembodied asked.

"Yes, am I fertile? I can get aroused but I still think that I am somehow not fertile," he seems to fidget around when he asked that question.

"Unfortunately, since thou is an undead, you will never be fertile unless you get to be an immortal like those two, " the disembodied voice answered.

Hikaru nodded his head and said, "Hmm, as I thought so. So, my next question, why couldn't you just do it yourself? Sealing the olden gods, I mean."

The disembodied voice replied, "It's not that I don't want to but I just can't. I can't explain this to thee right now, but I can assure you that I'm no enemy of yours."

"Fine, then next question!" He said.

The disembodied voice seems to sigh as he though that this will take a very long time.