Meeting with a God

Yin Ling with his eyes closed saw a bright light. He then open his eyes to see the exact same scene. He thus choose to walk toward the light, he arrived at a palace where an entity waited him.

He looks at this entity confused. What he saw was cloudy, blurred, very unclear, and he had a feeling that the environment wasn't the problem, that his eyes simply weren't qualified to capture an image of the entity.

The entity without opening what he considered his mouth said to him: "Hello young mortal, I am Zeraeph one of what you mortal call God"

Yin Ling without taking note that with his 36 years old he was called young choose to not talk, he wasn't sure if he should trust this entity. After all even if he wasn't a believer, he knew the big majority of God venerated in Earth and he didn't remember any God called Zeraeph.

Without even caring about the so-called God, he suddenly realized that he wasn't destroyed after his death, he was first glad and put a big smile on his face. But then focused on what was in front of him, following his situation he should be send either in a very good place or a really bad one.

He try to remember every good and bad action he done, hopping that the good would overwhelm the bad one. But then he became confused, he couldn't really find neither a good nor a bad action that he done. He did help those youths doing sport, but well he was paid for it thus this couldn't really considered a good action. And for the bad action he didn't bother about the things that didn't relate with sport thus didn't think that he had done any of them either.

He asked himself if he was normal or not because in every story or book that he heard or rode, there was the good guys presented as hero and the bad one who needed to be defeated; even if the good and bad one was biased like in One Piece, nobody could really be considered neutral.

But he was stopped in his reflexion by Zeraeph who said

Indeed you are not a normal fellow, and that's the reason you are here.

I'm not here because I died?

Yes and no. Indeed I surely wouldn't bring you here if you weren't dead, that's something that we agreed on with the other God. But the real reason you are here is because I have a proposition for you.

A proposition?

Yes, I will give you a chance to come back to the past and you will help me with something.

Come back to the past?! Err… Wait, wait, wait! Although I'm atheist… Although I was atheist…. and I'm not clear about what you are, what you represent and your power, are you sure that I can help you with something?

Honestly we made a bet with the other God about which one of us would be the more known after 5 zeras, and I just remembered it recently.

You want be to be your prophet?!!

I guess you could put it this way.

But how am I supposed to make you better known that Jesus Christ, Allah, Ganesa, Brahman? Why choose me of all the people?

You are perfect in my opinion: you are the first one that consider himself as neutral, and that's exactly what I sought: I don't want an evildoer representing me, and for those who seek being good always finish by doing an action that they judged good because the good repercussion overwhelm the bad one and thus judged this action as good. But as long as there is bad repercussion even if it's nearly trivial, I can't consider any action as good. In your world, good cannot come without bad, and that's why only an absolute neutral people like you can represent me in the mortal world.

I can understand this point, but I don't believe I'm the only that can be considered as neutral people

You are right, to be honest you just intrigued me. You are the first people which I observed that killed himself with a very strong will to live. I could just look into your soul but that would be to boring. So explain me, why?

I want to do sport, I want to practice and play every game that I know and discover other. My previous life because of a medical problem didn't allow me any physical activities. I decided to bet my life to have another chance to realize my living dream.

Your doctor are that useless?

Yes, so your proposition even if interesting isn't really good for both of us. If I can come back to the past, I probably would finish by killing myself again because of medical problem; and I could even less succeed in making you know, let alone make you better known than the other God. The only thing I'm really capable of doing is related with sport.

It's perfect that way

Uh? Replied Lin Yin puzzled

I think that you first underestimate us God way too much and second that you underestimate yourself too much as well.

It means? Asked Lin Yin even more puzzled.

It means that for your health, of course I have a solution, and for making me well known, it's way easier if you first become famous yourself, that's why I said that is was perfect.

I just want to practice sport, I don't seek being famous, I really don't understand your meaning.

To enjoy sport, you need opponent right?

Yes of course

Then what happen if you opponent is too weak?

Then it would be a no-match and would be less enjoyable I guess

Then if you become really strong you will seek powerful opponent isn't it?

I see where you are heading me….

Good, then what do you think about it?

Well I don't think I will be that strong anyway, but let's say that by miracle I become famous thanks to sport, what about you? Even if I start to say that you exist, you will never even dream about becoming as known as other Gods.

You are false, I don't want you to become just famous, nor just very famous, but I want you to become really really extremely famous.

Excuse me?

What would happen if an athlete would break every world record in every sport? Wouldn't he become that famous? And if after he says that it's thanks to a God that he is capable of doing this, that he transcended humanity, wouldn't the God become well known?

Yin Ling went silent, and said to himself: Is this freak really asking me to break every world record?!?!

Zeraeph suddenly said:

Don't forget that I'm a God, I can easily heard what you thought, and please don't call me "freak" in public it wouldn't be good for my reputation.