Chapter 492: Eislyn (5)

"Papa, they're now entering the void, I think I can grant you a few minutes with them." Eislyn said out of nowhere "Dabria would initiate the trial since she's the only one who can, but do you want to see them before they do the trial?"

"Sure, why not." I shrugged "Eislyn, after the visitation, can you just change scenarios to just a peaceful buffet with every kind of food so that I can stuff myself, it's better than going on dates with fake versions of my lovers."

"As you wish, papa." she replied "So you are still lonely?"

"Yeah, it already felt like a couple months in here, and I only have you for company, so thank you for the regular check up."

The scenery then changed, I am now under this huge tree with red and yellow leaves falling onto the ground where I sat, soon enough, I heard 4 familiar voices heading up the small hill of where I was at.

"Hey guys, what's up?"

"I thought we'll be having 4 different trials." Zach questioned

"I'm trying but it seems Eislyn is plotting something, this may be the first trial before we head off on our own." Dabria replied

"Damn, you guys are cold, I'm dead and here you are just blatantly ignoring me, I have feelings too, ya know."

"...Perseus?" Elektra asked

"Who else would the protagonist be? Can you not recognize me, auntie? Protagonist always say that they're plain looking, but we're fictional characters, their plain looks are fucking as handsome as the cool guys, I mean, being owned by 3 women isn't that easy, you know."

"Dude, it really is you." Zach mumbled

"Of course, it's me, who else would be idiotic enough to die for people's sakes? I always love to not die, but I want a faster way out, so this was the only way, so please do not fail, the trial can only tolerate 1 failure or else woosh, me, gone forever."

"I will beat the shit out of you." Kenny tried to punch me, but his hands just went through my face and hit the tree behind me "Ow, fuck!"

"Not a manly sight bro, I'm dead, I'm a fucking soul, you seriously think you can hurt me...oh, Dabria, your glare is electrifying."

"That's all you have to say, you bastard." she gritted her teeth "You just went off and die on your own, what the hell is wrong with you, I'm a goddess, weak or not, I don't need your protection!"

"It worked, didn't it? The author visited me here not too long ago saying that Baeli finally backed off and went home, it's convenient, but I'll apologize, but this is the favor, Dabria, please revive me, I can't leave everyone, at least not before my time comes."

"So this is the favor..." she balled her fist "You planned on dying...you fucking idiot."

"I wasn't going to leave you, Dabria." I said as I approached her and wiped away a tear from her eyes, she's the goddess of life and death, the only one who can come in contact with a dead soul who's also at the same time, not really dead.

"You got everyone else, so you're not alone, and I swore to get revenge for Nova, I keep my promises."

"24 hours." she said

"What?"

"After this, you're mine exclusively for 24 hours." she declared "I don't care if Chaos returns then, unless I order you to, you're mine."

The sky then darkened as the 4 then got transparent.

"I'll wait however long it takes, guys, so no rush." I then waved them off as they disappeared and left me there.

As they're doing the trial, my only companion was my sword who kept me company.

*****

Kenny POV

"That dumb bitch, who the hell dies on purpose like that?! Protagonist, my ass, you're just a greedy pervert with 3 women, now you put your life on my hands, you fucker!"

After I hurt my hand, I got warped to this familiar place, an interrogation room of my original world. It seems like no one can see me, they are currently waterboarding a familiar person.

A screen similar to that of a video game then appeared in front of him.

< A trial similar to that of a web comic and game...this really is a trial for my stupid brother. >

'Trial: Live through the itorture.'

He then switched places and he got injected into that familiar person and got waterboarded.

"C'mon Grace, tell us! What really happened?!" the interrogator demanded

Kenny didn't know what to say as he was really shocked at what happened.

"I...I-I don't know." he replied

"Where's your aggressive behavior earlier? Huh?! You killed our number 1 and came back accusing her team of conspiring with demon worshippers! Again!" the person ordered

A soldier then approached the interrogator.

"All the survivors said the same thing, the generals are considering to stop this, if we kill them, it would look suspicious and if we let them go, they will easily take us to court."

"We'll win and it doesn't matter how bad we'll look, they're mostly immigrants anyway, they can always be replaced, we just need to keep watch over them afterwards in case." the interrogator scoffs "Besides, what can a small number of survivors do against a whole army, no matter how high ranked they are, they will still die against high tech weapons."

He then would experience several days of sleep deprivation and constant torture, many different ways of experiencing pain, he was hungry, thirsty and heavily injured only to be compensated a large a mount of money that he doesn't want.

He thought that once those few days end, the trial was over but, no...it was far from over.

< So living without us alone all those time was torture as well...> he thought as he experienced Grace's post military life < No justice, lonely, and is watched over all the time, given a stupid boring job, but...thanks for coming for me bro. >

He then lived 3 years in that trial, doing what he thought Grace would do and sure enough, the trial ended when he got struck by lightning.