Modern Alchemists

[ Yogi Katsumi ]

I don't know why humans are so weak beings... Only God could stand above all. And yet... God is banished to the afterworld. The world of blankness.

My body trembled after the Glitch blocked me. If I could've gotten that hit correctly... I could've saved the world. But... The books are correct. None can change the elements that existed in time.

"Yogi-kun! Can you hear me? It's Niyoko! Please... Yogi-kun wake up!" It was Niyoko Hime's voice.

I felt water falling down to my face in little droplets. It was tickling me.

I slowly opened my eyes and saw Niyoko's face. She was carrying me.

"Yogi-kun! It's so good to see you... We've failed Yogi-kun... We didn't get to save the world. The Glitch escaped!"

I already knew it escaped... But... We could not stop it even if we wanted to. The Glitch was indeed too powerful.

"Thank you for saving me... Niyoko-chan..." I whispered to her. She made a smile with a pink flush in her cheeks.

Niyoko was not an alchemist. She was a mutant... The most common kind, the Animangi, mutated humans who have part animal features.

After the first appearance of an Animangi, the DNA stolen from it was divided into many variants. Then... Animagi started to have many different features from different types of animals.

Niyoko was half wolf. But she was cute all the same. Furry ears, bushy tail but... wolf claw for hands. She had an inhuman speed and many features from the wolves.

Bit by bit, the rain started to get heavier. I was wrapped in Niyoko's hands. I can even feel her heartbeat and I knew that she was tired.

"It's ok, Niyoko... We can walk. They won't find us. We already outran them."

She gave me a worried look. "No... I want Yogi-kun to rest. Please... Let me take you to the church."

I sighed. "Ok...."

Out of the whole team, Niyoko-chan was the only one who worried about me this much. The others just wanted to achieve our target... But she wanted something else which I cannot understand yet.

Because of this... I've grown quite fond of her.

She leaped down a dark alley and then went through the space between two abandoned buildings.

The whole street was filled with a gangster theme. Abandoned houses and graffiti on every wall of these buildings.

It was not a place for Alchemists but... This was the new age of the church. This was a new era and a new way.

Transmutation circles were drawn from graffiti. What else should I say?

At the end of the lonely street... The enormous church stood high and mighty. Alchemical symbols were painted on the walls... Shattered skylight and a nest for crows.

That was our home.

"We're here... Let's get you inside." Niyoko took me into the church. The front doors were slightly open.

Thunder cracked as we entered. "Hmmm... Just put me down on that chair, Niyoko," I told the girl. Yet, she didn't.

"No... We need to get you some treatment. No funny business till tomorrow... At least!"

She was just too caring for some reason. I sighed. Suddenly, the trap door on the floor automatically slid open.

Then... Hime-chan came out.

She was a nice lady around the age of 22. She had long blue hair and she always wore a long blue dress.

"Thank God you're safe! The Glitch... You couldn't kill it, huh?"

'I couldn't save the world...' The thought came to my head each time those words got repeated. I felt like a failure.

"No, Hime-chan. He couldn't kill it. Just like the books say, we cannot change the time or the elements that created it. We just have to stand by—"

"No!" I stopped Niyoko before she could say anything more. "We have to try... The Glitch could destroy the world if we stop!"

"Well... Come in and get some rest before that little man!" Hime-chan sighed and took me into her hands.

Yes... I was only a child. I was 15 years old and I was only 1.69 meters tall. What can an imp-like me do? Well... I was the one who discovered alchemy through cosmic technology.

Niyoko carried me into the infirmary of our underground base. We lived under the church. Only a man with the powers of Alchemy could unlock the trap door that leads down here.

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After getting rest for four hours, I woke up.

I could see Niyoko-chan sleeping on the chair beside my bed. She had passed out... She must be tired after running that long on foot.

"Hmm... Rest well, Niyoko-chan," I said to her as I grabbed her up and placed her on my bed. I covered her with the blanket.

Her bushy tail moved side by side as I covered her.

"Haha..." I chuckled when I saw her do that. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen. "Sleep well..."

I walked out of the room and into the hallway. In our organization, there were only 50 Alchemists. We weren't terrorists and we didn't work for the Government either.

We only worshipped God and our ancestors who had passed us the truth about the real magic. And finally... The source of magic was found.

Cosmic energy... A wave of energy created by the vast space. It flows through every planet, yet without Cosmic Technology... We couldn't create a suitable atmosphere for it.

But now... With the constant use of Cosmic Technology... A type of gas has been emitted to the world. The whole world changed. Thus... Magic found a way.

We took a step towards the impossibility but day by day... Our goals spread far and wide. New goals came to us each day.

And now... It was the heaven-defying concept of time travel. We weren't humans anymore. We were God himself.

"Oh! Yogi sensei! Good to see you again..." Hayashida-kun told me as I walked into the place where our team called the 'living room'.

It was actually a large library... But we managed to push out the bookshelves and place some couches there.

My team lived here. There were 4 more teams in 4 different churches throughout the world.

"Thank you, Hayashida-kun. Glad to see that you guys are fine."

I sat down beside Hime-chan. Then... I looked at the team.

"Let me... Tell you what we have to do now."

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