The World Burns When I Exist

"Tell me, my master, what is the true purpose of keeping me like this? I know that you also have a limit to your patience, but since you are a god, you seem to believe that you are impervious to it.", Sakurai spoke to her mind again.

Kore: You do not have any filter when it comes to testing me, don't you? I will make sure that when I am done with my work, you will have a designated spot in my underworld, with such torture that you will wish that you had the mercy of an easy death.

"Hah, that you are telling me after I lost my insanity. Let me remind you who I am as well—the lost daughter of Pin. I lost my sanity to attain a Greek God's powers of Spring and had the luxury of being the Queen of the Underworld. Needless to say, I had a lot of fun. All that fun, until I met Anubis' Servant."

Kore: I know this story far too well. I practically live inside you. I experience whatever you experience in this world. I am both impressed by him and fascinated by your love for him and at the same time, it worries me that if you focus too much on this, we will never be able to achieve our goal. Or at the very least, you can the goal to be mine.

"Your goals are fine, master. When am I finally going to start mastering your power? I want to be able to hold my ground again on the battlefield. I do not want the piss job that I did last time. All that I have been doing up until this point is training to control the way your flow of the domain works. That is all that I have been training with. I have not trained for any weapon; I have not trained for any particular artform nothing. I am just barebones training the basic theory of how the powers flow through my body.

Kore: I cannot help you with the other shit. All I can help you is to understand how the theory of everything works. I cannot make you learn the other things, all I can make you do is work on yourself to make sure that whatever you do, you can break the limits of your power and move forward. That is all that I want you to be able to do. I do not want you to do anything else. Working on anything else would be detrimental at this stage if I am being completely honest with you.

"How does that finally help me, my dear master? I am purely here to satisfy your lust for power in these games. And do not even try to deny the fact that people here know the existence of the games. That would be just for the folly, won't it.?Even stupid ones like yourself have no business getting into the specifics of these games at the end of it all, we all will perish with the same goal, won't we?" Kore sternly interrupts her master.

Kore: As long as your insane self listens to me, we shall be fine. And fear not, for no matter what kind of turmoil you are put through, you will always be fine. That is purely because you are part of the queen, and since you have my powers, you will forever be powerful in this land.

"Land you say. I was already the princess in my world. I was already treated like a future queen. Yet the circumstances?? You made me choose this. You brought forth this doom onto me purely because you wanted to see something different from this world. You treat your subjects like tiny insects until that bond finally expires. What do you lose from this?

TIME?? That you seem to have infinite off... ENERGY?? That is bountiful since you rely purely on the energy I consume and utilize. You have nothing to lose in this regard, wretched master. I have everything to lose and have already lost a lot. I have lost the privileges I used to have, I lost my family, I lost the very thing that I used to call my sanity. I have nothing that is purely my value. Everything stems from these powers. I cannot believe that you took these from me." Ranting out her feelings, Sakurai started to run buck-naked towards a certain direction uphill. It seemed as though there was a crack in the false ceiling.

Kore: You open your mouth and dare utter such monstrous words? SUCH FOUL MOUTHED BEHAVIOUR. HOW COULD YOU BE MY SERVANT, SUCH A FOOLISH AND IMPUDENT CHILD.

"It seems that you need to gain more vocabulary to talk with me, for nothing that you state hasn't already been stated. That reminds me. The truth of this world was already revealed to me. Then why was this not present in the truth of the world?" Kore questions her master. "Tell my dear master, why was there nothing about this mountain that touches the sky itself, and tears it apart? Is this a false ceiling, that exposes your location, or is this just a dome, where we exist on this planet? Either way, I feel like it's time for me to find out."

Gathering some of her energy into her fists, she punched through the ceiling dome and revealed what was present outside the so-called dome that she pictured in her mind.

For there was truly nothing. The entire planet was divided into primary two main sections, one filled with the god's energy and so-called "mana" and the other part remained the hospitable part of the land, where the creatures of the land could roam freely and interact normally with others. There is nothing strange about that, right?

That's what I had originally thought. A beautiful location, until the gods decided that you were the perfect candidate for them in the games, and transferred you to the other side of the globe, where you play these games.

Nothing changes the outcome, for the fact that you were truly stuck in a nightmarish location slowly dims into you, and you realize that nothing will ever be truly normal in this world.

For many, it has reached a point where the meetings between god-like entities are a pitiful normal for them, and for others, it is a petrifying war zone that surrounds everyone. No one is truly safe from their Master. Rarely anyone truly finds happiness in these locations, for the sacrifices that you make to attain such gifts from the gods, are forced sacrifices. The gods treat you like kindly and friendly beasts, for all they want is a host for their parasitic selves to latch onto and feed into the remains of this world.

"That noise echoes, but there seems to be truly nothing in this outside-", as Kore stated she popped her head outside, only to realize the horror that she walked into.

All she could turn and see was thousands upon thousands of corpses just waiting to be burned by some sort of heat, and constantly being prevented from completely burning as a sort of torture technique to constantly keep them alive, and feel the pain. Shielding herself using her spring powers, Kore walked onto the plains to randomly start feeling the heat and then burning up.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH", was all she could scream. She couldn't communicate with her master anymore, she couldn't feel herself anymore. All she could feel was her raw skin bathing in a blast of pure energy that seemed to completely singe the entire area of her body.

"Is this the punishment that I attain for roaming into locations where I am not supposed to master? Is this why you wanted me? So that I die, or did you want to win this thing?", she called out to her egoistical master.

Kore: You venture into territories that even gods would not walk into, and then land yourself and me into this mess. You walked into the energy zone of the planet, which divides the perfect utopia where normal people live and the treacherous world where Godlike beings like us live. The barrier that divides those who have attained the knowledge about the truth of the world, and those who are blissfully ignorant towards it.

All Kore's servant could feel was the massive bursts of energy that tore the flesh from her body and continuously burnt her body. The pain that she was going through, was the same pain that many others who ventured out into this unknown felt.

Looking behind her, Sakurai looked at the small hole that she created shrinking in size, almost as if it was healing the hole that she had created.

"OH NOOO YOU DON'T", was all that she could scream, as she attempted to flee from this hole.