There was no sky.
No earth.
No stars.
Only an endless sea of shattered realities.
Worlds that had been born...
Worlds that had perished...
Worlds that had never even been given the chance to exist.
At the center of that silent expanse stood a lone young man.
His clothes were torn from countless battles.
Scars covered a body that had long since surpassed humanity.
His crimson eyes stared into the distance without triumph...
Without regret...
Only exhaustion.
He had walked through ruined cities where gods had fallen.
He had crossed worlds consumed by demons.
He had challenged beings who ruled over creation itself.
He had witnessed countless lives begin...
And countless lives end.
He was known by many names.
The King of Chaos.
The Fiend.
The Demon who rejected destiny.
But the name he remembered most...
Was the one he had been born with.
Naoki.
Before him, the final chapter of another story unfolded.
A young man stood against the throne of creation.
The Nahobino.
The one who would decide the fate of existence itself.
Naoki watched in silence.
He had already made his choice long ago.
This battle...
Was no longer his.
As creation itself trembled, the Nahobino struck down the old order.
The endless cycle that had bound the universe-
Creation.
Destruction.
Rebirth.
Creation once more-
Finally shattered.
The throne was no more.
The chains of fate broke apart.
For the first time in an age...
The future belonged to those who would walk it.
Naoki closed his eyes.
"...It's over."
There was no joy in his voice.
Only relief.
The burden he had carried for so long...
Had finally become someone else's.
He turned away from the fading light.
For the first time in countless years...
He had nowhere to fight.
Nowhere to save.
Nowhere to destroy.
Only an endless road stretching into the unknown.
He smiled.
A small...
Almost forgotten smile.
"...Maybe..."
"...it's finally my turn."
With one final glance at the world that no longer needed him...
Naoki began to walk.
Not toward another battlefield.
Not toward another god.
But toward a future he had never allowed himself to dream of.
A future where he could simply...
Live.
The darkness welcomed him.
And somewhere beyond the countless worlds...
A goddess smiled, sensing an impossible traveler drawing near.
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The Wanderer Beyond Creation
Fanfictionthe Demi-fiend (Naoki) witnesses the Nahobino finally break the endless cycle of creation and destruction. Realizing his own battles are over, Naoki decides he no longer wants to be a savior or destroyer. He wishes for something he never had: A norm...
