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Chapter 24 - Crashing out

Hmm." Andreas said. "Give me a second. I might rant too much if I start talking."

The door to his left opened.

The bald priest walked in. Behind him came two men whose suits were doing their best and losing. The fabric looked like a structural engineering problem.

The two men moved fast and forcibly passed through Andreas's invisible wall and landed punches into his cheek and gut simultaneously.

Andreas's head turned slightly from the cheek and gut.

The wall had taken most of it. What reached him was the ghost of what the punches were supposed to be, and substantial enough to be annoying, but not substantial enough to matter. Before either man could recalibrate, they were pushed backward into their respective walls with enough force to crack the walls.

Andreas straightened. He scratched his forehead.

"So Andrew." He turned to look at him. " First! How did you come to this world?"

Andrew looked at the two men embedded in the walls. Then at Andreas. "It was one of those summoned as a class things. All I remember is feeling very sleepy and waking up in a church being called an angel."

"I see."

Andreas pulled a chair toward himself without touching it and sat down and covered his face with both hands for a moment. Then he looked up.

"So for me .." he started, then paused, then continued with the expression of someone reading from a list they find personally offensive.

"Before coming here, I was sitting in the TV room thinking about life. Then I saw a short version of me on the ceiling. Then, a beam of light hit me and melted my skin. Then, for some reason, I was a sword fighting myself for what felt like years." He paused as he felt his burn. "Then I was on a bridge being chased by humanoid fish. I fought that off along with a zombie in knight armor."

He made a disgusted face briefly and continued.

"Then I met Miss Kihoko and Miss Naxys. They gave way, way less than the bare minimum of information I needed and left in a hurry. I'm not sure if they knew about the nuke, but I was hit by it a while after they left."

He stopped and exhaled deeply. "Then I watched this man called Aldric's whole life. Every second of it. It was a..." he paused, "... a boring movie, and I feel bad for the guy. Apparently, I'm his god, or a god forced onto him somehow, which caused problems with his faith in Yourway, which led to the whole new god situation. Mostly because of his so-called friends and fellow believers."

He exhaled again, feeling his throat feel dry and hotter.

With a voice on the verge of crying,"Anyway. I woke up in a desert of rubble from the destroyed city. I'm not sure if they've mastered nukes with no radiation here, but I didn't die from the explosion, which I also survived somehow." He said this flatly in a slightly higher pitch. "Then I walked toward the city to meet Miss Naxys and Miss Kihoko and almost died because of my apparently do-anything-I-want powers. Got teleported to a forest. Met Miss Anat and another girl after recovering. Got a ride here."

His voice was getting slightly higher than before."Where I got sniped. Recovered. Met Miss Dang." He stopped again. "Got decapitated. Recovered."

He covered his eyes with a hand and looked at the ceiling.

"And I made her get distracted and ran away, and after an hour she immediately found me and pierced my heart, and I put her to sleep and decided to be a dumbass by not leaving her vulnerable on the street and got my head caved in." His pitch was climbing . " Sniff... Then I woke up in a torture room."

He pulled the chair slightly closer to himself using his invisible force and covered his face with both hands, and the crying was more audible and could no longer be concealed.

Dang smiled slightly, Naxys, kihoko, and listened to him with worried looks.

A few seconds passed.

Andreas looked at Andrew and said, "Then I left to Miss Kihoko's mansion," he continued, muffled behind his hands, "where this man Marcel teleported me to a cave and now my heart isn't beating."

The room was quiet.

Andrew looked at him for a moment.

"Damn," he said.

"I know, right?!" He said as his tears fell," and all could say is. What the fuck, why is this happening to me because I'm some stupid supposed god." He stood up and toppled the chair backward."I should've have died back on that armogeddon light thing or whatever, but no apparently I can't die, and I have to deal with these existential crisis with more and terrifying question. All I wanted was to do something stupid to go on an ordinary adventure and shit, but no, not andreas he has to die just by walking from one city to the next.

He turned to pull back up the chair and sit on it, cover his face and cry in silence.

As kihoko calls out,"Andreas..." In a concerned soft voice. The shorter masculine man jumped to strike at andreas, and the blue heard ran to cleanly decapitated andreas.

They both stopped mid motion a full 3 meters away of him. Andreas looked up at kihoko and noticed Dang smiling with her sword unsheathed.

"What are you doing?" Andreas asked in between sniffs.

"Well, you seem emotional, I wouldn't want you crashing out."

"And your response is to smile like that, and what decapitate me again?"

"Obviously." Dang said gleefully.

Andreas' expression turned blank and bluntly said." Ofcourse leave it to the guy named after shit to act like a piece of shit."

Miss Dang's smile faded and before she reached Andreas he was pulled by and invisible force and collided through buildings and poeple and finally stopped in the middle of a busy street.

She stoop up and saw a path of body parts and ruble leading to her, she ignored the screaming mass and raised he sword to strike at andreas where she stood.

Andreas looked at the hole in the wall that formed as he herlde her as hard he can. He turned to look at the others and Miss Dang fell unconscious in that busy and panicking street.

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