Ethereal Paradigm 4 Zeal With the Extramundane

"What is particularly disappointing is that the human mind has its own limits, whereas human stupidity is boundless"

-Alexandre Dumas

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As you probably had foreshadowed. After the tremendous spark of the insanity that night, my brother ultimately failed in killing me as his attempts were all made powerless by the intervention of a goddess's prowess. Every bullet that he shot at me, stopped mid-air as if there was some unseen barrier present at that moment, protecting me from his heinous intents. The world, that night to me became so void and monochromatic. As if none around me gave a taint of color that would mean happiness or at least, a little ray of hope.

Lacrimosa, the Goddess of Disambiguation, as the pact that I agreed to formulate was made into succession by a piece of contract that was engulfed in black flames, my heart was unable to feel anything else.
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"Why the hell is nothing working?, What -What, I-I can't seem to get anything at all!! This is a dream right, a dream, and what I can't understand the most is how you're being too emotional just because you lost these hooligans that appeared to you like angels, but for me, they are nothing but wolves in sheep's clothing! They will train you, raise you up to be the best that you can be, only to kill you later with their parental ideals! "

He can runt the way he wants, but his words to me were nothing more but putrid statement of vileness. My brother, in all folly, lost all of his strength in his attempts. He broke down to the ground with nothing but an unloaded gun in the palms of his hand. He then let loose a piece of paper from his pocket that looked like a cheque. He shifted his attention entirely as if he did not notice the supernatural happenings that are taking place, for short, his idealistic mind refused to believe what he saw that should have only occurred on some fantasy stories.

He handed it to me slowly with hands that are shaking, I looked at the paper and there, I saw a blood-stained hand-signed cheque with a large sum of money written at the top, a three billion euro...Seriously?Did he kill them just for this piece of garbage? This is not even worth the pain that they have to go through.

"Worth than what? The lives of which you called hooligans? The lives that did their very best to make you who you are today? !"

At that point in time, it suddenly came back to me. The feeling of grudge and deep hatred that was supposed to be nullified together with the contract I made with the goddess. I looked at her who was by the piano with a face that signified both disappointment and complexity as the contract failed to do what it was supposed to do just minutes after it was made to fruition. Yet, all I saw in her face was an expression that she wore in her first appearance, composed and noble as if she already presages that something like this might actually happen not yonder.

That's right, I remember clearly. In haste to accomplish the primary endeavor for the night, I did not read a single line in the conditions inscribed on the contract. I, without hesitations, signed the paper without questions asked. There must be some kind of understatement that she did not tell me.

Then, a voice which gushed force a charisma so evil, that it almost threw me a tantrum snapped me out from my self- talks.

"MONEY IS EVERYTHING BROTHER! IN THE WORLD OF THE ELITES, LIFE IS NOTHING BUT A RUBBLE WITH THE ABSENCE OF THIS OBJECT THAT BOTH EMBODIES THE TITLE OF AUTHORITY AND INFLUENCE!!!"

"You're gonna regret it now brother." In anger, I turned all of my attention towards him

All of a sudden. The clock-like sign that was in my hand given by the scorching flames, of which the goddess asserted of it to be a sign that I am under her provision moved one of its hands from 12 to two o'clock. Then from the scenery of black and white, my sight turned crimson. Everything around me seemed to be bright red. A color that dominantly signifies anger than love given the situation.

I am so angry. I hate him now, I will be sure to kill him slowly given how gruesome my parent's death could have been.

There was none in my mind but complete grudge against my brother and except for the voice that kept telling me to kill and execute.

"Your hunger for power disgusts me, brother. You weaklings only see power and authority coming from money. And what can you control in the end? When all of your trump cards are used up? Nothing. LET ME TELL YOU THE VERY DEFINITION OF POWER NOT COMING FROM THAT CRAPPY PIECE OF USELESS PAPER!"

"HAHAHHAAHAHA HOW CAN YOU EXECUTE AUTHORITY WITHOUT FUNDS? THAT IS BY FAR THE MOST STUPID STATEMENT I HEARD" How dare you to call it useless? You are more worthless than these pieces of paper here....."

"I, as agreed will make you beg for your life as you recently just did to our parents, I will not kill you easily. I will make you experience hell as a preparation for you, meeting your despicable creator" Thoughts coalesced with deep hatred came to me like this. I faced one of the frozen bullets in the air and undid the time-bound spell set by the goddess by a snap of the finger. First, I made it hit his right knee, which is indeed arguably the most painful spot to be hit one.

"AHHHHHH, What, what did you do!!! You'll pay for making the heir of the family which ranked 300th out of the 331 on the richest experience such pain!"

"Heir? You? Look at you! You're nothing but cannon fodder. A Livestock deserving of humiliation. A disgrace to the name of the Cendrillon Aristocracy."

"HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT?- AHHHHHH SHIT, SHIT SHHIIIIIIIITTTTTT" in pain, and in an agony he tried to run from my presence with the help of a single leg which I, would be taking too shortly.

Second bullet. I hit his second knee, making any vigor of escape totally daunted and faltered.

"YOU, HAVE YOU MADE CONTACT WITH A DEMOOONNN?!!!--AHHHHHHH CURSE YOUUU!"

"It's not a demon brother. I ...made a creed with a goddess who was merely passing by, got bored and decided to help, in other words, this pain you are experiencing now was due to my zeal with the extramundane, a deity who calls herself as the goddess of disambiguation who has authority over time" I said it with hatred suppressed at both my hart and mind.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAA, SCREW YOU, AND YOUR FANTASTIC HALLUCINATIONS! AHHHHH! i-it hurts so much ahh!"

In pain, he groveled to the ground. There was so much blood. He was bathing on his own, but how should I say this! It is such a beautiful visage!

Third bullet. I shot his shoulder, cutting off one of his arms

"AHHHHHHH, STOP STOP NOW"

"Hmmmmm?? And why should I? Did you stop when little sister begged for mom and dad's lives?"

"Ho-How did you know that? "

"I told you already, a goddess offered help and is here with us spectating the very last living moments of the most foolish person that have ever existed."

He then looked around with heavy grasping and blood gushing out from the wounds the bullet have inflicted, in search for the goddess. But it looks like he can't see her.

"SOME SHIT YOU ARE SPOUTING THERE! THERE'S NOTHING HERE BUT US AND THESE ROTTEN corpses"

"What did you just say? I dare you to say that again you retard!"

I grabbed his wounded shoulder and cut the wounds more open using my finger.

Fourth bullet. I hit his other shoulder, cutting off another arm.

He then was losing consciousness, but I made sure that he would not. For every attempt of his eyes to close, I would gobble one of his wounds making him awake.

And then I was getting ready to serve the main dish of pain. And that is, for the final three bullets to pierce his bare heart.

"Pl- please... Kill me now. I- I want none of this no longer." he was hopeless. He was in deep pain that is incomparable for me to imagine. Yet, I know that he deserves more than this little chastening that I, his "younger brother" am giving him.

"NOW THAT'S THE SPIRIT!, but before that, I would like to remind you of the sins you committed just this night."

"1st. You let your hunger for power take over your humanity"

"2nd. You killed my family"

"3rd. You did not listen to our sister's pitiful voice when she begged for life"

"4th. You made me sign a contract with a deity, a contract of which I know nothing of (Well partially that was my fault, not to mention, I did not read the conditions prior approval)"

"And lastly, the most deranged sin was... your existence itself as it took from me, this part. which makes me human!"

" Now brother... the heir of shame and the embodiment of foolishness, take your leave from this world with your legacy intact"

Having said that, at will, I let the three remaining bullets....purge down, with his heart as the final destination.

After a very loud shout, while wearing a pitiful and grotesque facade, he then breathed his last. That makes it the fourth corpse on the mansion. From the crimson-colored environment, it returned to being monochromatic.

I looked at the moon by the window and took back which I said prior..." I wish, that the moon would not be as large as this. it will just remind me, the size of the empty hole in myself. "

Then later, I heard a gentle clap coming from behind me. I looked, and there she was, the goddess who forced allegiance with me and is, fortunately, hiding something I know nothing about.

"*Clap, clap, clap*"

"What a wonderful performance that was. Both you and your brother deserves Oscar's award if I were to be the panelist"

"Shut up. Could you tell me what happened? You promised that I will never feel anything again, yet what happened was the complete opposite"

"What a vulgar mouth you have there, telling a goddess to shut up, and besides this is partly your fault as you were too lenient to read the conditions, but I, out of the kindness of my heart shall tell you this..."

"What?"

"Truly, the contract promised to make your emotions null. But it did not say "right away""

"What do you mean?"

"Remember, how the clock-like symbol on your hand moves just moments ago?"

"Yes it did, and what of it?"

"That showed that you conquered the first and second emotions, which are "anger" and "happiness" tonight, was your last feel of those. As you can see, humans have 12 major emotions, each one assigned to the 12-hour threshold in that symbol. Anger. Happiness. Sorrow. Disgust. Anticipation. Fear. Love and etcetera. To put it simply, there are 10 more emotions for you to encounter for the last time before your wish is wholly granted. There are no shortcuts, but to everything, there is a process, as the conditions which you did not read explicitly stated. That, young Jaiden, ends today's lesson which you solely named as your zeal with the extramundane"

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