[Video] Hello! I am a protagonist.

[alephbet]

[Aleph is sitting at the terminal, with a winged girl in white hovering behind him.]

Nigredo and I have been discussing having a quick response team, and I apologize if anything like this already exists and I simply haven't run across it.

The main problem with responding quickly to any problem is that there are few methods of quick communication. For that reason, if anyone can make working cell phones, has telepathy, or any further method of communication across floors, please contact me. In the meantime, I'll make do.

This is Lilim. [The girl waves.] She'll be staying every day on floor fourteen, the media room, which is as close to the middle of the tower as I could convince her would be interesting to stay in. If you or anyone else need defense for any reason at any time during the day, please contact her. She'll get me from where I am. If you need the media room for normal reasons, feel free to kick her off the game console. [She pouts.]

Unfortunately I can't leave her alone at night with the monsters out and about. In that case, my room is 2-04. Please fetch me, and my roommates will have to deal.

This is as efficient a response as I can make under my current power. Again, if anyone has ways of improving this, please reply. My name is Aleph, and thank you, again.

Comments

[Action]

[crouching_sin]

[Naoya goes and sits down in the library, flipping the pages of a large chemistry just to have something to do with his hands. It doesn't mean that this boy has conquered the same God that he is trying to depose - it seems unlikely, even with the multiple worlds - but if it's similar at all, he might be able to at least glean some strategies, something he might have missed, as unlikely as that is.]

[Action]

[alephbet]

[Aleph is, of course, wearing his arm terminal when he arrives. He doesn't go anywhere without it.]

I hope you weren't waiting too long.

Re: [Action]

[crouching_sin]

Not really, no.

[He eyes that terminal, but gestures to a seat across from him.]

Feel free to sit down. I have some questions to ask you.

[Action]

[alephbet]

[Aleph has a seat.]

Ask away.

[crouching_sin]

First, and most importantly... what led you to killing God? The tyrant I spoke of in my world is the same being, though the worlds likely differ.

[alephbet]

He had gathered a very select few people to stay in Eden, and was about to wipe out the rest of all life on Earth. I wasn't going to let that happen.

[crouching_sin]

[... He can't help but laugh a little at that.]

Eden? Interesting. God in my world wished to eliminate human free will. I'd rather destruction than the removal of that.

[alephbet]

Oh, I'm sure life in Eden was going to include no free will at all. It was spooky talking to the people there.

[crouching_sin]

Heh. As one would expect. The moment Adam and Eve ate from the fruit of knowledge, there was no going back.

[alephbet]

One of the best choices anybody's made in the history of humanity, in my opinion. Life without free will isn't life.

[crouching_sin]

Oh, I agree - though some of the decisions they made after that were almost childish. Still, free will was a needed step in breaking away from God.

[alephbet]

I don't expect them to be perfect.

[crouching_sin]

Of course not. But expecting perfection and expecting a little sense... I suppose they didn't know any better at the time, but...

[alephbet]

Well, I'm not really concerned with how humans were in the very beginning anyway. It's more important to me what they are now and what they might be.

[crouching_sin]

True. How did you even defeat Him?

[You don't seem like a King of Bel to him.]

[alephbet]

Well. For starters, I'm the Messiah. I can't give a lot of advice with that part - I was made to be one.

After that... In the process of helping people out with their problems and saving people, standard Messiah things, I suddenly had a lot of strong demons, combat experience, and the attention of some important people, like Lucifer.

[crouching_sin]

[... Messiahs all over the damn place - but what a shock it must have been to Him.]

Lucifer, hmm? Interesting... I've been trying to gather powerful allies to my side, but sadly one of them seems to have... decided to follow God.

[alephbet]

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure that you can make up for it, though.

[crouching_sin]

Of course I can. I just need to have enough time to find someone else.

[Another Abel, perhaps. He won't count on being lucky enough to be reborn near one - his luck has always been terrible - so he'll have to find one.]

[alephbet]

Good luck. Did you want to ask me anything else?

[crouching_sin]

Not particularly. If you have a problem with your summoning device, however, I may be able to aid in fixing it.

[And maybe poke around in it... but he doesn't need to know that.]

[alephbet]

That would be helpful. I don't think there are many people in this tower who are familiar with them.

[crouching_sin]

I designed a summoning device in my world - or at least the programming for it. But you're right, I doubt there are many - or any - others who are familiar with it.

[alephbet]

Mine has lasted me this long. I know it's fairly durable.

[It survived when he was tossed out of Eden after all. That was some landing.]

Hi HTML how are you today.

[crouching_sin]

Still. Keep it in mind.

[He grins slightly. It's always interesting to look at those sorts of things.]