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「Playing God」

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Synopsis
A world called Noma, with people whose name are given by a God. But, names given are actual words, and in this world, names with words matter… and they call them [Borrowers]. But, unfortunates happen, as some individuals don’t receive any power and must kill monsters to learn magic or the other option… kill a [Borrower], and steal their name. Navi, a normal girl with her partner, Kami, a trusted, loyal, and mysterious sentient hat. With the two of them living to survive everyday, life finds a way to screw with them. But as long as they’re together, with Navi’s intelligence and earned magic, along sides Kami’s power, [Creation], they take everything thrown at them and use it to their advantage. But the world of Noma is not forgivable, as the people inside this world, hungers for power, destruction and ruling others.
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Chapter 1 - Chapter 1: N & K

(In a blurry vision, a young person runs while weeping…)

 

In a large forest where bushes are filled with unknown fruits, trees reaching as high as the clouds, roots that make up the shape of an arc and branches attached to each other as if it's a whole hive mind.

 

With leaves falling from the trees, a rustling sound comes from the ground with a fast unknown creature, which seems to be running away from something. 

 

(Hearing something inside the forest, they run faster…)

 

As it runs, a large spike forms from underneath flinging the unknown creature forward and hitting a tree on its trajectory. Hitting the ground, the dirt from below starts to crack and creates a line towards the fallen creature and as it reaches the creature… 

 

(The young person trips…)

 

The loud sound of something soft being pierced can be heard...

 

(The sound of gasping for air can be heard…)

 

At the end of the line, a pierced creature, possessing six circular heads with different face line tattoos, bounded together with nothing but a will to be together in a straight line, with one of the heads from the back, adorned with a tail that takes a diamond-like shape.

 

(The person holds their chest with their shaking hands as if trying to stop the bleeding…)

 

(The person… falls to the ground…)

 

(Perishing…)

 

As the creature lies there with 2 of its head pierced by the giant spikes similar to the one from before. The other heads of this creature expression go into a shock as the 2 head pierced by the spikes disconnect from each other. 

A tiny glowing light appears in the middle of the two, and as the leaves falling from the large trees descends on the glowing light... A large explosion occurs, damaging the environment near the creatures death.

 

The smoke clears and one of the bushes where the crack from before rustles with a quiet voice, squirming. 

More and more the bush shakes…

At that moment, a young girl appears, her deep dark eyes radiating with expressions, even if looking blank. The girl was enveloped in a dark green cloak that draped gracefully around her slender figure, secured by a striking red scarf that not only bound the cloak but also bore an intriguing resemblance to a hand at its end.

Perched atop her head was a three-pointed hat, featuring two front-facing holes, resembling that of a mountain crowned with a dusting of snow, lending an air of mystery to her appearance.

 

Destroyed trees, large amount of rubble's, bird like creatures flying away, and a giant crater in the middle. Walking to the giant crater where the large explosion happened. The person wearing a robe looks above her and asks the hat saying...

 

"Don't you think that was too much?"

 

Without a mouth to talk with, the hat replied speaking directly through the girls mind.

 

'It's their nature, what can we do? Besides, it'll fix itself in just a minute' 

 

"I know… It just felt weird…"

 

'What felt weird?'

 

"Oh, nothing…"

 

As the girl walks towards the crater, a single head remains which also happens to be the one with the tail. Picking it up using the robed persons scarf, she ask their hat again…

 

"That's weird, how did this little guy survive?"

 

'It was probably caught inside the explosion.'

 

"Probably. Do you think this is good for the whole week, Kami?"

 

She says, as she holds the creature by its tail and putting it within the sack of more of the same creature on their waist. Kami looks around their surroundings for danger while saying.

 

'You'll probably need more, but 12 is enough for today. Get some rest, Navi'

 

"Ok!~".

 

After the talk, the two heads off to the city while the large crater fixes itself with all the things that was caught inside the explosion, while the affected surroundings stays the same. 

 

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Kurstle, A city created atop of a giant moving turtle with a mountain for its shell. Moving as long as there is sunlight, and stops when it reaches the moonlight. A city where houses are built so tightly, that it feels like a maze just walking inside.

With zip lines on top and the substantial amount of wagon at the bottom supporting the zip lines from below, helps with the transport of going up and down from Kurstle.

Adventurers go down from the turtle's mountain to scavenge for materials, hunt monsters for their remains, and loot treasure from dungeons to earn a living and stay within the city. 

Jellyfish-like creatures float just above the Kurstles mid castle, possessing baskets filled with materials for the city are attached to each one of these transparent creatures.

 

High breeze blows through the wind as a hooded person on a skateboard wearing shorts that has clovers for design, darts from roof to roof with ease. A loud grumbling sound comes from within their stomach, and while jumping, Navi and Kami whom are below, walks through the city following one of many signs that leads to anywhere inside the city.

 

"Did you hear that?"

 

Navi looks around confused, before coming to a halt and inspecting a sign pointing towards the midtown shops.

 

'It was probably someone's stomach.'

 

"...?"

 

Navi's expression turns a bit flustered and starts walking again, while Kami looks confused as to why there was a pause…

 

As Navi keeps walking, following Kami's direction, Navi's expression starts to become worried, and as she becomes more worried, she asks Kami...

 

"Kami, are we... lost?"

 

'What makes you think were lost? ...go left.'

 

"...cause you're confusing left and right again."

 

'And what makes you say that? ...turn right.' 

 

"..."

 

Navi stops for a bit, hesitates, before exclaiming...

 

"BECAUSE THE ARROWS ON THE SIGNS YOU'RE FOLLOWING ARE POINTING TOWARDS THE SHOP!! …

a-and you've been making me w-walk the other way..."

While tears starts to bubble from Navi's eyes and her legs shakes from exhaustion, the citizen around them starts looking worried for her.

With a shocked expression from Kami's eyes, she calms Navi down and tells Navi they're sorry for making her go the wrong way and for making her cry.

 

'Let's take a break over by that bench over there, you can take as long as you want.' 

 

"Thank you..."

 

Kami wipes the bits of tears from Navi's teary eyes using the scarf.

 

As the two relaxes on the bench for a while. A large explosion can be heard from afar, and guards can be seen running towards the sound of the explosion. Navi looks confused but is quickly dismissed by Kami...

 

'It has nothing to do with us. Just rest more then we'll take a look later.'

 

Navi nods and goes back to resting, while Kami keeps an eye on their surroundings because of the explosion.

 

 

:10 minutes earlier from where the hooded, skateboarding person was:

 

"mmm... now where was that food stall that sold bread again? *grumble* …this is really tiring..."

 

As the person rides along the roofs looking around, they point their fingers at themselves and…

 

*bang*

 

Numbers cased inside a rectangular shape, scrolling randomly from 6-10 shows up above their head, passing through things as if not physical. 

 

Rolling an 8, they spot a delicious freshly baked bread on a window just above the roof their on.

 

"hehe, just my luck." They say as they smirk with excitement.

 

Reaching the house while on the roof, they try climbing the wall, but fails miserably because of their laziness. They shoot their selves again…

 

*bang*

 

The numbers appearing again, scrolling randomly from 6-10… it stops at 9.

 

A giant, transparent, flying blue jellyfish like creature transporting a basket full of rock and stones from above suddenly drops a stone from its basket, hitting the freshly baked bread and falling from the window, into the hand of the hooded person.

As they catch the bread, running can be heard from the window. The owner of the bread wearing an apron looks outside the window after hearing a thud and sees them skateboarding away.

 

The owner jumps down carefully from his window and onto the roofs, and ensues a chase.

 

While chasing the culprit, the owner shouts and screams… 

 

"GET BACK HERE THIEF!! THOSE WERE FOR THE BIRD!!".

 

"what a hassle..."

 

The hooded person murmurs, while moving their fingers to point towards the direction of the owner.

As their finger directly points at the owners position...

 

*bang*

 

Numbers scrolling randomly from 1-5 appears above the owner's head.

 

'What the hell is this?'

 

He says, as he mutters it in his head.

 

The number stops at 3 and the owner falls through the roof they're running on and lands on a bunch of dead creatures similar to the one that Navi and Kami killed before.

 

"Why are there bodies of tint's he-",

 

Their talking gets cut off as the tint's he fell on, all blow up one by one, causing a ruckus near the buildings and destroying everything around the shop with a shock wave of the explosion, leaving only a giant crater. 

 

The guards from the castle runs towards the building, while the citizens stand near the crater, mumbling to others around.

 

"Everyone please back away from the scene! This building seems to have been a tint shop."

 

The guards quickly creates a barrier around the crater while moving away injured and affected bystanders away from the crater, and calling healers from nearby.

 

"Tints are know to blow up harshly, but it is also harmless if you're caught inside as it rebuilds everything that was caught inside the explosion. Unless you were affected by it, then we will call a healer to fix you up."

 

"And since there was more than one that blew up, we have to wait a bit longer for the reversing effects to start."

 

The people nearby murmurs in concern as to what had happened, all the while, the blown up building and stuff that was inside the explosion fixes itself.

 

"oops, maybe I went too far?"

 

They stare at the destruction they created and moves along the roofs.

 

Back at the two laying and resting on the bench,

Navi stands up and stretches, while Kami uses the scarf hand. Strings starts to appear out of the scarf's palm, it swirls and moves to a silhouette of a ladder before materializing into a real object, with the same elements as a normal ladder.

 

Placing the ladder near a building, Navi climbs and reaches the roof. Upon reaching the top, she bolts towards the explosion from before.

 

"Nice thinking on running from the top!"

 

'Thank you! It is the easiest way to move from place to place without anyone getting in the way.'

 

Upon nearing at the scene, they spot destroyed buildings around them. Reaching the shop, they see guards surrounding the area, while the owner of said shop is devastated that their products are gone.

 

As the building fixes itself they realize it's the shop they're looking for.

Navi jumps down from the roof and moves closer… but as they move closer they spot a person inside the crater getting rebuilt from the inside out in great detail.

Witnessing such a grotesque scene, Kami creates a bucket and moves it towards Navi's disgusted face to puke in. Navi obliges, and pukes until she couldn't anymore.

 

The bread owner regains their consciousness and gets move to a nearby healer to check their conditions. After tossing the bucket filled with puke in a trash-bin, Navi sigh's and walks towards the owner of the shop.

 

 "...Sorry for the loss of all your tint's, but I'm here to sell some…"

 

Kami uses the scarf hand, reaching into Navi's cape, she pulls out their sack filled with tint's.

 

"Thank you... yes, I'll buy it once my shop returns to normal."

After a bit of waiting, cutting boards, butchering knives, and other stuff used for a butchery shop forms out of the dusts on the ground and fixes itself while moving to their original positions, the rebars forming first, then bricks, then the paints…

The shop is fixed, while the destroyed properties that was affected by the explosion does not get fixed by itself, but instead are undergoing reconstruction by builders. 

 

Inside the shop, Navi questions the owner while selling her tint's.

 

"So… what exactly happened?"

 

"The guy who was caught inside the explosion said that he fell from the roof and activated all the tint's."

 

Navi raises one of her eyebrows in confusion.

 

"Why was he on the roof though?"

 

"No idea. He said he was chasing a thief who stole his bread? But I don't think you need to chase someone down, especially on the roof, because of a single bread you know?"

 

Kami reads Navi's thoughts of confusion and uses the scarf and scratches her head playfully, while Navi 'hmms' in her thoughts.

 

"Oh! He also said that before he fell, he saw numbers above his head. Don't know anything about that, but… yea, that's about everything he said."

 

The owner finishes counting Navi's tint's and hands her 1 Ark and 60 coins.

 

"Thanks for the information Mr. Tint! Goodbye!"

 

"Thank you as well!!"

 

Both wave their goodbyes happily as Navi walks out and starts to look at their earnings.

 

'We've got a fairly amount of money than we intended to have today, we even got an Ark!'

 

Navi freezes in place from hearing what Kami said, before talking in a shaky tone.

 

"W-wait an-, a-…an… ARK?! ISN'T THAT 500 COINS?!?"

 

Because of Navi screaming in excitement, everyone walking by was suddenly surprised by her. Feeling awkward they give out a small applause before continuing their walk.

 

"oop!"

 

Turning flustered because of the applause by others, Navi shied away in her cape.

 

'let's buy cake!!~'

 

Speaking into Kami's mind, Navi expresses excitement and nervousness inside her head, without a word exiting her mouth.

 

'pftt, yea… figured you'll say that.' responding in a bittersweet tone.

 

"YOU THINK I'M A GLUTTON?!?"

 

Throwing a bit of a tantrum, and, again, alerting the passing citizens, Kami confirms to Navi that, that wasn't what they meant and tells her to just talk inside.

 

'How'd you know I wanted cake?'

 

'Your stomach was grumbling before.'

 

'YOU KNOW THAT WASN'T ME!!'

 

'Hahaha, I know, I know... sorry. I just read your mind to figure out what you wanted.'

 

Navi pouts and walks in shame to look for a bakery shop that sells cake… while mischievous eyes, gaze upon them from one of the roof…