Chapter 35: At a High Stake

  Besides their beloved father was a creation of his own seeds. A mere human, but not moderate, stood casually with an innocent and naive look on its face. They could recognize his gender, it was a male. Their father seemed not to give off any emotions specifically, it looked like a negotiation had been made between them. Seemingly, father had been waiting for the quintuplets to come back, and to let them know that this is something contagious from father’s volition and discretion.

  If their father gives his decision, then it must be his mind was working for it.

  With that in mind, the quintuplets didn’t think too much and nearly threw a tantrum at the scene in front of them. However, there were queries that they needed answers from their father, “Why...is a seed standing behind you so sound and all?”. The quintuplets looked comprehensively about the boy, they thought that besides its bizarre syndrome from his eyes was nothing special giving off from the boy. Also, they contemplated how the boy got here in the first place, there was no way anyone could trespass into holiness except them and father. Scrutinizing their memories, despite having advanced technologies that could travel time or displace, there was no way for individuals to even find this place. Simply no way...

  Father: “Remember back my sons, I’m not the only ancient being from the Big Bang incident.”

  Given the hints, the quintuplets were brightened to be reminded that their father wasn’t the only being born from the Big Bang incident. There were other ancient beings besides father, but why didn’t they make a call or try to interact with father? The quintuplets came up with the reason that other ancient beings wanted to conceal their visages, and they didn’t want to contact each other for personal reasons. Thus, their father had taken this enormous environment, editing and customizing whatever he wanted. Whilst, other ancient beings kept hidden and wouldn’t make even a slightness of appearance or signal to let them know their existence.

  Father: “I think it’s time to let you all know this my sons.”

  Their father wanted to let them know something, and it must be right for the time. They thought it would be an explanation for the boy’s origin, which is the remarkable thing leading up to an interrogation. As expected, their father was explaining everything, but in a roundabout direction. It could be called fancy storytelling.

  Father: “I and the other ancient beings diminished from each other from that time. We split up, and each took a different route branched from the Big Bang incident.”

  The Big Bang incident was the cause of where everything started, it was the vast amount of energy running toward a singular point under atomic molecular size. The corrosive explosion caused the dimension to pierce the space, and henceforth, it opened up many domains at which laying another distinguishing world. It’s called ‘alternative universe’. In the other universe as said, more like an unknowingly space branched from the explosion, when going into that could displace us into another cosmic empty universe. From there, the ancient beings chose their domain, and they constructed everything as well as what father of the quintuplets was doing.

  Father: “Sometimes, the fissures from the universe open, and it could potentially bring its things into our universe.”

  Stars are constantly born from the outer universe, and it has been like that until today. Space expands at light speed, and it would keep inflating and expanding. The fissures from the universe are horrendous enough to pack through planets from the other domain in which the other ancient being lives. Just like that, every domain would be flooded with a huge number of stars. Since the universe keeps expanding, flooding stars would have space for them to get in. The mixture between domains balances the vast amount of stars created relentlessly from the universe and the ‘alternate universe’.

  Father: “We are gifted with authorities and powers to customize our own domain, but have to maintain balance so it won’t crash and get stacked up. If one of the domains gets overloaded, then it would traverse to my domain and other ancient beings’ domains as well.”

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  The quintuplets were listening and acknowledging simultaneously, their father told them to explore universes also contain seeds from other ancient beings. They noticed that other ancient beings and father had the same vision in customizing their domain, it was the ultimate species that their father said. However, they didn’t know how other ancient beings set up and customized their world differently; the terminology was there, and the concept was there. The vision in creating ultimate beings was similar, but everything must be different and not the same, such as the other universe could be dream-core-like. Then, they realized...

  It all came from imagination.

  If one could imagine of things to build up their world, then it would correspond to their creations. The planets flooding into this universe were giving clues of their imaginative level, but they didn’t know which planets were from what domain. The quintuplets only knew that whatever ancient being agent for the seeds of the planets was very sophisticated and complicated in terms of imagination and logic. Then, they noticed that through many long travels in space, why hadn’t they witnessed a fissure even once and the process of the planets getting in?

  Father: “Fissures in space appear in the coordinate that’s unexpected.”

  Unexpected? The quintuplets thought of how amusing the reason was. How can’t gods like them with superpowers and authorities witness even one fissure in the universe? Even the almighty being like father, cannot see even one fissure for himself? If the fissures open in an unexpected way then that could explain. The quintuplets sensed that the fissures would open as if some individual who patrols the passage thinks it’s good to go, therefore the fissure opens and planets would sprawl through. However, the quintuplets didn’t know forth unless its mechanics were explained.

  Father: “Let’s talk about the ancient beings, so...there are five of them. One is me, the Osparius, second one is Psalm, third is Oblivion, fourth is Scavillion and fifth is Oladin.”

  The names of the ancient beings were implied, the piece of information given to the quintuplets was probably essential and instituted to them. Undoubtedly, they carved the names of the ancient beings into their mind. The chill boy was standing there silently, he seemingly didn’t have any words to say or was simply content inside him. The heterochromia shined bright from both of his eyes, the iris was gleaming brightly, and it marked the inquisitive trait of him. However, the boy’s origin remained unknown, the piece of information given was simply that there were five domains, and each ancient being took control of one domain for themself. Or the boy was in father’s universe, but his planet in which he was born was a sand in millions of sand; that meant it was nearly impossible to find his origin.

  However, it was only if there were no superpowers to execute, meaning the boy’s origin could be found with their gifted powers. The father could had seen the boy’s origin, but he hadn’t asserted it yet. There was something blocking the way for the truth.

  Father: “I can’t see his origin, and whether he’s from our universe or not. It could be the ‘pledging system’.”

  Pledging system is the exchange of two universes that gives something for the exchange of something. Meaning, if the other universe pours in planets with no identifications, then the other universe would give the same. Thus, it must be ancient being that wanted to conceal the information poured in planets with no identification, and it was going similar for that ancient being’s domain. Ultimately, it’s balanced since there were also planets from father’s universe pouring into that ancient being’s domain. It would be foolish to rebel, because one overloaded universe would consequently cause the annihilation of domains. The quintuplets knew this, and they thought that it could be the only reason for that undiscovered truth about the boy. Pledging system carved its meaning, there would be no way to break the invisible rules that had settled between the five ancient beings.

  God #3: “What is the purpose of sending him here? And he’s a walking species as well?”

  God #2: “There’s a possibility that the boy could get lost, or do something to be involved in the pledging system.”

  God #4: “What’s the deal with his eyes’ color, and the power within him to find this place?”

  Father: “Imagination is the key, this must be their imaginative stuff. There are powerful individuals that could be dreamt of, and it could be born from the domain. No, the seeds with powerful powers at first could think of further than that. My responsibility is to take hold of this universe, but despite having powers that could outbreak the reality, they could never get through the creator’s barrier.”

  Quintuplets: “That must be you adopting him?”

  Father: “I find something intriguing from him.”

  Quintuplets: “...”

  The father found something intriguing from the boy, but what was intriguing remained a mystery toward the quintuplets. They didn’t know the purpose of their father for fostering an individual that they couldn’t even know its origin yet. The quintuplets gave a shot, they would protect their father no matter what, and it would be a guaranteed win if they all cooperated. Therefore, fostering that child could be father’s experiment about something. The quintuplets knew their father’s almighty power, and it couldn’t be so easy to assassinate him. So, if the boy tries to do something stupid, then it’s a dead call for him.

  A god tried to look inside the boy, and what he found was just black substance, pure dark, inside him. The pledging system surely had gotten in the way. Suddenly, the boy spoke for the first time at the near ending-time of the conference; he said something to relieve the tension of the atmosphere in this cold dark place. It was to relieve the conflict about his origin.

  The boy: “I’m...I’m not the person you’re contemplating. I just happened to get brought here by this [__]. He gave me powers, and I don’t know how to use them. And...”

  The boy halted for a second, then he continued his speech.

  The boy: “I can’t remember anything!”

  Pledging system was working and doing its things. That’s right, it was the exchange for the things to have no identification. If the boy got sent here with a purpose, then the individual’s memories of the past would be erased. And this had relieved multiple thoughts of the quintuplets and balanced the thing that they were thinking about.

  If this boy got sent here and had his memories deleted, then there must be something not right lingering. The quintuplets imagined that sequel, but they put it aside because it would contradict with their conscience.

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