[BL] Daily Disposable Persona

91: R'lyeh 15

"Which evil god did you become?" Yog-Sothoth asked. He was in an excellent mood.

The mighty Lord of Time and Space never feared a challenge, or, to be more precise, nothing had ever challenged him. From the very beginning of his existence he'd been equipped with the ultimate cheat, the ability to see and know everything. There were no questions in the universe Yog-Sothoth couldn't find the answers to.

But this... was just so interesting.

"Well..." Zong Yan coughed lightly. "I became the Lord of R'lyeh. I don't know how it happened. I woke up as his half-self."

Half-self?

The man's long, golden eyes narrowed slightly. A strange gleam of light flickered inside.

"But I don't really know what's going on. I returned to this body after I used a card."

Zong Yan's eyes were closed. He was in the dark and there was an inexplicable hand that kept making trouble on his face, but he tried to ignore his feelings of insecurity. "It's possible that in a few hours the time limit for this persona card will run out, and I'll go back to that body."

Although he wasn't sure why, Zong Yan had a vague hunch that when the Astrologer card's three-hour time limit expired, his soul would exit this body and return to the Lord of R'lyeh in the distant past.

The knowledge was like a warning bell that constantly reminded him: you're not an ordinary human anymore.

You're an evil god, an evil god with weak emotions; an evil god who's evil by nature, one of the lords of R'lyeh.

You should relinquish everything that's human....

There'd never been an evil god with as many unnecessary feelings as Zong Yan.

"I see."

The Lord of Time and Space nodded slightly and secretly sent a message to his other avatar, then smiled without saying a word.

Yog-Sothoth hated when other people meddled with his things, even if the meddler was his son in terms of kinship.

Evil gods didn't recognize such relationships, unless it was the Lord of the Universe who wielded absolute power over all other Outer Gods.

The only eternal truth was power.

The space suddenly grew quiet again, returning to its normal state of utter silence.

Yog didn't think there was anything unnatural about the stillness. The end of time and space was always quiet. There was only the occasional soft sound of one timeline colliding with another.

The probability of a collision was extremely small, but when it happened, there was a possibility that a displacement might occur between the timelines. Many intelligent creatures had been forced to make a fantastic and thrilling journey across time as a result.

It wasn't especially rare. In the history of Earth, people from the 19th century had suddenly appeared in New York in the 1950s. In addition, an American plane from 1955 once landed in 1990, thirty-five years after its disappearance. The passengers on board thought it was a normal flight. When the plane landed, they met their relatives only to discover that their baby had grown into an adult, and their wife or husband had grown old. There were also cases during WWII when pilots flew missions that mysteriously traversed time and space.

As for why these misadventures were so thrilling, it had to do with Yog-Sothoth's enemy, the Tindalos clan. Their favorite activity was hunting time travelers and catching them one at a time: crunch crunch R.I.P. Without the slightest intervention from the Lord of Time and Space, the timeline was restored to its original condition.