In the dark of night under a crescent moon, a destroyer with many cannons, harpoons, and anti-artillery turrets sailed across the vast ocean.
The men on board the ship were of different places and cultures, some had thin faces while others had flat ones, some had blond hair and others black, some had brown, blue, or green eyes.
They wore different outfits, some wore home attire, others had military outfits. They also would wear a black coat with crimson lines that seem to resemble blades outlined across the arms. It had two names on the back, first was the name of the person wearing it and the second was "squad 8".
In the driver's compartment there were three men, one was keeping the ship on course making sure it went on the right path, another was checking if any enemy ships were nearby on the radar, the last one was in the corner watching on his phone.
The third man had blonde hair and brown eyes, a thin face and below his left ear was a mole. He could be considered handsome. He wore a black shirt and pants with the black coat over him. The coat was slightly different then the others, it had two bright golden stripes across the wrists and on the back, right above his name it said "Lieutenant".
His overall laid-back expression as well as his looks gave him an air of friendliness and intelligence.
Suddenly the man checking for enemies spoke: "Hans we got something".
"What is it also it's lieutenant Hans now Jemy." said the lieutenant who was named Hans.
Jemy spoke: "Do you wanna see the problem and fix it or not."
"Can you tell me where it is so I can avoid it?" said the man steering the ship.
"No can do, it's already too close plus I doubt that they let us go." said Jemy.
"You had one job and you fucked it up" said Hans.
Jemy spoke, raising his voice instinctively: "It was calm a few seconds ago."
"It doesn't matter, just wake up captain." said the helmsman.
In a large room with only candle light was a man sitting down in a chair with a book over his face.
The man was wearing black pants and a shirt with a black coat over his chest that had three words on the back. At the top was squad 8, at the bottom was captain, and below that was a name , the first one was written in Japanese, the second English, the name was Ryuzo Nakaya.
The man's coat was slightly different from the others as it had three golden stripes across the wrists. Suddenly Hans burst open the door: "Yo cap wake up we got an emergency." "Hmm" Upon hearing this Ryuzo took the book off his face.
He had a shape jawline, messy short black hair that hadn't been combed in a while as well as dark eyes that were focused yet gentle. He had some stubble on his face and his overall physique was that of a fighter in the lower weight classes such as bantam. He seemed strong yet kind at the same thing, giving him the demeanor of a protector.
"What is it now? Don't tell me someone already died, it's not even that long of a ride." Ryuzo said as he laid back into his seat before standing up. While he stood up, Ryuzo put on his coat before looking towards Hans.
"There's an enemy destroyer that somehow got past the radar." Hans said quickly in a flustered tone.
Ryuzo spoke, raising his voice a little, and placing his arms out wide in front of him: "Are you sure it's an enemy? Last time this happened we attacked an ally ship." Ryuzo said mockingly.
"Motherfucker, we wouldn't have woken you up if it wasn't. Plus that was one time only." said Hans angrily, "Alright alright i'll get on it."
Ryuzo said as he walked towards the door, a sword appeared into his hands from a burst of dark black flames, the scabbard seemed to be made from wood or bamboo, its color gray with dark spots that seemed to resemble ash. The handguard was multi-layered and was a reddish black color. The first layer was a normal tsubu with crosses at the top and bottom on the inside of it. The second one which was below the first was that of the Shinmen clan's family crest.
As he walked through the door the ship suddenly shook but Ryuzo, Hans, and some of the members of crew seemed unaffected, while others stumbled, and some fell onto their backs or items and people.
"Tell the crew to start firing and get the helmsman to move away from the battle. If we can't get away we'll fight." Ryuzo said with a calm yet serious tone.
As the ship shook, the alarm came off ,and everyone went off to their battle stations.
Some picked up their guns, others a melee weapon, some went to the cannons, others anti-artillery turrets, and some seemed to have teleported to the top of the destroyer to look at the enemy ship.
At this moment Ryuzo appeared at the deck of the ship and stared at the opposing ship.
After a while of running away and being chased while cannons balls and harpoons that were big enough to hurt a whale shot back and forth.
Ryuzo suddenly jumped across and landed on the enemy ship.
As soon as he stood up a man wearing a dark blue outfit carrying a sword that seemed to be nearly invisible attacked him trying for a stab. Ryuzo, seeing this, stepped back as he unsheathed his katana while holding the weapon in his left hand before stepping forward, and cutting his opponent vertically down his body.
The black blade that seemed to be made of fire, slashed across the right side of its target's chest to the left side of his torso, cutting it open and burning it to a crip.
At this moment Ryuzo went forward again and cut upwards towards his opponent's arm cutting it off, then cutting horizontally from his right to left, slicing his opponent's neck off.
As the head fell onto the ground rolling across the deck, the rest of the enemies stared at it in dazed.
In under 5 seconds, one of the crew members was killed. Not only that but the man he had killed was an archangel who would fight to the death with a smile on his face. A person who was said to have the highest likelihood of gaining the berserker title.
The next second some of the people on Ryuzo's side jumped onto the ship or teleported there.
Some after seeing the teleporters froze, some didn't have a reaction, and others smiled.
The ones that smiled had lines drilling out from them that entered the captain's cabin that only Ryuzo and Hans could see.
The captain on this ship was the current owner of the marionettist title and was at least a rogue at the level of a false god. The man was very famous all across the cosmos, the name of this man was Yan Drezner.
As Ryuzo saw this, he grew worried as rogues at this level, and especially ones with the title of marionettist could steal the life of people below the level of archangel without them even realizing.
At this moment a beam of light shot down from the sky attacking Yan in the captain's cabin.
It was Hans who summoned the beam as he realized the same situation.
At this moment the people who turned into marionettes attacked Hans and the rogues in squad 8.
Seeing this, Ryuzo slashed at the air, a wave of black flames flew across the ship towards the captain's cabin.
He had attacked the strings controlling them, disconnecting the marionettes that Yan controlled while attacking his main body in the process.
The next second, a spear with an aura that made everything feel cold as if they had seen the dead attempted to pierce Ryuzo's side.
He parried it with his blade while moving the left of the spear and grabbing it with his right hand before pulling in the person using it.
As he did this, the flames making up the katana grew in size and he stabbed into the face of his opponent.
As the marionette landed on the ground with a hole that leaked steam, he saw a wallet come out of the suit pocket of the jacket, the photo was of a woman smiling ear and ear at the camera.
Seeing this Ryuzo gained a sorry expression and started thinking to himself: "I'm sorry, if there was a way to turn back into a person I would have taken it.
I promised to only fight to protect myself and others, though others will not do the same. I hope your family will be at peace, what am I saying of course they wouldn't. They just lost their son, their lover, a brother, and maybe even a father."
While he was in thought a ray of silver lighting aimed towards him, at this moment, parts of the deck lifted up by themselves and acted as a shield to protect him.
"What are you doing!" yelled Hans, as he held a charm made of metal. "Get your head in the game or we're going to die!"
Hearing this Ryuzo snapped out of his thoughts and started speeding across the deck of the ship while cutting off the hands of enemy fighters, but no blood leaked out from the wound it just stayed there like it was in a glass of wine.
He had attacked their soul body damaging the physical one without letting the blood stay inside as the physical still considered the hand attached but the pain and wound were very real as it could still get infected, and if he attacked to kill like cutting them in half or chopping off their neck it would still kill them as well making sure they couldn't come back to life if they could revive themselves.
After cutting off the hands of the people in the fighter pathway of the enemy crew. Ryuzo rushed towards the captain's cabin.
At that moment a figure teleported to his right, he had blond hair and blue eyes, on his right hand was a blue glove that seemed to be half illusory. He gave off an aura of confidence and kind natural
It was Yan Drezner.
After seeing him Ryuzo slashed towards him, a wave of black flames enveloped the captain's cabin as Yan turned half illusory taking no damage.
Not even a single second later Ryuzo charged toward him cutting in two, as soon as he did tho Yan turned into a figure of white lighting, substitution figuration.
The next second Yan appeared at the top of ship with a deep cut on his stomach, this was because he was cut with a spiritual attack, an attack which could damage his soul, if he didn't use substitution figuration he would be dead.
The next millisecond, Ryuzo appeared before him, seeing this Yan teleported away as Ryuzo gave chase.
Though Ryuzo could not teleport as a fighter, at the level of true false god he could catch up to Yan as well as maybe even attack him as soon as he stopped teleporting.
In the next second Ryuzo cut off Yan's head and held it in his right hand. But there was no blood coming out and he was alive.
This was a mix of atomic slashing and a soul strike. Normally the atoms that were cut in half would explode making a nuke but because of Ryuzo skill in both his swordsmanship and control over his ki he could cut atoms without causing an explosion.
This made removing a part of them like the head without killing them possible but it could only last for a short amount of time. This was because if he keeped someone like this they would soon die as their body realizes their head was cut off.
"I'm willing to let you live but under two conditions. One you cannot attack the people who aren't in the war, two you can't turn the people about to die into marionettes".
After hearing this, Yan gave a smile and looked at Ryuzo for a second "Deal."
Upon saying this Ryuzo placed Yan's head back on his neck but in less than a second Yan started to create strings and attached them to his crew members.
Seeing this, Ryuzo, as soon as Yan's body started to teleport away, he cut him from the waist up to the shoulder leaving him two.
"You should never attack others unless it is to protect yourself and others. If you have to kill the person to do so be it, but if you have the choice to not kill them while removing the threat you should always take it."
Ryuzo said this in his thoughts, completely understanding the promise that he thought he understood long ago. This is what it meant to be a man, a protector, a warrior that was of GOD or so he hoped.
The day was May 7th 2913 and it marked the death of one of most powerful existences in history.