Before the man began to talk, a nice woman came to Kami and offered him a cup of hot tea.
"Alright, so you've found out about your powers and don't know where they came from and why you have them? That makes you one of the few who never had contact" Akira began to speak.
"Never had contact?" Kami was visibly confused.
"Everyone that has those kind of powers, the so called "Coders" got these abilities from a being whose name we don't know, but you could think of it as some kind of god, or even THE god"
"God?" Kami scoffed, "Seriously?"
"Yeah, god. Or whatever it wants to be called, we don't know that for sure. but most people that get an ability meet this being. It explains to them what power they get, and why it gives you these powers"
Akira opened one of his hands and in his hand a small being formed, out of pure light.
"That's how the being looked, at least this is the closest I could get, because we humans cannot really fathom its mere existence"
It looked like a pale humanoid creature, the skin completely white, very long legs and in its face only brightly glowing eyes.
"How do you do that?" Kami asked Akira, regarding the holographic projection of this "God" inside his hands.
"Oh, that's my ability. "Bright" is what it's called. I can create solid objects made of light and some other cool things too, which I'd rather keep to myself."
After explaining his ability, he shifts back to his explanation.
"So this god thing chose many people to hold one of these reality changing abilities. After one was chosen and stood in front of this god we were told, that it chose 1000 people to be a coder and wants them all to fight for the sake of determining who will be the successor of it"
Kami's eyes widened, "Are you telling me that we have to kill each other, until only one of us is left? Like a giant battle royale?"
Inu looked to the ground with a sad face, while Akira kept a straight face.
"Yes, that's exactly it. We all still haven't figured out how the System works, which definitely also comes from the god, but yeah, in the end, there can only be one person, who will be the sole successor to god and for that to happen, all other coders have to die"
After hearing this, a shiver ran down Kami's spine. Not only did he have to fight those other coders, but also kill people? And besides that, this also meant that everyone in this village would have to start killing each other at some point.
"And if we just don't kill each other? If we just wait out and live with these powers?" Kami asked Akira.
"Oh, you're not as stupid as I thought" Akira answered "well we can't wait out, we have something like a timer. This god also told us, that if by the end of this year, there is more than one remaining, everyone would die except for the one who killed the most other coders"
After learning that within the next eleven months, every coder would die, either by the hand of another coder, or by not killing the most in the span of those eleven months, Kami stood up and looked Akira straight in the eyes
"I don't give a shit what that god said, I will find a way for multiple people to survive this shitshow. But first I will have to find a way, to find my sister Asuka, who has been kidnapped by Umbra and I will beat the living shit out of him for doing so."
After the mention of Umbra's name Akira's light projection exploded into millions of white pieces that then turned back into invisible light, he dropped his tea cup and looked at Kami. His face now completely changed its expression. It was pure fear.