35 Ephemerality (2/2)
”Yes oni-chama” she replied with the same clueless face as ever.
”Want to write it together? We will then be in an adventure! ”
”Adventure?”
”Yes! You'll see different things along the way and I'm sure you're gonna like it”
”Woah...Will I see a pegasus, oni-chama?”
”Oh, yes. And you will not just see it but instead, you'll probably be able to ride one.”
”Yaaaayyy!! Let's write it now oni-chama!!”
”Sure!”
I already learned my lesson. Likely, it was the greatest regret of my life, not reading the terms and conditions of the contract that I signed hastily and I'm not gonna make the same mistake twice. I'll read this even if it would take me an hour...
The contract reads...
✞———————❖———————✞
I, __________hereby pledge by the authority of the Magistrates, am now a part of the Decree- warfare to decide the final controversy of my own race, deciding our overall fate and the fate which I am to follow in my own will. ”
✞———————❖———————✞
That's it? Where are the terms? Oh right, they're not Herrschers. Maybe they don't carry the same burden as us... the main participants of the game.
Having read all of that, Shiro and I signed her contract together and at the same time, so did everyone. Then, out of the blue, the contracts began to burn in itself by a graceful cyan-colored flame indicating that the agreement had been sealed by an unalterable divine jurisdiction.
”Hey, Celes... Eh? Where is she?” The moment I took my attention off of her, she suddenly vanished. Maybe she's got some other business to take care of? Wait, business in this situation? That's implausible. Maybe she just has gone out for some fresh air.
”With that, I OFFICIALY WELCOME YOU ALL TO THE WARFARE OF FATES!” Hermes ecstatically shouted through the active multimedia making our ears ring for a while.
Trumpets, Drums, and Joyful singing then roared through the thundering skies with unseen musicals and then suddenly, in the bleak of the nightfall, fireworks came booming out of nowhere, with still unseen sources painting the vast firmament with variant colors. Shiro started to enjoy the show herself, but merely almost everyone was still stuck on foreshadowing their future here whilst being concerned with the decisions that they had made rather than enjoying the display.
Well, I think that there's an underlying message in this. Although it's me just being oversensitive, I know for sure that these cascades of fireworks were not prepared to erase doubts nor was it shown to be a facade worthy of admiration, but...to remind us of our ephemeral lives. One day it's here brimming with colors and ethereal beauty and yet, in a not too distant future it will wither away like fragile petals and like a little puff of smoke, everything will be taken away without warning.
And in this game, it's more likely that our life expectancy has now been reduced via sliding scales as the ephemerality of our lives has never been seen as concerning as this beforehand.