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Paradoxical Encore

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Synopsis
The White door opens — Memories of the past haunt the future. Marcen Loristu had many titles. However, one stood out the most: The Contradiction. His entire life was just a story to beings that could be explained as ‘Gods,’ and he hated it. These beings forced an old acquaintance of Marcen—, Time—, to rewind just so that he would live his entire story over, and over, and over again, just for their pleasure. On a cycle like the previous billions before, he found an escape. He would destroy an artifact that kept the words flowing, his nightmare running, the world breathing: The Console System. It was alive, resting at the edge of everything, the place where nothing except literal concepts could reach, yet he was able to enter. His greatest friend, “The Order,” who had been living through the same endless loop in a different story, a different ‘Universe,’ betrayed him before he could realise his goal when he was so close. Rebooting the system and commanding it to do a reset that would purge everything, a Factory Reset. The command broke the system itself and caused “Glitches” to arise, and “Corruptions” in the story. Now stranded in a broken multiverse, Marcen must regain his memories, save what little he can, and stop this rotting corpse of a world from being destroyed. And all the while, the Console System continuously flickered with a faint blue light. A light that shone brightly against its endless, expansive screen that covered the very border of the multiverse. Its ancient surface, that once held countless, continuing code and notifications, held naught except for one message left for a contradiction to read. — 「A Paradox has formed…」 — 《WHAT TO EXPECT》 ~ 1k minimum word count per chapter. ~ Creative settings, characters, and… author? ~ Living systems. ~ Mysterious villains. ~ MC fighting against the clock! (Translation: Fast Pace) ~ Crazy plot twists! (That make sense)
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Chapter 1 - Command

「LOGIN SUCCESSFUL」

「WELCOME NARRATOR」

「PLEASE ENTER COMMAND」

_Restart Multiverse

「DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE?」

「CONSEQUENCES」

-Time -> Broken

-Fiction -> NonFiction

-Concepts+LivingRepresentations =True

-Memories -> Restarted

「Y / N」

_Y

「UNDERSTOOD, NARRATOR」

「BEGINNING_RESET」

「MULTIVERSE DESTRUCTION」

♤ ♡ ◇ ♧

"Order…" Marcen, a hooded figure, muttered as he saw his oldest and former friend typing at a machine. The two were inside of an auction house, ruined and destroyed from a fight between them.

The clicks of a keyboard stops as the figure, in casual attire, turned around and grinned, "Oh, I don't go by that now." The typing figure lifted his shirt. Words, that was what his body slowly turned into as he let go, it fell down to cover him again, "It's Narrator now."

His grin slowly fell as he scanned Marcen with his eyes, the battered and injured, yet alive, "Why don't you just die? That way you'll reunite with her. You'll stop trying to end the stories of others," he turned around and the tapping sounds continued, "You should just rest now," his voice was much quieter this time. Then…

「COMMAND ACCEPTED」

The Narrator pressed enter, and with a broken man's laugh, turned around as asymmetric holes began forming on the walls and floorboards of this auction house, as if everything was reversing back into their most simplistic structure: Dust.

"It's over, Marcen. You wish to continue your story, then so be it," The Narrator solemnly spoke out before he closed his eyes.

Marcen tried to reach The Narrator as he disintegrated, his hands reaching out, only to feel nothing but dust as The Narrator disappeared like everything else.

Now left alone in front of the machine, its fluorescent blue glow from the screen that seemed to stretch endlessly, connecting to the border of the Multiverse, his own body began to succumb to the Command.

His body was reverting to the cosmic dust that once inhabited the world's beginning, yet there wasn't any pain, just a lonely cold. His body couldn't handle anymore as he fell onto his knees. Still, his gaze remained on the screen.

It wasn't an average chill, or a blistering freeze, but a calm and caring cool that left Marcen feeling tired.

Before his entire being was nothing but dust, the machinery behind the machine blared an alarm that was a mix of every alarm; tornado, earthquake, school bells, fire, flood, tsunami. With one message appearing over and over again, covering every inch of the screen of with its repetition

「ERROR」

-「ERROR」

–「ERROR」

—「ERROR」

「■ HAS BEEN FOUND」

—「ERROR」

–「ERROR」

-「ERROR」

「ERROR」

One message had made its way through the mass of errors. Marcen didn't know why, but he felt happy. He closed his eyes and laid down onto the ground, muttering, "I'm so tired…"