It was his zombified father.

Melinoë flinched when she saw their father in his current state.

"Close your eyes," Dios said.

She followed his words.

Dios picked the sword from the heaps of treasures.

He did not want his sister to see him kill their father, not with a smile on his face.

One slash and it was over.

Although the zombies were stronger than an average person, Dios had always been an inhuman freak in terms of physical ability.

He never met anyone better than him.

"Let's go. Keep your eyes closed until we leave the place."

Dios helped his sister out of the treasury.

The world changed that day.

Zombies, mythical beasts, monsters straight out of comics appeared.

A small portion of people started to awaken supernatural powers.

They were revered as gods.

Dios and Melinoë were a part of the majority.

They remained unawakened.

Dios was not sad.

Even if the world was turned into hell in just one day, he became free.

Melinoë, however, continued to blame herself for the apocalypse.

According to her, opening the silver cube was the cause of everything.

No one really believed her.

The two siblings roamed the shores of America.

They met all sorts of people.

"Dude, see this. They are really calling themselves 'Titans'," Aides spoke. "Hell, their leader is calling himself Kronos."

Aides laughed as he drank inside the bar.

Melinoë sat next to him, hanging onto his words with rapt attention.

Dios sat a bit far from them since Melinoë did not like him intruding on their 'couple time'.

"Dammit, she was always Dios this, Dios that, when she was a child, but that bastard stole her away from me."

He downed another shot while crying his heart out.

Although he did not show it, he was happy.

Melinoë was overcoming her trauma thanks to Aides' help.

While Dios was downing one shot after another, he picked the newspaper.

The newspapers stopped printing when the apocalypse began.

The Titans brought it back.

It was a sign of their power, authority, and a promise they would return the society to what it was.

Dios noticed the photo of Kronos on the front page.

He froze.

A sharp pain tore through his head.

"Francis….?"

Neo's ego surfaced when he recognized Francis.

Francis, Klein and Neo were childhood friends.

There was no way Neo would mistake him for someone else.

The unknown power tried to suppress Neo's ego.

But he held on.

"Why is… Francis…. called Kronos?"

Neo felt like his head was being torn apart.

He hurriedly flipped through the newspaper.

"Fuck…."

It was his world.

The countries, the places, the people.

Even if they were altered after the apocalypse, Neo still recognized them.

A waiter approached him.

"Sir, are you okay?"

"Y-yeah, a minor headache. Nothing serious."

Dios massaged his temples.

"What happened to me?" He stared at the open newspaper. "I feel like I just had a black out."

He ignored the problem when he did not find anything wrong with him.

A few months later, Melinoë announced the news to him.

"Aides proposed to me! We are officially going out now!"

"What…?"

Dios stuttered.

"You know, shouldn't you try to find a more capable partner? Like Aides isn't even an awakened. He is—"

"Dios, just congratulate me."

"….Congrats."

Dios never thought his life would get worse.

It did.

He got the news of Aides marrying his sister.

"Dammit, who marries after just three years of dating? That bastard is tricking my sister."

Dios felt like he lost to Aides.

The worst part was Aides was capable a fellow.

He had no shortcomings.

"Is she going to take Hargraves as her family name?

"Ew, who uses that name? Kingsley is miles better."

Dios cried his heart out while drinking under dawn.

He saw the photo of Aides shaking his hand with Kronos on the front page of the newspaper.

His sister's husband was too successful, dammit!

It was soon the day of the marriage.

By now, it became Dios' habit to check the newspaper first thing in the morning.

It always brought bad news and he wanted to get over it as soon as possible.

"Mhm?"

Dios led the headline.

"The Titans, and their leader Kronos, have promised to slay the one responsible for the apocalypse and bring justice to those who lost their loved ones in its cruel wake."

An ominous premonition crept into his heart.

"Hahaha, that can't be possible.

"I'm just imagining things."

His heart wouldn't calm down.

"I guess I'll meet them earlier than planned."

Dios walked towards the house where Aides and Melinoë lived.

The omnimiuous premonition refused to disappear.

It continued to increased.

Dios was running before he realised.

He continued to pray for their safety.

His prayers were not answered.

He found their housed crushed.

As if it was hit by a typhoon.

"Melinoë! Aides!"

Dios removed the wreckage as fast as he could.

His fingernails broke and his skin was torn, but he paid no heed to it.

He found Melinoë.

Dios tried to sense her pulse.

"Ahhhhh…"

A heartbreaking cry left his lips.

He tried to do a CPR.

Nothing worked.

Melinoë was dead.

Tears slipped down his cheeks and his cries wouldn't stop.

"I'll kill them."

"I'll kill them!"

Golden lightning started to manifest around Dios.

For the first time, he let lose.

Giant bolts of lightning descended from the sky and leveled the city.

Dios flicked his wrist.

The wreckages were blown away, revealing barely alive Aides beneath them.

"Did you reveal about the silver cube and Melinoë to the Titans?"

"W-would you believe me if I said I didn't?"

"…"

"Hahaha, yours eyes are saying everything. You really do believe I betrayed her."

Blood continued to pour out of Aides' injury.

He did not have long to live.

"I guess I can't convince you in this life."

"…"

"We will meet again Dios. I w-wonder if you listen to me the next time."

Aides stopped breathing.

Despite Dios' conflicting feelings, he gave Aides and Melinoë a burial together.

Just as he was finished, a pulse passed through the air.

"This is strange. A newly awakened flattened an entire city?"

Kronos, having stopped Time, walked towards Dios.

He was inspecting the area when suddenly golden lightning crackled around Dios.

Under Kronos' shocked gaze, Dios moved even though the Time was frozen.

"H-how?"

"I've made a promise to my sister."

Dios floated into the sky.

The sky darkened and condensed lightning crackled.

"I'll kill every last one of you Titans."