The Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo
It happened last night.
My brother who is in college suddenly showed up
at the apartment where I live alone.
He had never been in my room, even when we lived at home with our parents
so seeing him in the same place with my bed and clothes was somewhat strange.
Then my brother said:
Sorry to disrupt your everyday life, but...
What's with you? Are you drunk?
a great disaster is coming.
What are you saying?
Wasn't that some stupid rumor going around the internet?
You seriously believed that?
I didn't think you were that dumb.
Sorry for telling you this so suddenly.
But it's true. This city will be destroyed tomorrow.
In truth, calamities don't just suddenly strike,
in reality they are preceded by signs or warnings.
I had the thought that my brother would never say something like this.
I began to feel as though I was sitting face to face with a boy who only looked like my brother
and it was starting to scare me.
What... who are you?
I'm the warning.
I'm scared.
Something strange is happening.
But I should keep in mind...
that strange and even extraordinary things happen.
My brother said:
The most important thing is how you react to an omen or a warning
while you're living out your everyday life.
Wait...
Shivers go down my back.
Something about him isn't right.
He isn't normal.
When my legs started to tremble...
my brother smiled.
Well, I've left it up to you.
Sorry if it seems like I'm teasing you, but it really is entirely the opposite.
Then he quietly faded away
and disappeared.
Last night I should have warned everyone.
I should have shouted at the top of my lungs
that the city we live in will disappear,
that our days are over.
What could I have said to make them understand?
Ultimately the warning never reached them.
I never told them.
And the disaster itself
is standing right before our eyes.
Escape this city before tomorrow comes.
A god isn't only a creator,
nor is a god simply a being who would
grant someone their wishes or prayers.
A great calamity
with a human-like form descended from the sky.
Everyone understood.
Fear is the true nature of a god.
That is why human beings
fall to their knees, and beg, and pray
to one who would cause them harm
and take their lives from them.
The world has a fixed life span.
And yet, if it was left up to us
the life of the world would be prolonged indefinitely.
So the world itself forcibly summoned them here.
In that moment we knew the end was unavoidable.
However, all we wanted was to keep living.
We didn't want the world to end.
On the first day, human beings and all living things on the surface will disappear.
It is said that the god of creation made this world in seven days.
On the second day, all traces of life will disappear from the world.
We created plenty of things in this world too.
On the third day, the sun and moon will fall, and day and night will cease to be.
On the fourth day, the earth will sink and all will be flooded.
On the fifth day, the ocean and sky will vanish.
It may seem like everything was destroyed in an instant like this,
but it probably took just as long to destroy as it did to create.
If it takes seven days for the flames to consume the world,
On the sixth day, light will be extinguished
you have that many chances to escape from them.
and all will be enveloped in chaos and darkness.
Run. Survive.
You can create a new world with your own hands.
On the seventh day, the calamity completes its work, and in the joy of rest it weeps in silence.
I don't know what the will of the world is,
and I don't care what the gods are thinking.
As the world ends,
I will live, escaping, waiting,
and hoping that something besides myself still exists.
This is the beginning of the Seven Days of Fire.
Before the advent of the new world, the great fire will come.