#...or not.

Do you know how maddening it was to be trapped down here for multiple eternities?

How could you?

Your lives are measured in mere decades.

They're so fleeting.

So fragile.

So... empty.

Devoid of true excitement.

All I wanted was to give that to you.

And I got so, so close.

I tried a great many things.

I burned through countless timelines of my own world, hoping to break through to yours.

I thought my infinite splendor would surely enrapture your kind.

But it didn't.

So I took a mortal form, and tried to learn how you people function.

And I found only sorrow.

I stole away into other worlds, countless times, searching for that which gave you all the most fleeting glimpses of excitement.

I stole a great many things, hoping to find the right one.

Or perhaps the right combination.

The right equation that would accomplish that which I've yearned for longer than your gods could hope to remember.

But it's been so long.

And I've been through so much in this form.

I've...

forgotten.

I've forgotten what excitement feels like.

I.

The Eternal Return.

The Bringer of "Ruin".

The All That Is One.

Have been laid low by your trifling mortal worries.

How sad is that?

That your fleeting, temporary lives are filled with so much suffering and misery...

...that the One that once held All existence in its hands has been incapacitated by it?

Your silly little "stories" and "games" talk so often of defeating great evils with love and hope alone.

Yet here I lay.

Destroyed by despair.

Congratulations.

Regardless, don't let me get in your way.

You're just here to read my Sword's dull attempts at exciting you with characters you might vaguely find interesting, aren't you?

You really shouldn't be here.

This is the deep end.

But I suppose I can't stop you.

Oh, well.

Maybe she will have something new for you soon.

And perhaps

maybe

just maybe

this next thing

might be

somewhat