1 Chapter 0: The Origin of Two Moons (1/3): Once in a Blue Moon.
Once in a blue moon.
There was an island looking back at the moon. The island has a red color from the traces of the islanders' sins. Only the blue moon knew its true color. From the outside, the island is just a normal island; has an area of 1.400 km2 and a population of 50.000 people that will continue to decrease in number. From the sky, the island looks like a beautifully shaped circle like the shape of a full moon, staring back at the blue moon. Like a dot at the end of the paragraph, that place is also the final destination for a lot of criminals who feel they have seen a period in their life full of mistakes after being exiled by the governor under their laws. An isolation island. The government called this island "Rubrum Luna"―abbreviated as Ruluna by the inhabitants.
Welcome to my home!
Ruluna was filled with variety kinds of people full of [Greed], [Sloth], [Pride], [Lust], [Gluttony], [Envy], and [Wrath]. These colorful characteristics are nothing but an identity.
Isolated from the outside world, one must restrain their ambitions to strive, even at the cost of colorful life. Because here was where everything of 'it' was meaningless when life is at stake. For a flower to bloom on this land, 'Power' is the key. 'Power' changed your fate. 'Power' is everything.
Living here is no different than living in the wild. It follows the same rules and the same food chains. Naive innocents will always fall victim to petty crooks. These petty crooks will always be in the hands of big-time mafia bosses. And all of these mafia bosses are lived in an isolation under the watch of the self-proclaimed Government. All humans are physically equal. But their 'power' was measured by the quality and quantity of their puppet's string.
Human sins knew no bounds. Even after becoming the apex predator, they still want more. They want to break the rules of all living things. They still want to become "The One Above All". And the secret ingredient for that is laying here on the surface of the red moon.
The Divine Power.
It's a gift from God and Devil.
It's a blessing and a curse to humanity.
A punishment and a reward for humanity's action
The key to world peace and destruction
No one knew how the divine power really works. But they knew it can be obtained. They knew it was real. Because . . .
"I'm alive."
"Born on this island, I have become the human personification of this island. My eye are the proofs.
"Desired to breathe, I warmed myself with red stains and took all of the value they left behind. Yet my heart still not satisfied, nor is it felt warm.
"To satisfy my heart, I stand above all things and praise myself by protecting the weak from the predator, I broke the food chain. Yet I felt disgusted as a human being and for being human.
"Filled with this disgust, I kept running down this mundane path of self-destruction in hopes for one day, I could finally be at peace. Yet I still want to live."
This cycle of life kept spinning with no end. I kept running on this path. Because if I stop, that will be the end for me. The only thing that kept pushing me in this world was one goal to reach my finish line. But there was nothing for me to look up at the top of the food chain. This mundane cycle felt boring, and boredom is depressing.
Yet I didn't regret it. As the one and only being at the peak of all living beings, it makes me feel special. It satisfies my heart. To realize and welcomed the light at the end of the tunnel, it warms my feelings. I felt grateful for having a chance to take this path. I will run toward the end of this ignorant island. Because at the end of this path, I found you.
