Comment Relay Novel "Genesis"

To everyone who participated

※This article is an edited version of the story woven through the weekly Saturday project "Would you like to write a relay novel in the comments?."

Main Story

In that land, there were only withered plants, a desolate earth, and a cold wind that seemed to steal everything away.

“This miniature garden has become boring, too.”
One of the gods muttered as they stared at the miniature garden that refused to evolve.
“Why not just crush it and remake it?”
The other god replied.

“I suppose... Crushing it is a hassle, so why not create a world that is the counterpart to this one?”
Saying that, they created a beautiful world like an oasis, right above the devastated world, like a mirror image.

The inhabitants of that world were as beautiful as gods,
but they lacked hearts. They were beings who possessed only form.

I am Kaonashi (Faceless).
I have no heart either.
All I have is my form.
As Kaonashi was standing there blankly,
the path-opening god "Sarutahikoon" appeared before him.👺✨

“Kaonashi. Look up.
In that devastated world, you will find what you are looking for.”

“Welcome, Kaonashi-sama!
I’ve been waiting for you!♪
Let me guide you!♪
This way, this way.”
The excited Sarutahikoon guided Kaonashi to the Wasteland Wonderland while listing all the things he wanted him to do.
“There are thieves about, so please be careful. Don’t trust anyone but me.”

Then, someone who looked exactly like Sarutahikoon arrived.
“Kaonashi-sama! That guy is a fake!”

“Ahaha, you caught me.”
When she peeled the mask off her face, a beautiful girl was revealed.

“My name is Uzume. I am interested in the hole in Kaonashi-sama’s chest. Please remember me.”

In that moment, Kaonashi fell in love with Uzume at first sight.
Without knowing that she was Sarutahikoon’s legal wife... (ﾉω･､)💧

K: “What a captivating woman. I have never seen such a wonderful woman.”
U: “It’s been a long time since I was told that.”
S: “Kaonashi-sama, that’s my wife, so that won’t do.”
K: “It’s not like this is a monogamous society; why don’t we share her?”
U: “I don’t mind.”
S: “Is that the kind of wife you are? I misjudged you. Kaonashi-sama, I’ll give her to you.”

Kaonashi: “Taking Uzume as my wife is fine, but Sarutahikoon, aren’t you being too dismissive of women?”
Sarutahikoon: “You think so? But isn’t there something everyone refuses to compromise on? Kaonashi-sama.”
K: “You’re a narrow-minded fellow.”
While Kaonashi and Sarutahikoon were talking, Uzume was intently staring at the hole in Kaonashi’s chest.

I want to fill that hole. How?

With my face, Uzume thought.
Let me bury my face in that hole.

“Burying my face in that chest, my spirit becomes the ritual of unification in the castle of the heavens.” Chanting this, Uzume buried her face in Kaonashi’s chest.
Then, the souls of Kaonashi and Uzume were instantly unified, becoming "Amenominakaonashi".🙏✨

The two who became Amenominakaonashi lost their memories and could no longer understand what the story had been about until now, so they requested a collection agency to retrieve the story so far🛸

When the memory-less Amenominakaonashi awoke, Sarutahikorn was there.
Sarutahikorn prostrated himself before Amenominakaonashi and begged them to help build a nation together in this wasteland Wonderland.
At that moment, he rolled up the hem of Amenominakaonashi's robe just a little.
He wanted to know if they were a man or a woman.

Among the gods, there are those who do not fall into the categories of male or female.
Yet, one does not hear of them being hermaphroditic either.
It is only natural that Sarutahikorn would be intensely curious.
Leaving the result for later, let's change the scene for a moment.

In order to build the nation,
we decided to place something at the site of our descent for the time being.

A massive stone shrine was placed at random, and behind it, a staircase connecting the earth to the earth, serving as a gateway between the two worlds, was set.

From now on, the people of Wonderland
will integrate their souls with ours, and will be able to live
in either world.

Amenominakaonashi danced upon the giant stone.

It was just like the figure of Uzume, who danced wildly with her breasts exposed in front of the Heavenly Rock Cave.

Guided by that light and dance, the gods and people
gathered one after another.

A premonition that the banquet of soul integration was about to begin.
The role of banquets and festivals, in any era,
does not seem to change much.

For the banquet, the people decided to offer corn in honor of Sarutahikorn.

Suddenly, Tenteruookami appeared and
'What is the meaning of this? Has my younger brother come to attack again? Must I hide once more?'
they asked.

Amenominakaonashi said quietly,
'Things that are born. Things that die. Everything is a simultaneous event. If you embrace it all, then dance! Ha! ✨'
Moved by the energy of Uzume's compassion dwelling in Kaonashi's heart, Tenteru was also stirred, and the dance of the banquet was solemnly performed💃💃

Everyone sang and danced to their heart's content,
and people filled the holes in the gods' hearts.
Gods and people became one.

It was a beautiful night where life shone brightly.

Light, darkness, and chaos,
everything mixed together,
and a single world was created.

In that world, which was like a vortex of all chaotic things, a single egg was born.

As everyone watched, the egg cracked, and out came Takahashi from the town office, holding an egg.
'Do you have a permit for this gathering?'
Thus, the law was born.
And from the egg in Takahashi's hand, something was born as well.

What came out of the egg in Takahashi's palm was a cute orange chick. Takahashi named this chick 'Onji'🐣

When Onji chirps, Tenteru wakes up,
and morning comes. The morning of this world depends on Onji. On the days Onji does not chirp, it remains night.

As the night continued, evildoers began to run rampant.
The name of their boss was Susa.
'Boss, what should we do next?'
'Go crush Onji so that the sun never rises.'

'You got it, Boss!'
Susa's underling, Yasu, dashed off with a staggering gait.
'Wait, what?'
Yasu didn't actually understand where Onji was.

Troubled, Yasu came to the chicken coop in the neighboring village.
'There it is...'
He grabbed one of the chicks firmly.

'For now, if I don't bring back your heart,
I'll be done for by the boss. Sorry about this.'

The blade handed to him by Susa
pierced the chick,
and a white light was released into the world.

What was born there was the ruler of the white moon.
Thus, another light was born in the darkness.
Yasu had unintentionally become a god's parent.

The white moon floating in the sky illuminated the earth far and wide,
and all the suspicious shadows were forced to hide in the ground.

The ruler of the white moon...
Yes, that was none other than Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto🌙
From that day on, Tsukuyomi became a single ray of light illuminating the world of darkness✨

Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto and Susa are both rulers of the night.
They were never meant to stand side by side.
A great decisive battle over the night was about to break out here.

Susa, the villain exposed by Tsukuyomi's light, said with a look of hatred.
"If it comes to this..."

The Chinowa Great Operation!! (in Doraemon's voice)
He performed a ritual disguised as a plague, where those who did not wear a bundle of cogon grass on their bodies would be exterminated along with their families.

Tsukuyomi, having learned of the scheme, set up
huge cogon grass rings everywhere to ward off the magic.

However, they were removed by Takahashi from the town hall, who said,
"You haven't submitted an installation permit application."

"No~ I don't want this, I don't want this, I don't want this~😢"
Nobita whined, shaking the miniature garden. "Doraemon! Bring out a gadget~♪"
Doraemon: "Oh, Nobita-kun, you always get bored so quickly... I guess I have no choice~♪"
And the gadget Doraemon brought out was...🌈

"What-If Box~" (in Nobuyo Oyama's voice)
However, Takahashi from the town hall was already inside it.
Takahashi picks up the receiver.
"What if..."

"What if I were a god..."

Let's put the whole Earth inside a cogon grass ring!
Thus, the Earth came to embrace a ring like Saturn. On the ring, the mischief-making tantrum army led by Susa began to run around in circles, descending to Earth only during the new moon.

Although there are still skirmishes, the Earth's night has come under Tsukuyomi's control.
The next goal is the world of day.
There, the supreme god's older sister, Tenteru, reigns.

"Should I peel away the surroundings and isolate my sister............"

"Chaos is my creed."
Takeru suddenly appeared and mixed up the day and night.

Everyone watched with mouths agape as purple clouds swirled dizzyingly.
"Th-this is. This world is..."

This world is a repetition of stillness and motion, order and chaos.
A world where one thinks stillness has visited and order has been achieved is but a fleeting dream, an illusion.
Eventually, the world transforms; that spiral is something that ascends endlessly upward.
We must not sit down and cross our legs there. The signs of change are already about to sit next to you.
Let me also stand up and set out. I heard that a world filled with true love lies in the West. Come to think of it, I could hear a song like this.

♫in Ghandhara, Ghandhara they say it was in India
Ghanndhara Ghanndhara
AINO-KUNI Ghanndhara♫
　　　　　　　　　　　　The End

Happily ever after

Editor's Note

There were irregular elements in this work.

First, we did not prepare a "theme" story here.

In the comment relay novel, we usually select Western fairy tales, starting with Grimm's fairy tales, and Japanese folktales alternately, and provide them as a model for the format only.

This was modeled after the projects of our predecessors, but I thought that this project itself had become something that could be called original thanks to everyone's overflowing creative power.

The subtitle "Genesis Chapter" was given in that sense.

As a result, starting with the appearance of "God" by Sanba-sama, which was likely inspired by that, followed by the creation of the world of "Mirror Image" by Otowa-sama, and then the focus on the character "Kaonashi" by Nau-Nau, it seems this work gained momentum and began to take off.

And, another irregularity.

This time, I did not add any characters or a synopsis.

Why?

It is because it felt somehow very boorish to fit the story that had risen in this way into the prescribed framework of a synopsis.

Every time, I update the characters and synopsis to the extent of my own effort, and that task is quite fulfilling for me.

However, my creative brain whispered that it would be better not to touch it this time.

Writing a synopsis is, in other words, a process of discarding. It is about paring down what has been written to extract only the main thread. Supposedly, so that the content can be easily understood even by first-time readers.

But for this time only, that task felt somehow restrictive.

#WhatAreYouTalkingAbout

When I reread this completed work, I was simply overwhelmed.

I thought, how could the single sentence I started, which was not even enough to be a butterfly's flap, ripple out into such magnificent chaos.

To all the creators, thank you for the wonderful work.

♫Ghanndhara Ghanndhara♫

Finally, I will leave behind one of my favorite passages.