User blog:Seieireppa/God Eater x RahXephon: When the World is Tuned, chapter 1: RahXephon

When the world is tuned, all will be reborn.

That is the ultimate guiding principle of existence, the supreme “rule” of the universe.

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In the year 2012, they first appeared. The Mulians, or the “Mu,” descended to Earth and dominated the city of Tokyo. They placed a barrier around the city, cutting it off from the outside world. From the outside, the barrier had the appearance of the fifth planet of our solar system, and thus the phenomenon—and the city within—became known as “Tokyo Jupiter.”

But the barrier was not only a physical division, but a temporal one. Within Tokyo Jupiter, time slowed to a crawl, with time progressing at only one-fifth the rate it did on the outside. Within the barrier, life proceeded as normal, with no one any the wiser—but on the outside, the world had fallen to pieces, ravaged by an ongoing war with the Mulians.

As for me? My name is Ayato Kamina. I was just an ordinary high schooler in Tokyo Jupiter until a little while ago, but then, well… humans from outside the barrier somehow broke in and waged war on the Mulians. I got caught up in the battle and brought to a subway station by my friend, Reika Mishima. Only… a bunch of guys in black were waiting for me, and they tried to prevent me from boarding. A woman was there, Haruka Shitow, and she begged and begged me not to board the train… but there was something, something mysterious, that called out to me and compelled me to board.

And where the train took me, well…

It was called the Shrine of Xephon. An ancient temple that looked like something straight out of myth. Broken pillars and waterfalls everywhere… and at the center was an egg. But not just any egg; this egg was enormous, a good thirty feet tall.

And then Reika was there… somehow, and she explained to me the secret behind this place.

Before me was the egg of the RahXephon, a sleeping giant created with one purpose: to destroy that which would threaten humanity and hinder the tuning of the world… whatever that meant.

As for what that threat was?

I was about to find out...