Gianni Hanraats/Chronology

## Preliminaries

In the life he lived prior to that which we see within the Central World, Gianni had reincarnated into a world with little-to-no magicule concentration, though a world that was far more technically advanced than most others he had been in, though it was just as equally polluted and near-uninhabitable, filled with toxic air, heavily polluted water and soil, and a collapsed government, with a majority of the world being under the control of large-scale corporations and conglomerates.

Though he presented himself as an ordinary young man by that world's standards, living his life as any other person would, he was still carefully planning in the sidelines, only keeping his true intellect a secret so as to avoid catching the eyes of both the government and the business world for the time being, until he figured he was ready to seize control. As was his standard goal, Gianni aimed to see how far he could rise in the world, in this case aiming to push himself forward in terms of political power through public favor. To accomplish this, he planned to take the government's side in the world, assisting them in retaking control from the corporations, making him an international savior to the world.

At some point, he would come into contact with a young David Petrov, an individual with an exceptional mind and a hobby of tinkering and creating whenever given the chance, as Gianni described it, "turning garbage into gold" from a young age, however nothing that he hadn't seen before, so in an act of boredom and a surplus of free time, Gianni would end up giving criticism to David's creations and correcting them where he could. Unbeknownst to Gianni, this would spark David's competitive nature, as from then on, he would seek out and approach Gianni with various other creations and experiments of his in an attempt to catch him by surprise. Naturally, none of his attempts would succeed, with Gianni growing increasingly bored with each showcase from David.

During one of David's showcases, in an act of boredom, Gianni would activate his Unique Skill "Parasite", using it to see if there was anything about him that could be useful to his goal aside from his prodigious nature, and perhaps indoctrinating him into Odin's Eye, however he instead found that David, much like himself, had an exceptionally powerful soul, but more than that, his soul had an aspect to it that not only intrigued Gianni, but also slightly frightened him, a feeling that he hadn't felt in a long, long time with him having lost the fear of death he once had. With renewed interest, Gianni would once again put David under Parasite's effect, detaching a piece of his own soul and transferring it to David through a handshake, granting him free access to his thoughts and memories, hoping to find any information about his unique soul. Unfortunately for him, he found nothing about it, and was only able to chalk it up to David being, as he described it, a "naturally-made anomaly".

The knowledge of David's soul would drive Gianni to retain interest in him, taking note of every aspect of his life in ways that most would consider to be the act of a crazed stalker, though naturally he would keep this fact hidden from David, and would play along when David decided to reveal information about himself to him.