Unlimited Fafnir Vol 13 Chapter 4 (Patreon)

Chapter 4 – Stardust of Blue Light

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Part 1

While Mononobe Yuu and others were imprisoned in End matter, Mononobe Mitsuki was also facing a great danger.

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At the end of the ruins of the ancient civilization(Atlantis)──there gigantic cone shaped towers were arrayed. They really stood out among the other buildings.

The surrounding of the towers was left as open space. The wall of white mist was blocking the way at the other side.

「Tsu……haah……haah……guh……」

I──Mononobe Mitsuki stood up while breathing hard and enduring the pain in my body.

The wall of mist that was rising high at the other side of the towers……the last unknown territory was ahead of there. That was what I sensed from the sense of the End Matter pulling at each other.

However before that……there was an enemy getting in my way in front of the arrayed towers.

When I approached the cone shaped towers, “that” appeared from inside the mist. I noticed in that instant. This place was most likely a temple, a sacred place worshipping “that”.

I felt with my skin the hostility and fury that were directed toward me. I also realized that this was a place where it was forbidden to enter.

However I had to cross this area in order to arrive at the unknown territory at the other side of the mist.

That was why I fought “that”. I fought against the greatest and strongest divine spirit among all the astral life forms that I had seen until now──.

「Brionac(Divine Bow of Five Flashes)……」

My fictitious armament had vanished because I lost consciousness just for a moment. I reconstructed it and gazed at the enemy getting in my way.

To describe it succinctly, “that” was a giant god.

Its height was more than ten meters. Its whole body was covered with sublime armor. Because it was wearing a full-face helmet, I couldn’t see its face. No, looking at the light that was leaking out from the helmet’s slight opening, perhaps it didn’t have anything inside while the armor itself was its real body.

It didn’t have multiple arms like the divine spirit that I fought before. It only had a single large spear in its hands. However I had learned with my own body of how destructive the shining giant spear’s tip was.

When I looked behind me, the sight of the ancient civilization’s townscape that was gouged in a single line entered my sight. Anyone would shudder if they learned that such thing was done by a single thrust of the divine spirit’s spear.

──My tiny body would vanish without a trace if that hit me directly.

I ended up like this just from getting bathed in the attack’s after-effect. I was blown together with my wind barrier until I crashed on a building’s wall before falling to the ground.

My body staggered from the impact that I couldn’t fully neutralize. An urge to vomit rose from inside.

And then the giant god in my way moved to point the tip of its spear once more toward the intruder while still not leaving from the sacred ground.

I laughed while watching such despairing sight.

「Aa……I’m really glad.」

What came out from my mouth was words of relief. I was thankful to this “fortune” from the bottom of my heart.

I was glad the last thing that stood on my way was this astral life form. If it was a swarm of giant beast or wyvern like what I saw in the beginning, there would be nothing that I could do.

Of course, I knew that the giant god standing before me was an astral life form with strength that was in a different dimension compared to the others of its kinds. But, even so──I had a chance to win if this was my opponent.

「It really helps……that the last enemy has human shape.」

I generated air from my fictitious armament to envelop myself with wind and flew to the air.

Right after that, the spot where I was standing until just now was pierced by a radiant light.

Considering the long arm of the giant god and the spear’s reach, that spot should be outside of its range. However the light that was fired from the tip of the spear traveled until the horizon that was covered by mist. Everything on its way was blown away without a trace.

「Kuh……she is like Lisa-san.」

I smiled wryly while being blown roughly at the air by the shockwave──then I readied my bow.

「The second arrow, Night Blaze(Shining Light That Scorch the Sky)-!!」

An arrow of red heat ray tore through the misty world and hit the right shoulder of the giant god.

A huge explosion blew up and the giant god’s body was slightly shaking.

──The attack didn’t slip through!

As I thought it was possible. I was convinced.

I noticed this phenomenon when fighting the four armed divine spirit together with Miyako-san. The attack that I aimed toward the ground to create a smoke screen hit the divine spirit by chance and blew off one of its hands.

Even though my attack couldn’t hit astral life form that had animal form, it hit the humanoid divine spirit──the reason that I could think up to explain why was the existence of Code Lost.

Code Lost interfered with the cause and effect itself to take away human’s life.

In the extreme case, it could even decide a human’s death just by imagining it. But of course I had no such power.

Because the Code Lost that was transferred to me was only a little. However even with that, I had the authority for killing human.

If the complete Code Lost was something that could decide a human’s death with 100% certainty, the authority that I used could only kill other person with only several percent chance even if I focused to it……no, perhaps it was even less than one percent.

But, it wasn’t zero. As long as it wasn’t zero──something with human shape would become an existence that I could kill.

In other words, the phenomenon that was occurring in front of me was something like that.

It didn’t matter that it was an astral life form, or that it was a very powerful divine spirit, as long as it had human form, the chance of me being able to kill it would be created. Even if it was just an extremely small chance──.

「The Third Arrow──Luna Eater(The Moon Piercing Empty Sky)!」

I attacked the giant god that was getting unbalanced.

The grey arrow that was tinged with phosphorescence changed a part of its chest protector into dust. With a chink getting opened in its armor, red light blew out from inside like blood.

That light gouged the surrounding area like buckshot. I desperately weaved through the red rain.

My attack just now was an attack that assaulted the target it hit with chained disintegration, but the effect was limited. Although my attack could hit now due to the influence of Code Lost, it seemed that it couldn’t help me to easily deal a lethal damage.

However, if that was the case then I only needed to continue attacking until it died.

The giant god rallied itself and swung its spear horizontally.

It was a slash of light that was launched toward me. I instantly accelerated to maximum speed and dodged it in a hair’s breadth, but a part of the air enveloping me was blown away and I lost my balance.

The giant god vertically swung down its spear while I was in such state.

I couldn’t dodge in time anymore. Then I should intercept──I fired an arrow of Dark Matter toward the slash of light flying at me.

「Fourth Arrow-……White Out(Freezing Sun)!!」

The arrow of extremely low temperature material that instantly robbed away the heat at the surrounding snatched the energy of the slash of light, creating a thick ice wall in front of me.

The slash’s destructive power decreased. Although it still broke the ice, it perspired before reaching me.

──I wouldn’t lose. I’d definitely reach it. I would, protect Nii-san.

In the end, someone had to be sacrificed in order to destroy the End Matter.

I understood after I became able to use Neun’s authority skillfully. The “light of defining” that was residing inside words couldn’t suppress the End Matter that was spreading endlessly.

There was only one way to destroy it. Cramming it into a human vessel and then “killing” it together with the power of Code Lost that controlled cause and effect.

End Matter was a lump of thing that refused “to completely vanish”. It simply struggled in an unsightly way just to live. Even now it was screaming from the bottom of the shadow inside me. It was moaning I don’t want to die, I want to live longer.

By taking in the unknown territories, the thickness of End Matter inside me was increasing. A normal human would lose their life instantly and became a part of the darkness if they tried the same thing.

That was why, right now only those with Neun’s authority was able to seal a great amount of End Matter inside their body. No, it was unknown if it was possible for one person to hold all of them even if they had the authority.

She──the fake Shinomiya Miyako had repeatedly pleaded at me to hand her the End Matter. She even said that it was fine even if she died in my place.

That was without a doubt sweet words to lead me astray. But even if she was actually the real Miyako, even if her words were the truth, I couldn’t possibly agree to her proposal.

If she obtained the whole End Matter, she would completely become the ninth dragon. There was no guarantee that she would be able to maintain her current personality, and she might even lose her human form. If that happened than the method to destroy End Matter would be lost and all living creatures would die.

──That was why, I……!

I weaved through the fierce attacks of the giant god while continuing to fire my arrows.

No matter how many times I was blown away, no matter how many times I crashed on the ground, I immediately stood up and raised my bow.

If someone had to drag the End Matter into hell together with them, I’d be the one to do it. I wouldn’t hand over this role to anybody else.

I didn’t think of it as pulling out the short straw. I myself was the one wishing to use up my life here.

After all, the future from here on──would become something that only brought me suffering.

Surely even the pain that my body was feeling right now wouldn’t even compare to that.

If the ninth calamity was destroyed, Nii-san would lose his instinct as Neun. However even then Nii-san would definitely keep paying attention and treating me kindly. He would still treasure me. But that was exactly why, he might be treating me in reservation and became unable to express his true feeling.

I didn’t want that. I didn’t want to get in the way of Nii-san’s happiness. I wanted Nii-san to be happier than anybody else in the world.

──If it was for that, then it didn’t matter what I had to do……-!

A flash ran through right beside me. I crashed violently on a tower due to the shockwave.

I absorbed the majority of the impact with the wind enveloping me, but my breathing got caught in my throat──I chocked and coughed out saliva that was mixed with blood.

But the giant god was also covered in wound already. The armor covering its whole body was broken here and there. Radiant light was leaking from there.

*Zuuuunn──…….*

The giant god finally fell on its knee. Seeing that, I kicked on the wall of the tower and closed the distance with my greatest acceleration.

I aimed at the giant god’s head from close range and nocked an arrow of Dark Matter.

──This is the end……!

「Final arrow──Last Quark(The Star Falling to the Sky)!!」

The black arrow I fired was sucked into the giant god’s head──and let out a radiant explosion.

Streaks of light burst out from the giant god.

My eyes were blinded by that light. The explosion’s shockwave blew me away.

The sky was dyed pure white. I caught a glimpse of the giant god’s figure turning into red particles and vanished amidst that.

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I opened my eyes when I felt the rumbling of the shaking ground and air.

It seemed that I fainted for a brief moment.

When I lifted up my face from the rough road surface, I saw the mist whirling here and there. The rubbles of the buildings that were destroyed from the battle flew to the sky. The towering wall of mist at the other side of the holy ground was also starting to thin down.

From the gap of the mist, I could see the darkness of End Matter. I saw the dome of unknown territory that was my destination and got on feet unsteadily.

I didn’t really understand what happened. However, there was no doubt that there was nothing standing on my way now.

「Tsu……just……a bit more……」

My consciousness was hazy. I also couldn’t create my fictitious armament.

I mustered my remaining strength and approached the unknown territory step by step.

──I wonder who would take up the student council president’s duty if I die…….

Such thinking crossed my mind when the end was approaching in front of me.

──Soon it will be time to plan for the Christmas event after all……my successor will have it hard. The vice president can take up my place but……I won’t have any worry at all if I can ask Lisa-san to nominate herself…….

Thinking again, there were unexpectedly a lot of things that were left undone.

──Nii-san’s birthday is also close……I wanted to properly celebrate it. I had been experimenting in making cake when I had time but……in the end it was a pointless effort.

For some reason, my cheek felt hot. My sight was blurry.

But, there was no way I was crying. There was nothing to feel sad about. Because I was going to make my wish came true now──.

The unknown territory was already really close in front of me.

My hand would reach if I took just several more steps. I swallowed my saliva to moisten my dry throat.

Now, let’s give a shape to this darkness.

I stared at the pitch black darkness that didn’t allow even a shred of light to pass and inhaled──I put Neun’s light into my words.

「You are me, I am you……your name is Mononobe Mitsuki.」

I announced that and stretched out my hand. I softly touched the darkness with my fingertip that was overflowing with blue light.

「That’s why──become one with me and let’s die together.」

The next moment, my sight and consciousness was filled with nothing but blackness.

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Part 2

Atlantis civilization’s townscape that was covered by mist was in the verge of collapsing.

Tornados was arising everywhere. Holes opened in the mist wall and I could see sea water flooding in.

The black down of unknown territory that couldn’t be seen until now due to the mist covering it could be seen right now from between the gap of the whirling mist. The many figures of astral life forms that were flying in the sky before this couldn’t be seen anywhere.

Shinomiya Miyako was flying in front of us. It seemed her destination was the unknown territory.

I who was flying using Anti-Gravity checked that everyone was following me before looking down at the ruins of Atlantis.

This area still wasn’t filled by flooding, but sea water was pouring in from everywhere, so this place would sink at the bottom of the sea sooner or later.

I felt a discomfort on my forehead and scratched there with my finger. I was using Anti-Gravity, but the horn still hadn’t grown there for now. However if I fought seriously against Shinomiya Miyako, my body would be dragonified once more and the shining white horn should grow from my forehead.

「──Yuu」

My name was called and I looked at the right. There Tia was staring at me with a serious expression.

「What’s wrong?」

「This is……Ragnarok isn’t simply getting unstable. It’s breaking and vanishing. I’m just guessing but……the core might have been destroyed.」

Tia was pointing at the crumbling world of mist. She was speaking with an uneasy tone.

「Shinomiya Miyako also whispered something like that before this……if that’s the case, was it Mitsuki who did it?」

「That might be the case. But, Mitsuki should be able to use Ether Wind, and yet……」

Tia nodded even while looking puzzled.

「We can just ascertain with our own eyes about the things that we don’t understand. Surely Mitsuki is at where Shinomiya Miyako is heading to.」

「──Yep, it’s just like Yuu said. Let’s go quickly to Mitsuki’s side!」

We nodded at each other and raised our speed as fast as possible.

The bad premonition kept growing bigger inside my chest, but right now I should focus on chasing after Shinomiya Miyako.

And then the black dome of unknown territory had approached right in front of us in the blink of eye.

「Ah……I can’t see her anymore!」

Iris raised her voice there.

Shinomiya Miyako suddenly lowered her altitude, because of that her figure was completely hidden behind the cover of building.

「We’re going down too!」

We hurriedly went to the point where Shinomiya Miyako vanished, but we immediately found her without even needing to search for her.

She was right at the edge of the unknown territory, where some cone shaped towers were lined up. The surrounding there was formed of empty space with good visibility.

Shinomiya Miyako was standing at the other side of a tower──beside the black dome that was towering high. She was staring fixedly at the unknown territory. We landed behind her but, she didn’t react at all.

「Miyako-san──we caught up with you!」

However when Lisa called at her, she slowly turned her face toward us. We held our breath seeing her expression.

「Miyako……are you crying?」

Firill hesitantly asked. Seeing a drop of tear falling from Shinomiya Miyako’s eyes──

「Eh? Aa……yeah, it’s frustrating……you know. Because just as I thought……I don’t make it in time.」

Shinomiya Miyako wiped her tear with the back of her hand before turning toward us with a tired smile.

「──What do you, mean?」

When I asked her with a stiff voice, she shrugged her shoulders slightly.

「Even you should understand it already when you see that Mitsuki isn’t here. Right now Mitsuki is inside here. In other words……she failed. She planned to seal the unknown territory into herself, but she got absorbed inside──」

Shinomiya Miyako softly touched the unknown territory with a sad face. Her hand plunged without resistance into the darkness. Ripple spread on the black dome’s surface.

「Tsu……there is no way──Mitsuki should be able to use Neun’s authority fully. There is no way she can be swallowed by End Matter……」

「Even then it would be difficult for her “alone”. The cause might be because of you scattering Neun’s authority too much. Everyone there is all your mates right? If that many people are holding the authority, then obviously the power that each one of them is holding will be weaker.」

Shinomiya Miyako pointed at everyone standing at my side and told me cynically.

「How, can that──」

It felt like I was accused that everything was due to my mistake. I was speechless.

「But, I’m thankful for that right now. If Mitsuki successfully sealed the unknown territory inside herself, she would have killed herself at this time. For me, this is just a step above the worst case. There is still──something that I can do.」

After saying that, she pushed her arm even deeper into the unknown territory.

「──You, what are you planning to do!」

Kili asked with a sharp tone. Then Shinomiya Miyako gave her answer with a resolved expression.

「I’ll absorb all the End Matter that Mitsuki sealed and the End matter here, and become the core of the world rebirth. If Ragnarok has perished, then that mean I’m the winner. If I can become god, I should be able to reconstruct Mitsuki who melted into the darkness in the next world.」

After answering that, she smiled kindly toward us.

「Just as planned, I’ll also remake all of you. I’m not the “Heavy Tremors” Nova or even Shinomiya Miyako anymore. I’m the Ninth Dragon──the “Demise” Angolmois. That’s the name of the death world that will devour this Gaia.」

Angolmois……that was the Ninth Dragon’s──.

It was an information that I heard for the first time, but it seemed that Firill had already heard of it. She opened her mouth without showing any confusion.

「Before this, you said that the End Matter is “Angolmois’s black egg”, so this is what you mean by that. But──supposing that egg hatches and Mitsuki can be reconstructed in the new world……will that be the same Mitsuki like now?」

「……No. It’s too bad but, she will be a different person only with the same construction factor. If possible I planned to bring Mitsuki alone to the new world without changing anything of her……but, now that it has come to this, the only thing that I can do is remaking her as closely to the original as possible. Together with all of you that is.」

Shinomiya Miyako shook her head with eyes that were filled with deep sadness and despair.

「Something like that──I won’t let you!」

Ariella took a step forward and raised her hand. Blue light enveloped her whole body. Shinomiya Miyako spoke pityingly when she saw that.

「It’s already impossible to seal this End Matter into someone. Before it was possible because it was divided into fragments. But now the End Matter is already combined into Angolmois. You can’t give it other name anymore at this point.」

「Nnu……but, we can’t give up.」

Ren shook her head and argued back, but Shinomiya Miyako told her challengingly.

「Then, you can try as hard as you like. But──that’s only if you still have any way to try.」

「Tsu……」

Those words stopped not only Ren, but everyone from moving. We couldn’t say anything back. Shinomiya Miyako waved her hand a bit at us and threw her body into the darkness.

「See you──bye bye」

*Plop*──the surface of the black dome rippled before it immediately returned back to normal.

We who were left behind stood still on that place.

Right now we didn’t understand, what could we do, and what we should do.

We couldn’t just completely swallow Shinomiya Miyako’s explanation, but if it was impossible to seal the End Matter──then we had no more way to deal with it.

However Iris ran out from among us and leaped into the unknown territory.

「Mitsuki-chan! Say something if you are there!」

Then Iris’s body shined blue and the flash got absorbed into the darkness.

However the blue light was swallowed by the deep and thick darkness and vanished.

「Mitsuki-chan-! Say something-! Mitsuki-chan!」

However Iris continued calling Mitsuki’s name.

「……Iris?」

When I called at her in a daze, she gestured at us with her hand.

「Quick! Mononobe and everyone too, call Mitsuki-chan’s name! Neun’s power is residing in our voice──in our words right? Then we have to call out to Mitsuki-chan and save her!」

Saving……Mitsuki. That’s right, I was here only for that──.

I strongly gritted my teeth. And then it wasn’t just me who got fired up.

Lisa took a deep breath, and yelled.

「Mitsuki-san! Don’t be a shut-in inside that kind of pitch black place, please get out here right away! There are a lot of things that I want to say to you!」

Her body shined blue. The flash that was radiated together with her voice pierced into the darkness. The End matter immediately tried to crush that light, but Lisa kept pouring on her words and feeling in a refusal to lose.

「──Don’t tell me that you are scared of getting scolded, that’s not actually the case right? I’m the one who know best that you aren’t that kind of wimp! You are hopelessly stubborn and too strong that even when you are on the wrong path you will still keep on walking forward……you are that kind of stupid idiot!!」

Lisa’s light swelled up and gouged the darkness. However no matter how strong her light became, Mitsuki’s figure still didn’t come to the surface.

「Say something back──Mitsuki-san!! Tsu……as I thought──are you saying……that you’re gone already!?」

Lisa clenched her fist in frustration seeing the light she radiated vanishing into the darkness.

「……No, that’s not decided yet.」

However I tapped the shoulder of Lisa who was hanging down her head and stepped forward.

Thanks to Iris and Lisa, I could see what I should do.

I took a deep breath and sorted out my feeling, then I approached the unknown territory. And then I stood beside Iris and looked back at everyone.

「I’m, going to pick up Mitsuki. Perhaps, our voice won’t reach her from here. That’s why even Neun’s light cannot illuminate Mitsuki.」

Kili frowned hearing what I announced.

「……Isn’t it, too late already? I understand after getting sucked into the End Matter once. Even with Neun’s authority, you can’t return anymore after getting melted completely into the darkness. You won’t be able to reply even if your name is called. You will forget that you are you. Even the light won’t reach after you end up like that.」

Kili’s words were the worst possibility that anyone here wanted to deny. However what she pointed out was the most realistic possibility. However Tia took a step forward and shook her head.

「No──perhaps, we can still make it in time. There is no change to the unknown territory even though the End Matter has been combined. Perhaps Mitsuki is……doing her best inside this right now!」

Tia pointed at the black dome where Shinomiya Miyako vanished into and insisted with a strong tone.

「Mitsuki-san is……?」

Lisa was surprised. Tia nodded back at her.

「Yes. Tia think Mitsuki is still trying to seal the End Matter. If not, the Ninth Dragon……Angolmois should have start to move already.」

Kili sighed hearing that.

「If Tia is saying that much, then perhaps there really is hope remaining. But, we still have a problem. If Yuu go into there, won’t it just become a repeat of what happened to that girl?」

Certainly that possibility was high. Mitsuki was swallowed despite being able to use the authority fully, so it was only natural to think that I would end up the same. However──

「It’ll be fine. There is a way. I want everyone to keep calling out my name from outside.」

「Mononobe-kun’s name?」

Firill asked back with a puzzled look.

「Yeah, if everyone’s voice continue to illuminate me, surely I can go forward even within the darkness. When I sunk into the End Matter, I was able to regain my form thanks to everyone calling my name. Even if it’s impossible by myself, if everyone’s light is combined then surely──」

I clenched my fist and looked around at everyone’s face.

Then Ariella sighed with an exasperated look.

「……But, there is also no guarantee for that isn’t it? Well, I won’t stop you though. I’ll continue to call Mononobe-kun’s name so that we won’t lose sight of you. Because that might be the only thing that I can do for you.」

「Nn……I’ll also, illuminate Onii-chan. No matter what……return back with Mitsuki.」

Ren also nodded deeply and stared straight at me.

「Tia, believe in Yuu! Lisa told me before, believing on the husband and sending him off is what a good woman does!」

Tia raised her hand and said that. Lisa smiled wryly at her words.

「……If you say that, then I also can’t object. Mononobe Yuu, you can entrust your back to us and head to where Mitsuki-san is. I’ll cover up for you properly even if you mess up something.」

Lisa declared while puffing out her voluptuous chest. Beside her Firill also nodded.

「Take care Mononobe-kun. I……will be satisfied as long as you return so I can tell you, welcome back.」

「……I won’t let you off lightly if you don’t return back.」

Kili looked slightly discontent, even so she sent me off brusquely.

『Perhaps it will be impossible for me to observe outside again when you enter there, but I’ll come with you.』

Atla’s voice came from the terminal in my pocket.

And then beside me Iris tightly grabbed my hand and smiled.

「Mononobe, you mustn’t make a scary face like that you know? Mitsuki-chan absolutely prefer Mononobe’s smiling face after all……because surely, she is the same like me.」

Being told that, I realized that my expression was stiffening and massaged my face’s muscles with my hand to loosen up.

「──Thank you Iris. Then, I’ll go for a bit to pick up Mitsuki.」

I intentionally talked lightheartedly before standing at the edge of the black dome that was filled with End Matter.

「Yep, do your best──Mononobe.」

When Iris said my name, blue light enveloped my whole body.

Everyone behind me also called out 「Mononobe-kun」「Onii-chan」「Yuu」「Mononobe Yuu」「Mononobe-kun」「Yuu」. Each time they called out, the blue light increased in intensity.

If it was now, I could advance forward even within this darkness.

Believing that, I stepped forward into the End Matter.

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Part 3

It was a world where there was only black. The depth and height couldn’t be perceived.

Even when I strained my eyes, there was nothing with shape that I could perceive.

However when I lifted my arm──my hand that was enveloped in bluish white light entered my sight. When I looked down, I could see my feet stepping on the darkness.

And then, there was white shadow stretching behind me. It was as though light and darkness had been reversed.

Ahead of that white shadow was most likely the outside of the unknown territory. The white shadow must be everyone’s light that was illuminating me. If I turned my focus there, the voices calling my name entered my ear.

──I’m alright. Everyone’s light is reaching me.

I ascertained that my existence was being maintained and started walking into the deep darkness.

The white shadow became the track of my steps and stretched for long. It also became a direction so that I wouldn’t lose my way inside the darkness.

「Mitsuki-!」

I called out while walking. However there was no reply. Then let’s continue advancing until I reached her.

I simply went deeper straight into the darkness.

There was no sound of footstep. In the first place it was uncertain whether I was even walking on the ground. I could only hear the sound of my breathing. Everyone’s voice was receding as I went deeper.

The white shadow that was connecting me to outside was gradually getting thinner. If this shadow was cut off, perhaps I would also get swallowed by the End Matter.

However I felt no fear. No matter how thin the shadow became, I believed that my connection with everyone would never be severed.

But, breathing was getting more difficult the deeper I went. The End Matter’s density might be increasing, or perhaps my body was getting heavier. It felt really similar like walking inside water.

Rather than this being caused by obstruction, it was simply the influence of getting closer to the center.

I wondered if this was the work of Shinomiya Miyako who entered into the unknown territory first, but right now there wasn’t any sign of that. That was why I focused only in finding Mitsuki.

If Mitsuki was still opposing the End Matter, she should be illuminating herself with Neun’s authority.

If I could find that light──the blue radiance, I could reach Mitsuki’s location.

「Mitsuki──!!」

I kept calling out to her.

My voice became a ripple of blue light that traversed the darkness before vanishing at the distance.

It gradually became harder to even just take a step forward. My voice was also getting hoarse.

But, I continued on even then. I moved my legs without stopping.

My sense of time was getting vague. The white shadow that connected me to the outside had also became as thin as string. I knew that people were calling my name, but I couldn’t recognize who was who by the sound anymore.

But, surely everyone was still yelling themselves hoarse. That was why I also desperately wrung out my voice.

「Tsu……haah……Mitsuki──!!」

Blue flash cleaved through the darkness. The ripple was spreading until the distance far away.

Ahead of it, for an instant──I saw a blue light twinkling in respond.

「That’s……!」

It finally reached. As I thought Mitsuki wasn’t melted in the darkness.

I pushed through the thick and heavy darkness to where she was.

「Mitsuki!!」

Each time I called out, the blue radiance that was visible at the distance got stronger. And then her voice also reached me.

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「Nii……san?」

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In that instant, a path of light was created in front of me. At the end of that path was a blue light. Most likely my light and Mitsuki’s light were illuminating each other.

My heavy body suddenly became light. The blue light enveloping my body increased in strength.

That was why I broke into a run. I ran with all my strength to reached her for even a second faster.

The destination that looked close was further than I thought. I ran out of breath and my sight became blurry.

However I didn’t reduce my speed. I abused my legs to the limit and closed the distance with her.

And then──I finally arrived.

She was crouching at the end point of the path of light. Her body was half melting into the darkness. It was transparent, her flesh body didn’t remain. The blue light was just barely drawing Mitsuki’s silhouette to the surface. But that radiance was blinking weakly.

「Nii-san……」

She raised her gaze when I stopped my feet. Mitsuki looked like she would disappear anytime now. The color of anguish in her expression was thick.

「Haah……tsu……haah……Mitsu, ki……Mitsuk──」

I did my best to calm down my disordered breathing while calling the name of the little sister I cherished. Then Mitsuki bit her lip in frustration before she opened her mouth.

「Please……Nii-san. Here……right now……please kill me.」

Mitsuki begged pleadingly. Seeing that, a heated emotion welled up inside me.

「Tsu……don’t screw around! I come to save──」

After I reflexively shouted, I noticed Mitsuki’s expression. She was apologizing to me with tears spilling out from her eyes.

「I’m sorry……Nii-san. I’m……I’m really the worst……for asking you to do something like that. Even though I know how much it will hurt Nii-san……even though it’s something that I have to do by myself……even so I have no choice but to ask Nii-san.」

「Mitsuki……」

I remembered how Iris told me to not make a scary face and exhaled deeply to calm down my feeling. And then, I gently reached out my hand to the crying Mitsuki. However my fingertip that tried to wipe her tears cut through empty air.

Even though my light had been illuminating her since some time ago, she didn’t return to normal. Far from that, her silhouette was starting to thin down gradually bit by bit.

「It’s……over for me. I don’t even have any strength left to kill myself……the best I can do is holding back the End matter that is leaking out from inside me. No matter how much light I shine on it……this darkness won’t take my shape anymore……it’s just, flowing out.」

Shinomiya Miyako’s words flashed at the back of my mind. With the End Matter combining, the darkness became the existence called Angolmois──she said that nobody could seal it anymore…….

「Perhaps, the End Matter will devour me from the inside before long. When that happen……this world will surely get swallowed by this darkness. But if it’s now……more than half of the End Matter is within me.」

「That’s why──you are telling me to kill it together with you Mitsuki?」

I asked while being aware that my voice sounded shrill.

「Yes. With the power of Code Lost, it should be possible to destroy the majority of End Matter together with me. Then most likely……the worst situation will be prevented. Perhaps, half of the world will at least still remain……」

Mitsuki said that and smiled at me to put on a brave front.

「The worst situation, huh……」

But those words got stuck in my mind. I kneeled to match my gaze with Mitsuki and told her bluntly.

「I won’t listen to your request Mitsuki. The worst situation for me is for you to die.」

Mitsuki’s expression distorted at my words and she pleaded while spilling tears.

「Tsu……I, know. I know that the current Nii-san will definitely say something like that! But, what’s the worst for me is if Nii-san can’t become happy! My happiness is for Nii-san to be happy! That’s why……this is my request of a lifetime! If Nii-san really treasure me, then please prioritize my happiness!」

「────」

Mitsuki’s scream stabbed deeply into my chest. Because it felt like I was being told that I was prioritizing my own desire instead of Mitsuki’s. But──.

「Killing Mitsuki……and living in a world without Mitsuki, there is no way I can be happy like that.」

If Mitsuki was wishing for my happiness, then her excuse didn’t have any leg to stand on anymore at that point. However Mitsuki shook her head with a desolate look.

「No──Nii-san has Iris-san and others. After the danger of Ninth Dragon leave, Nii-san will lose Neun’s authority and then you should realize your true feeling. Someone else than me will become Nii-san’s number one. That’s why……Nii-san will definitely become happy!」

My obstinate little sister argued with a strong tone and strong glint of willpower in her eyes.

──As I thought, this was why.

The reason Mitsuki wrecked Marduk and flew away. Her motive for choosing to sacrifice herself.

It was about Mitsuki not becoming my “most important existence” if I lost Neun’s instinct.

This talk wouldn’t progress unless I corrected that misunderstanding first.

「Mitsuki, you are harboring too much scorn.」

I stared straight into her black eyes and said.

「Scorn……? On, Nii-san?」

「No, on yourself. I’m reluctant to say something like this to my little sister who is also my childhood friend but……you, don’t know just how cute you actually are right?」

「Wha──」

Mitsuki was speechless. Her eyes widened like saucer. If her body wasn’t fading, surely her face would turn red like boiled octopus. After all that was exactly the state I was in right now.

「First is──your expression I guess. Your face when smiling or sulking is extraordinarily cute. And then there is the way your finger play with your hair, or the way you run when chasing after me……I’ve been thinking all this time of how cute they are. The way you are slightly petite is also……how should I say it, it’s just right for me……I could never keep my calm when you looked up at me.」

I endured my embarrassment and listed Mitsuki’s cute parts.

「U-umm umm, Nii-san──w-what are you saying! Please stop……that’s──」

Mitsuki pressed her hands on her cheeks while her body writhed. To be honest that gesture was also cute.

「And most of all……the way how since the past──since we were still children──how you so straightforwardly directed your affection only to me all that time until now is something that make me happy, proud……it made me think that I’d never hand you over to anybody else. Mitsuki who was always following me around no matter where I go simply looked unbearably cute to me.」

「Aa geez……Nii-san you stupid……stupid stupid……」

Mitsuki shook her head while complaining over and over at me with a small voice.

「If a girl like that told me that she want to marry me, and even give me an engagement kiss……of course it’d make me got serious too. Even though I was still unable to realize feeling or love or the like at that time, all those things had definitely made you to be my most important person whether I wanted it or not.」

When we were children, at that day when we climbed the mountain together until the viewing platform……I and Mitsuki exchanged a promise of marriage and our first kiss.

「That was something before the traffic accident──before I became Neun. That’s why the instinct doesn’t matter. I, the plain Mononobe Yuu had decided that Mitsuki is my most important person.」

I kept talking without giving Mitsuki any chance to argue, but there Mitsuki finally lifted up her face and spoke back with a shaky voice.

「B-but……Nii-san right now has other important people than me……when Nii-san lost Neun’s instinct, surely someone like me will──」

「I told you that’s just your underestimation. Even though I have changed, Mitsuki hasn’t changed at all right? I too will only return to the me before becoming Neun. Then──the situation will be the same like when we were children. There is no way I won’t fall in love with Mitsuki.」

I insisted at Mitsuki who was swallowed by darkness and fading. I thrust the immovable truth into her and waited for her answer.

「But……but──」

However Mitsuki was still showing hesitation. Seeing that, I resolved myself. To be honest, I didn’t want to say this if possible but, it couldn’t be helped. Things like a man’s pride or a big brother’s dignity, I threw away those things and opened my mouth.

「Even if by any chance, I forget my feeling toward Mitsuki──supposing that happen. At that time can you……do something like, approaching my lightly for example. If you do that then I’ll easily fall for you. I guarantee it. I can even bet all my assets on it.」

My pathetic confession caused Mitsuki to stare in a daze at me with her mouth gaping wide open.

However, after a while she chuckled.

「……Nii-san doesn’t need to bet all your assets on htat. I’ll be in charge of all Nii-san’s money anyway when we marry in the future.」

「Eh──」

Now it was my turn to lose my words at that unexpected reply. Mitsuki looked at my reaction and let out a long sigh.

「I’m half joking. But, I understand what Nii-san is trying to say. It even makes me feel stupid for worrying about all those things until now.」

「A-aa……if you understand now, that’s great.」

I didn’t know which part of what she said was the joke, but I was relieved that Mitsuki finally showed me a bright smile. However Mitsuki’s expression immediately got clouded.

「But……Nii-san is, horrible. Even though the situation hasn’t changed at all, you only change my heart──it will only hurt us needlessly like this. Even though, I’m at my limit already to hold back the End Matter……even though there is still no changing the fact that I have to die──」

Even though Mitsuki’s misunderstanding had been corrected, it didn’t mean that the situation had turned for the better. It was exactly as she said. However for me, persuading Mitsuki was the first step for what we were going to do from here.

「If you’re at your limit, you don’t need to continue to force yourself. Just let it all go. If you aren’t devoured from the inside, you should be able to regain your own form after that Mitsuki.」

「Wha-……Nii-san, what are you saying? If I do something like that then the End Matter will overflow to the whole world, in the end even we will──」

Mitsuki spoke at me anxiously.

「Certainly eliminating half of the End Matter here is the realistic decision to make. But──even if the damage can be reduced by half with that, the damage will still be immense. And Mitsuki will also die. If that’s what’s going to happen, I’d rather bet on the possibility where everyone can be protected.」

「The possibility of protecting everyone?」

Mitsuki asked back while showing bewilderment. I kept my eyes trained on her eyes while nodding. Then I told her my plan.

「Shinomiya Miyako said it. That Neun’s authority was dispersed too much, making it weak. But, conversely speaking, it will be strengthened if everyone combines their strength. Perhaps we will also be able to oppose the combined End Matter──Angolmois with that.」

「You said perhaps……there is no guarantee of that isn’t it?」

「Well yeah. But, there is no other option right? I absolutely can’t kill Mitsuki, I won’t kill you. Even if all the remaining mankind will resent me for it, I have no intention of sacrificing Mitsuki. Surely Iris and others also feel the same.」

I said that and smiled. I offered my hand to the taken aback Mitsuki.

「Now, throw away all the End Matter that you can’t hold back. We’re going back to everyone.」

「Nii-san……」

Mitsuki stared fixedly at my hand, then she gave me a troubled smile.

「I……thought that what I was doing this time was something very selfish but……Nii-san is also just as selfish. You refuse to accept anything other than getting anything and everything saved, that’s just outrageously spoiled.」

「Well, I guess. In short──」

I continued with a wry smile. My next words overlapped with Mitsuki’s voice.

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「Like brother like sister.」

「Like brother like sister isn’t it?」

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And then Mitsuki’s fading fingertip touched me. This time there was a definite sensation of touch from her.

She must have stopped holding back the End Matter. Black particles surged out from Mitsuki’s body like mist. The darkness around us was getting thicker.

However Mitsuki’s body was shining brightly in inverse proportion to that. She had regained her actual body in the blink of eye.

「We’re running, Mitsuki.」

When Mitsuki became able to stand, I pulled her hand and started running.

There was a white shadow that was like a thin string remaining on the path that I had walked until here. This was the light that everyone shined on me. If we followed this white line, we should be able to return to where everyone was.

But, perhaps because of the influence of the thickening End Matter, the white shadow was vanishing. We would lose sight of the path if we didn’t hurry.

「I can hear Iris-san and Lisa-san’s voices……no, Firill-san and Tia-san……Ariella-san and Ren-san too……even Kili-san……」

It seemed that even Mitsuki was able to hear everyone’s voice. A smile formed on her lips.

But another voice got mixed into those calling voices. It resounded from the darkness around us.

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『──Onii-san, I got a slightly better opinion of you now. As I thought, you are the only one who can move Mitsuki’s heart.』

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Hearing that voice that was slightly mixed with loneliness in it, I looked around without stopping my running legs.

「……Shinomiya Miyako huh. You──intentionally didn’t get in my way didn’t you?」

It was unnatural that she didn’t do anything to interfere with me even though she had entered the unknown territory first. I should think of it as her deliberately watching me carefully rather than her not noticing me.

「Miyako-san……? Are you there?」

Mitsuki who was running with her hand being pulled by me also asked toward the darkness.

『Yeo, I’ve been here the whole time. I also listened to that embarrassing talk.』

A mischievous laugh was mixed into Shinomiya Miyako’s voice.

Mitsuki’s face reddened. I could feel that she was putting strength in her hand that was gripping mine.

『Good for you Mitsuki. Onii-san came for you and your true wish came true──you can laugh like that, I’m really happy for you. If Mitsuki can be happy, then that’s enough for me.』

The voice sounded genuinely happy. It bewildered Mitsuki.

「Tsu……why are you──could it be that you are really……」

Mitsuki seemed to realize something, but Shinomiya Miyako cut off her words.

『No, I’m a fake as expected. I’m just a dreg. And now I’m the core of the Ninth Dragon──the “Demise” Angolmois. That’s why, I’m your enemy regardless of anything.』

Warmth vanished from Shinomiya Miyako’s voice. Her tone became pointedly cold.

『Mitsuki had liberated End Matter, so Angolmois is already starting to swallow the world autonomously. I can’t stop that. I can only take part directly after this planet is swallowed──only with the process of the world’s rebirth.』

Despite saying that she was an enemy, there was tone of frustration mixed in Shinomiya Miyako’s voice.

「……Miyako.」

Mitsuki weakly muttered the name of the girl who was her best friend. She didn’t added honorific to that name anymore.

『Well, I planned to “avoid eating” Mitsuki anyway……if it’s just you two then I might be able to save you two. But……it’s impossible for the others. All lives of Gaia will be swallowed and melted into the darkness. Even if I can reconstruct them later, they will be different people only with the same appearance. Something like that is not that different from dying right?』

「──Yeah, you’re right.」

I ran facing forward while nodding deeply. Perhaps even if Iris and others got resurrected with such method, even if I was reunited with my parents at Japan, I wouldn’t be able to think of them as the same people if they were different in the inside.

『Yes, that’s why……all of you have to defeat me. I can’t lose intentionally, so give it everything you have. The feeling of End Matter that want to live more──that don’t want to end is just that strong.』

I gritted my teeth hearing those words.

In the end, Shinomiya Miyako was only acting for Mitsuki’s sake. Even though she became a sacrifice in the fight against “Purple” Kraken, right now she was wishing for her death once more for Mitsuki’s sake again.

Actually, this might not be something that I shouldn’t say. But, I couldn’t let it go unasked.

「Don’t you……want to live? When End Matter is reborn……you will also be able to obtain true life right?」

Mitsuki’s hand stiffened slightly. Mitsuki’s feeling toward Shinomiya Miyako was greater than me. Perhaps she wouldn’t be able to fight depending on the answer from this question.

However it was better than pretending to not look at this matter and then hesitating at the critical moment.

『……I’m, fine with this.』

The reply that came back was words that were mixed with a wry laugh.

「Really……?」

Mitsuki asked back hesitantly.

『Yes──it’s just a guess, but I already obtained a new life. I think I was reborn, and obtained a happy life……a life where I can live together with Mitsuki again.』

「Eh……」

Mitsuki let out a bewildered voice at Shinomiya Miyako’s words.

But there was something that clicked inside me. Because I knew that Shinomiya Miyako’s soul was residing inside Shion.

「That’s, could it be──」

I tried to question her further, but she continued speaking before that.

『That’s why, destroy this fake vessel. Because if you do that then surely……I should be able to return back. I’m counting on you, Onii-san. No……papa.』

「────Yeah, got it.」

I understood everything and told myself that the only thing that I should do right now was sweeping away this darkness. I nodded deeply.

Mitsuki too seemed to have guessed the situation somehow. She strongly grasped my hand.

The white line that was guiding us was getting thicker. We could see a blue light in the darkness far away at the distance.

Just a bit more──everyone was calling me.

『That’s right, just one last thing……I don’t know if this will be any help but, I’ll tell you something. The true identity of the authority that all of you are using……that blue light.』

Shinomiya Miyako told us in a whisper while the light that everyone was radiating was enveloping us.

「The true identity of──Neun’s power?」

I asked back in surprise. Come to think of it, when I, Firill, and the others escaped from End Matter, Shinomiya Miyako acted like she knew something about Neun’s authority.

Was she referring to that? Her reply reached my ear while I was thinking that.

『Yep. I understand because I can peek at the memory of the dead world. That’s the power of higher life form that had resisted the End Matter for the longest──”Shamash(Universe Establishing Blue Light)”. That name has been passed down as the name of the oldest sun god, but I think perhaps that’s because the people of Atlantis also knew about that existence.』

「Shamash……」

I repeated that name, the form of the power. For some reason it felt strangely fitting.

『Yes……but you see, but even that higher life form finally ran out of strength just moment before it arrived at Gaia and the End Matter swallowed it. And then it immediately turned into calamity that trampled this planet……』

「Eh……」

A calamity that came from outside the planet──didn’t that sounded like a “true dragon” then?

Shinomiya Miyako continued speaking at the confused me.

『And its name is……”Disasterification” Apocalypse. The existence that all of you called as the Seventh Dragon.』

Apocalypse──I remembered that Shinomiya Miyako also mentioned that name before this…….

「Tsu……wait a second. Why is the power of a “true dragon”──residing inside us as Neun’s authority?」

I couldn’t accept it at all right away and asked her back.

『I don’t know until that far. But……if Apocalypse devoured the world and then be reborn……』

The blue light enveloped us and the darkness was receding. Shinomiya Miyako’s voice was also getting smaller.

「──Miyako!」

Mitsuki looked back and yelled. However we couldn’t possibly stop running. The darkness that was trying to devour us should be hot on our heel after all.

I focused my ear to Shinomiya Miyako’s voice that was getting smaller while pulling Mitsuki’s arm and leaped into the light.

『Apocalypse, might be very close to all of you. Mitsuki──search for the source of light. Find the sun that is illuminating you. That will surely become the key to destroy Angolmois──』

Her voice was cut off there. In exchange our comrades’ voices enveloped us.

Wind caressed my cheek. I felt the ground below my feet.

『Ah, we have returned. As I thought, I couldn’t observe anything at all inside there, but I’ll praise you for accomplishing your objective safely.』

Atla’s slightly excited voice came from my pocket.

That voice convinced me that we had come out from the unknown territory, but I couldn’t see anything. My eyes were dazzled from being inside a dark place the whole time.

「Mononobe! Mitsuki-chan!」

Before my eyes could get used to the light, someone cheered joyfully and hugged me. But I knew who it was right away from the voice.

「I-Iris-san, I can’t breathe……」

Mitsuki who was hugged together with me spoke to her──to Iris with a troubled voice.

My eyes got used to the light while that was going on. Everyone’s tearful faces entered my eyes.

「……I’m back.」

I was at a loss of what I should say first, so for the time being I spoke the returning home greeting.

「Yes, welcome back……Mononobe-kun. And Mitsuki too……thank god.」

Firil replied with a high-pitched voice.

「We were really worried because you took really long inside there. My voice was already getting hoarse.」

「Nn, I……usually never use my voice so much like this, so my throat hurt.」

Ariella and Ren were smiling even though they were complaining.

「Welcome back you two! Tia believed that you can do it Yuu!」

Tia raised both her hands in happiness, but beside her Kili was glaring at Mitsuki sullenly.

「Mononobe Mitsuki──this is my first time calling someone else’s name so much like this. You have put us into this much trouble, so you should also suffer by writing a lot of written apologies. I won’t allow you to excuse yourself from that just because you’re the student council president.」

「──Just this time I’m in complete agreement with Kili-san.」

Lisa stepped forward while saying that.

The tension was stretched thin from the aura of anger that was drifting from her whole body. Mitsuki slipped out from Iris’s hug and deeply bowed her head toward Lisa.

「Lisa-san……and everyone, I have greatly troubled all of you. Simply apologizing might not be enough for that but……I’m really sorry.」

However Lisa’s expression didn’t slacken even after seeing that.

「True. You can’t be forgiven just by apologizing. So──how many pages are you going to write?」

「Eh?」

Mitsuki was dumbfounded. Lisa told her.

「I’m asking about the written apology. How many pages of written apology are you going to write Mitsuki-san? If my memory serves me right, Ariella-san wrote twenty pages while Kili-san wrote more than fifty pages last time……」

「U-umm……then, a hundred page……」

Mitsuki answered in bewilderment. Lisa folded her arms and nodded deeply at that.

「──I guess. Nobody will complain if you write that many pages.」

Lisa glanced at Kili. Kili who noticed that glance nodded「Well, I guess」 even though she still looked discontent.

「It looks like Kili-san can also accept it. There is no problem with this. Of course that──also include me.」

After saying that, Lisa’s body trembled all over. She then couldn’t hold back herself anymore and hugged Mitsuki right from the front.

「Geez……Mitsuki-san you are really──you always worrying by yourself and then charged ahead on your own……you always made other worry a lot!」

Lisa yelled with moist eyes and tearful voice.

「Lisa-san……I’m sorry.」

Mitsuki timidly put her hands around Lisa’s back and apologized once more.

「Please talk with us from the start if you’re going to apologize like this in the end……am I really that unreliable to you?」

「N-no……you’re a reliable person. Because Lisa-san is here I can leave the rest to you……」

「I don’t need that kind of trust! I……want to be a reason……that enable Mitsuki-san to live right now……I want to simply be your close friend!! Is this feeling of mine just something one-sided!?」

Lisa yelled as though she was squeezing out what she had been holding back until now. A drop of tear spilled out from Mitsuki’s eye.

「──No……. Me……too. I also want to, with Lisa-san……」

The two hugged each other strongly as though to ascertain their feeling.

I was relieved that things settled down peacefully, but I felt an unpleasant chill and turned around.

The boundary of unknown territory had closed the distance until right behind us without me noticing. The dome had swelled up bigger than when we left it.

When I looked up, I could see the surface of the black dome was bubbling up unevenly everywhere.

「Everyone──let’s continue the happy reunion later. I think that perhaps, the darkness will flood out from this unknown territory and swallow the world soon.」

When I looked around once more, Ragnarok’s mist had thinned down greatly.

I could see seawater pouring in from everywhere. *GOOOOOOO*──that roaring sound was most likely the sound of water rushing to this center of the city.

We wouldn’t be able to stay in this place for long, whether it was because of the overflowing End Matter or from the flooding seawater.

「Eh……swallowing the world you say──w-what should we do then?」

Iris asked with a flustered look.

「Everyone will combine their strength to illuminate this darkness with Neun’s light. If we can somehow grant “shape” to it, we will be able to avoid the darkness spreading endlessly in one go.」

I explained to everyone. Then Firill raised her hand slightly with an anxious look.

「Miyako……said that this darkness cannot be sealed inside someone anymore didn’t she? Even if you said to give it a shape, how can──」

「Right now the name and shape that can be given to this lump of End Matter is only one. Shinomiya Miyako called her current self as the “Demise” Angolmois. That’s why we’ll put that name into our voices and expose this thing’s form.」

Surely this was also something that Shinomiya Miyako intentionally told us in order to give us a chance of victory.

I turned toward the growing unknown territory and held up my left hand.

「I don’t really get it but……I get it! I’ll also do my best if Mononobe is doing it!」

Iris said that and stood beside me.

「Tia understand it properly! Tia’ll fight together with Yuu!」

Tia and others also immediately rushed toward me.

「Nii-san, I can start anytime.」

Mitsuki told me that she had finished preparing. Everyone else also nodded at me and waited for my instruction.

I didn’t know whether this would succeed or not. Even if  our light could illuminate this darkness, I couldn’t even imagine what kind of form would come out──what kind of thing Angolmois was.

However, this was the only thing that we could do right now.

When I focused my mind, blue light flowed out from my dragon crest.

「Everyone, listen. This light is──”Shamash”. Illuminate the darkness with that light! Yell the name together with me!」

「Understood!」

Lisa replied in the place of everyone. I took a deep breath.

I strongly focused on the authority that resided in my voice and sharply shouted the words of light that illuminated everything.

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「Show your form── “Demise” Angolmois!」

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Everyone also yelled after me.

The blue flash swelled up and swallowed the darkness that was about to collapse on us.

The radiant light shaved off the black dome of End Matter. The darkness that  had ambiguous shape was illuminated and its original form rose to the surface.

But, the End Matter wasn’t erased with this. We were simply pushing it into a vessel called Angolmois forcefully.

The vessel’s shape wouldn’t be defined if the light was insufficient. The overflowing darkness would devour all of it.

「AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!」

I mustered out my voice until I ran out of breath.

The blue light became one with our voices. It spread out like a ripple. Everyone’s voice combined with eac other. The twisted darkness was taking shape.

The bundled light was increasing in radiance. Finally something like a silhouette was rising to the forefront.

However, I realized my body was shaking when seeing the form of the thing that was being defined inside the light.

──What, is that……?

The destruction that obtained shape, the manifested figure of demise was just too sinister, and then──.

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