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Volume 2 Chapter 105: That Which Is Called the Demon Star

"The Demon Star is definitely not just some kind of monsterified planet."

"The Demon Star itself is a singularity of physical laws!"

"Gravitational readings are completely inconsistent with its apparent scale. Even when struck with force sufficient to pulverize a planet, it showed not a single scratch."

"Time and space themselves become meaningless before the Demon Star. On the eve of its approach to us, our planet experienced chaos in time—past, future, and present all unraveling."

"Humans, the Demon Star is not something so simple!"

"That thing isn’t just a living planet. It’s not even something like a neutron star. It's beyond everything."

So spoke the Bilusaludo ambassador, his voice sharp and unrelenting. Once he finished, he seemed somewhat relieved, as if the rage within him had finally been aired.

He turned his gaze toward the human delegation.

And the humans—backed by teams of expert physicists—immediately understood the weight of what the Bilusaludo had just said.

Mass measurements that defy known scale, planetary-level impacts that leave it untouched…

If what the ambassador said was true, then without question—

The Demon Star was something akin to a black hole’s singularity, a being that transcended the laws of physics themselves...

Was that even possible?

Humankind didn’t know. But some among the human delegates turned to the Exif emissary, hoping he might offer an answer.

And they received one.

"That is correct," said the Exif emissary calmly.

"What I described earlier was only the formation process of the Demon Star. But indeed, as this representative of Bilusaludo has said, the Demon Star is no ordinary celestial body."

"When the Demon Star disaster befell our Exif home system, we observed countless anomalies—many of which our civilization remembers vividly to this day."

"First of all, the number of visible stars multiplied tenfold."

"By the time we first encountered a Demon Star, we Exif had already overcome the Monster phenomena for a long time. By Earth’s standards, perhaps close to a thousand years."

"When the Demon Star arrived, the first thing we experienced was total temporal and spatial disarray."

As the Exif emissary spoke of the day their civilization met the Demon Star, his voice—soothing and almost healing—allowed the human delegates to glimpse, if only for a moment, the final days of the Exif.

The arrival of the Demon Star was not abrupt.

Even before it entered the solar system where the Exif lived, there had already been signs of its coming.

At the system’s edge, the outermost cloud belt was ripped apart by an unknown force.

A trillion asteroids were expelled from the Oort Cloud by this same force, flung into the inner solar system.

This led to a meteor storm of a scale second only to the early days of planetary formation billions of years ago.

At the time, the Exif civilization easily intercepted all of the meteors. Meanwhile, their prophets had already detected the presence of the Demon Star.

"When we discovered that a colossal, living planet was crashing into our system, no one wanted to believe it. At first, us Exif even considered capturing the Demon Star. But what followed shattered everything we thought we knew."

"Humans... what happened next is beyond anything you can imagine."

The Demon Star's velocity was only 0.5% the speed of light. And according to prophecy, its trajectory was on a direct collision course with the Exif homeworld.

So at that time, the Exif—believing they still had enough time—thought the best response to the Demon Star was to send unmanned probes to it and attempt to alter its trajectory. They even hoped to capture the colossal celestial body within their system.

Had they succeeded, it would have provided new momentum for a civilization already at its zenith.

However, as the Demon Star drew closer, the anomalies it exhibited shattered those plans.

“The dead came back to life.”

“Civilizations from the past became linked with the present.”

“Many identical planets, all solid but with zero gravity, appeared across the universe.”

“The sun multiplied—there were fifteen suns in the sky.”

“You woke up the next day and found another you had appeared.”

“History textbooks were rewritten.”

“Ruins of an advanced civilization were found in near-Planet orbit—though nothing had been there the day before.”

“Monster returned.”

“Another civilization met with us—but that civilization was us.”

“An endless continent appeared in space.”

“We encountered our ancestors.”

“We witnessed scenes from the future.”

“The planet beneath our feet began to expand and shrink.”

“The flow of time changed.”

. . . .

Events beyond human comprehension began occurring throughout the Exif star system. As the Demon Star approached, everything began to change.

On one of the four Exif-colonized planets, in one of its cities, a sudden full-frequency broadcast was made one day. The people in that city claimed that everyone else had vanished, and they were broadcasting to ask if anyone else in the star system had survived.

Yet in truth, everyone else was still there—on the same planet. The space station was just a few hundred kilometers above the surface, but they couldn’t detect anything unusual.

Then, when emergency rescue teams finally landed in that city, all the strange broadcasts and claims abruptly vanished.

What they found was just an ordinary city.

All the broadcasts had disappeared from the digital records as if they never existed—leaving only people's memories of the incident, and the bewildered military forces that had been urgently dispatched.

But just a few days later, that entire city vanished—suddenly replaced by a vast desert that covered the area.

There were also records of civilizations that had never existed, histories that had never happened, and memories of things that never were.

Everything the Exif experienced was like the ramblings of someone lost deep in a drunken dream—utterly devoid of logic or sequence.

Their only means of making sense of it was through gravitational measurement devices, which confirmed that the very fabric of space-time throughout the entire planetary system had fallen into chaos.

And at the center of it all—was the Demon Star.

“As we fled our home system,” the Exif emissary continued, “a third of our people witnessed the Demon Star shatter all our worlds, one after another. Another third saw it not collide with them at all—but instead plunge directly into the sun. And the final third… could no longer speak at all.”

“It is truly… regrettable.”

At that, the Exif emissary’s face filled with sorrow.