Arc 27: The Reverse World

How about it?

Their life wavelengths have stopped. It seems theyve lost

Dang. As I feared, it was probably the same guy who took down Gira

The gap of space and time. The two are standing in a space of nothingness that s isolated from the world.

One is a boy. The other is a girl. Though they look quite alike, there are a little different from a normal older sister and younger brother. If put into words, they are clones, fragments of yet another self.

Among the ruler-classes, theyre unusual twins with one heart.

The ruler-classes are born in a state of a core. After spending a long time repeating a cycle of crystal evolution, they awaken as an individual. Therefore, childhood is unknown to them. Once they awaken, they become an individual with a single personality.

Its unusual for a ruler-class to be born with two cores. Normally, they continue crystal evaluation to get a second core and awaken as a person with two cores.

Splitting into two bodies during such growth and obtaining a separate personality is an extremely rare occurrence.

The two have crystallized hair covering half of their faces. The girls hiding her right side, while the bodys hiding his left side. The eye thats not concealed is of golden color.

The other facial parts are similar as well. In terms of their bodies, the girl is expected to have some roundness to her body, and as such her chest is swelling out as well.

When the barrier rips next time, shall we go out an play, Leto?

We cant, Luto. It isnt our turn yet. Furthermore, Yura will be noisy if we do as we please, got it?

The ruler-class girl rejected the idea of her younger brother (Because each one insists on being the older one, its just how she views him though).

The girls name is Leto. The boys name is Luto. Though both of them are the ruler-class, they are clearly different from other ruler-classes.

Parts of their crystallized bodies are dark gold. This is a proof that theyve evolved one stage higher from the creatures known as ruler-classes.

Good grief How long do we have to stay here like this?

Luto turns towards a huge egg-formed cocoon floating in the dark background. Occasionally, a high-pitched like resonance comes from the cocoon, much like a heartbeat.

Suddenly, the two felt a little fluctuation of space.

Oh? What an unusual guest

Leto calls out to the darkness of a different dimension, to which one ruler-class appears.

A crystallized long hair with deep crimson pair of eyes, this is the tall ruler-class female Nei.

She is the existence that should be said to hold the top position of Restoration faction, the group of Frazes which tries to recover their King.

Red eyes oozed with anger, she is staring at the core twins while floating a faint smile.

You bastards You did a selfish thing again, didnt you? Why did you send Gold to that place?!

Oh my, was there a need to give you guys any notice? I believe weve already parted ways, havent we?

Leto giggles as if shes making fool of Nei. Luto next to her also has a smirk on his face.

Unlike you, we no longer care about something like the core of King anymore. We can get strong even without obtaining it

I already told you that my purpose wasnt the power of king!

Then why dont you serve the new King and continue crossing over the worlds, I wonder? Even if they are absolutely weak, King is still a King. You couldve even supported them if you stayed in the crystal world

Thats !

Nia is at loss of words. For her theres no King other than Her. Acknowledging a new King meant throwing her away. That was the only thing she was unable to do.

Therefore she rode on Yuras words and crossed the worlds the method that he devised. They couldnt cross the worlds without using the power of several ruler-classes, therefore both of them decided not to interfere with each other.

She already noticed that his and Giras aim was the Kings core, but she couldnt chase after the King without borrowing their power. She gnashed her teeth at this dilemma many times already.

The one was trying to call King back home, and the other was trying to become King. In any case, its clear as day that they would part ways once the Kings core was found.

However, Yura headed toward an incomprehensible direction all of sudden. He obtained a mysterious power somewhere and started creating new Frazes. Those things could not be called her brethren anymore.

It seemed Yuras goal had shifted away from their King. Thats was something she shouldve been happy about, but she couldnt afford to silently overlook the situation where the species called Fraze were being eroded.

Well, whatever you want to do with the King doesnt matter to us anymore. Yura doesnt seem to be interested in it as well. Well, I wonder if the egg will hatch faster if we feed it with the core of King?

You bastards!

Neis hand extended toward the cackling Luto, which Leto then tightly grasped.

I was fed up with your King supremacy doctrine since long time ago, you know. Say, we are no longer comrades, so there is no need to hold back, right? Perhaps it is fine for us to eat you?

Leto started eroding Neis left in her grasp. Neis wrist already began fusing with Letos hand, and the sensations of it started to disappear as well, she was already unable to move her hand from the wrist up to her fingertips.

A dark, golden radiance was crawling up Neis arm. Immediately using her right hand as a sword, she cut off her left hand from the elbow.

With the backward jump, Nei took some distance from the two.

Oh my, I missed my chance to eat her

While continuing to fuse with the cut left hand, Leto waved it around. Gradually, Neis left hand was being absorbed in Letos body as if melting into it.

Damn

Nei has already managed to regenerate her left hand and then hoped towards the dimensional darkness.

Thiss the power of Erosion that Yura granted to the twins. Its a dreadful, unusual ability which allows to capture Fraze and consume their power. Its likely that the applicable targets arent limited by advanced-classes, the ruler-classes can be targets as well. If ones being eroded, theres no other way than decapitate the corroded part before the core is eaten.

Nei was terrified of the thought that the erosion could be near her core and not in her hand like just now.

When Luto tried to give chase after Nei who disappeared in the darkness, Leto stopped him.

Leave her alone. There is absolutely nothing she can do. We should just keep watch after it here as we were told

Dammit. Aaah. I am bored here, you know. I wonder if the guy who came the other day would come again?

Luto said so and rolled over while lying down.

By that guy, do you mean Endemuon?

Yeah. Didnt we kill quite a lot of time with him? Well, he was severely beaten in the end so I am not sure whether he is still alive or not

Floating a broad smile, Luto mutters so. Even though he said not sure, Leto was convinced that Luto was convinced that that half-dead man was still alive. Secrets were meaningless between those twins.

Though they enjoyed Neis appearance a little bit, that was the end of it. The boring time will still continue for a while.

The two spent their time talking about mixing in the golden ones next time the Frazes find the rip in the world barrier and try to come to the other side.

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Ummm This might be a little bad ~nou

The world of gods. In the usual 4.5 mats room, the world god groans as he stares at the image reflected in the four-legged TV in front of him.

Ive told you about this already. Isnt it already unreasonable? You should give up quickly, or it may end up influencing yet another world. Myself would just give it one heavy hit and end it right there, wouldnt you agree?

Putting his elbow on the low dining table behind the world god is a man munching a rice cracker.

Though he appears to be sixty years old, his tempered body is swollen with steel-like muscles. That man with black pupils, black hair and unshaved face, is now sipping on the tea in his teacup and munches on another cracker.

What your End it means is that this world will Come to end, isnt it?

Of course it is. Thats is the job for myself, the god of destruction

The destruction god opens his mouth without feeling timid.

There are various worlds which are managed by various gods. Although its rare, some worlds among them come off from their guardianship. Its then the duty of the destruction god to eliminate such worlds.

Exercising the power of God in the worlds are generally not done that often. As an exception, it might be done by gods dependents or some fledgling god without much power, but the destruction god is a special existence, and he uses his godly powers to annihilate worlds.

However, unless its something serious, the worlds dont leave the protection of the gods. Thus, the god of destruction rarely exercises his power.

The fact that this god was visiting the world god meant Something serious did happen.

If it continues like this, the worst scenario is that world will become unreachable for you. I dont really mind that, but there shouldnt be that many troubles if I terminate it before that happens, right?

I understand that, but I left this for Touya-kun, umm look, that one

Touya? Aah, the one Jii-san said to be his dependant, that newcomer god. Are you entrusting it to that guy? Isnt it too much?

The destruction god frowns. No one knows what might happen in an unstable world. He believes that it might be a little harsh to leave such a world to a fledgling god. Much less to a god without any title, or an apprentice god.

It should probably be fine. If everything goes well, I think there wont be a need for you to crush it, even if it does leave my protection

It seems you value him a lot. Well, I dont mind it if you say so. However, will they really be fine? Those two () worlds

The destruction god looks over the world gods shoulder at the TV. Two worlds are lined up there like a mirror match, but one could see the part which isolates their centers is distorted.

An evil god was born, right?

It did, by consuming a subordinate god. It is an unusual case, nothing like that ever happened before

A god eater, huh?

The destruction god crushed the rice cracker with his teeth.

Usually, this is where we send a sacred treasure or dispatch an angel to the ground, but since its here where I sent Touya-Kun by a chance, I decided to entrust it to him

Heave-ho the world god sits down on the cushion.

Considering all that, it looks like the overseers have descended without giving it much thought

It also their first vacation in tens of thousands of years. I also went down, and it was quite enjoyable, you know?

Whats that? it looks like you had fun. Shall I also go down then?

Stop it. The world will be destroyed if you descend into the world

The metaphor was not trifling, it was a fact. Therefore, the world god intervened to stop the suggestion of the destruction god.

So, is that it? If this problem is settled without a problem, do you intend on leaving that world to this new face called Touya-kun or something?

Little by little, I guess. Of course, I will give up if the person himself refuses. He is still too much unreliable as a god, but thenhe will get the knack of it once he trains for two-three thousands years

It would be good if he does before I will have to break it though

The distortion between the two worlds is bringing about strange changes. Whether it was planned and done intentionally or the gods or not, once the destruction god believes that annihilating everything in one swoop and making a reset is the best solution.

Lets wait with the destruction for the time being. I believe it would be better to isolate those worlds for now and explain everything to this Touya

Thats right. I will talk to him about it when I see him next time. I would like to see the changes for a little more. Perhaps the distortion would settle without any incident

I wonder about that

Both of them know the possibility of that is considerably low. The destruction god thinks it would be fine to reset the worlds after breaking them down if things go south, so he doesnt particularly object to the plan.

If you think about it very carefully, there are six gods down there, even if they underwent humanification. In addition, there is an apprentice god. If they gather together, they might be able to do something.

Its often the case where a god defeat an evil god, an evil dragon or magic beast after they undergo the process of turning into a human.

However, how many tens of thousands of years have it been since a human became a god?

Lets se-e-e, I dont remember. The chance to become a god and the like is so multifarious, people are so different even among themselves after all

Though I think it is unusual to become a god by a so-called a mistake of the god of the worlds

You are noisy

The world god looked sullen at the evil smile of the destruction god.

He believed it himself that it was an unusual mistake to make. However, since it happened, he believed that might have been just one more destiny. For the world god, Mochizuki Touya was like a grandchild which he was happy to encounter.

By the way, I didnt see the god of martial arts recently, where is that fellow?

Aah, they said something about finding a worthy disciple

The two gods started a small talk across the low dining table. In the TV screen behind them, a distortion was slowly coiling into a whirlpool, as if something was coming out at the centers of the two worlds

TL: Airsblue

TLC: greujnik

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