Chapter 226: Isn’t this also a form of NTR?
Chapter 226: Drawing Akasora! Isn’t this also a form of NTR?
The Origin Elf and the past were obsessions that Tokisaki Kurumi had to face. They were also the motivation for her to kill tens of thousands of people and bear the sin to survive. She could never forget everything the Origin Elf did.
She was once an ordinary human young lady. One day after school, she was attacked by an unknown monster and was saved by the Origin Elf. That woman claimed to be a partner of justice and said that Spirits were evil beings. She hoped Tokisaki Kurumi would help her eliminate them.
The immature and somewhat chuunibyou Tokisaki Kurumi easily believed her. The Origin Elf bestowed her with a Spirit Crystal, and from that moment, she became the Spirit of Time and obtained her angel, Zafkiel.
After she became a Spirit, she helped Mio eliminate countless other Spirits. It wasn’t until she killed the former Spirit of Flame that she discovered the Spirit was her best friend. She realized that all the Spirits she had been eliminating were transformed humans and that she had killed her friend. The Origin Elf had been deceiving her all along.
Learning the truth, she nearly inverted, but she used the Fourth Bullet in time to return to her normal state. After recovering, she also learned the Origin Elf’s purpose.
When she tried to question the Origin Elf further, she was sent to the Neighboring World. After an unknown period, she returned to the Real World but had lost her memories. She didn’t know who she was, and her surroundings were completely unfamiliar.
She only knew that she possessed the Spirit of Time’s angel, Zafkiel. When AST attacked her, she used her shadows to escape. It wasn’t until she reached a certain place that she used the Tenth Bullet to recover her memories, finally recalling her past and the fact that she had been deceived.
She decided to change the past, no matter the cost. She looked up, her gaze serious, at the live broadcast screen.
The sky-high wall of water successfully obscured the sky. The three of them were in the middle of the sea. The wide channel that had been opened exposed the seabed, which had a huge, circular opening emitting thick smoke and tremors. The explosive energy within it was enough to destroy the world.
Ren closed his fingers and flipped his hand. A square, reddish-yellow box instantly appeared in his palm. The moment it appeared, the submarine volcano returned to calm.
"Space..." Saiki Kusuo felt an incredibly powerful spatial fluctuation, a power far beyond his reach.
"Yes. All the energy in the volcano has been transferred here, so there’s no need to worry about an eruption," Ren explained. Still, the [Doom Companion] notification did not appear. "It seems this volcano still needs to be completely resolved."
He used Gluttony, and a red abyss swallowed the compressed, space-confined molten energy in his hand. These were all energies seeping from the Earth’s core.
"Ch’en, lend me your sword."
Ch’en, still immersed in the shock of the vast sea being parted, subconsciously agreed. "Oh..." There were two scabbards at her waist, one black and one red. Ren reached out and drew the sword from the red scabbard.
As soon as his hand grasped the hilt, Ch’en sobered up and tried to stop him. "Don’t, that’s..."
Clang! A clear sword cry rang out. The crimson blade shone brightly. Even Ren, who knew nothing about swords, couldn’t help but exclaim, "What a good sword!"
"Akasora..." The belated attempt to stop him was accompanied by Ch’en’s stunned expression.
Akasora was pulled out so easily? How was this possible? Every time she drew the sword, Akasora resisted with all its might. How could he pull it out so effortlessly?
Ren didn’t pause. His Mystic Eyes of Death Perception opened. The world shattered into pieces in his rainbow eyes. Seeing the lines of death on the volcano as a single entity, he casually swung his sword, and a red sword qi slashed out.
[Ding! Detected that all doomsday factors have disappeared. Doom Companion has ended!]
[Ren has gained 400,000 doomsday points, Saiki Kusuo has gained 100,000 doomsday points, and Ch’en has gained 10,000 doomsday points!]
[Ding! Detected that the world-destroying volcano has been obliterated by Ren. Doomsday has ended!]
[Ren has additionally gained 500,000 doomsday points, and Saiki Kusuo and Ch’en have additionally gained 20,000 doomsday points!]
"Done." Ren smoothly sheathed Akasora.
At the same moment, the submarine volcano was annihilated into dust, until the undersea trench was leveled. The very concept of this volcano had been killed. It could never become a new volcano.
With a thought, the sky-high seawater began to pour back in. The fish and creatures swimming within were completely unharmed.
To prevent ocean fluctuations from affecting the continent’s coastal areas, the pouring seawater, under Ren’s Vector Manipulation, was stable and quiet, producing no excess tremors. In the blink of an eye, the parted sea returned to a vast expanse.
Ch’en gripped the hilt of Akasora. If she hadn’t felt Akasora’s excited tremor, she would have thought everything that had just happened was an illusion.
"This doomsday was quite easy to handle," Ren said. Having easily earned 900,000 doomsday points, he wished for more doomsdays that could be resolved with so little effort.
"Ch’en, Saiki, I’m off," Ren finished, and he vanished in a flash.
"Wait!" Ch’en was startled, thinking she was going to fall.
But looking down, she saw that her body was still floating in mid-air. When she touched the air with her hands, it felt like a solid texture.
Saiki Kusuo looked at the confused Ch’en and explained, "Ren used a telekinetic-like ability to form an invisible barrier of air currents around you very early on. You won’t fall."
"Huh?" Ch’en was bewildered. If he could do that, then why was she being held just now?
"I’m leaving too," Saiki Kusuo said. He tapped himself with his finger, and the holes in his clothes and the dust on his face disappeared. Then, he also teleported home.
Only Ch’en remained, lost in chaotic thought. She frustratingly grabbed her hair and chose to return.
In a daze, Ch’en returned to the office. The first thing she saw was Swarz’s confused face.
"Chashao Cat, how long was I gone?"
"Huh?" Swarz’s eyebrows furrowed. "Rice Noodle Rolls, are you out of your mind? Weren’t you sitting in that chair the whole time? Just now you even told me you found Talulah. Where is she?"
"..."
I was here the whole time?Was the crossing just a dream?
She hurriedly opened the Chat Group. Scrolling up, the [Doom Companion] notifications were still there. The current messages showed that the people in the group were still discussing Ren parting the sea. Her personal information page also showed an additional 30,000 doomsday points.
She touched the hilt of Akasora, and its excitement seemed not to have faded. It wasn’t a dream; she had really crossed over!