Chapter 146

"Sartorius's sister? Are you trying to stop us?" Aster asked in a low voice when he saw her.

"No... I hope you can save my brother." Mizuchi Sartorius said softly.

Tenjou Hikari listened from the side.

In the original work, in order to save her "kind brother," Mizuchi Sartorius turned into a cybernetic life form and stopped the launch of a laser satellite in space that was enough to destroy the Earth.

However, in this world, because the development of things was different, she was still a living person.

Tenjou Hikari hadn't seen her before and thought she was just helping Sartorius in this world.

"Save Sartorius? What on earth is going on?"

Mizuchi told their story.

Because she and her brother possessed the ability to predict the future since they were young, they were feared by adults and eventually ended up on the streets. The two started a divination house to survive and gradually lived on...

Until that day.

The Kaiba Corporation announced that dimensional exploration was successful and had successfully explored a certain spirit world.

Subsequently, dimensional exploration began to explode worldwide.

"Destiny" changed.

Mizuchi was originally very happy because Sartorius had often worried about the world since he was young. If there was such a change, destiny would definitely change too.

However, at that time, Sartorius seemed to feel something and received a certain "revelation."

The world was destined to be destroyed!

At that moment, he heard the voice of a powerful existence across dimensions!

At that moment, he learned the "reason" for the splitting of the spirit worlds.

Then... he began to worry even more, because his destiny and the destiny of the world would become even more unstable.

The future would be even more dangerous.

"The threat of other dimensions?" Aster looked to his left. "Is there such a thing?"

He seemed to be asking someone else.

Could it be that Sartorius's other kind soul was talking to him now, or was simply in his body now?

However...

An existence that split the spirit world?

Sartorius knew about this too.

Tenjou Hikari frowned.

Mizuchi told Aster that before this, Sartorius had actually been very hesitant. He didn't want to hurt others. Establishing the Society of Light was also to help more people like them who were born with superpowers and special abilities not to be hostile to the outside world. As a result, one day, after returning from a certain dimension, he suddenly changed his personality, let himself go, and the members he recruited became less and less particular, and later he even cooperated with Reo Akaba.

"Brother, he wants to perform a ritual!" Mizuchi said.

Sartorius learned a kind of "ritual" from a certain spirit dimension—a ritual to obtain special cards by sacrificing people's thoughts, spirits, and souls!

During this time, he used the Dark World invasion to recruit many ordinary students as members of the Society of Light.

And these people, every one of them was a "duelist," who could happen to be used as sacrifices to sacrifice their souls.

These past few days, he called the members over, and the purpose was likely this—

And she secretly hindered Sartorius, preventing those ordinary members from arriving.

So that's it.

Tenjou Hikari looked around.

No wonder he didn't see any ordinary students.

"Thank you, Mizuchi." Aster took a deep breath. "Leave the rest to us—"

As he spoke, he walked toward the top of the stairs. Tenjou Hikari frowned, hesitated, and finally chose to follow Aster upstairs.

He had already thought of it.

No matter what, Aster would definitely duel Sartorius.

This was something that no matter how he reasoned or tried to stop him, he couldn't persuade him otherwise.

As Sartorius's friend and as a duelist, no matter what, Aster wouldn't let Tenjou Hikari do the ending for him.

The two walked up the spiral staircase. As they walked, a voice suddenly came over.

"The fifth card in the ranking of the Major Arcana, The Hierophant."

"The upright Hierophant represents salvation, advice, and guiding those who are useless."

Tenjou Hikari and Aster arrived at the roof of the society. The pure white dome flickered with light. On this top floor, Sartorius was standing on a long corridor like a bridge, and beside him, the Holy Mother watched everyone gently.

"Have you come, Hierophant, Sun." Sartorius turned around, a smile on his face, looking at Aster and Tenjou Hikari.

"Sartorius!!" The moment Aster saw him, he took a card out of his pocket. That card was glowing with blood, and the moment the card appeared, a giant blood shadow also emerged behind him. "Tell me, what on earth is going on!"

"This card is entrusted with the Light of Destruction. I heard from my father that the original Light of Destruction hosted in this card has already gone to someone else. What on earth—"

"Hehehe. When on earth?"

"!!"

Sartorius spread his arms and opened them upward: "Naturally, from the very beginning!"

"That's right, this is my destiny! Haven't you already heard Mizuchi say it once!"

"I want to hear your explanation in person!" Aster was covered in wounds and looked incomparably weary, but he still shouted.

"Hehehe... everything starts with [Light]."

Sartorius opened his eyes, and in his purple eyes, it seemed as if the universe was flickering.

"This world, this universe, these countless dimensions, start with [Light]. The birth of the universe and the existence of all things originate from [Light]!"

"The Light of Destruction was born from the original birth of the universe, the power originating from the collision and destruction between planets. One day, that beam of light shone on Earth, was hosted in the card your father made, and then was stolen by D.D."

"After that, D.D came to my side, where I was trying to help you divine your father's killer no matter what."

He had a smile on his face: "He took out that card, put it on the table, and hoped I would help him divine the power of that card. At that very moment, the Light of Destruction took the opportunity to enter my body!"

"...Damn it, it was because of this reason!" Aster's teeth chattered.

Sartorius still had a bright smile on his face, explaining to Aster: "The Light of Destruction chose me, wanting to repair this incomplete world."

"That's right, this world's ability to transcend human understanding, while creating a world that cannot be understood!"

"What are you talking about, Sartorius?" Aster couldn't understand Sartorius's words anymore.

Sartorius looked down and then continued: "When I was young, Mizuchi and I accepted the kind of shame and humiliation in the world and humanity. These are things produced by the balance of the world itself!"

"Not only that, even other dimensions, the spirit world was never beautiful. In the spirit world, there are also existences that attempt to rule the world or obtain power; humans in other dimensions also have their own purposes and ideas."

"Since that's the case, it's better for this world to return to [Zero]."

"Born from [Light], return to [Light]!"

He held his hands high, and terrifying light erupted from his body. In this towering high tower, the light pierced through the world, straight into the sky, unable to see the end.

"The next world, destroy it for this! It's all up to me to guide it!"

"What stupid things are you saying? Don't you have any sense of fear?" Aster placed one hand on his chest. "You are an existence that changes destiny, always helping me. At this time, you say such things instead!?"

After the day Aster lost his father, on the day of the funeral, it rained heavily. Aster was in low spirits in the rain, and at that time, Sartorius appeared beside him with an umbrella, holding it for him.

"The storm will always pass. Before the rain stops, I will hold an umbrella for you..."

After that, Aster and Sartorius became friends.

Sartorius's own perception of himself was [Devil]. Evil deeds, injustice, temptation, bondage. He hoped that Aster, who was born with the talent of "The Hierophant," could save him in his necessity.

He was the one bound by destiny.

"Duel, use a duel to decide!" Aster raised his left Duel Disk.

"Heh..." Sartorius opened his mouth, and his laughter became louder.

Dueling [The Hierophant] didn't mean much to him, because what he wanted more was the power in the hands of [The Sun] beside him, the power that had a chance to destroy everything.

According to the normal train of thought, he couldn't get what he wanted from [The Hierophant], so there was no need to accept this duel.

However...

[Time] was one day early.

Destiny had changed.

"Fine, Aster, then at this time, let my best friend be destroyed in advance." He smiled, "That way, you won't have to see the tragic sight of countless worlds being destroyed."

Aster inserted his deck into the Duel Disk and was about to start, when Tenjou Hikari shouted "Aster!" to him, and then a card was thrown over by Tenjou Hikari.

Aster caught the card, looked at the text and pattern on the card, and looked up at Tenjou Hikari in surprise.

"Don't lose, Aster!"

Aster took a deep breath, punched toward Tenjou Hikari, and said nothing.

"Duel!"

"Duel!"

The two drew cards violently. At the same time, this high tower built by the Society of Light in the critical point dimension slowly cracked from its very top, and light shone outward, as if one could see all the regions of the entire dimension.

Aster, LP: 4000.

Sartorius, LP: 4000.