Chapter 262

Shadow: "If that's the case, then what is the meaning of our existence?"

Nahida: "That's a very profound question..."

Nahida: "But is the end of the universe truly nothingness?"

Nahida: "Or rather, can it only be nothingness?"

Lumine: "I think... existence itself is meaning."

Lumine: "Even if all things in the universe will eventually march toward nothingness, everything we do before then is meaningful!"

Lumine: "At least for us, that's how it is!"

Paimon: "Mm-hm, Lumine's right!"

Paimon: "Who cares about nothingness or not — as long as we feel what we're doing has meaning, that's enough, right?"

Huang Quan: "I'm glad that even after learning of nothingness, you can still affirm the value of yourselves."

Huang Quan: "Yes, even though the shadow of nothingness hangs over every person."

Huang Quan: "But, as I said, there will always be those who return from the shadow!"

Huang Quan: "Even if they are... very, very few — so few as to be almost none!"

Huang Quan: "But existence is existence — even nothingness cannot deny it!"

Furina: "Miss Huang Quan's words... seem a little strange."

Furina: "As someone who has walked the Path of Nothingness for so long, shouldn't you affirm nothingness?"

Furina: "But why does it sound to me as if you are... rebelling against nothingness?"

Huang Quan: "Because stepping into nothingness... was not my wish."

Huang Quan: "I had wanted to walk toward the light... but I never knew it was merely a pitch-black great sun that could devour everything."

Huang Quan: "I drowned within nothingness, but I exerted every ounce of effort to preserve one last trace of color."

Huang Quan: "This alone allowed me to continue existing, without completely returning to nothingness."

Dr. Ratio: "In fact, Miss Huang Quan's behavior is not at all strange."

Dr. Ratio: "In the universe, those who accidentally step onto the Path of Nothingness are not few."

Dr. Ratio: "And most of these people do not affirm the philosophy of nothingness."

Dr. Ratio: "Therefore they strive desperately to prove to nothingness the meaning of all things' existence."

Dr. Ratio: "But the result, however..."

Herta: "No one can deny nothingness, because It is always there."

Herta: "In short, if you want to live out your days as an ordinary person in peace, then I advise you not to harbor too much desire to investigate nothingness."

Herta: "Otherwise, once you are tainted by nothingness, don't even think about getting out."

Firefly: "Nothingness... truly is a terrifying thing."

Black Swan: "Who says it isn't..."

Black Swan: "And this precisely highlights the strength of Miss Huang Quan's will."

Black Swan: "A conviction capable of withstanding the erosion of nothingness — I truly wish to see Miss Huang Quan's past memories..."

The video continues.

Huang Quan returns to herself from a momentary recollection.

She gazes toward the horizon.

【Hahahaha.....】

Upon the horizon, the grotesque Topaz laughs wildly,

and begins to scatter a rain of chips across the sky onto the earth!

Rumble rumble!

These chips, like cannon shells,

blast smoke and thunderous roars from the city's high-rises!

Welt and Himeko watch this scene,

and hurriedly shield Stelle and March 7th behind them.

And Huang Quan, at the very front,

moves at this moment!

She steps forward,

and all things begin to lose their color in an instant,

leaving only black and white!

And her own color, too, begins to fade.

Yet a single stroke of the most vivid red remains!

【May I weep for the departed, tears falling like rain, filling the crossing of the river........】

A single tear of blood flows from Huang Quan's eye,

and her crimson right hand, too, begins to grip the sword hilt.

【.... Like the tide surging forth, leading you home.】

The next moment, Huang Quan finally draws her blade!

A crimson slash of nothingness pierces through space,

freezes time,

carrying an unmatched force,

and cleaves toward Topaz upon the horizon!

And after that blade—

Huang Quan sheathed her blade and stood still.

The power of Nihility dispersed,

And up in the sky, a light rain began to fall...

Stelle: "Holy shit!"

Stelle: "That was Huang Quan's blade?"

Stelle: "She even cleaved a gap in the dream realm!!"

Stelle: "Looks like she was still holding back, right?!"

Dr. Ratio: "I think we should be more precise."

Dr. Ratio: "That can't even be called holding back — she just released an entire ocean!"

Dr. Ratio: "With Nihility power of this caliber, if she were willing, she could have cleaved this entire Sweetdream Paradise away in a single strike."

Kazuha: "The radiance of that blade... beyond reach..."

Raiden: "A power to be coveted..."

Raiden: "But alas, this power belongs to Nihility..."

Lumine: "Terrifying — a single blade can cleave away an entire world."

Lumine: "So this is what an Emanator is?"

Paimon: "I feel like, with power at this level, even if the Heavenly Principles came, they wouldn't be able to take a single blade, right?"

Zhong Li: "By general reason, if the Heavenly Principles played every card, they might just barely survive one blade."

Zhong Li: "Of course, the premise is that Young Lady Huang Quan wasn't going all out!"

Zhong Li: "Otherwise, even the Heavenly Principles would have absolutely no chance of taking this blade!"

Zhong Li: "After all, this is the power of Nihility..."

Venti: "Oh my god, that blade is just too terrifying — just watching the video, I feel my scalp about to explode!"

Venti: "If I got grazed by the Yu Bo of that blade, I'd probably just turn straight to ash!"

Furina: "Ahhhh, Young Lady Huang Quan is just so cool!"

Furina: "Did you all see it?"

Furina: "When Young Lady Huang Quan drew her blade, even her appearance changed!"

Furina: "Black-and-white tones, with a touch of breathtaking crimson!"

Furina: "Paired with those two lines she said before drawing her blade..."

Furina: "Oh no, I'm already lost in Young Lady Huang Quan's heroic bearing and can't pull myself out!!"

Huang Quan: "..."