Chapter 237

【His cheating Noble Phantasm would no longer be effective.】

【"Words are useless, Kaguya."】

【The young man said calmly.】

【"Breakthrough, if not for the chasm-like barrier between self and non-self, reaching the level of eternal stability."】

【"Our selves would have long since dissipated in the endless cycle."】

【"Hmph."】

【Kaguya snorted coldly, noncommittal.】

【But her attacks became even more wild.】

【Such a Nii-san.】

【A Nii-san who has experienced almost the same experiences, yet blocks my path to the ideal...】

【Indeed unforgivable———!!!】

Their battlefield was mostly in the starry sky, occasionally passing over high mountains, flying over oceans, flashing by, perhaps both tacitly avoiding the Earth.

But even so, just the fleeting aftermath caused near-extinction-level disasters.

The creatures of that parallel world were once pushed to the brink of extinction.

The entire Japanese archipelago was wiped off the earth as if by an eraser, triggering a tsunami nearly three thousand meters high.

It wiped out the Federation's mainland in that world in one fell swoop, shattered the central mountain range stretching for ten thousand miles, and rushed into the Great Lakes region, flowing back into the ocean.

The unimaginably cruel disaster left the real Earth speechless.

The Federation people were even more terrified, pale-faced and lingering in fear.

Japan accepted it calmly.

Used to it.

Two auroras shuttled through the void, traveling between worlds, descending upon parallel Earths one after another.

Even if they deliberately avoided it, there was always a moment they couldn't avoid.

The next day.

When the morning sun rose again.

The moment the towering figures fought, they traveled through the void, causing that peerless power to begin its wanton release the moment it descended upon the foreign land.

Time seemed to freeze.

Silently, hills, rivers, cities... everything on the earth was erased in the first instant.

The gorgeous radiance was like the most terrifying horn of destruction.

The crust peeled away, followed by the mantle, a hundred times thicker, peeling away layer by layer, revealing the scorching liquid layer, and even the core...

Then...

The planet... was pierced through.

People stared blankly at the European continent on the other Reverse Reverse Side of the planet being blown away entirely, trembling.

The stars were shaking, the planet was exploding, Gaia was wailing, everything was heading toward the end under this ultimate power.

All of humanity watched the end of that other Earth with bloodless faces.

If they hadn't been a bit luckier, perhaps that would have been their fate.

A long time passed.

Someone asked with a trembling, bloodless voice: "Are they getting stronger?"

You have to know that destroying a world and destroying a planet are never the same concept.

A little boy can destroy a small city.

One Tsar Bomba is equivalent to thousands of little boys.

A million Tsar Bombas would be enough to end human civilization in one blow.

But even if it were multiplied by another million or ten million times, it would still be so insignificant to a planet.

And at this moment...

A planet.

Just like that... gone?

The next moment, people's questions had an answer.

【"Nii-san, did you actually give up your 'self' to stop me?"】

【On the wreckage of the planet.】

【Kaguya's unbelievable, shrill voice echoed.】

【"Kaguya, as you who flow from the Root, you are constantly returning to the Root, and at the same time, you are constantly becoming stronger."】

【The young man responded indifferently.】

【"If I don't reach the other shore, achieve the three great realms of Nothingness/Emptiness/Zero, and become an Awakened One, how can I stop you?"】

【Compared to before, the voice no longer carried emotional color, like the calm statement of a Buddha.】

【The universe is the Buddha's kingdom.】

【This is the cosmology of this universe named the Moon World.】

【Because it is vast and boundless, it is also called the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds.】

【In modern times, those who pursue the path of awakening and run around to save all living beings are also collectively called Bodhisattvas.】

【Like Kaguya, who acts as a Beast.】

【But in more ancient times.】

【Only those who run around to save all living beings (all sentient things), dedicate themselves, possess existence on a cosmic scale, and manage the three thousand worlds are called Bodhisattvas.】

【Those are the Awakened Ones who have transcended the records of the Root and reached the other shore, or... the Enlightened Ones.】

【They must have the vow to save all living beings, must protect everything with everything they have, and having transcended intellect, it is difficult to possess a self in the eyes of mortals.】

【And this Holy King might be the existence closest to the other shore among many dimensions.】

【Because he had already taken that step, but pulled back.】

【And now...】

【The Awakened One under the Bodhi tree opened his eyes and slowly stood up.】

【Merging into one with the Holy King of reality.】

【"Like Kaguya's destined ending, falling into a state equivalent to death?"】

【Someone muttered.】

【Very few people retorted: "What exactly is the so-called self? It's just an illusion of us mortals; every seven years, even we ourselves are completely replaced."】

【There were also those who looked at the furious Kaguya with strange expressions, but didn't dare to speak.】

【Everything has an end.】

【With the ultimate sublimation of the two transcendents, they seemed to break through a certain boundary and completely entered a realm that is unknown and unknowable.】

【Disappearing from people's field of vision.】

【Only the occasionally shaking void and the faintly visible light showed that they were still in a seemingly eternal battle.】

【Sensing that the final result might be coming, everyone didn't dare to close their eyes, didn't eat, staying hungry; didn't go to the restroom, holding it in.】

【Staring fixedly at the sky screen,】

【Waiting.】

【Waiting for the outcome of everything.】

【Who knows how long, when people finally couldn't hold on anymore.】

【Bang~~】

【The unfathomable battlefield cracked open a seam, and a silver fragment stained with blood fell from the firmament, and one could faintly see that the world was also Earth.】

【Also Fuyuki City.】

【They even saw that somewhat familiar face, with an aristocratic temperament, picking up the fragment in confusion.】

【Soon.】

【As if absorbing some kind of information, he showed a twisted expression of ecstasy, waving the fragment ungracefully: "Nayotake, this Holy Grail War is already in the pocket of me, Shijo Gaan!!!"】

【Not caring about this fragment, people's hearts sank.】