Chapter 259

The whole world went quiet at this moment.

Dead silent.

A chilly wind blew past.

After a full several seconds, everyone, as if frozen, shuddered, their eyes widening in disbelief.

That was out of pure terror.

Their whole bodies were trembling, their legs shaking.

We're going to die, we're going to die, this time we're really going to die.

"I want to say... no... ah..."

Nura Rihan, the great *yokai* who had led the hundred demons since the Warring States period, had his tongue tied, unable to speak clearly about what he wanted to express.

Analysis room.

"He... no... they have come to our world... have they?"

The true masters of the Federation, the controllers of the conglomerates after dazzling equity interweaving, looked at the analyst almost pleadingly.

But they received no response for a long time.

Until a guard who crawled over trembling touched the pulse on his neck, suddenly eyes widening and turning his head stiffly.

"Master... he's dead."

The analyst is dead?

A bone-chilling cold seemed to bloom in the conference hall.

Everyone knew what that meant.

The more one understood that kind of greatness, the more one feared it.

The analyst, who had been faster than ordinary people to realize that the battlefield of those two might descend into reality, had actually suffered cardiac arrest in the center of the approaching fear, scared to death.

Rooftop.

"Yoriko, you're joking, right?"

Hiratsuka Shizuka turned her back to the sky, tremblingly lighting a cigarette, not daring to look back at all.

Completely becoming an ostrich with its head buried in the ground, refusing to accept reality.

Opposite.

Yoriko had lost her usual fake smile, looking at the sky expressionlessly, stiff as a sculpture.

Hiratsuka Shizuka knew.

The usually lawless Yoriko... was afraid.

Outside the sky.

Brilliant light rose from the horizon, turning into rippling halos, spreading layer by layer, coming from the depths of the starry sky.

Even though they were far outside that starry sky, people could clearly feel the majesty spreading over.

It made no difference whether you were a peerless soldier king or an ancient great *yokai* king; at this moment, everyone was trembling under this majesty.

That was the psychological oppression caused by the absolute gap in life levels.

Egypt, Britain, France... the whole world.

The sound of teeth chattering formed a line, legs shaking into afterimages, everyone falling into a great panic.

There was also an absurd feeling of an ultimate villain jumping out of the big screen to hit people.

Only at this moment did they suddenly realize.

That's right.

That wasn't a screen at all, not a projector, but a great creation that didn't know where it came from or where it was going.

What was shown wasn't some mundane literary work, not a game, not an illusion...

But reality that was truly happening in a foreign land.

Reality belonging to people who were also flesh and blood, and even had the same faces!

This fact was now so nakedly and forcibly displayed before them.

For the first time!

They realized their own arrogance...

At this moment, people finally understood how powerless and desperate the people in that foreign land were when facing such greatness.

Those proud people who considered themselves firm in spirit and unshakeable in will finally knew how ridiculous and pale their pride was at this moment.

So-called will...

In the face of such an absolute difference in existence, in the face of such unreachable power.

It was meaningless.

Everyone could only passively, suffocatingly, like dying geese, watch that outside the sky...

The blooming aurora.

The vast impact.

Overwhelming, layer upon layer, blooming all over the sky, even once crashing into that grand scorching sun, splashing up a corona ten thousand kilometers high.

Everyone was like a small boat in a furious tsunami, only able to wait helplessly and passively for the final outcome.

Who knows how long.

"Nii-chan, are you accelerating my time by pushing me into the sun?"

A light laugh echoed in the hearts of all sentient beings in the universe, crossing the deep space.

"But it seems useless..."

The youth's gentle voice came.

In people's minds, the image of a gentle youth shaking his head helplessly seemed to reappear.

"I said it, Nii-chan."

Vast aurora bloomed, annihilating the basic units that constituted the youth, making him dissipate as if turned to ashes.

Kaguya's tall figure walked out from the void on the side, saying calmly.

"The current me is like the awakened one who has reached the other shore, having transcended the spiral of cause and effect and time, becoming a cycle in itself, untouched by the years."

"Your attempts are meaningless."

In the duel beyond vision, the halos formed by the collision of the great ones seemed to connect into a line.

"My past cannot be modified."

"My time is self-contained."

"My origin has become a cycle."

"Even if you kill my past and send my present into a star, I... will still exist forever!!!"

People's pupils shrank, too late to be shocked, the youth's helpless sigh had already sounded.

"Eternally falling into the Root? Kaguya~"

The scattered light points reorganized the greatness of the Holy King, looking at Kaguya complexly.

"You, who have touched the Root, are equivalent to the outflow of the Root, having gained ultimate intellect surpassing the masses, and while covering the possibilities of humanity."

"You will also inevitably return to the Root, to the absolute 【Nothingness】 that has no concepts of time, space, or matter... equivalent to death."

And this time..."

"Thirty-six thousand seconds later!"

That intellectual female voice was very calm: "Enough, Nii-chan."

For her, death had long been a normal state of affairs, like eating and drinking.

Death was never important.

What was important was always why one died.

The youth had long understood this, so he never denied or questioned Kaguya's determination.

As members of those who had crossed countless cycles, perhaps only they could understand each other.

Ideals, what exactly is it that makes them so charming.

It is the ultimate of human spiritual pursuit after satisfying, reaching, and transcending material pursuits.

It is only natural to spare nothing for it.

It's just Kaguya, my sister.

Our ideals are destined to only be achieved by one side.

The decisive battle continues. ===== CHAPTER 260 =====