Chapter 2284

Personally stepping in to carry out a certain plan — this was still the first time within their memories.

With a clear hum, a secret-art gate rippled into being in the void.

Then, Sawada Tsunayoshi, having entered the state of Sky Flare, walked in through the secret-art gate with a steady expression.

And behind him, followed—

Reinazel's pupils contracted, his body tensing.

But before he could act—

Lelouch smiled, tapped the Go board before him, then rose. "You've come."

"Mm!"

Sawada Tsunayoshi in the Sky Flare state gave off a feeling utterly different from before.

Utterly dependable.

He waved his hand, gestured at the sling ring of Kamar-Taj on his finger, and said softly, "I figured it probably hadn't reached there yet.

So I asked her for a spot.

And brought her along to your palace.

Not too abrupt, I hope?"

"What's so abrupt about that?"

Lelouch shrugged.

The surprise on Reinazel's face gradually faded; he narrowed his eyes, studying the two before him.

Turning over their true identities in his mind.

However, Zhu Que's expression beside him was a little odd, because what Sawada Tsunayoshi had clearly spoken was Japanese.

In other words... this young man with flames burning on his forehead was a person from the Eastern Lands — "Did you meet him back when you were studying abroad, Lelouch?"

Zhu Que fell into thought... Just as the few of them were preparing to continue their exchange, suddenly, their expressions all changed.

Lelouch's face was very ugly. "How could it be this fast this time?"

A sound like thunder rolled down from the heavens.

Then, a colossal rift split open across the firmament, and two incomparably towering figures stepped leisurely out from within it.

Their very appearance was as if the world itself could not bear it.

Dense cracks appeared around both their bodies.

As if the world had begun to destroy itself.

These two were, naturally, Hernans and Chaos.

"... An ordinary world with no high-tier combatants!"

Chaos lowered his gaze, lost in thought.

His powerful spiritual sense had allowed him to glimpse the world's truth.

"Then let's just destroy it on the way! Consider it a little side gig before heading back to the Transcendent headquarters."

Hernans smacked his lips, thought for a moment, then asked, "You, or... alright! I get it, I'll handle this world."

Seeing Chaos looking utterly languid, Hernans already knew the other's true attitude.

Still, he said nothing more.

After all, Chaos's strength was far greater than his own.

In the past, on many dangerous missions, Chaos had protected him more than once.

A terrifying dark radiance gathered in his hand, and the light of the sun was snuffed out in an instant.

4.

Even though the world-destroying light in his hand had not yet been unleashed, the suppression of rank it brought still stripped the world of all light and brightness.

Not just the Earth — the entire universe was the same.

Every star across the myriad universes went dark! Even without him releasing this move.

The mere prelude alone was enough to inflict extreme, terrifying damage on the cosmos's biosphere.

Erasing all light on a conceptual level! "It's over!"

As Hernans's words fell, the dark radiance erupted in an instant.

Yet, right after the dark radiance burst forth, a gentle voice suddenly rang out: "The end of one chapter does not mean the end of a world."

"If you want to pronounce the world's末日, I'm afraid you're not qualified enough."