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Chapter 549 Offering Death to the Stars

"We won!!!"

The shouts of victory indeed reached the ears of all his comrades.

The gods in the sky collapsed, disappearing into the air without leaving even fragments.

A rainbow-colored light shone at the edge of their vision. Upon seeing that light, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and smiled – a smile after the final death line had been crossed.

Everyone saw that in the direction of the divine tree, a huge rainbow-colored light was radiating outwards from the area that had been burned by flames. Under that warm and gentle light, the sea of ​​trees was regenerating at an astonishing speed.

The light of the divine tree interfered with the crimson flames, suppressing the calamity that had engulfed the world, and gradually returned to normal. Thus, after the forest was repaired to a certain extent, the forest transformation ended, and white light surged forth, transforming back into the real world.

When the gods altered the laws of nature, time stopped in the outside world. After defeating the gods and erasing the cosmic fiery barrier, the original appearance will be revealed: a broken but vibrant planet, where humanity will embark on a journey to find new hope.

“…………”

If everything goes well, then perhaps that's the case.

Unfortunately, all of this was just a fantasy.

The victors were greeted only by an overwhelming amount of white stardust and the scorching yet indifferent cosmic sky.

If the divine tree, which possesses the abilities to stop time, modify reality, and create matter, still exists, then it should be able to restore, reshape, and repair the world once again.

However, even after the gods were defeated, the situation did not change...

Because all the gods are already "dead".

Whether it's the heavens or the earth, everything that could have salvaged this situation has vanished from this world, and at least in terms of human lifespan, it will never reappear before their eyes.

The world, this miniature garden, is gradually collapsing as time goes by. Although the sea of ​​fire is gradually cooling down, the stardust is still active as a "remnant." This is the world that has already perished.

This was by no means a victory without casualties… it was more like a brutal one.

The victims are the lives, history, and future of all humankind in this world, as well as the bodies of all gods.

There was no forest, no life, and even the planet beneath our feet... everything was destroyed in an unprecedented battle, bursting and disappearing like bubbles.

Fighting against that nightmarish Celestial Group, such a victory can be described as a great achievement. If one is not careful, annihilation could have happened in the blink of an eye.

Monsters are still fighting each other in the universe.

However, humanity's bright future will never come.

…………

It has been about two days since the defeat of "Heaven".

The vast sky stretched endlessly, the sea of ​​fire had cooled down, and the universe revealed its cold and dark true form. However, the law that "stars" were still "stardust" remained unchanged.

The final resting place is the graveyard of heroes, the last evidence of humanity's existence. The remains of the four kingdoms, preserved after the Divine Tree exhausted its last strength and was hidden under the heavens' gaze, are only the size of a graveyard.

That's all there is to it; there's no way to ask for more.

The illusory man stood before this cemetery that had once been used for worship, head bowed and silent.

Some tombstones have names on them, while others are illegible.

But some people remember each and every one of them—

Nogi Wakaba, Gun Chikage, Takashima Yuuna, Doi Taiko, Iyoshima Anzu, Shiratori Utano, Akihara Yukka...Minowa Gin.

What happens when a person dies?
Everything returns to nothingness, cause and effect cycle, merge into the universe, time flows, and it becomes something else.

Sadly, this world has no heaven or hell. These brave young women who appeared at the last moment could have continued to exist as spirits; this was the final protection the divine tree gave them…

But in that battle, they also burned themselves out completely, including all the power that sustained their existence.

Therefore, all that remains here are empty tombstones, and there are no longer any people to worship or commemorate them.

Cherry blossoms drifted by, and an unseen, colorless object made a faint sound as it passed through him and flew into the night sky.

"Master?"

"Hmm?" "Ah~ um. Well~ Master Jagi, you've been here since earlier, and you looked lonely and lost, so I was wondering if something was bothering you..."

Her pink ponytail swayed in the breeze.

The girl's hair was a pinkish-red, about shoulder-length, and she had a pair of eyes that shone with the same red light, as if she knew nothing of filth. She was a lovely and innocent girl.

She wore a white hair clip shaped like a cherry blossom.

The back of her head was tied into a small ponytail with a white hairband.

She wore a pink hooded jacket, a white shirt, and blue shorts. Her eyes sparkled like cherry blossoms, and her face was covered in bandages, as were the parts of her face that were visible through her clothes.

"It's nothing..."

Jagi turned his head, wanting to pat the girl's head, but stopped in his tracks.

He wasn't the one who was troubled.

The girl's thin shoulders trembled incessantly as she desperately tried to stop something.

Nevertheless, tears still fell.

"This is so strange... I wanted to laugh, I wanted to celebrate properly... I decided that no matter what happened, I would never cry... I don't know why, but my eyes are constantly watering..."

Scalding tears soaked my cold cheeks, and no matter how I wiped them with my sleeve, the tears kept flowing like melting snow.

"――――"

He regretted it.

Regret for making the girl before him weep, hatred for his own powerlessness, and humiliation at his defeat—these emotions and regrets once led Jagi to the realm of ultimate techniques. In his battle against the heavens, he seized the final opportunity for victory, the lost technique possessed only by Kenjiro Kasumi, but…

Too late.

Even if the greatest evil is defeated, nothing is saved; what is lost is still lost.

"That girl cried, Jacques."

"We can't do that."

His brothers, who had regained consciousness, came to his side and spoke in low voices.

— Rao and Tocchi.

In that final strike against the heavens, the souls of all the brave maidens who had passed away in the past, without exception, offered up the remaining divine power within their bodies, entrusting it to their descendants, pouring everything into it.

At that time, Yuna Yuuki could be said to have touched the realm of a god. For that brief moment, her level should have surpassed that of a "quasi-god" and reached the level of a "god".

The feeling... was as if she were the center of the world, controlling everything in the universe. Before falling to this level, Yuuki Yuna realized that she possessed a creative ability similar to that of the previous Divine Tree.

She could use that fleeting moment, like a divine tree, to create a body for those whose souls remained.

There is only one body...

"Give it to Ah Quan."

Jagi, the only one still conscious, said this and took it upon himself to send his youngest brother back home.

The reason why Rao and Tochi, who were left behind, remained here was for one thing only—

The world shouldn't have become like this.

They would never accept such an outcome.

I want to start over, I want to go back to the past.

If only we could go back to that time, if only we could, if only... if only.

Jagi looked at them, and they looked back at him with the same gaze. Then he slowly spoke the thoughts of everyone.

"In other words, we need to go back, we need to reverse cause and effect, we need to change this fucking story of 'nothing being saved'!"

(End of this chapter)