I'll kill you after I finish this game!

On the other side, however, is an endless war, where people laugh and sing praises to the love of destruction.

With relatives and friends, with parents, with lovers, with everyone, all kinds of feelings can only be conveyed through actions that 'damage' the other person.

Moreover, since no one will die, everything that should be cherished while alive becomes a distorted common sense because death has lost its meaning.

For example, because people know that everyone will die someday, many people cherish everything that comes before they die.

But when death has no meaning, what is there to cherish in life?

The two worlds that Mary and countless viewers saw were by no means beautiful.

The Mercury Serpent also looked at these two worlds with great interest, and continued with a light laugh:

"When the manifestation and cessation of the Asura Path completely flow out into the three thousand worlds, everyone will be very troubled, right? One is a world of endless killing, and the other is a world without the passage of time. In any case, they are just a paradise for the dead."

"Isn't there a way to turn it off halfway through?"

"This world is really troubling," Mary said, looking at Mercury and Reiji.

Both Reiji and Mercury shook their heads at this, and Reiji explained to Mary in more detail:

"It's impossible. In fact, it's impossible. Once tyranny is unleashed, it will continue to spread until the infinite universe is completely covered. It will never disappear until new people come and repaint it."

"But now, the color rendering has been forced to stop simply because of the phenomenon of falling into the singularity, since two brushes have fallen into the hole, so the paint on the canvas is left untouched."

"In principle, you can't stop drawing until you finish it, and once you finish it, you can't start over. There's no way around it."

However, there is also a very bad and very restrictive way, which is to destroy the world that Nanami created with her domineering personality, just like she did before. This way, the endless spread can be stopped.

In any case, the world was already dead the moment its own laws were invoked, so there was no psychological pressure in destroying it further.

Furthermore, one must be like Nanami, whose pursuit of the Way overflows and becomes domineering.

This way, she can freely control her domineering laws, since they are already overflowing with her own power, and Nanami can naturally control them well.

"But... I'm the same as Ren."

Looking at the frozen infinite universe, Mary glanced at Reiji and Mercury in response to Reiji's words, and unconsciously retorted.

Mercury Serpent simply smiled at Mary and said:

"Is it really?"

"They're the same!"

When questioned about whether she was the same person she cared about, Mary responded with unwavering certainty and firmness.

I and Lian pray for the same things, dream of the same things, and run towards the same goal.

For her, who firmly believed in this, she couldn't hear the lines from before, and her tone naturally became harsh.

"She and I are together. Whether it's me or Lian, what flows out will definitely be the same, because we are all together, smiling, crying, and fighting!!!"

Mary felt that she had become a person again, but she still believed that hearts could connect.

So Mary can proudly say that she and Lian share the same wish.

Even if it's just a hypothesis, the girl doesn't want it to be denied.

"This feeling is very real, so please don't doubt everything we've fought our way to this point."

Mary's expression softened with tenderness and longing, but a deep sadness welled up within her. Looking at the two men before her, her voice tinged with melancholy, she asked them:

"We were supposed to be together, Skadi, Tohka, Yoshino, Kasumi... but why are they all leaving me now, one by one? And Ren too..."

She doesn't want to go back to being alone, she really doesn't.

Outflow will be covered by outflow.

Therefore, once the color of the next new world is determined, no other color can exist.

If Fujii Ren and Mary are from different streams, it means they are separated.

That's why she was so resistant to others saying that they were different.

"Every beginning has an end. People don't want to die, so they try their best to shine while they are alive. People don't want to lose, because they know they will lose it one day, so they try twice as hard to cherish it before they lose it... The raindrops fall to the ground. This process is extremely short, but that process is its life. And Mary, your process and theirs is your life."

Rezer answered Mary's sorrowful question, and this answer was the one that Mary could best accept, and had no choice but to accept.

Because that's how Fujii Ren is. Knowing that one day, the cherished tenderness will slip away from his palm, he hopes to stop and let that tenderness linger in that moment forever.

What is there to cherish about things that die and come back, things that are lost and then returned?

Because Mary's friendship with all of them will one day come to an end, it is precisely because of this that we need to cherish it even more during this process.

"And now, life has come to an end, and you are about to begin another journey as [God]."

Rezer's words continuously shattered Mary's defenses and rebuttals.

"I don't want to leave Ren behind!! I don't want to be alone on that seat! Leaving someone important... I... have already lost too much, so... I don't want Ren to leave me too..."

Tears welled up uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes as Mary cried out that she didn't want to leave everyone.

Rather than becoming a god or anything like that, she'd rather spend her days living a simple, silly life with everyone.

"Oh, so you want to spend forever in a world where everything is still? Or do you want to spend another gentle yet thrilling journey with Skadi, Ren Fujii, and the others?"

Rezhe remained unmoved by Mary's tears, staring at the girl with his penetrating eyes and uttering words that made her hesitate.

The former desires for all life forms in countless infinite multiverses to selfishly live together with Lian.

The latter... Mary unconsciously thought of her past encounters with everyone.

"If you want to do it again, we can grant your wish."

"well!?"

Rezer's calm and indifferent words made Mary's eyes widen involuntarily, her emerald green eyes revealing a question: 'Is it really possible?'

Many viewers were also somewhat surprised and uncertain, and some did not understand what Lei Zhe meant.

Reiji remained expressionless, while Mercury Serpent sighed with its eyes closed.

After Lei Zhe calmly looked at the Mercury Serpent, the Serpent slowly opened its eyes, emitting sharp divine light, and began to release an astonishingly domineering divine might.

Behind the mercury serpent, the patterns of the silver double serpent staff, which are very familiar to countless viewers, also appeared.

Mary stared in bewilderment at the mercury serpent unleashing a divine power that sent shivers down her spine, not understanding what it was doing. The mercury serpent simply spoke calmly and with an air of age:

"Although I hate returning, if it is your wish, Goddess, I will definitely do my best to reopen it."

"...What does it mean?"

Mary had a bad feeling. She pursed her lips and looked at the calm and indifferent Rezhe, hoping that he could give her an explanation.

"Literally, Cagliostro's world is an eternal return. His domineering power can restart the entire Infinite Throne universe, returning everything to its original starting point, which is when he ascended the throne and created the known world."

"!!!!!!"

Upon hearing this, Mary's face turned deathly pale, her heart just like that of countless other stunned and speechless viewers.

Reiji meant that the Mercury Serpent could now return everything to its very origins, allowing Mary to undergo another growth process.

However, in this timeline, all worlds, all living beings, and indeed everything will vanish into nothingness.

Countless viewers never expected that the Mercury Serpent would possess such terrifying abilities.

But that wasn't all; the truth behind Lei Zhe's words shocked countless people to their core.

“Cagliostro and I want to break the eternal cycle, and besides you and Fujii Ren, Skadi and Reinhardt, Nanami and Matilda also want to break the cycle. After all, the sense of déjà vu comes from the feeling that ‘no matter what we do, it’s like we’ve done it thousands of times before,’ so we’re feeling restless, crazy, and angry…”

A deep smile appeared on Rezer's face. His silent, empty eyes stared intently at Mary, making her unconsciously feel fear and dread. He said:

"So, Mary, do we want to do it again?"

"I......"

Mary's expression was incredibly stiff, and she involuntarily staggered back a few steps.

One more time? So that means you've already been here?

Countless people recalled the initial mention of 'presence' and, in conjunction with the domineering nature of the Mercury Serpent, suddenly realized a terrifying truth.

Ordinary people don't feel a sense of familiarity; they simply continue living their unique lives like cogs in a machine.

But what do the gods feel? Is it the same sense of conscious awareness that ordinary people have?

That doesn't make sense. How could they possibly be ordinary people? How could they possibly have the same sense of awareness as ordinary people?

The eternal return to order is for the ordinary masses of people.

But people like Reinhardt and Matilda have absolutely nothing to do with being ordinary.

Therefore, the source of their sense of primacy is not somewhere else, but rather in the deeper, mercury serpent, which is the root of everything.

A strong sense of familiarity means that doing anything feels like repeating it thousands of times, and nothing feels fresh or new.

So... does this sense of knowing mean that the Mercury Serpent has already restarted the universe a certain number of times?

[Old Demon King]: It seems we have all misunderstood and underestimated the Mercury Serpents present.

[Bishop of Destiny]: Indeed, to stand out in the battle for supremacy and successfully take the seat, it can't be easy, but I never expected...

【The Pure White Queen】: Horror drama, eternal return... The whole world is just a stage, so that's how it is. The theory of the Mercury Serpent is indeed terrifying.

[Kamen Rider Build]: This kind of thing... has that Kamukura universe really been rebooted already?

[Lord of the Hueco Mundo]: It can't be fake. Everything makes sense now. The reason for the return... the source and intensity of the sense of knowing are probably the number of times the Mercury Serpent restarts the universe.

【Cherish Cherry Blossom】: The feeling of having done everything thousands of times before, holy crap! How many times has he restarted the universe!?

The cleaner doing the splits in mid-air: It probably doesn't have anything to do with the concept of 'few'.

【Three Goddesses - Tsunami】: The seated god is the root of everything. This is probably not a simple time reversal, but a power that destroys the timeline, destroying the past and present, and then rebuilding it.

【DIO】: ......I suddenly understand why Matilda and Skadi, who had such great power, didn't challenge Mercury Serpent.

[Golden Fairy]: Because the Mercury Serpent present is the beginning of everything, once he activates his domineering power, I'm afraid nothing will work.

【Black Reading Princess】: ...No wonder it's a horror drama, it really is terrifying.

P.S.: I was sick today, sorry for the short update. I got back late from the hospital after my IV drip. I'll make it up to you all tomorrow...

Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Final Battle's Reversal – The True Unknown Revealed

(11,000 words, to make up for yesterday's. It's not that the author is being slow, but that I'm really not feeling well.)