"Inaba!? You're Inaba, right!?"

"Inaba!? Why are you here!?"

“Chuck!”

Kicking Rabbit Inaba wrapped his long ears around the two men's arms, using his aerodynamics to stop them mid-air, saving their lives. The weight of the two men stretched the ears even further, seemingly on the verge of breaking. Inaba trembled in pain, tears welling in his eyes, but he was undoubtedly their savior.

Inaba kicked his legs in the air, gradually lowering his altitude, and finally brought Shia and Tio safely to the ground.

"I'm really saved! Inaba, thank you so much!"

"Inaba, thank you so much! But why are you here?"

"Chirp! Chirp~?"

Inaba raised a hand and casually pushed back the stretched rabbit ears, as if to say, "No big deal, you're welcome." Then, in response to Shia's question, he straightened his ears and pointed in the other direction.

Looking in that direction, I saw Shizuku and the others flying towards me from a distance on a skyboard.

Shizuku and the others approached at once and landed in front of Shia and the others.

"You two, are you alright?... Looks like something's up."

"Yeah, it looked thrilling just now."

"Haha... It feels like I've witnessed something straight out of a myth. Really, I'm glad you guys came, Shizuku..."

"Just now, Inaba suddenly rushed out and we were confused and didn't understand what was going on. You can't move now, right? Wait a moment, I will treat you immediately."

Suzuki and Shizuku each let the limp Shia and Tio lie on their laps. Suzuki cast a healing spell while Shizuku took out a healing potion and had the two of them take it.

Ryutaro and Kouki looked around, and the tragic scene of the floating island almost collapsing made them look very nervous.

Lying on Shizuku's lap, Shia laughed happily.

"Miss Shizuku, it looks like you're all safe too. That idiot seems to have reflected on his actions, which is great."

"I guess so," Shizuku nodded with a wry smile. Kouki made an awkward "uh."

"Well, what about the other person... Never mind, let's not say anything. You guys tried really hard."

Tio lay on Ling's lap and gently stroked her cheek.

Regardless of the outcome, regardless of whether it was acceptable or not, they had undoubtedly done their best. Precisely because she understood Ling's determination, Tio offered no words of comfort, but only praised her for enduring the heartache and working hard until now.

Ling seemed to understand Tio's intentions, she took a breath, tears welling up in her eyes...

But it was only for a moment. She didn't say anything, just smiled back. It was a very mature and beautiful smile.

The interaction between the two of them made Shizuku feel warm. Then, she spoke:

"Come to think of it, it really scared me. We found the entrance to the connected dimension, and the moment we entered, we saw a scene that looked like the end of the world."

"Yeah, I was so scared my eyes almost popped out of my head. I thought I was transported to hell."

"That black Oriental dragon is Miss Tio, right?"

"Indeed. To be honest, I had originally intended to use this technique when I rushed to help Master... However, being able to completely destroy all the monsters in the Divine Realm is a good result."

The demons of the Divine Realm have been completely annihilated—this earth-shattering statement made Shizuku and the others realize that the battlefield here was on a completely different level, leaving them with a dazed look. At this moment, Shia's body had recovered enough to move, and she stood up, tilting her rabbit ears.

"By the way, I didn't expect you to catch up so quickly. And you don't have a compass."

Shia and the others passed through many maze-like spaces along the way. Although they had overcome most of the obstacles in the maze, it was impossible for them to meet up so soon.

Shizuku tilted her head, following Shia's rabbit ears, and said with a puzzled look:

"Compass? No, we weren't lost at all. The clock tower collapsed, so we spent some time searching for other cities. We found the teleportation gate, entered it, and ended up here."

"Hmm, were you lucky, or did the destination of the teleportation change? Either way, it was truly fortunate. Otherwise, the two of us would have become bloodstains on the ground by now."

"Ms. Tio, don't say such things while smiling..."

Ling said helplessly. Tio laughed heartily and stood up.

"Then...where's Hajime?"

Shizuku had actually wanted to ask about this a while ago, but seeing the state of the two, she had to hold it in for now. When she raised this question, the expressions of Ling and the others also became tense.

Although the atmosphere between Shia and Tio wasn't tense, there was no need to worry. However...

"Oh, I'm so sorry. We should have told you about this first."

"Yeah, it seems I've caused you unnecessary worry."

Shia and Tio smiled wryly and briefly described what happened.

"Is that so... Then let's go after him."

Shizuku's gaze turned firm as she urged. Everyone nodded. At this moment—

The entire space began to vibrate, and bursts of earth-rumbling sounds were heard.

Xia and the others didn't understand what was happening and quickly became alert to their surroundings.

What they saw was—cracks appeared in space. Cracks appeared everywhere, as if the sky world itself was about to collapse.

Not only that, the floating island where Xia and the others were located, perhaps because of severe damage, seemed unable to withstand the vibrations of the space itself, and began to shatter and collapse with loud noises.

Xia and the others quickly took to the sky on a skyboard to seek refuge.

Looking down, I made a surprising discovery.

"Look! Could that be... on the ground!?"

Ling shouted in surprise.

Before I knew it, the pure white sea of ​​clouds had broken into fragments, and from the air, I could see the space beneath the sea of ​​clouds. The scene beneath the sea of ​​clouds was distorted, as if I were looking through a fish-eye lens.

Far below the distorted space, one can see the earth, familiar fortresses and grasslands, and many people fighting.

Then, the scene distorted again and disappeared suddenly. Then, several distorted scenes appeared in other places at the same time.

These included spaces that Xia and the others had previously passed through, as well as completely unfamiliar places.

The disturbing sound became more and more intense, and at the same time, the "distortion phenomenon that is about to connect to other dimensions" repeatedly appeared and disappeared at an increasingly rapid speed.

“…It must be Hajime-san. Hajime-san is fighting Esid!”

"That must be it. This is the divine realm. The one most affected must be Esid, the Creator. The space itself has become unstable, perhaps because Esid has been forced into a desperate situation."

However, this was just baseless speculation. Perhaps the world's destruction had simply entered its final stages. However, no one present thought so. Everyone smiled, convinced that the truth must be what Shia had speculated.

"In that case, we have to hurry over there."

"Alright! Then let's get out of here and reunite with Nagumo-san right away!"

Shizuku and Suzu spoke one after another. Of course, no one objected, and everyone headed towards the obelisk.

Because the floating island has collapsed, there is no ground under the obelisk, only a pure white pillar floating in the air.

Shia still couldn't stand steadily, so she had to sit on Shizuku's platform. Shizuku supported her while she reached out to touch the obelisk.

"?"

However, nothing happened. When the compass was first used, it had pointed to this obelisk. In every alternate dimension he had previously passed through, the portal had activated without any special operation.

Shia touched it again. Shizuku, Tio, who was riding on Suzu's skyboard, Ryuutarou, and Kouki also reached out to touch the obelisk, but nothing happened.

"Why!?"

Xia became excited and continued to reach out to touch it. But no matter how many times she tried, the obelisk did not respond.

"...Maybe it has something to do with this unstable space. There are obelisks on other floating islands too. Let's go check them out."

Although they had a bad feeling, they decided to follow Tio's speculation and investigate other obelisks separately.

However, none of the obelisks responded.

At this moment, the space in the sky world where the cracks had appeared finally began to collapse. Beyond the shattered space was a darkness that looked eerily deep, yet also like a whole wall painted black.

Shizuku tried to throw a small stone over.

"...It seems to have been disintegrated."

As soon as the pebble came into contact with the darkness, it immediately disintegrated, turned into dust and disappeared without a trace.

"The situation doesn't look good..."

"Will everything collapse and only we'll be safe?... That's unlikely to happen."

"Is the obelisk we came through still usable?"

Ling suggested so, and everyone hurried to the obelisk.

Rather than figuring out how to get to where Hajime was, the most important thing now was to escape from this space, even if that meant going back the way he came.

As they advanced, space continued to collapse rapidly. The darkness grew ever wider, like a shrinking cage. The floating islands within it gradually vanished.

Suddenly, the space in their direction collapsed, and darkness appeared. So, Shia and the others had to take a detour, and it took a while longer to reach the obelisk connected to the ruined city space.

But, as expected──

"How could this be... I can't even go back..."

A look of sorrow crossed Guanghui's face as he murmured, because the obelisk didn't react at all.

Shia and the others didn't know what to say. As if to betray despair, a distorted space appeared before their eyes, with a scene of a ruined city on the other side. They could see that space itself was beginning to crumble from the edges.

It seems that it's not just here, I'm afraid all the alien spaces in the [Divine Realm] have begun to collapse.

“Is that the end…?”

Guanghui spoke pessimistically and discouragingly, but no one could blame him.

Because there was really no escape. There was nothing they could do. Shizuku, Ling, and Ryuutarou could only grit their teeth in despair.

"No, there is still hope."

My head, which had been lowered unconsciously, suddenly lifted up at Shia's words.

Shia stared at the empty sky with a firm gaze, as if looking at a target in the distance.

"That's right. Maybe after the master defeats Esid, he'll come with Yue to pick us up."

Tio also stared at the sky, thinking of Hajime and Yue who were far away, and believed in them with all her heart.

"That's true. And we're not completely without clues. It's a desperate move, but if all else fails, we can try jumping into a space distortion where we can see the ground."

"Ha, great. Since we're going to die anyway, there's no reason not to try."

"Well, let's wait until the very end. I don't know if it will work, but maybe setting up a barrier will allow us to pass through smoothly."

"...You're right. We shouldn't give up so easily. I'll help set up the barrier, too."

Never give up no matter what the situation is, and never stop struggling until the last moment.

This is exactly the way of dealing with the world that Shia and Tio love, and it is also the most important thing that Shizuku and others learned after being summoned to the other world.

So, the group began searching for any visible spatial distortions on the ground, and finally found one. Perhaps because the collapse was already nearly complete, the distortion didn't seem to be disappearing at all.

After everyone waited for a while, it finally came to the point where they had no choice but to jump in. After making up their minds—

Indeed, someone came to pick them up, but the person who came was a completely unexpected person.

"Hmm!? Something seems to be flying towards us!"

From the distortion in space, Tio saw something flying towards them from the ground. Just as she noticed it, a strong flash of light occurred. Everyone instinctively raised their arms to shield their eyes. Peeking under their arms, they saw an arrow stuck in the distortion in space, ripples spreading from the arrow.

“This… could it be…!”

That's right, this is the arrow infused with the concept magic of realm destruction. Only one person possesses this degraded version of the arrow.

As expected, the person who jumped out from the space hole opened by the arrow was a short golem wearing a long robe and a smiling mask on his face.

Golem deftly lifted a foot in the air, placed his right hand on his hip, raised his left hand to his eye in a V-sign, and winked playfully. Such a perfect entrance, completely disregarding the timing and the occasion, was still just as irritating.

"Ahhh~! How are you doing? Everyone's favorite genius beautiful magician, Miredy Raison, appears♡!"

That was the final liberator, Meredith Lessen.

Volume 12, Final Chapter

In a closed space, in darkness as if at the bottom of an abyss.

In this space without any light source, suddenly, a platinum light descended.

A ray of light suddenly appeared from the empty air, pointing to the ground like a line drawn in the darkness, and shining on the white column.

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