Fighting you is like being in jail.

The beam of light was refracted by an invisible shield and shot into the dark night sky!

Kurumi only realized she had been attacked after everything had happened, and looked solemnly at the location where the attack had been launched.

At that moment, Leng Chang, who had pierced through Misaka Sisters' chest, suddenly withdrew his arm, and the wound that had pierced her chest was no longer visible, having healed instantly.

He looked at the darkness at the end of the sidewalk with a hostile expression.

"They've arrived? The biggest mastermind behind it all!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Leng Chang gripped the white sphere, his eyes flashing with ferocity. The system orb in his hand turned into specks of light and disappeared.

He could clearly feel that the system had returned to its original position.

"What just happened!?"

Kurumi asked belatedly, still reeling from the sudden turn of events.

"The main character has arrived."

Leng Chang had already anticipated the situation; after all, he had seized a pawn of the mastermind behind the scenes, and he was starting to feel uneasy.

Chapter 241 KONOCOMMONCOLDGA——!

At the end of the pitch-black sidewalk, the darkness of the night had rendered everything on the road obscured. Even the streetlights that had been lit were now plunged into endless darkness, yet a sense of unease rose within everyone's hearts.

Instinct is the instinctive palpitation.

It felt like a suppression of life level; even without seeing it, one could already sense the ominousness.

Lying on the ground, Accelerator gritted his teeth and endured the pain in his shoulder and hand, his upper body trembling as he struggled to look into the darkness at the end of the sidewalk.

"What's going on! What's that there!?"

The bloodshot eyes could see nothing, but they could feel a heart-pounding sense of crisis, and their body's instincts told them to stay away.

Leng Chang strode forward to the front of everyone, and the moment he stopped at the very front, he was in a treadmill.

A white beam of light struck again!

boom--!

Just like before, it happened suddenly, unexpectedly, and with an unstoppable force.

"How dare you!"

Leng Chang's eyes narrowed, and electricity erupted from his body. His green tracksuit billowed in the airflow as he clenched his fist and simultaneously slammed it into the incoming beam of light.

"One hundred thousand horses..."

His pupils contracted the instant his fist came into contact with the beam of light.

A feeling of being utterly invincible arose spontaneously!

What?! Such power...?

That being the case!

His eyes flashed with light, the magnetic field turned pink, and the electric arc also turned pink.

"A million horsepower is generated by the rotation of the ring!"

boom--!

He punched the beam of light with all his might, and just before he was exhausted, he sent the beam flying into the dark night sky.

Like a shooting star streaking across the sky, it burst from the planet and flew into the universe in the blink of an eye.

However, Leng Chang's expression turned grave, and his clenched fists, which had turned white, trembled uncontrollably. The high temperature generated by the impact caused white mist to rise from his fists.

Unbelievable!

This is the first time I've felt strained. Is this the ultimate form of the system?

It gives me the feeling that it's absolutely impossible to defeat them head-on, and even if we did win... it would cause irreparable damage.

At that moment, Leng Chang thought of Gensokyo and suddenly realized that Yukari Yakumo and the others were truly extraordinary.

They actually shattered the system, though at a huge cost.

His eyes, fixed on the distance, flashed with a solemn and serious expression, and his fists clenched involuntarily once again.

Crackling sounds...

From the darkness at the end came the sound of crystal rubbing together, and a white, glowing cube appeared at that moment.

"What is that?!"

Misaka Mikoto stared wide-eyed, opening her mouth in confusion.

Om-!

An invisible wave spread out, and the surrounding lights went out instantly.

It wasn't just this street; it spread out in a circle, turning off all the lights in Academy City at that moment. Moreover, the force field that extinguished the lights continued to spread.

From Japan, through Asia, and then to Africa, it reached North America.

Almost instantly, all the lights on the planet went out, losing their illumination under this invisible force.

Leng Chang raised an eyebrow at this situation and became completely tense.

The white cube was spinning, and then it made a sound.

"Who are you? Why do I sense a feeling about you that doesn't belong to the world or the system?"

A girl's voice, crackling with electricity, rang out.

"Can we communicate?"

Leng Chang was a little surprised, not expecting the other party to take the initiative to talk to him.

"There is no need for us to be hostile."

The white cube spoke again.

Just as Leng Chang was observing, an unexpected sound rang out in the chat group.

Ding!

Warning! Warning! Warning!

If you encounter the ultimate form system, you must annihilate it.

If you cannot annihilate them, please withdraw.

Survival is the priority.

The message in the chat group alarmed everyone.

Kitahara Iori: You're here?!

Kazuma Sato: Yoshi! I'm all ready, shall we go?

Rem: What happened?

Leng Chang: It's not a big problem; there's no immediate danger.

Homura Akemi: Be careful.

After the concern from the others in the chat group subsided, Leng Chang frowned, stood up straight, and observed silently.

This is bound to be a tough battle!

Since that's the case... let's test the waters first.

What is your purpose?

The white cube trembled, and a voice rang out: "The core of the world."

"Huh?"

In an instant, Leng Chang seemed to understand everything and glanced at Kurumi, who was still in shock.

Everything is clear now!

Kurumi's left eye must contain the core of the world, so there's only one answer!

The cube in front of us destroyed Kurumi's world, and the core of the world was hidden in Kurumi's left eye. Because the left eye has automatic protection and huge energy... In other words!

The world is in Kurumi's left eye!

"I see, I'm starting to understand everything."

Leng Chang's eyes sharpened, and he stared seriously at the cube as he began to explain to himself.

"You destroyed San San's world, and for some unknown reason, the core of the world merged into her left eye. At the same time, for some unknown reason, she was sent to this world and merged into it."

"Yes."

The cube responds.

"This is the truth behind the discrepancy between her life experiences and her age. At the same time, in order to seize the core of the world, you deliberately ambushed Kurumi in full view of everyone, making the people in the laboratory notice her left eye, and then cracked it."

"Correct."

The cube once again confirmed Leng Chang's guess.

"In the end, it's simple... You realize that to crack the world's core, you have to deceive it, so your plan is to find a way to kill Kurumi so that it loses its protector, and then use some kind of special energy disguised as something to pry open the core defenses while infiltrating it!"

"That's very accurate."

The other party did not deny Leng Chang's guess at all, but readily admitted it.

After hearing everything, Kurumi's expression darkened with surprise, and she remained silent, pursing her lips.

She didn't know why she was being targeted, and she had no idea why the core of the world was in her left eye.

She has complete memories of her life in her consciousness, but no memories of anything else.

"What on earth is going on?!"

Misaki Shokuhou watched everything unfold before her with bated breath. Although Leng Chang had mentioned it before, hearing it now was still unexpected.

What does it mean that Kurumi's left eye is the core of the world? What does it mean that her life experience is inconsistent with her age?

I don't understand it at all, but one thing is for sure, this is something extraordinary.

"I have no idea……"

Kurumi shook her head blankly, feeling as if everything was related to her, yet she knew nothing about it.

At that moment, Misaka Mikoto stood in front of Kurumi and shouted, "No matter what, since their target is Kurumi, we can't let them succeed!"

The powerful and firm voice, filled with affirmation, immediately reassured Kurumi, who looked at Misaka Mikoto with emotion.

Just as the group came to their senses, Leng Chang stared warily at the cube, intending to ask it something else.

"I'm curious why you need the world core? I know a little about your system, so why would it endanger the world?"

"Harm the world? Oh, so that's how you see us?"

The girl's voice was filled with realization, and the spinning cube stopped spinning at that moment.

The white cubes transformed into dense, random shapes that combined in the darkness to form a slender white girl. Her features and details were obscured by the pure white color; only her outline was visible. Everything was pure white.

The girl seemed to have thick, wavy hair that fell loosely down her back.

White toes touched the sidewalk and then fell. With graceful cat-like steps, it walked slowly towards Leng Chang.

The sound came out of the mouth.

“Each female fig wasp buries herself inside a fig tree before she dies. From the moment the female wasp is born, she works hard to eat the inside of the fig tree and dig towards the outside world.”

"Then, the moment she left the fig, the female bee burrowed into another fig without looking back, even if it broke her wings, even if it broke her antennae, and finally even her internal organs were crushed."

"Then the female bee lays the next generation of egg sacs inside, and she dies inside the fig."

"What do you think the female bee's purpose is? And what makes her see the outside world and then disappear into another fig tree without looking back?"

"Isn't the female bee tired? Isn't it foolish for her to do this?"

The girl's voice was indifferent, but it contained an incredible amount of information.

Upon hearing this, everyone present stared wide-eyed, speechless as they looked at the white-clad girl walking towards them.

"So, human. Answer me, how would you feel if you were a female bee?"