Anime Crossover: Post-Apocalyptic Survival, My Stand is the World

The entire top-floor lobby fell into a deathly silence.

A deathly silence more eerie and suffocating than ever before.

Yui Yuigahama looked at the results on the screen excitedly and exclaimed, "Great! Do we still have a chance to win now?"

No one answered her.

Because everyone's attention was focused on the boy who remained frozen in place, holding the joystick down, like a statue.

He slowly raised his head, inch by inch.

That face, which always wore a playful smile and was full of confidence and arrogance, now only had one emotion left.

—Unbelievable.

"Why?"

His lips were trembling, and his voice was as dry as two pieces of sandpaper rubbing together.

Why did it fail?

"Bai's calculations are incapable of being wrong."

"Everything should have been under our control!"

He whirled around, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the nonchalant man, and uttered a hysterical question:

"What... exactly did you do?"

"Is this the [World]? You've paused time again? No! Even if you pause time, you can't change the internal operating logic of this machine!"

"Is it a hallucination? Is it some kind of psychological attack? No, that's not it either! If it's a hallucination, then it doesn't make sense!"

"What exactly did you do?"

For the first time since birth, Sora felt real fear.

It wasn't a fear of failure, nor a fear of death.

Rather, it is an ultimate fear stemming from the unknown and ignorance!

His pride in his intelligence and calculations became utterly worthless and powerless in the face of the phenomena displayed by the man before him!

Those last ten seconds or so.

A blank period of about ten seconds.

'Is that your real trump card?'

"Hahaha…"

Faced with Kong's near-collapse-like questioning, Su Chen simply chuckled.

"Blank, your schemes have failed, and the game has returned to its original state."

"But we haven't lost yet, have we?"

Kong stared at Su Chen, her eyes still filled with hope.

"Indeed, you haven't lost yet, and that's all you've done so far."

"How about we make a bet?"

Looking at Kong's hopeful expression, Su Chen couldn't help but want to add some fun to the game and shatter Kong's last hope.

"Bet? What bet?"

Kong was a little confused after hearing Su Chen's words.

At this point, what is this guy still betting on?

What else does he want to gamble on?

"I'll bet on the next two draws. If either of them isn't blank, I'll concede the game."

"But if I win the grand prize twice in a row, then you'll admit defeat, okay?"

Su Chen stared into Kong's slightly red eyes and spoke slowly.

"Huh? Are you crazy? You're courting death."

Kong couldn't help but laugh when he heard Su Chen's bet. Did this man really think he could win twice in a row?

"Since you're so eager to lose, OK, I'll take the bet."

Upon hearing Kong's words, Su Chen wasted no time and went straight to the slot machine, pulling down the lever.

Click!Click!Click!

[Blank] - [Blank] - [Blank]

Then the second time.

Click!Click!Click!

[Blank] - [Blank] - [Blank]

Twice, twice in a row, it was a blank. Is Su Chen a lucky illegitimate child?

Everyone was stunned; how could someone be so lucky?

Just then, Su Chen spoke up.

"Fate certainly exists, but it chose me, not you, Kong!"

"Good fortune is already upon me."

As he spoke, he walked to a glass window, picked up a stone using the [World] tool, and suddenly smashed it against the glass window.

The glass window shattered into pieces after being hit by the stone.

Glass shards scattered and danced in the air.

Surprisingly, Su Chen, who was standing in front of the glass window, was not harmed in any way.

All the fragments seemed to have their own consciousness, avoiding Su Chen.

He was bathed in a rain of glass!

"Now, do you understand? Emptiness!"

"That's just bad luck! Your defeat was already destined!"

Upon seeing this scene, Kong was utterly devastated.

Is this fate? A man enveloped by overwhelming luck!

'How can we play like this?'

'There's nothing left to play!'

Su Chen walked step by step to the boy who had completely lost his composure.

"As for what you asked me before, I'll answer that for you! Anyway, you and your sister are already mine."

"After being cornered by you just now, I awakened a new Stand—King Crimson."

"One of his abilities, the Epitaph, allows me to see what will definitely happen a dozen seconds in advance."

"Just now, I saw you go up and pull the lever for the future."

"And another ability of the Crimson King allows me to skip the process and go directly to the result."

"To completely erase the process from this world!"

"In those ten or so seconds that I deleted, everyone except me will lose consciousness and then act unconsciously according to the script of the 'future,' eventually arriving at the 'result' that ten or so seconds later."

“They won’t remember what happened in those ten seconds. For you, time has ‘flew’ through the past.”

"And I..."

A strange crimson light flashed in Su Chen's eyes.

"He was the only emperor in this deleted period of time!"

"I can move freely without being interfered with by anyone or anything."

"I cannot change the outcome of the future."

"237 But..."

He looked at Kong and Bai, whose faces were now deathly pale, and gave a cruel smile.

"But I can easily change all the prerequisites you need to reach that result during this 'process'!"

He extended a finger and pointed at the white figure hiding behind Kong.

"For example, disconnect your sister from that slot machine."

"!"

That's it!

Everything makes sense!

They finally understood!

During that period of time that was erased, Su Chen neither attacked them nor changed the slot machine itself.

Instead, it severed the direct connection between the white card and the slot machine.

That's what caused them to lose everything!

"monster…"

The word slipped out unconsciously from his empty mouth.

He looked at the man in front of him and felt a sense of awe.

They lost.

They lost convincingly.

……

"All right."

Looking at the two genius siblings who had completely lost their will to fight, Su Chen's smile returned to its lazy and casual form.

"The game is over."

"According to the bet..."

He reached out and, amidst the complicated gazes of everyone, gently rubbed the white-haired girl's fluffy head.

Bai's body stiffened abruptly, but he did not dodge.

She simply raised her head and quietly looked at the first and only man who had completely defeated [the other] in the game.

"From now on..."

Su Chen's voice echoed throughout the entire top-floor lobby.

"Everything that was once blank begins now,"

"Then they're all mine."

Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Addition of Blank Space

The emperor's proclamation still resonates.

That phrase, "true destiny," was like a boulder thrown into a calm lake, stirring up a storm in the hearts of the [Blank] siblings that was enough to overturn the entire world.

Immediately afterwards, the surrounding scenery began to become unstable.

The walls, ceiling, floor... everything began to flicker and distort wildly, like the picture on an old television with a poor signal.

Finally, with a deafening roar as it could no longer bear the weight, this alternate game space constructed from [blank] shattered completely.

Light and shadow change.

When everyone opened their eyes again, the rooftop game room, full of realism, reappeared before them.

The familiar "otaku" vibe still lingered in the air.

Game over.