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

"This place... feels a bit strange."

"it is good."

Su Chen answered decisively, without the slightest hesitation.

"Stay put and maintain the highest level of alert. Do not reveal your position. We'll be there shortly."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and gave a brief look to the two girls behind him who also had solemn expressions.

"Let's go."

"Let's go and see what kind of opponent we're facing this time."

……

With remote guidance from Kato Megumi, who possesses "god-level invisibility" abilities, Su Chen and his two companions narrowly avoided all the invisible dangers lurking in the shadows of the city.

Like three ghosts walking in a dark forest, they silently passed through those deathly quiet, eerily clean streets.

There are no ruins, no wreckage, and even far less dust than in other areas.

It was as if an unseen hand was sweeping this enormous altar every day to keep it pure.

Finally, they arrived at the rooftop of the skyscraper where Kato Megumi was, which faced the "Shinjuku Gyoen".

This used to be the headquarters of a multinational corporation, but now only the broken glass curtain wall remains, reflecting an eerie light under the dark red sky.

"here."

Kato Megumi peeked out from behind the concrete railing on the rooftop, her small, almost inconspicuous head peeking out, and pointed down with her slender finger.

Su Chen and his two companions immediately lowered their bodies and moved with utmost care, crawling over like the most professional special forces soldiers, and hiding in the shadow of the railing.

then.

They looked down.

I saw it.

I saw that hellish scene, enough to make any sane human being instantly lose their reason (sanity value reset to zero).

Downstairs.

That area should have been a vast park, Shinjuku Central Park, covering tens of hectares and filled with greenery and vitality, symbolizing the city's green lung.

At this moment, it had completely transformed into a pitch-black, living nest where something was wriggling in the darkness.

Thousands upon thousands.

Countless monsters of all shapes and sizes have gathered here.

They did not attack each other.

There wasn't a single sound.

The entire park was eerily silent, save for the uniform, rustling sound of bodies being moved.

They simply do the same thing mechanically, numbly, and endlessly.

—Transfer.

They are targeting some smaller, seemingly weaker members of their kind that appear to have just emerged from the city's shadows.

With their ferocious claws and twisted tentacles.

One after another.

They dragged and tore at it, like moving pieces of building materials.

It was taken to the very center of the park.

And there...

It was an enormous, slowly pulsating tumor, like a twisted, deformed, living heart that had been ripped out of the chest of a mythical beast.

That tumor was as big as a standard football field, occupying the most central area of ​​the park.

Its surface is covered with countless thick black veins that resemble tangled blood vessels. With each pulse, these veins swell and contract.

Between the tendons and veins are blurry "faces" that appear and disappear at times, filled with pain and despair.

Each throb produced a deep, resounding sound, like a heartbeat emanating from the depths of the earth.

Boom...boom...boom...

The sound seemed to be in sync with the pulse of the earth.

With each jump, the entire ground trembled slightly, and even the rooftop of the high-rise building where they were located could feel the heart-pounding, deep vibration.

And those nutrients that were dragged over by the monsters in the lair like sacrifices.

They were then mercilessly thrown into the viscous cracks on the surface of the tumor, those cracks that opened and closed repeatedly, like the gaping maws of an abyss.

Then, it was mercilessly devoured and digested…

Before it could even utter a mournful cry, it was completely absorbed into that enormous, writhing mass of flesh and blood.

“．‖ Ugh…”

Kasumigaoka Utaha stared at the terrifying scene before her, a scene so horrifying it felt like a Cthulhu mythos had descended into reality, a scene that was sure to make her lose sanity.

I could no longer hold back the intense discomfort that surged up from deep within my stomach.

She ran to the side and began to retch violently, her face as pale as a freshly used A4 sheet of paper.

Yukino Yukinoshita's face was also deathly pale, devoid of any color.

This thing in front of me...

It has completely exceeded all her understanding of the concept of "life".

This is the most extreme desecration of the word "life".

It is chaos, it is disorder, it is madness.

Su Chen remained silent.

He simply watched quietly, his dark eyes filled with an unprecedented solemnity.

He looked at the enormous heart that was constantly accumulating energy through cannibalism.

With each thud, it grew stronger, exuding an even more oppressive and terrifying aura.

He finally understood completely.

I understand now; this is the ultimate truth behind the so-called "King's Domain."

That king might not be the single individual lord he had previously envisioned.

It's more like a system.

A petri dish using the entire Shinjuku ward as its culture dish.

It feeds on all the weak monsters born in this region.

It is an ultimate life form undergoing some kind of extremely terrifying, incomprehensible to human common sense, and unstoppable by external forces, self-evolving.

"It is not yet the 'king'."

Su Chen looked at the tumor that was still pulsating, each pulsation causing a slight distortion in the surrounding space.

"It is currently just an embryo, about to hatch from an 'egg'."

Chapter 116 The King's True Face

"Embryo?"

After a brief period of dry heaving, Kasumigaoka Utaha, suppressing the churning discomfort in her stomach, repeated Su Chen's conclusion in an almost dreamlike, incredulous tone.

The word itself is not particularly terrifying, but in this context, it is a thousand times more terrifying than reality itself.

"You...you mean..." Her voice trembled slightly with fear, and her usually sharp, insightful, wine-red eyes were now filled with pure bewilderment. "That mountain-sized monster that's devouring its own kind...is it just an 'egg'?"

"That's understandable."

The ease and composure that had been on Su Chen's face were gone.

Instead, there was an unprecedented solemnity, as if even light could be swallowed up.

He looked down at the enormous black nest below, which was still devouring its "kin" and accumulating energy.

His spiritual senses, which had long surpassed the limits of mortals, could clearly perceive that the inside of that tumor contained an extremely pure, vast primordial energy filled with chaos and malice.

The quality of that energy was even half a level higher than the innate Qi he had refined through the [Triple Rebirth] technique.

This is a fundamental difference, like bronze versus gold, or ordinary iron versus divine weapon. 283

This is no longer just a simple monster.

It's more like a fragment of an evil god that accidentally descended upon this world from a higher-dimensional hell filled with madness and despair.

"..."

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at the unprecedentedly solemn expression on Su Chen's face.

Her usually calm heart sank little by little, as if falling into a bottomless abyss.

She knew it.

Even Su Chen, the man they considered almost omnipotent, who could even create life out of thin air, showed such an expression.

That can only mean one thing.

The thing downstairs has completely exceeded the limits of what they can currently handle.

Conventional tactics.

Human wisdom.

Even the hope within their newly established, tiny, flickering "paradise."

Before this overwhelming, absolute power, which seemed like a natural disaster, everything else appeared so pale, powerless, and even laughable.

At that moment, she truly felt the emotion called despair for the first time.

It was a cold, sticky feeling that enveloped her from all sides, making it almost impossible for her to breathe.

……

"Hello...hello. Su Chen."

Just then, the intermittent communication miraculously reconnected (bjdc), and came Sora's voice, filled with anxiety and fear, completely distorted.

"Run! What are you all standing there for?"

"According to Xiaobai's real-time energy model calculations, the energy reaction of that 'tumor' is skyrocketing at a geometric rate. Its internal structure is rapidly reorganizing, like a star undergoing a fusion reaction. In at most ten minutes, it will completely 'hatch' out."

"At that time, not only Shinjuku, but probably the entire Tokyo will be completely swallowed up by it, becoming its next source of nourishment for evolution."

"Run! It's the only option!"

He was roaring.

He was urging him on.

His godlike gaming brain, which always managed to find the optimal solution, made the most correct, yet also the most cowardly, judgment for the first time at this moment.

That means running away.

However, Su Chen remained standing still, as if he had not heard his warning.

He simply stared silently downstairs at the enormous heart beating faster and stronger.

In those dark eyes, there flickered an extremely complex light that no one could understand.

run?

These two words never existed in Su Chen's dictionary.

Moreover, he knew very well.

If he runs away today, the first target this embryo will seek after hatching will be him, the anomaly with the highest energy level.

It will chase you to the ends of the earth, like a shark that has smelled blood.

At that time, he and the kingdom he had painstakingly built behind him will cease to exist.