One-way traffic

one way or another.

In a situation where no one could stop it.

Light roaring out from within a black hole.

…it struck the surface of the planet head-on.

Boom——! !

A fiery red, dazzling light pierced through the ground.

In the instant the earth was pierced, the deeper, more central parts of the planet were also destroyed.

then.

Centered on the Northern Hemisphere.

The enormous flames that gradually expanded instantly engulfed everything.

The Arctic Ocean and the Arctic region were destroyed by this fire first.

Immediately afterwards, the radiance spread at an overwhelming speed to all parts of the world, that is, the entire globe.

The smallest countries closest to this impact have already been destroyed in an instant.

There were no wreckage to be found, no chance to defend themselves, and people were still at home unaware of what had happened when the light had already plunged them into the abyss.

And after these human civilizations have completely disappeared.

The figures standing on this vast, devastated land... are those black monsters from before.

--grumble.

Only they are standing here.

Everything that humanity had created here—the technological achievements that were proof of its civilization—was destroyed in an instant.

Chirp chi ...

The monsters seemed to be laughing.

Although it was impossible to tell whether they had eyes or not, their open mouths were indeed making a sound like laughter.

Even more incredible.

The land burned by the flames was all turned into vast stretches of sulfur.

What exactly caused this? And what physical and chemical laws are involved?

Ultimately, those who still intend to measure all of this by the laws of the conventional world are probably the most ridiculous people.

one way or another.

The destructive force, with the momentum to reduce the entire Earth to ashes in approximately three seconds, marched straight ahead—

"Stop it!"

boom! ! !

Before anything worse could happen, others had already taken action.

First of all.

A man wielding a greatsword plunged it violently into the ground.

"Based on the twenty-two Major Arcana cards and the fifty-six Minor Arcana cards, the final path to the abyss has been forged in this world!"

Whoosh!

A burst of light erupted from in front of the man.

Seventy-eight cards, resembling particles of light, coalesced and instantly spread throughout the entire world.

It's not just a tiny area like this planet.

Instead, it took one breath and directly encompassed the world, including this universe—along with it.

"It's your turn. I can't do all the work by myself!"

The young man who controlled all the tarot cards shouted loudly towards the sky.

Even though there was no one there.

But in the next instant, a scene did indeed appear where someone echoed it.

Boom——! !

Dark red lightning struck the ground.

As this situation unfolded, another man appeared.

He calmly opened the book in his hand.

That book with its dark red cover was enough to grant him true power, known as the power of death.

That is.

"Let your 'Book of the Dead' actually do something useful, stop making me clean up all the messes!"

Bang——! !

As the other party responded, an even larger stream of dark red light burst forth from the inside of the book.

It illuminated the entire world.

The light and the talismans formed by the tarot cards enveloped the world, spreading out with the Earth as the reference point, and thus radiating even greater power.

The most concrete effect was that the flames that originally intended to attack the entire world were directly suppressed by the combined effect of these lights.

The fire, which could have engulfed the entire Earth in just three seconds and completely destroyed the entire world, including the universe, in ten seconds, is now completely immobile.

Although it was only temporary.

The two who accomplished all of this had sweat dripping from their foreheads.

"Damn it, I knew this day would come, but I never thought it would come so soon!"

"Didn't Accelerator suddenly appear at our doorstep last time? We should have been more careful then."

Witte, and Advisari.

The two, who have always had mysterious identities and secretly assisted Accelerator and Hatsune Miku, are neither enemies nor friends. Now that such a major event has occurred, they have finally arrived.

Even with the combined strength of the two of them, they were simply unable to completely suppress everything before them.

"What is the current state of the world?"

"The scientific combat machines left behind by Aleister, the chairman of Academy City, have been remotely activated to directly suppress the monsters in various countries on this planet."

Boom! As they spoke, the flames directly in front of them seemed to become even more intertwined.

Sulfur splattered on their faces, causing small burns.

But they remained unmoved.

Advisari stood on the Arctic continent, now reduced to a sea of ​​sulfur, and clapped his hands behind the book, amplifying the power of death within it.

"If we want to end all of this completely, someone has to go into those black holes and manually eradicate the life forms that caused all of this!"

"...It's obvious who could do this kind of thing, isn't it?"

That's all they can do.

The two used all their strength to hold off the flames that were about to spread to the whole world, and tried to maintain their remaining strength as much as possible.

If they make even the slightest mistake.

The entire world could be wiped out in an instant.

Even though beings called demon gods had done similar things before, there are no demon gods left with their full power. This means that there is only the power to destroy the world, not the power to restore it.

Everything else.

They all have to be handed over to others on the other side of the world to handle.

"Then all I can do is wish you success from the sidelines."

With trembling arms, Witte still plunged the blade into the ground.

"It has to be done, whether it's possible or not."

"If you want to truly bring this all to a close, then rely on your own strength to resolve it all, Accelerator!"

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Then, someone on the other side of the world seemed to have actually heard this call.

Accelerator counted everyone in front of him.

Right Flame, Orelus, Virgil, Takibayashi, and other girls from Gensokyo.

Even Kakine Teitoku was standing here.

Hatsune Miku, on the other hand, was standing beside him, like a side story character and Last Order. These people had already gone to other places to take refuge.

Just as Aleister said in the video, Academy City began to deploy all available combat technologies worldwide.

Among the Level 5 superpowered individuals, it seems that the others, except for the first and second-ranked ones, have also begun to take action.

At least.

In this world, I've done almost everything I can think of.

Accelerator continued counting the number of people, but he couldn't find any familiar faces among the people in Gensokyo.

He couldn't help but purse his lips and ask.

"Where's Yakumo Yukari?"

Yukari Yakumo, the youkai sage of Gensokyo.

Although she's someone Accelerator finds annoying, in a battle like this, every bit of strength counts, and even she should be a great help in this fight.

But recalling it, it seems that I never saw the figure of that sage monster from the very beginning.

Is it possible…

"If you're asking about Zi, we haven't seen her since we came into this world."

"...That guy didn't even come over here?"

"Not all the people from Gensokyo have come here, right? Although having Yukari would certainly make things much easier, it seems there's really no other way."

If Reimu Hakurei, who usually has quite a bit of interaction with Yukari Yakumo, has said this, then it seems that Yukari Yakumo is indeed no longer in this world.

"it does not matter."

Alice stepped forward slightly and immediately said the following.

"Even if we rely on ourselves alone, we can definitely stop everything that is about to happen."

"...That's roughly the idea."

Accelerator nodded at Alice, and Alice looked away slightly.

"Uh...you two."

So, under these circumstances, other people realized that something was wrong.

For example, Izayoi Sakamaki.

"Why do I get the feeling this lady is deliberately avoiding your gaze? You two... tsk tsk, you're something else?"

"You're so annoying, so talkative, and so blonde."

"Hey, who are you calling blonde? You're blonde yourself!"

"You don't know anyone here at all, so please don't act like you're familiar with them, sir."

Alice maintained a cold expression.

"Ah~ really, although I still want to keep digging into what fun things are going on between you two."

After yawning, Izayoi Sakamaki turned around.

——Bang!

With a single, decisive punch, he instantly smashed the shadow that was attempting to attack him from behind into dust.