Xingyue, is Xiaokai also considered Kai?

"Even without Yoshiko, there is still a world where happiness can exist..."

Longhua's earnest words blended into the silence, and in an instant, Meiyou's expression became more and more stiff, frozen in place.

Then, a light flashed in Sakuzuki Miyu's eyes as she slowly withdrew her hand. The girl's breathing became rapid and irregular. When she finally gave up, she paused for a moment, and then Ryuka's face suddenly appeared in front of her.

Even so, Miyu calmly countered with:

"Longhua, you haven't answered my question."

"Ah……"

Longhua let out a sigh tinged with a smile.

"However, since you are so stubborn, I have no choice but to send you to your death. After all, you are not from this world, and therefore you are not within the scope of this salvation. So—"

A distant sound faintly echoed from the stagnant space.

It seemed to be the gentle humming that a giant dragon tree should possess, yet a terrifying vibration was embedded within it, forming a vast humming that impacted the girl's body and spread throughout her entire being.

"You can really die now, Miyu Sakuzuki. You have no right to enter my body..."

Whether it was the bubbles that Longhua displayed or something else, they suddenly stirred as if making a commotion in the wind, and an invisible barrier slowly spread out in a circle under Meiyou's feet.

At that moment, Longhua froze in shock, and at the same time felt a wave of discomfort in his stomach, as if he had eaten something bad and wanted to vomit.

Therefore, it was this small delay that gave them the opportunity.

therefore--

The thing emerged from the shadows beneath Miyu's feet.

"Well, Gaia and Alaya, how dare you do this!"

That is not a tangible entity at all.

What appeared behind Miyu upon her return to the real world was something that should have no effect at this moment, existing outside of Earth like a shadow—

Moon Cancer.

Originally, the moon was Earth's magical barrier. Like a giant umbrella, it has blocked evil things falling from the universe for tens of thousands of years. Some of these attempts were successful, and some were unsuccessful, but the purpose was always to protect.

However, umbrellas can sometimes turn into demons. Just as Longhua is helping Maitreya overcome his tribulation, is it not also a proper act of 'salvation'?

In short, for millions of years, when people looked up at the sky, their vision was obscured. The moon was the ultimate limit that humanity could resist. This celestial illusion permeated deeply and eventually became reality.

"Humanity should maintain the status quo," and "Civilization should maintain the status quo"—these are the collective demands of those who are unconscious.

This force appears whenever humanity attempts to venture into the universe, constantly hindering all exploration, discovery, and endeavor.

From this definition, it is not that the Moon Cancer of the Spirit Computer MC should be a sanction that appears when human technology reaches its limit, ultimately unable to overcome the lunar blockade, exhausts its potential as a primate, and is unwilling to give way to a new primate.

In other words, the Moon Cancer shouldn't have manifested at this moment, but perhaps it heard the cries of Gaia and Alaya, who were contained within the Dragon Flower Tree, or perhaps for some other reason, so the Moon Cancer activated its protection. And as for the object of selection, who would be more suitable than Miyu, who, in the Moon Cancer's eyes, is like a 'galaxy' of the same kind?

Ultimately, while lunar cancer is a cancer that humanity should overcome, it is also one of the protectors until the time comes.

Moreover, in a sense, it is hostile to the future, since only by overcoming it can there be a future. Therefore, although the timing is not quite right for it to fight against Longhua, which represents the future, it doesn't seem to pose a big problem.

Under the interference of the Moon Cancer, Miyu also had a certain opportunity to hinder Longhua. The huge human figure and the shadow of Longhua tree collided with each other, bursting out with a roar, which was faintly transformed into a huge sound that shook the heavens and the earth, as if it was screaming, roaring, singing and chanting from the melody.

However, for Longhua, who was able to forcibly annex both Gaia and Alaya, Lunar Cancer was nothing more than a slightly larger worm.

Longhua directly charged into the Moon Cancer with a burst of Buddha-like light from his entire body and threw a punch at Meiyou. Although she managed to block the attack, Meiyou's body was propelled into the air.

Then, Longhua shone golden light there again, seemingly trying to completely sever everything, giving Meiyou no time to regroup.

Even more terrifying, just as the intervals between the strikes gradually shortened and the number of strikes exceeded dozens, the burst of light became uninterrupted, presenting a huge band of light that shot out from the ground and pierced through the moon beyond heaven and earth.

It was practically a declaration that this was not only an infinite combo, but also an endless, powerful strike, all for the purpose of destroying the moon.

In response, Miyu closed her eyes, gave the sapphire to Ilya on the ground, and then merged with the Moon Cancer into the overwhelming power that seemed to sever everything. She no longer cared about life or death; as long as she could slightly hinder Ryuka, that was enough.

During this process, Long Hua's expression rarely, if ever, revealed undisguised anger.

"Sakuzuki Miyu, you are an outsider. Your world is about to be destroyed. You are too cowardly!"

"You're a person who lacks confidence!"

"Your justification for fighting for this world is far too weak!"

"You cannot live! I will kill you completely!"

Unconcerned that the Moon Cancer, which was protecting her, was beginning to crumble under Longhua's onslaught, Miyu calmly opened her eyes:

“You look exactly like me, and you have the same hair and eyes as my brother. The reason you want to kill me is to deny my existence, right? After all, my relationship with you is not as close as that between Ilya and Chloe, is it?”

After a long silence, Longhua sighed softly, his eyes shifting slightly, revealing a hint of jealousy that was hard to discern—whether from anger or indifference.

"...Indeed, you were the first human to see my Lord."

She paused, then, unusually, laughed in front of people outside of Ivia:

"So only I can have this face, even though I hate it. Because every time I see this face, I can't help but think of the years you spent with my Lord. Ah, if only I had been the first one to appear back then. Why did I say those things to Yoshiko? Why did you appear? Why did you see me? Why were you able to arrive before me? Why are you unwilling to disappear? Why do you keep appearing? Why do you keep getting closer? Why, why, why—"

Longhua's eyes held a maddening clarity and purity as he cupped his face in his hands, and in that instant, Miyu felt a similar sensation.

"Compared to me, you were the first person I met, Sakuzuki Miyu. Clearly, I should have been my master's first 'fate'!!!"

……

On the other hand, because Miyu used the power of the Moon Cancer to delay Ryuka who was blocking the way, she didn't have time to worry about the seriously injured Illya. She picked up the sapphire and, together with Chloe, came to Ivia, who was sitting on the lotus throne.

At this moment, Ivia's image gave Ilya and Chloe the feeling they had when they first met. It was as if she was sitting and watching them, as if she was looking into the distance, or as if she were sitting there in a melancholy and languid manner. Her image was that of long, lustrous silver hair draped over her bare upper body.

Ivia raised her eyes to look over, scrutinizing their expressions, and quickly nodded.

"You can ask first, and then I'll decide whether to agree or not."

After thinking for a moment, Ilya cautiously began to speak:

"This is all over now, right? We've won, haven't we? Right? Me, Chloe, and Miyu, the three of us?"

A brief silence followed, and Ivia seemed stunned, her expression growing increasingly strange.

He stared at Ilya for a long time.

Finally, he slowly shook his head.

"It's not working yet, Longhua made a wish."

"Why is that?! And brother, what's your relationship with Ryuka, who looks exactly like Miyu?!"

"Ryūka wants to be Miyu, Illya, Chloe, and Kallen."

Ivia paused for a moment, then said, "That's about it."

"This is as good as saying nothing at all..."

Chloe said softly, then suddenly seemed to remember something and spoke louder.

"By the way, brother, let me tell you, when I was seriously injured by Longhua just now, I was a little scared, right? Ilya, you felt the same way, didn't you?"

“...Oh, ah, um.”

Upon hearing Chloe's words, Ilya realized that both of them were covered in dried blood, which might have tainted their clean clothes with a slight stench. Although they could have cleaned themselves with magic on the way here, they had forgotten because they were too nervous.

The silver-haired girl stared intently at Ivia, seemingly seeing through everything. But what exactly did she see? It was something that seemed to have no end in sight, yet it gave Ilya a strange sense of déjà vu. First, there was the time when she thought the letter Rin Tohsaka had given her about the time to reclaim the class cards was a love letter to Ilya, and she had deliberately spoken loudly to attract Ilya's attention.

Then, the 'Ilya's Love Letter' that Ivia uttered contained the following content:

I will listen carefully to whatever you say, no matter how slowly. If a letter cannot express myself clearly, I will come to see you directly like this. If you leave, I will go with you, no matter how slowly.

I will listen to you no matter how slowly you speak, and I will walk with you no matter how slowly you walk. Right now, I may not be very reliable, but one day I will become useful to you. Even if I can't be like before, I will still convey this feeling to you. I don't think we are from two different worlds.

Then there was the day Ivia was invited by the American travel agency—

"But only a little bit."

Ilya noticed that Chloe's hands were trembling slightly as she spoke.

"But because my brother is here, I'm not afraid."

Then, Ilya suddenly laughed and said to Chloe beside her:

"...What? So you're not afraid, Xiao Hei?"

Therefore, Ivia hesitated, but finally spoke:

"You, and all of you, have to win."

"Ah."

It was a simple, brief sentence, yet it seemed to be more resolute and powerful than anything else, prompting both of them to nod in response.

Then Ilya gave a slight, gentle smile—

That's indeed the case.

Immediately afterwards, Ivia rose from her lotus seat, and the 86,000 small wheels that had been waiting outside the Earth roared once more. Then, a flash of lightning and a thunderclap illuminated the world once more.

The turbulent small rays of light could no longer directly engulf the two as before, but the beams of light continued to rise higher and higher, to heights beyond sight. Anyone swallowed by that torrent of power would not be able to escape unscathed.

"Let's fight. I will fight with the same power as you at this moment, and under the same rules as you at this moment. This is the limitation of the 'future' that has not yet arrived. You can only overcome this 'fixed' future that has not yet arrived through inevitability, miracles, and coincidences that have not yet arrived."

"Don't worry, Xiao Hei and I both know."

Illya used the sapphire given to her by Miyu, and instantly her form changed. Purple-black magic power resembling wings appeared behind her. This was the combined form of the Star Guardian Warriors, which can be described as the ultimate power fused from the ruby ​​and sapphire.

"Why don't I get anything? Damn it, I should have asked Number One and the others to get me a set of clothes to change into..."

That's what she said, but Xiao Hei still resolutely took up her twin swords against Ivia. She had always been on Ivia's side, so since Ivia had told her, "You and all of you have to win," she had no choice but to do it.

"Hmm, Little Black, because the first magical girl to appear is invincible!"

Chapter 409 All beings are pure in nature, without birth or death.

"Spring comes and flowers bloom, autumn arrives and leaves fall, boundless wisdom brings peace of mind."

With this as a declaration of war, the world around Ivia seemed to be trapped in a golden sand, rising and falling and spinning amidst the roar.

The fine lines emitted by the celestial wheel twirled violently, rising and falling, while countless lines descending from the universe continuously rose and collapsed, accompanied by a series of deafening roars.

It was a sound overflowing with joy, as if offering a blessing.

Ilya found it hard to describe the feeling, as if the sounds of growth, continuation, and death, which were only conceptual, overlapped with the reverberations of the 'cloth' formed by those distant golden threads of stars, becoming so clear and close at hand.

Like a dream.

It's as if you can see it just by raising your eyes, hear it just by tilting your ear, and touch it just by reaching out your hand—

"If people do not meet my expectations, it is because I am immeasurable; if I do not meet the expectations of others, it is because I am lacking in virtue."

Before Ivia's outstretched hand, something appeared from the sky, perched on the mountains, and drifting in the Wang Ocean. It was a 'stick'-shaped weapon, the vajra, an ancient Indian weapon.

However, compared to the legendary vajra, which is said to be hard and powerful at a glance, the one in Ivia's hands is somewhat peculiar, because at first glance it looks like a vajra made of soft leaves.

But compared to that, Ilya keenly noticed something else: this leaf didn't seem to be a leaf of the Dragon Flower Tree, but rather... a leaf of the Nigrodha tree?

But why did Ilya suddenly think of this thing? She had never heard of it before, yet it was still on her mind at this moment, which was very strange. At the same time, she also saw Ivia say something to the vajra:

“I will take it upon myself; no one can take my place.”

I don't quite understand the meaning of this sentence, but Ilya, who has already transformed into a star-studded form, that is, a mixture of rubies and sapphires, continues to choose to face the challenge head-on.

This posture, which should logically be disguised as a magic circuit because it damages her own body tissues, and the more magic she uses, the greater the harm she suffers, seems to be forbidden now. In short, Ilya, flying through the air, swings her magic wand down from above at a speed imperceptible to anyone—

"Multiple Ensemble Saturation Bombardment!"

That was a light of illusion that cleaved everything in mid-air, a self-sacrificing strike that mistook the entire human body system for a magic circuit to enhance the instantaneous output of power, a mighty flow of magic that even possessed the annihilation power to rival the light of a star.

As Ivia, gripping the vajra formed from leaves, took a step forward toward the source of the light beam, the more she felt the excruciating pain of each step...

The adversaries cried out and knelt down at the mere sight of its magic circuits, just as normal people would feel upon seeing a vast ocean pressing down upon them.

He didn't do anything extra; he just stood there, and that's how it happened.

Beneath the calm lay a terrifying power capable of overturning everything, and then—

One poke!

In that instant, Ilya's pupils suddenly contracted, and her whole body seemed to be locked in place, unable to move. Then, the golden threads that swept across the sky converged forward with Ilya's movements, first like waves, and then perfectly engulfing her.

boom!

The explosion was more deafening than ever before, shaking heaven and earth.

Ilya's forceful swinging of her wand came to an abrupt halt. She looked down at her abdomen, which was right in front of Ivia's vajra.