This is not the date I wanted.

"I see... This is a form I've never seen before. Is this your hidden card?"

Looking closely at the dark blue giant sword, Mio spoke calmly.

"Unfortunately, I have adapted to the rules of this world."

Hearing this, Meng Yue's pupils shrank and she turned around and retreated without hesitation.

"late."

As he spoke, the light bands that had been lurking for a long time surrounded Meng Yue from all directions.

All the retreat routes were blocked. Even Meng Yue, who possessed the ability to "predict the future", could not avoid this fatal blow.

And at this moment, Meng Yue's body suddenly emitted a faint fluorescent light.

The next second, the long-haired girl disappeared from Mio's sight, and was replaced by an unarmed, ordinary-looking blue-haired boy.

"Mio... I don't want to die..."

"—!!"

19 Ain（ ）

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"Mio... I don't want to die..."

The "boy" pleaded with Mio with a look of fear on his face.

"Shinshi..."

Mio spoke dumbly.

She knew that the person in front of her couldn't be her real self, but was just an illusion created by spiritual power.

But even so, she still couldn't do it. Under the girl's superb acting, whether it was the appearance, voice or tone, they were all restored vividly. For a moment, Mio really thought that Shinshi was standing in front of her.

She couldn't do anything to her lover.

Sensing its master's hesitation, the light band that was supposed to attack Meng Yue suddenly stopped in mid-air.

"——!?"

Seizing this flaw, the "boy" escaped from the light band at the fastest speed and landed on the ground nimbly.

Then, the light dust dissipated, and the familiar "boy" turned back into the original girl.

At this moment, Takamiya Mio's sanity was completely taken away by anger.

"call……"

After escaping from Takamiya Mio's attack, Mengyue let out a breath and raised her head to meet Mio's gaze.

From her eyes, Meng Yue felt complete anger without any room for compromise.

"Unforgivable! Unforgivable! Unforgivable! I will never forgive you! Liang Yi Meng Yue!!"

"——How dare you pretend to be him and trample on the most important memories in my heart, just to survive for a while!"

"I will destroy your body, soul, existence - everything from this world!"

Meng Yue did not refute or respond to Mio's anger. She just talked to the "Sage of Dawn" in a very cold and subtle voice.

"Operation codename: 'Godkiller' - Final Phase."

[Received - Switched - Turret Mode.]

An electronic sound rang out, and the giant sword in Mengyue's hand began to deform, reorganizing into her most commonly used pincer turret.

She did not intend to use Railgun. The minerals in this area had already lost their metallic conductivity under the influence of the "Temple of All Things". Even if they had not failed, such an attack would not be able to penetrate the spiritual outfit and cause damage to Mio.

She began to frantically inject the remaining spiritual energy in her body into her angel.

[Received the instruction——begin to compress spiritual power. ]

Converge! Compress!

It was as if the flames were transforming into heat, the cold air was condensing into extreme ice, and the light was converging into lasers.

Under the operation of the "Sage of Dawn", Meng Yue's huge spiritual power was constantly compressed, just like compressing a towering mountain into the size of a grain of rice. At this moment, quantity triggered a qualitative change.

"Ku—"

Controlling the extremely violent energy in his hand, Meng Yue pointed the muzzle of the gun at Takamiya Mio in the air, his eyes flashing with a cold green light.

At the same time, Takamiya Mio was also mobilizing her own spiritual power and injecting it into one of her angels.

Just as Mengyue was aiming at her, she also stretched out her right hand towards Mengyue on the ground.

In the palm of her hand, a small ball of light about the size of a seed appeared.

It is the power that transcends "death" and brings "nothingness" to the world.

Swords were drawn and bows were drawn. In this tense atmosphere that was about to break out, Meng Yue took the first step.

“——————————————————!!”

No name was called out, just a pure roar. Amid Meng Yue's roar, a spiritual light only a finger wide burst out from the muzzle, drawing a straight line of light in the air, approaching Mio.

Mio's intuition told her that her spiritual equipment could not withstand this attack. Under the compression of Meng Yue's spiritual power, the power of this attack had reached the same level as hers.

The Dawn Sage who transformed into a giant sword before was just a cover to test her. This move was Mengyue’s final trump card.

However, Mio was clearly aware of this, but she did not choose to dodge.

He just stared at Liang Yi Meng Yue and whispered the angel's real name.

"——Ain< >"

In an instant, the whole world was filled with light.

In this light that engulfs all darkness, only time flows in this silent world.

An hour, or maybe just a second.

When the light dissipated, Liang Yi Meng Yue had already disappeared from the realm of "Eternal Miasma", leaving Mio alone floating in the air.

"Won……"

Mio whispered to herself.

Angel of Nothingness——Ain< >. Mio's final trump card, a power that can turn the locked target into nothingness.

"Death" - in essence, it is just the conversion of a substance that can represent the "soul" into another inorganic substance. From a macroscopic perspective, the total amount of matter in this world and this universe will not change at all.

But the Angel of Nothingness is different. It can ignore all laws and erase part of the mass and energy from the universe out of thin air.

Liang Yi Meng Yue herself and her final attack were just now wiped out by her Angel of Nothingness.

"..."

Mio didn't say anything.

Clearly, she had killed Mengyue, but at this moment, she did not feel the slightest joy in her heart. Only emptiness and regret were left.

After being hit by the Angel of Nothingness, not only the Yin-Yang Mengyue, but also the spirit crystals she had taken from other spirits - the Angel of Extinction, the Ice Puppet, the Sealing Master... all the powers were turned into nothingness by the Angel of Nothingness. In other words, she could no longer use the "Whispering Chapter" to find out the whereabouts of Kuang San.

And if the power of "Emperor Keke" lies in Mengyue, then she cannot go back to the past.

Hope has completely disappeared.

This was the stupidest choice she made after losing her mind after being angered by Liang Yi Meng Yue.

"What the hell am I...doing...Pfft!"

Suddenly, without any warning, Mio coughed up a trace of blood.

"Blood? What's going on?"

Mio lowered her head in surprise, and she saw that a small hole had appeared on the chest of the pure white spiritual robe.

The hole not only pierced Mio's spirit garment, but also her heart.

"Is this... Meng Yue's final attack? But... I have clearly used the Angel of Nothingness to erase it..."

Before Mio could figure out the cause and effect, a huge pressure enveloped her whole body.

It was not until this moment that she realized that the "Eternal Miasma" that Meng Yue had seized control of had not turned back into the "Paradise of Reincarnation" and had not returned to her control.

The rule that "injury means death" is still valid now.

Just like the "spear and shield" in the fable, the originally invincible Origin Elves, under the power of their own angels, began to move towards "death".

(What’s going on… I don’t have any strength left… I can’t breathe… It hurts… It’s so cold… Is this death?)

Her body gradually turned into light dust and dissipated, and Mio's consciousness gradually became blurred.

(It is your victory...Liang Yi Meng Yue.)

In a trance, Mio couldn't help but think.

Perhaps, the reason why she was so angry at Mengyue was not because of the so-called hatred and anger, but a more detached emotion.

Envy... or maybe jealousy.

Although he also lost his beloved, Shidao left his wish to Mengyue before he died.

But when Zhenshi died, he left her nothing.

——Mio.

(…………!)

The familiar voice rang in her ears again, forcing Mio to open her eyes that were about to close.

In front of her was the sparkling blue ocean and the young man holding her hand and walking on the soft beach.

That was the face of her beloved whom she had missed countless times.

(Ah, ahhh—)

Tears flowed uncontrollably from Mio's eyes.

(Thank you, thank you Mengyue.)

(Thirty-one years...Finally, I can finally find you...)

(A true man.)

Just like that, with a smile of relief, Takamiya Mio disappeared from this world with her body, angel, and her own soul crystal.

PS: It’s not good. I was too immersed in the play when I was writing it… I could hardly hold back my tears.

20 Self-loathing

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"Hey! Bili-chan! Lingyin! Hey—answer me if you hear me!"

At night, Erya shouted at the empty plain.

At this time, two hours had passed since Somiya Mio's spiritual wave reaction disappeared. Due to the consumption caused by the spirit ritual, the magic generators in the airship had entered an overloaded state, and everyone could only pick up flashlights and conduct a carpet search in the area.

[Report, this is Team A, responsible for the area including the area 20 meters underground, no signs of life. ]

[This is Team B. We also haven't detected Commander Liang Yi's reaction.]

[This is Team C, the result is the same as Team A and Team B...]

“There’s no response here either.”

After giving a brief report, Erya hung up the phone with a heavy heart.

Looking around, due to the "Paradise of Samsara" and the "Temple of All Things", all the vegetation on the grassland has disappeared, and the original undulating terrain has been cut as flat as an airport runway, making people feel terrified by the power of the Origin Elves to move mountains and seas.

And on this flat ground, those hideous cracks and holes that looked like wounds hinted at the brutality of the battle.

(Could it be that... Bili-chan and Lingyin have died together...)

Erya couldn't help but think. Indeed, now Mengyue and Lingyin's spiritual power reactions have disappeared. From this point of view, anyone would think that they have died together. Such a purposeless search is more like deceiving oneself than giving up.

(No, no! You think too much, Benjo Niya.)

Erya shook his head desperately, putting the thought behind him.