Editing review, starting from Natsuki Subaru shocking the world

Although the term "horizon" is a common term, it doesn't seem right here either. The land and sky are both a single black color, indistinguishable.

Even if he turned 360 degrees to look around, the scenery didn't change. Was the place where he thought he was "back" really the right place? Without anything to mark it, Kamijou had no confidence.

Blonde.

A girl holding a spear with one eye covered with a leather patch.

Only Othinus's blond hair and fair skin stood out like a full moon in this unified dark world.

Slowly, an inexplicable sense of reality welled up in Kamijou's heart.

This was the first time he felt such strong hostility and rejection towards the word "sense of reality".

"…What's going on? This is Tokyo Bay, right? This should be the base of the 'troublemakers', a place called the 'cemetery at sea'!"

"What's up, does it look like somewhere else?"

"Wait a minute..."

The boy was unexpectedly close to the demon.

Much closer than the previous chase on the other side of the world - in the city of Bagagegi in Eastern Europe.

But it feels so far away.

The gap in understanding between each other is greater than ever before.

Even further than the end of the world.

"This is not the 'cemetery at sea'. You carried me, who was unconscious, to another place. This is the truth! Because, because! It has to be this way!"

"Why does the world have to revolve around you?"

"So that's the case! What happened to the 'Sea Cemetery'? What about Tokyo Bay?"

"Did your eyes catch a single shred of wreckage?"

"So what about the people here? What about Index, Misaka, Reisa, and Birdway? No, not just them, what about the whole group of people living in Tokyo?"

"Do I look like I care about these things?"

Cognitive collapse.

It makes people forget where anger and sadness come from.

These emotions are so natural that we don't even care how they form.

After escaping from the state of extreme confusion, Kamijou couldn't even understand the movements of his own mind.

“…You are lying…”

"Hey, how long do you plan to keep this conversation going?"

"This is all a lie! You just used some mysterious method to make it look like this! Because it's easier. Instead of destroying the Tokyo Bay area and killing so many people, it's much easier to just move the two of us to 'somewhere else'! So this must be the case!"

"At this point, your perception is meaningless. The disappearance of some things is just a small matter. In fact, there are only you and me here."

Othinus said listlessly.

She looked like someone who had discovered that the app she downloaded to kill time late at night was more boring than she expected.

"Also, your perception of scale seems to be wrong."

"What? Is there something wrong again...?"

"Why are you talking about something as trivial as Tokyo Bay? What I destroyed was not just a tiny planet called 'Earth'."

Kamijou Touma.

He smiled. He couldn't help but smile. He had completely given up trying to figure out what was going on. His emotions had all disappeared. He didn't know what emotions were causing his face to move. Perhaps, this was the expression of a puppet with its strings cut off. His face, which seemed expressionless, might have some influence on his will.

None of this matters.

There would be no gain from continuing to talk to the demon god Othinus.

Dialogue between the two sides could not be established.

Euthinus is lying. She must be lying. She must be lying.

You can only confirm it with your own eyes.

This way, the farce should be over.

"Haha, if you want to watch it, go ahead. It's actually okay not to watch those things. No, it's better not to watch them."

Othinus’s mocking voice came from behind Kamijou.

He didn't intend to pay any attention.

Kamijou staggered as he began to walk through the world that had turned completely black. Even though he had the extremely powerful Othinus at his back, he did not feel any immediate danger to his life.

“Index…”

The boy whispered.

There was no relief or shelter anywhere in the surrounding area.

If there was anyone standing nearby, they would have noticed me immediately.

"Misaka."

There are no mountains or valleys. There are no seas or rivers. There is no sun or moon.

There was only, only, only, only, only, no matter how long or how far he walked, the plane remained the same. Kamijou called out several names, but they all disappeared as if being absorbed.

"Lesha! Bertwei!"

No.

No matter where you go.

Although the facts obtained by the five senses are simple and clear, it takes a very long time for the brain to understand. There is a voice in his head shouting "I must not admit this", making him resist it with all his strength.

There must be something to be found somewhere.

There might be something like a valley in this dark world. If everyone is hiding there, we might not be able to notice it just by looking from afar. It must be like this. It has to be like this. Kamijou Touma had all these thoughts in his mind. He had already thrown aside the purpose and conclusion, and he just kept walking.

then.

then.

then.

Time passed. When this thought came to his mind, Kamijou could no longer remember how many hours he had walked. There was no sun or moon to serve as a guide, and there was no starry sky above his head, only a pitch-black canopy. In reality, it could have been only a few dozen minutes, or it could have been three days and three nights.

Even in the immersive virtual space, the audience has the same feeling!

"This...how long will this take?!" Killua, who believed that he had a willpower far superior to that of an ordinary person, was already feeling drowsy and was about to faint.

"Damn it, this demon... these actions are really unbearable!" Looking at this scene, an electric current that could not be hidden was already surging through Misaka Mikoto's hair.

At the same time, the queen who always loved to contradict her also had her eyes burning with anger as she stared at the complacent demon god with a common hatred for the enemy. The boundless anger in her was enough to affect anyone around her.

all in all.

This moment.

Kamijou's thoughts came to a kind of "period". Or maybe it was the breaking of his tense nerves.

nobody.

There was no one anywhere.

He didn't meet anyone.

“…Ah, ah…”

Speaking of which, where exactly is this place?

No matter how much you estimate, the "cemetery at sea" is not this big. If you walk in a straight line, you should hit the sea sooner or later. However, no matter how long you walk, nothing changes. The ocean disappears. This scene seems to be from a picture book written for children, but it makes people feel strange philosophy. Am I lost in an extremely unreasonable and unrealistic world?

Or.

Has the "world" become like this?

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"

Where is this place?

Kamijou Touma correctly perceived "doubt" for the first time.

Once he "realized" it, he could no longer hold on. His mind was oppressed from all sides. All around him was a pitch-black plain that did not allow even micrometer-level fluctuations to appear, and there was nothing to refer to in the equally pitch-black sky. Where was he standing? He could not find anything that could serve as an indicator. He might be moving forward in a straight line like a machine, or he might just be spinning in a narrow range. He no longer had any means of proof, and he only knew that his footsteps and the foundation that supported his will were constantly collapsing.

No matter how strong you are, no matter how perseverant you are.

The tangible despair before his eyes finally broke the young man's tense heartstrings.

So here it is——

In front of all the audiences who have accompanied him through this ordeal until now.

This savior who had saved the world so many times could no longer hold back and broke down and shouted—

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

Chapter 189: Wanted Criminal Kamijou Touma

Despair, sadness, fatigue, confusion.

The young man, who had experienced all the mixed emotions in the world, seemed to be walking in a never-ending purgatory.

However, she, the instigator of these evil thoughts, watched the unfolding of these scenes with amusement and interest, as if she was having fun.

In the barren and desolate desert, the figure of a young man walking alone...the sight of him walking forward for hundreds of days was truly crazy.

Even the audience in the live broadcast room couldn't restrain their madness.

At that moment, the audience who were still able to insist on sitting in the realistic simulation scene were all the leaders in their respective worlds.

Or maybe, he is a close friend who is closely connected to Kamijou Touma.

It is because those who remain here at this moment are all strong ones.

So they all knew very well——

It was no surprise that Kamijou Touma let out such a wail.

"Tsk, this is really an unpleasant situation!"

Seeing this guy, who also represented Academy City's fighting power and should even be called the true ace, being tortured to death, Accelerator clenched his fists with a gloomy look, as if he felt annoyed and unhappy about the disparity between magic and science.

However, his eyes never moved away from the scene before him.

Similarly, the Fire on the Right beside him had a stern expression on his face, quietly watching the scenes taking place in front of him.

This is a dark space with no living creatures.

No, don't talk about creatures.

There is not even a single thing that can be called a "thing".

The only one who was there was Kamijou Touma who kept moving forward.

besides...

Only Euthinus.

She is like the rising sun.

Standing alone.

Take it all in quietly.

The horror of only being left alive.

The terror that overtook my heart when everything except myself disappeared.

He had no resistance to this kind of thing. In fact, even the fact that he had resistance was wrong. This situation should not happen, and it was the greatest evil of all possibilities. Kamijou Touma was thrown into a situation that he should not even have once experienced.

My thoughts are stuck on "what should I do?"

A world without indicators.

There was nothingness everywhere, 360 degrees around me.

Take the example of a protagonist standing in a field in an RPG game. Although he can go east, south, west, or north, he can't see any towns or villages, and he can't run into anyone, no matter if he walks for an hour or a whole day. Whether he keeps going forward or turns back, he can only see the same field stretching out... What is he trying to do? Who can bear to continue? Who wants to play with someone who has created such a desperate situation?