Questions unanswered, questions unfilled, whatever they are, it doesn’t matter anymore. Is it me or it should be others, it doesn’t matter!
Forward, I just have to look forward! I have already resolved myself and resigned of whatever comes to my way. I know that I can’t, no, I already know that I can’t do everything by myself and that’s a fact, so that’s why…!
That’s why…I have my friends and allies with me!
“We have come by your side, Asagao.”
“We are your weapons for you to use, Master.”
Ichirou and Hasu appeared beside me and both are battle readied. I know that they will come without fail and because they met my expectation, as someone they dearly evaluate highly, I will answer to their wills to fight.
I reached out for both of them and without any resistance, like a fluid that directly flows to my throat, we brimmed with the power of Divinity that we glowed altogether with radiant shine.
“[Dual Possession!]”
Ichirou and Hasu dematerialized from this world and temporarily bind their spirits to mine. Their souls resonated with mine and power exponentially rises taking us to a greater height of our Divinity.
In my left hand is a sword that I first trusted my life and death battle, a sword from Ichirou’s brave and noble soul and together with that, attached my right arm and legs with his spiritech that could block and crush anything.
In my right hand, I hold a spear with an angelic motif, a pure white and majestic spear that could pierce anything, even if it is the very concept itself. In my back is a wing rooted to my skin, a wing that could take me as high as the sky.
“Oh? This is something new.”
“Nil is utterly pleased with you, young lady.”
Hydrangea and Dylan commented as they saw me transforms to my Divine Possession.
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“Gahahaha! Lad, you are still as curious as ever!”
Ichirou’s brief sentence was answered back by Dylan’s teasing.
Ichirou’s power is a violent tempest that would bring ruin to our enemies. I can already feel his excitement as we reached new heights of our power. Hasu is contrary to Ichirou, is a calm but pragmatic storm.
As I gather enough power, I ascended towards the sky like a blur.
“Hiyaaah!”
In just mere seconds, I already hacked a meteor to two with a stroke of the sword. With another swing of the spear, I blew another one. However, even with my power, I just realized one of my fatal flaws.
I am still not used to it and so, I am just crushing the meteors without regards of the debris.
“Shit!”
“Fret not, Daughter of Nivalis for I shall assist you together with everyone.”
“[Guardian Force – Efreet of Fire!]”
“[Guardian Force – Undine of Aqua!]”
Hinoki Prasiolite said who appears.
In her front, she summoned two huge summoning circles in the land and made a short aria. Immediately, two giant figures came out from the circle.
One is a fiery man with goat horns with visage made out of flames with little to almost no physical attribute. From this distance, I can feel the heat and power it has and I can certainly say it is out of this world.
The other one is woman with the whole appearance is made up of water. The woman carries a trident and her eyes are blindfolded. She carries a serene but cryptic nature of the tides that could drown the world.
Together, this two entity shot down the meteors that scatter in thousands of fragments. They shot out homing icicles and fireballs as large as a person.
“These are the only disambiguation of the Elemental Deities themselves but they are proven to be capable despite that. I shall show you that my title at the Elven Queen isn’t just a show! Also, thank you for taking care of my daughters!”
With Queen Hinoki’s backing, I continued destroying meteors.
“Don’t leave us out of fun! We, the SS Iowa Pirate Crew shall join!”
“Captain, the newly installed Ether Blaster is now ready.”
“Fire!”
From the skies enters Merissa’s flying pirate ship. From the aquatic bodies, her pirate buddies are also there firing at the meteor debris.
Their large turbine that is supposed to support their flight started glowing as if sucking up magic in the air. At the top of the deck is Shouko Murayama, Shouta’s twin. She draws her bow and nocks an arrow to it.
“Shouko, we are relying on you okay? Wherever your arrow hits will be out target! It follows that magnetic trail of your arrow and directs that blast to it for more efficiency! ”
“Right, Merissa. This is all I could do. Thank you for giving me something to do.”
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Shouko glowed in a bright red light and the light gathers to the tip of her arrow. She then let go of the arrow that headed straight to a meteor.
After her arrows directly hit the meteor the visibly did nothing, the spinning turbines filled with etheric magic then blasted a red light that curves in the sky as if following Shouko’s arrow before. The light hits a meteor and completely eradicates it.
Merissa and the crew rejoice with joy as they saw how effective their attack is.
“Oh? How nostalgic, Etheric Interference Tracking. I would have never thought that I’d see such spectacle after long years. Gahahaha! Interesting!”
Dylan commented as he fiddles with his holographic control panel and fires another laser out of nowhere. Merissa and the others saw what happened as Dylan commanded another something to destroy several meteors.
“What?! What was that?!”
“Gahahaha! Grow up, whelps!”
Dylan looks at Merissa from a distance with provocative eyes. Merissa became visibly annoyed and irritated as veins pop from her forehead. She then hustled everyone to keep going to their businesses.
At that moment, hundreds of large figures then flew over me. The ancient dragons that used to live the Lost Capital Hujinn also appear and being led by Pr’thcor. Dragons of abnormal sizes and power started destroying meteors with their destructive magic and physical powers.
Land-bound dragons started using magic towards the falling debris that Hinoki could not destroy in time and some that are left from Merissa’s missed shots.
“We could have never experienced that supremacy of flying outside again without you, little friend. We are always here to offer our help, youngling. Asagao, we are at your disposal.”
“Thank you!!”
I thanked the dragon Pr’thcor. Their huge and hard body also served as blockage to the falling fragment of meteors that couldn’t be hit. It seems that they evenly spread their numbers throughout the eight continents to defend civilians.
“Stop spacing out, Sister of Ashfon!”
A roar enters my ears and when I came to, another meteor passes me at high speed. However, before I could move to destroy the meteor, the bloody roar that snaps me from my daze earlier actually came from King Folga, the king of the beasts.
“[Godly Artifact – The Wall of Valor, Liones!]”
A large visage of a shield pops out and the meteor was pushed back when the wall of strong power collides with it. Losing its falling speed, the meteor could do anything but falls to where the shield slopes.
From the ground, I can see King Folga holding a shield with a face of a lion. He smiles heartily at me as he stands his ground with thousand of his soldiers holding the Godly Artifact with their combined magic energy.
I didn’t know that King Folga has a godly artifact and it is a shield too…
“King of the beasts?”
“It is I! We have been actively participating you know. However, you guys seem to take the best spotlight so I am a little displeased! As for the Elven Queen…”
King Folga glances at Hinoki. Suddenly, Izuna came running towards the Elven Queen with haste unbelievable for her attire.
“Sister Hinoki!”
“Oh, I am glad to see you well Izuna.”
“If I could, I’d stay with you, but I already have a place to stay where the memories of him linger.”
“That’s understandable. You are independent on your own.”
“Thank you! Let me be of help to you as usual!”
“Your abilities are always welcome to me.”
“[Divine Calling!]”
Izuna’s nine tails started to weave upward as she locks her hand with Hinoki. I heard that Izuna’s bloodline, together with Higan too, has some divine aspect to them, and thus, enabling them to access holy powers.
It seems this is one of those.
“[Guardian Force – Valkyrie of Light!]”
As Hinoki and Izuna’s power resonated, Hinoki was able to summon a new entity in the field and this time, it is a being well known to everyone, Valkyrie, a woman wielding a holy spear and flies with her three pairs of wings.
In total, Hinoki has summoned three Guardian Forces that shoots down meteors and help in defending from the debris.
“Don’t forget about us.”
Senya’s words took my attention.
With her, hundreds of Fairy Kins started floating to the sky with praying stances. Their Ki’s, even though unfelt, gives a strong pressure. From what I’ve heard, all fairies are trained with Brahma’s way of preservation so I am guessing that they are also doing what Hydrangea is doing.
“Oh? These fools actually came out from their nests.”
Hydrangea coldly said as the fairies that she observes started imitating her stance and destroying meteors in unison. Unlike Hydrangea, they can only destroy meteor one-by-one in group. Senya notices Hydrangea’s presence.
“You…who are you? Your Ki is somehow…calm…and violent. Are you perhaps…also an Arcana Magician?”
“It’s none of your business.”
“……”
Hydrangea coldly replies.
Senya isn’t bothered much, instead, she just calmly sighs and draws Excelsior.
The rainbow filled sword glows intensely that it captured everyone’s attention. Senya stands up from her wheelchair that was being pushed by Mimosa.
“I’m off for five minutes. Could you get me after that?”
“Hahaha! Have fun! Since I can’t do anything, I’ll wait for you here.”
Senya dashes towards the meteors bravely. Hinoki and Izuna noticed her and Senya also glance at them with respect.
Since Senya can’t fly, she just sends shockwave at the meteor at the peak of her jump and lands again and jumps again. Her movement which looks simple is actually destroying three or four meteors to pulp with each repetition.
“Ohohoh, a Demon Lord could not simply sit while a hero shows off, right?”
“Father, you are an embarrassment.”
Gria Hellbeing together with his daughter, Diyu Hellbeing also enters the fray. In tow is a large army of demons, mostly those who can use magic. With Gria as their leader, they move in unison behind him.
“[Godly Artifact – Cape of Blood God]”
Gria brings out a blood-colored cap and wears it. His magic power explosively rises.
“Don’t think we will be holding back too.”
Gria said as he shoots out crimson vectors towards the sky. The crimson vectors destroy fragments of meteors that were shot down by the Fairies. The whole foretold disasters became a competition, and people who usually don’t see each other faces and walks together towards one common goal.
From afar, I can see Mito in his dragon with Rose and Mana in his back. It seems they also decided to join. Diyu unfurled her wings and flew towards me.
“Diyu?”
“Asagao, you are a friend of mine, however, I am going to do this because of my oath for Bacarra. There’s no need for me to tell this though, I just wanted to say it.”
“I understand. Where is Cattleya?”
“We forbid her to use her power. Who knows what disaster may come from it.”
“I see…”
“What about Alstroemeria? Is she needed the most right now?”
“I don’t know. But I am sure she will come!”
“I see, she better do.”
Diyu last said as she started flying away from me with her cutlass in both hands.
In the corner of my sight, Topaz and Mimi enter my view. They wave their hands to me as they keep the unconscious Casablanca and Hibiscus safe. Beside them is Violetta who I also strongly forbid to battle because of her condition.
As I look around, friends and companions gathered, leaving their interests behind first and saving the world we dearly love.
It made me realize once again that I am not alone anymore. I’ve made friends and allies who I can rely on. It made me realize once again that in this another world, my life began anew and all difficulties unfound back in my world has come crashing towards me, however, with these people in tow, I managed.
Slowly but surely, I gained people whom I can say are truly connected to me. I have lost my precious master and my servant who is also a friend to me. Despite those, even in their deaths, they encouraged me to keep living.
Is it fate? Is it the tragedy that keeps us all tied together? Is it the road to common goal enabled us to meet?
No…I think those are factorial.
It is because I slowly learned the beauty of this world and comes to accept its ugliness too. I learned how to interact with people and I learned how important to keep everyone close to my heart.
And finally, my driving motivation to know about Nil, to grasps what he truly wanted to show me, what he truly wanted for this world.
I am certain that my adventure started because of Nil’s intervention. Everything began to revolve around because of him. It is a little egoistic to say this, however, this is what I feel.
The whole thing started with Nil and me.
And around me, the people struggling are the result of my efforts. The power that I have now may be borrowed too, but still, it is an achievement I can boast.
“Nil, I will show you. I will show you that the world you wanted to save will be saved!”
With the burst of my power, I flew past everyone and started rising towards the endless meteors falling towards this world, an altitude that almost pierces the stratosphere. I spread my wings and dematerialized both of my weapons.
“[Blooming Thorn!]”
A large Morning Glory covers the surface of the world where the meteors are falling and where Erestivatria is falling to. Meteors crash to the surface of the large glowing blue flower and without abandon, diminishes them to nothing.
I stop the Blooming Thorn, a flower the shines brightly that attracts everything, but in the end, ends up prickling everyone who touches it.
I slowly descend back to the land with everyone’s eyes on me. As I look back, there are now fewer meteors, however, Erestivatria comes ever closer.
“Little girl, come here.”
Dylan called out to me and curiously, I followed his beckoning. Oddly, I feel a little tired after the stunt I did.
“What is it?”
“That thing…started showing, huh?”
“Erestivatria…? You can see it now?”
“Everyone does now. When the heart dies, it becomes visible to everyone. Did you know that Erestivatria or the passage of evil is actually a little larger than this planet?”
“Eh?!”
“I know…you’ve met a powerful devil there.”
“Devil joker?”
“That’s right. That twisted existence is nowhere near a devil at all…”
“What do you mean? Isn’t he a devil?”
“He is…a devil that almost ascended to being a deity. You can say that…he are now steering that large abomination to this world.”
“But he said…!”
“The guy’s a joker. Believe him and shame on you.”
It doesn’t matter anymore. The fact that the Erestivatria falling to this planet isn’t changing.
“And that’s one of the conditions for Nil’s automatic activation of Revision. It’s not just the destruction that it can bring but the accumulated force that could tear the very fabric of the space itself. That’s why we are betting everything now on to you, to the one who brought the very core of change.”
“Whatever you say, I am not someone who can stop a planet from crashing to another planet!”
“That’s why we prepared your partner.”
At that very instant, she came.
At that very moment, she arrives.
Her presence becomes apparent for everyone.
The girl who becomes my emotional pillar, the girl who supported me unconditionally and the very first girl who came with me on my adventure…
The girl who is jokingly the manifestation of destruction and the girl regarded as idiot by almost everyone.
With a still smile on her face that never fades, the woman whose exploits could be an epic for a tale, a song, or even a storybook for children, the girl who has an endless and kindest virtue that brings everyone a smile on their face.
She is…
“Alstroemeria, the so-called Goddess of Destruction and the Disambiguation of Shiva herself!”