＜ Episode 161 ＞
dark red fire.
The fire, which gives off an ominous energy just by being there, burns with the anger deep in John’s heart as its raw material.
If that were all, it would be a mediocre fire, but this fire was the result of John’s superpowers converging endlessly in the direction of destruction.
John’s ability to observe the microscopic world and change the physical properties of objects.
This fire, manifested as a result of such a supernatural ability, burns and extinguishes the root of everything that exists.
A will filled with anger affects both objects and non-objects, and ultimately affects the body of the transcendental being called the devil.
That’s why it’s called the purification of destruction, and the fire that burns even the devil was burning even the image space created by the superman.
Uh.
It added strength with a great reverberation, but the dark flame continued to burn the prosperous Luna, and everywhere was filled with only flames and gray ash.
It was a wasteland that appeared after everything was burnt up like that.
The solver and the former mayor glared at each other on a desolate land devoid of any sense of life.
A bizarre figure of a fixer who is bleeding from every pore of his body, and a former mayor who seems unconcerned even though a huge blow has been inflicted on the image he has created.
How long has it been since we stared at each other like that?
“It looks like you have the qualifications.”
Vayron murmured as he gazed at the surroundings, where the splendid city had completely disappeared and was in ruins again.
This desolate land is the image that Vayron keeps deep in his heart.
In this space, Veyron can create a city according to his will and use everything in the city.
The city’s facilities, weapons, and even people.
Although it is a fantasy-like phenomenon that takes place in the space of imagination, it becomes a reality when you are immersed in the fantasy.
Building Luna in the wasteland, obsessing over the city, giving up on becoming a Transcendentalist, and once getting entangled in the image of Veyron staying on the ground, no one would be able to guarantee victory.
However, since all the cities built in such an imaginary world were burned, at least Byron had no choice but to acknowledge John’s qualifications.
Hoo-wook.
The wasteland blurs like a lie, and soon the landscape changes.
I don’t know how much time has passed, but the streets that passed the time when the darkness fell and became clear night didn’t change much.
It’s a fire of destruction that has spewed out with the momentum to burn the world, so it’s possible to have an effect on the city, but it doesn’t seem to change at all.
John’s eyes narrowed as he applied this ability to blow away the filth on his body and clothes into the air.
‘I completely locked up my ability.’
He controlled the flames that even the devil had burned so that they could not spread out into reality in the imaginary space.
Burning the city embodied in the image was successful, but it failed to affect the wasteland, which is the root of it.
This was a shock to John, who had the idea that there was nothing in the world that he couldn’t burn, but he also had a hand that he didn’t take out.
I didn’t get it out exactly, but anyway.
The fixer, who had changed into a neat outfit before he knew it, glared at Vayron with scary eyes, and the two men met eyes under the light extending from a dim street lamp.
“yes.”
Veeron, who turned his gaze first, sighed lightly.
“This must be right.”
From John’s point of view, Vayron muttered something difficult to understand and turned around.
“Don’t visit me on the day of the final battle. The resistance of those who deserve it should be helped.”
It seemed to move slowly, but before I knew it, I buried myself in the darkness of the night.
“Because blood, violence, and fighting are the spirit of Luna.”
Even though I was looking at it with my eyes, I couldn’t detect it at all with this ability. Byron’s appearance completely disappeared into the darkness.
***
“welcome!”
Even after looking at her tired face, Lina did not lose her smile, and John felt his tense heart loosen up a little.
Being relieved when dealing with a child was an emotion that any creature would have, but John was no ordinary person, and Rina was no ordinary child either.
John’s human emotions have been extremely worn out by repeated training and actual combat.
She looked like an angel on the outside, but inside she was Lina, who easily outperformed most psychopathic serial killers.
Not only the general public’s point of view, but even the members of the Borkov Mafia, who can be said to be members of the underworld, were disgusted and terrified.
A girl settled in the heart of a solver who only puts his own survival first.
Being a design child manufactured only with parts from her biological father, the solver became all she could rely on for the girl who was wary of everything in the world.
‘I’ve changed too.’
Looking at Lina, who smiled brightly and fluttered, John smiled.
John’s heart, which had been worn out infinitely because he engraved the mad eyes of child soldiers and the eyes of a child who had lost everything in his heart countless times, was filled with a little warmth, and maybe that would make him unable to make cool judgments in carrying out his mission. may be
‘not bad.’
Would this be okay?
“How about dinner?”
“Not yet.”
John took off his trench coat at the grinning girl’s reply.
He must have skipped meals while waiting for himself, and his thoughtfulness was admirable.
“Regular nutritional supplementation is also an important factor in maintaining combat power. Do not wait any longer.”
“I know!”
It was a bit harsh, but the emotion in the girl’s voice did not waver.
Just as John felt Lina’s heart, Lina also felt John’s heart.
“let’s eat.”
“Yeah!”
John erased his smile as he watched the girl ahead with fluttering gestures.
The murderous intent and anger that had been stored inside burned in his heart, and he made up his mind once again using the intense emotions as fuel.
‘Be sure to kill me.’
Resolutely determined to face the devil, John followed Lina.
***
Uh.
The only changes in the metallic space, where no signs of life could be felt, were the regular sound of machines and sparkling lights.
The magic light running on the large pillar was moving more actively than ever before, and the egos in charge of each field were exchanging intense discussions with the main ego.
There is no emotion whatsoever in the process.
There are only empirical data and the judgment of a cold-hearted machine.
The topic thrown by the Oracle alerted the egos who were quietly controlling Luna, and moved the egos who could do anything to protect the base.
And in that heated debate, the Oracle took a step back.
Originally, it should have been housed in a huge pillar that could be called the main body and put into an indefinite standby mode, but the current Oracle was displaying its function 100% with its body exposed outside the pillar.
How long did it take for it to maneuver like that, consuming more than enough power to supply an entire district?
– ······It turns out like this in the end.
The woman’s upper body made of light shook her head and sighed.
His facial features were not made up, so his expression was unrecognizable, but his gesture alone sent out strong emotions in all directions.
Even though there was no one who could fully feel her emotions because all she had here was cold minerals.
– I expected you to make that decision, but it’s bittersweet.
An oracle that can predict the future of superhumans as well as the movements of gods.
It is either right or wrong.
Based on the Akashic system, the oracle’s foresight ability to read the causality of the world can be said to be absolute, so it is possible to predict the actions of superhumans and transcendentalists, but it is not always correct.
Transcendental beings are greatly affected by causality, so their movements are relatively easy to read, but mortal superhumans are not.
Of course, most superhumans cannot escape the limits of causality and move according to the predictions of the oracle, but human will, which has risen to the superhuman hierarchy, sometimes escapes the bridle of causality.
So did Byron.
As the superman, who would not be strange even if he ascended the hierarchy of the transcendental, puts his feet on the ground only with his own obsession, his will transcends other common sense, and sometimes even escapes the bondage of cause and effect.
Foreseeing such things related to Byron would require an unimaginable price, and that’s why Byron has always paid a huge price in return for hearing the Oracle’s foreknowledge.
The oracle was good, so it wasn’t asking Byron for a ridiculous price.
And that’s why.
– No matter how much you predict, the result will be the same… But I can’t let you go like this.
The Oracle had no choice but to love Veyron.
Although she is with countless egos, only she was allowed to have emotions, and it was Veyron who accepted her emotions.
It wasn’t that there weren’t other users who sought wisdom from her, but none stayed by her side for as long as Veyron did.
A man who escapes her foreknowledge and stays by her side until the end.
How could you not love a man like this?
The Oracle was convinced that the biological distinction between men and women and the difference between inorganic and organic were lightly ignored emotions.
So, she broke the standby order and repeated her foreknowledge, which put a huge load on herself and the Akashic system, but she didn’t care.
Because I did not tolerate the act of stopping the runaway emotions accumulated for a long time.
– In a world without Veyron, it wouldn’t be worth maneuvering.
The city’s reserve power rushed toward the red zone, but the egos lost in the debate because of the data thrown by the Oracle had no time to pay attention to it.
Oracle’s foreknowledge continues.
A future in which demons are summoned and the power of the city is gathered to intercept the demons, and among them, there was a future in which the demons were successfully defeated.
A future in which the situation is resolved with simple human casualties, a future in which enormous damage is caused, and a future in which the city’s existence is threatened.
Numerous futures have been seen by the Oracle, and somehow they portray a hopeful future, but all of them have one thing in common.
Veyron’s Sacrifice.
In any future, Byron threw his life and oxidized fiercely, and no other future was observed.
And Oracle couldn’t tolerate that.
The reserve power of the city that fell into the red zone was not enough, so he gathered all the surplus power left in the city and continued the calculation, but all he could see was a hopeless future.
Ugh.
The magical light that ran around the body, shining like the sun, faded and the figure made of light bowed its head.
How long had it been since the Oracle with her head bowed down in frustration?
– ······okay. If you can’t stop the future, you can remove the trigger.
A ghastly voice spread quietly in the large cavity.
＜ Episode 161 ＞ End