Last Stage – 1
But, of course, Action shook his head.
“I can’t tell you. In fact, at this point, it would not be a big problem to let us know, but the risk should be minimized.”
“Action Oscar.”
I said, grunting it.
“It’s the last way, can you help me at least once?”
“… … .”
“It’s not about helping us. At any rate, if the original demon king wins, the human race will be over. It will live forever as a bonsai according to his taste, and will perish in an instant when enough energy is gathered.”
“… … .”
“It’s so sad that a fate that ended in ruin. If you give us the information now, we can stop it.”
I spoke with sincerity.
“Help humanity just once.”
At those words, the boy’s eyes began to blaze.
“Are you asking for help just once?”
“… … .”
“I do it dozens of times, hundreds of times. You have helped humanity over a thousand times! I myself killed the Demon King as a hero, and since becoming the owner of the special room, I have been protecting mankind in various ways.”
“Whoa.”
“What did mankind repay me with? It was simply creating a new energy of wealth and descending a new demon king.”
He grinded it out.
Tears of blood were welling up in the boy’s eyes.
“Humanity must perish. Such foolish creatures must not exist on this earth!”
“… … .”
“Do you really think this race is worthy of prosperity? Do you think it is worth perpetuating?”
I noticed
Action has already lost to Cald.
His consciousness was on the verge of being completely engulfed by Cald.
This question is probably the last thing I’m going to ask as Action.
After thinking about it for a while, I decided to answer the question wholeheartedly.
“Prosperity and perpetuity worth. Asking that is proof that you are human.”
“What?”
“What kind of animals and plants in the world thought about their values? What is right, what is there to argue or teach, what other living beings have been other than humans?”
“… … .”
“I’m struggling to build knowledge, develop skills, create and revise institutions, and somehow make things a little better.”
I spoke slowly.
“Actually, I may not have gone forward. Whether by mistake or intentional, there are times when we go backwards, and there are times when we fall to the floor stupidly.”
“… … .”
“But looking back after so many years, it is clear that mankind is moving in a better direction little by little.”
“under. It’s not funny… … .”
“Have you ever heard of how advanced humans were 230,000 years ago?”
The guy shuts his mouth.
I sighed.
“Now that I got rid of the hero system, we will be able to develop the same as we did back then. No, it will fly much more splendidly than then.”
“… … .”
“Humanity is a moving being. You may think this is no big deal, but I think it’s ‘worth it’ enough.”
The boy’s head gradually falls down.
Don’t agree with what I’m saying.
It just ran out of energy.
I really wanted to tell him this right before he was completely annihilated from the world.
“I don’t think mankind is great. But it’s ‘good enough’.”
“… … .”
“At least more than you think.”
The guy fell to his knees.
thud.
And as soon as her upper body touched the floor, Action left a will.
“You’re good at talking like the last warrior… … .”
So Action died.
We just stared at him without saying a word for a moment.
That was then.
– Kugugung.
“What, what?”
“Suddenly the ground… … No, the world is shaking, isn’t it?”
“ah!”
“What is it? Mr. Neryl.”
“Action just died. And this is the world of Action.”
At those words, I felt a chill in my back.
“Bion. When the master of the world dies, does that world also disappear?”
＜No! It keeps running according to the system the owner has made in advance. Of course, there will be many problems, but the world is collapsing right now… … .＞
“It’s a bastard.”
＜Yes?＞
“He destroyed his world right before Action himself died.”
After all, Action immediately destroyed the human race in the special room.
Finally, by erasing the world itself, he was trying to get rid of everything that was with him.
whistle.
Offense said as he spread his shadow magic.
“How about getting out of here for now?”
“I guess so. The door to the special room might disappear too.”
“Who’s that Kayle?”
“Right away… … .”
Before the words ‘I have to kill you’ were finished.
Whoops.
Kayle stood up.
“… … .”
He relaxed and said,
“You’re going to make it gorgeous until the very end. Action.”
“Your boy.”
“for a moment. Let’s not fight now. It’s rare to see the world fall apart, isn’t it?”
He leaned back and looked up at the sky.
“It’s a wonderful sight.”
what?
I feel uncomfortable about something.
Kayle wouldn’t even be a fistful of distance.
But now, his attitude was very relaxed, and I did not find it awkward at all.
‘That guy. What did you do.’
Then Cale said.
“But it looks like they are trying to get you out.”
“What?”
Paah!
next moment.
We flew away as if being bounced off.
When we regained our consciousness and adjusted our posture, what we saw was the red door of the special room.
“Isn’t this a special room? Are you out?”
“It’s out. It was thrown out.”
“Why why?”
It was Kayle who answered the question.
“Because you and I do not belong to Action’s world. It seems that the world spit out impurities before it collapsed.”
To our great surprise, he was right behind us.
‘You didn’t feel any presence at all?’
I asked, narrowing my eyes.
“… … Are you Kayle?”
“maybe.”
“… … .”
“Look over there.”
Kayle points to the door to the special room.
The door is disappearing.
The shape seems to be distorted a little, but it becomes blurry like a soul summoned by Ardwin.
“… … !”
Previously, the red door of the special room had completely disappeared.
Action’s world was destroyed.
with its owner.
I muttered in a somber tone.
“ruined.”
Xenia asks carefully.
“Are you ruined? What?”
“The special room has disappeared.”
“Well, wouldn’t that be a good thing… … .”
“uh. That in itself is a good thing. However.”
I looked at Kayle.
The other party members also turned their heads to him.
“Some crazy guy came along with me.”
“ah.”
“I wanted to do it in a special room if possible. so as not to harm our world.”
As a result, it was the correct answer to evacuate the capitalists.
The current Cald is overwhelmingly strong.
perhaps… … No, it must have been that the ‘Original Demon King’ was helping him.
Tonight.
We will have the final fight.
Kayle looked at our lively gaze and smiled.
“Nah.”
Surprisingly, unexpectedly, we did not have a fight in the basement of the Imperial Castle.
Even though all the people have been evacuated, this is the place of life for the people of the capital.
Now, if I were to fight ‘that’ Kyle, the capital would disappear without a trace, so I suggested that we fight in a place where there are no people as much as possible.
Kyle accepted my offer.
Whoops.
As he moved forward, Kayle opened his mouth.
“I heard everything from the Demon King in the beginning.”
“… … Did you really just listen?”
“What do you mean?”
“I think you’re different from the Kayle I know.”
Before and after the return, I never gave a good evaluation of Kyle, but there was no disagreement that he was a person like me.
Although he sided with the Demon King, he was basically a human.
So the worse.
What kind of awareness was that?
However… … .
“Now you don’t seem human.”
“Well. As always, you are so sharp. Maid.”
“What do you mean?”
“okay. I am the original demon king.”
It was a calm tone as if reciting the menu this morning.
But we had no choice but to harden ourselves.
Neryl asked in a very rare trembling voice.
“You mean the one who brought the whole institute back 230,000 years?”
“okay. To be precise, should it be said that the original Demon King and the human Kayld were merged? It’s hard for me to express myself accurately. Either way, I have no choice but to say ‘I’.”
“… … .”
“I, Kyle, wanted to be loved, and I, the original Demon King, wanted to maintain the hero system. So ‘I’ joined hands with ‘I’. That’s how you understand it.”
I pretended to be calm and opened my mouth.
“If that was possible, would you have done it right away? We wouldn’t have come this far if we had settled in Caled right after we went back 7 years. We are grateful.”
“It’s because I didn’t know what kind of sanctions would come if the original demon king inhabited humans. For me, this was a last resort, and it was a method I didn’t want to use if possible.”
“sanctions?”
“… … No, it did.”
He smiled and turned around.
“Actually, 230,000 years ago, Kayle poured 80 billion wealth into himself.”
“… … .”
“At that time, sanctions came to Cald. According to the original calculation, the energy of wealth was not going to go crazy. He would have slowly and efficiently used his energy to annihilate mankind step by step.”
“… … .”
“If that were the case, then my new kind would have been born.”
new kin?
With those words, I got enlightenment.
Action said that the original demon king was born from a civilization other than mankind.
“You must have been looking for your people all over the universe.”
“okay.”
“For that purpose, he must have intervened in numerous civilizations and committed the same crimes committed against mankind.”
“Yes. Of course I don’t consider it a sin.”
“How many people have you created? In other words, how many civilizations have you destroyed?”
He replied self-assuredly.
“For the latter question, I should say about 10,000.”
At that, we opened our mouths.
In other words, there were at least 10,000 civilizations in this universe.
If we assume that there is a civilization that the original demon king has not yet discovered, we can imagine more than that.
‘How wide is the alternative universe?’
Then Kyle spoke.
“But to answer the former question, there was none.”
“What?”
“There were so many civilizations in the universe… … I haven’t developed as brilliantly as the race that gave birth to me, or your human race. They were all young, frail bastards who had neither the skills to separate the aura of wealth nor discovered.”
“… … .”
“In other words, you humans are very rare and precious beings.”
Naturally, his words were not pleasing.
Because the criterion for saying that he is precious is whether he can create his own kind.
“If we fail this time, how long will we have to wait next time? 100 million years? 1 billion years?”
“… … .”
“I am tired now. I don’t want to go out again without a promise to find a race the size of yours. So, I will definitely have to create a new kind of my people through you guys.”
“… … .”
“Even if sanctions come in.”
came out again
sanctions.
‘A being who can impose sanctions on the original demon king.’
… … .
Are you talking about the rules?
Not the ‘laws of the world’ created and established by the hero system, but the ‘laws of the universe’ that I first put into my mouth.
As I was about to continue my thoughts, I heard Cale’s voice.
“To do that, you need a warrior system.”
“Give up. late. Already I have added a new rule.”
“You can’t necessarily see it that way.”
“… … what?”
“With that law you added, all the wealth in the world is directed towards Idria. Rather, it went well.”
widely.
He stopped walking.
And turn to us
“Because that Idria could be my first kin.”
Neryl, who was silently listening, wiggled her eyebrows.
“Will he not hold hands with you?”
“I will. Because of the existence of a trail that was created by replicating his own soul.”
“… … !”
“Then it’s a matter of when the trail disappears.”
I took a deep breath.
Offense growled softly.
“It’s impossible. The trail is well hidden by us. With Idria.”
“In the arms of the world?”
“… … .”
“Then let me ask you one thing. If the ‘made world’ is destroyed without leaving a trace, what will happen to the world where your research institute is located?”
In an instant, a scene popped into my mind.
All party members are probably thinking the same thing.
230,000 years ago.
The scene where the original demon king with the energy of 80 billion wealth swallows the world with one hand.
Therefore, it was a very natural phenomenon for their thinking to lead to the following conclusion.