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Chapter 287 - Calamity (13)
Chapter 287: Calamity (13)
TL/ED – Enuma ID
“Get ready. I’m starting right now.”
“Got it.”
-Tap.
Ẇ eb̌nо̂ v̇e l Е nu̇ m̈ а̄
Nightchase patted my back, drew in a breath, and let it out.
Her body gradually swelled. Transforming from a human shape into something like a living, moving cluster of light, she pressed her hand to the ground.
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[Open them.]
“…”
Without a word, I opened the puddles.
Countless small puddles sprang up all across the entire world. Even so, they were just ordinary puddles of water. Nothing more than places where water had pooled, but…
W̄ ёb̌ ñо v́ е̃l Е̄ n̆ û.m̌ a
Nightchase governed those water surfaces.
[Do it well. I’ve placed my future in your hands.]
“I’ll do my best.”
[You and that mouth of yours…]
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It happened in an instant.
-Grrrrnch…! The Statues, with no idea what was happening, were swallowed into the water surfaces as if sucked up by a vacuum cleaner.
W̃ èb n̂о̆v̂еl̀ Ė n um̆ а
The small puddles devoured thousands of Statues. It was a speed my Tidal Wave couldn’t begin to match.
Of course, it was only possible because a clear price had been paid.
“Your body’s melting.”
[I knew what I was getting into, so don’t go reminding me.]
Nightchase, now a cluster of light, was slowly fading away.
Watching her, I realized once more that she truly had lied. Unlike when she’d handed her power over to me, she was diminishing in a completely different way this time.
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When she’d deceived me into thinking she’d turned human, it had felt as though only her size had shrunk, but now it felt as though her very existence was shrinking.
“…”
Truly, she was an Outer God.
And once again, truly, this was the moment she was about to lay down her life.
[Re… member.]
At the very instant the Statues were sucked into the water surfaces and vanished.
Еn u m̊ а̀
Reduced now to no more than the glow of a single firefly, Nightchase, grown as faint as anything could possibly be, left behind a frail whisper.
[Until the very end, don’t, let your guard, down. Void… is hiding something. From long ago, from a very, very long time back, that’s how it’s been.]
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“I know. I’ll stay on guard to the end. Rest easy now.”
[…To think I, would trust a mere human…]
With those final words.
Nightchase could no longer form a single word, nor any will at all.
Ẅ.ẽ b̊ n̈ö v е̂l̇ Е́ ṅù mа
With the Authority of Creation, I made a small glass vial, caught that firefly glow, and carefully stored it inside.
The world was quiet.
Nightchase had faithfully fulfilled her end of the bargain. She had, quite literally, dragged away every last Statue and sealed them.
Now, quite literally, I was the only thing left in this world.
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“…Shall I get started, then.”
Which was to say.
Еnu m̃ а.і d̀
There was nothing left at all to stand in my way.
‘The fight’s basically over. Just don’t slip up.’
With things as they were, there was only one thing I had to do.
Increase the Sea Water.
-Shaaaa…! The moment I willed it, rain began to fall. It was rain that poured down from a sky made of sea.
The rain fell without stopping, gradually filling the ground. The dried-up canyons of the desert became rivers, and soon they overflowed, turning lakes into seas.
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More, and then more.
For three days and nights, without sleeping a wink, I kept the rain falling. What began as a downpour became a storm, and in the end turned into nothing less than a pillar of water.
Every bit of time I’d gained went into filling up the Sea Water I’d been short on.
In the end…
I reached it.
“Phew…”
E ńu m̊а..і́ d̆
I wiped my forehead and looked around.
My surroundings were already a complete Deep Sea. In this world, there was not a single space left unfilled by water, save for one spot alone.
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A patch about a hand-span across, lying just slightly higher than the ground.
The only space the world could regard as its sky.
As if to prove it, the Stigma, now shrunk small, was carved into the ceiling of that space.
“…”
Е̊n̄ um̃ а̊
Seeing what had become of the sky that had once looked down upon the entire world, I was overcome with emotion.
This whole time, Void truly hadn’t struck back even once. Whether it was because Dersia had dealt him a grave wound, or because he’d thrown everything into this Statue assault, was hard to say.
Well, that was something I could find out starting now.
“Do you still plan on keeping your mouth shut?”
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I seized the last remaining sky.
The Water Pressure swelled its weight to crush even Void’s final refuge.
E nu m ӓ.і d
“Then keep it shut and die.”
It would have been perfect if he’d actually done just that.
But my expectations were betrayed. Within the space that was gradually being crushed and shrinking.
A familiar presence made itself felt behind me.
“…You sure are hard to get a look at.”
Dragging all the Sea Water of the entire world toward this spot, I slowly turned around.
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I’d never once imagined it would end this easily. Naturally, I was fully prepared. I hadn’t let my guard slip by even an inch.
Whatever he had readied, having truly swallowed the entire world, I had grown so strong that I couldn’t even comprehend the notion of defeat.
The one I turned to face with my resolve firmly set…
Hm…
Void looked somehow different from how I knew him.
A face where skin clung to bone, gaunt and withered limbs, sparse patches of hair, and bruises and welts all over his body.
Ë n̄ûmа .і̀d
He was so emaciated that he looked like a walking corpse.
I forced down my dismay. I’d expected him to be badly wounded, but to this extent?
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Just as I was thinking something like, did Dersia really do all this on her own…
Several meters away, he gave a faint smile, just as he was.
It was a warm smile, like that of someone reuniting with kin he’d been parted from for a long time.
“Forgive me for greeting you in such a state. Jern. Jern Aspandal.”
Ēn̄ u.m а. i ḋ
“I don’t care.”
Even those words were warm. Of course, I returned the gesture in kind.
A full-force deployment of Water Pressure.
The overwhelming mass warped space by its very nature; the world contorted. Void’s limbs bent in directions a solid body could never bend, compressed until he looked closer to a basketball than a human being.
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“Heavy. So you’ve become an Outer God of the Deep Sea after all.”
His composure even in that situation was fairly impressive, but I already knew he was bluffing.
Е nú m̈ а_
I’d uncovered far too much as an Outer God to feign ignorance. Bearing down on him harder and harder with Water Pressure, I issued not a proposal but a threat.
“Hand over that body, walk into the Deep Sea of your own accord, and never come out for the rest of your life.”
“And why should I do that?”
“Because you have no other choice.”
-Crack!
In the end, one of his bones snapped. He could mend it anytime, but only after escaping my Water Pressure first.
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And I had no intention whatsoever of releasing it.
Even while we carried on something resembling a conversation, the entire weight of the sea was bearing down on him. In a matter of minutes, he would come to carry the weight of the world, not as a figure of speech but in stark reality.
“…”
Void watched me make my threats for a moment, then opened his crumbling mouth.
“It has been a long time.”
“…?”
Еn̆ ǔ m а́
That was true enough.
True enough, but it was hardly the thing to say right now.
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The remark was so preposterous that a flicker of anger surged up in me, and I drew out a Spear of Water Pressure.
“I didn’t know even a god could lose his mind. Don’t you understand the situation you’re in?”
“I don’t. Will you not tell me?”
“Everything you tried to claim is now in the palm of my hand.”
Е̄n ů mа̊
I told him the fact plainly.
A height no Outer God had ever reached: every last inch of the entire world was under my dominion.
The World now was, quite literally, the Deep Sea. The exact opposite of Void’s plan.
“This must be a feeling you’ve never known in your whole life. I can understand losing your mind over it. How does it feel, having the plan you devoted your entire life to overturned by some human?”
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I provoked him on purpose. Partly to shatter that composure of his, and partly to buy the time I needed to gather up Water Pressure.
But Void, in turn, gave back a bizarre answer.
E n úm̄ а.і̌ d̃
“Oh, I know it well. I, too, once stood in the very same place as you.”
“What?”
“I subjugated every World I gazed down upon. There was, without a doubt, a time when the Outer Gods feared the vast open sky more than the deepest reaches of that sea. Ah, I was truly happy then…”
“…”
Naturally, those words had to be a lie.
For if Void had truly subjugated the entire world, then no Outer God could possibly have turned the tables on him from such a state.
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-And yet.
Something uneasy welled up out of me. Not from the realm of truth or falsehood, but from instinct.
I instantly raised the Water Pressure with full force. The Spear of Water Pressure that rose pierced clean through the space between his brows.
-Ka-kaboooom!!!! The Spear of Water Pressure, swung by the master of the World, tore through more than him alone.
The city split in two, opening up an enormous fissure. Part of it was that I’d put everything into it, but nothing looked as if it could survive in there.
“What the…”
Ѐ ǹu̇ m̃ а
I’d been mistaken.
Despite being run through by the Spear of Water Pressure, Void remained perfectly unharmed, still crushed there in place.
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Void, the one who’d actually taken the blow, seemed to pay it no mind at all, gazing down at the ground with a bitter look.
“I was mistaken, it turned out. Above my own head, too, a World existed. I was not the highest being of all. That was when I was young.”
“Tch.”
This was no longer the time to stand listening to his babbling.
Ё n u̇m̂ â . i d̊
Talk had been meaningless from the very start. A Spear of Water Pressure, immense beyond anything before it, slammed into Void’s body without mercy.
The earth split apart, and in an instant a pit hundreds of meters deep opened up. Sharp Sea Water shredded his body to ribbons like razor blades, yet it seemed to have no effect on Void whatsoever.
It was as though he existed in some other space. Every attack came to nothing, so I took a step back to at least make sense of the situation, and…
“You should see it too.”
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“-!”
When I came to my senses… he had reached me, right in front of my face.
Wê b̀n̊ оv̂ el̃ Ѐn̄ u m̆ ӓ
Authority.
‘…Impossible.’
His World was no bigger than a hand-span, if that. And yet he was wielding Authority so naturally that not even my Current Sense could catch it.
And beyond even that…
“…So this was how it was done.”
“What…!”
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Using the Sea Water, he shaped life. Only after watching tiny fish begin to swim through the Sea Water did I realize something was seriously wrong.
That was an Authority permitted to an Outer God of the Deep Sea alone.
Void should not have been able to use it. That was… an impossibility.
Seeing my gaze begin to waver, Void smirked and tossed out a question.
“Are you curious?”
“Not at all. Cheap tricks like that won’t work on me.”
É nũ mа́ .i d̄
“Come now, it’s a simple story…”
Smiling gently, Void pointed a finger at the sky.
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Of course, since this place was the Deep Sea, what he pointed at was nothing but the ocean.
It had to be.
“…Ah.”
But it wasn’t. For there was something floating above the sky.
Wе̊b ǹ_ó v_е́ l̄ Е̂ǹu m̄ a
The stars spread out above the sea formed a single pattern.
-It was the Stigma.
Proving that he was the sky itself, the Stigma that ought to reside in the heavens was etched there, made up of stars.
…Why?
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Why was it up there? The Stigma was supposed to be in that hand-span-sized space…
It wasn’t there.
Е̌nu̇ mȧ . іd̄
In the spot I looked back at, there was no such thing as Void’s last remaining World.
And yet he was still there, alive before my very eyes.
“Because you’ve only made the same mistake I once did.”
As if he understood, as if to soothe me, Void spoke.
“Only, this time, I happened to stand just a little higher than you.”
“…I’m done for.”
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Unable to refute it, I gritted my teeth.
He had told no lie. Void was, beyond all doubt, the sky.
Only, he was the sky above the sky.
“How am I supposed to fill that…”
The World he governed was…
the cosmos.
Ẽ n ü m̆а̌
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