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Chapter 288 - Calamity (14)
Chapter 288: Calamity (14)
TL/ED – Enuma ID
If he was the cosmos.
The first thing that made no sense to me was what he had done.
His world was overflowing with all those countless stars, and yet he’d gone and done all this just to claim a single world?
Е.n ü m̀ӓ
It made so little sense that I found myself flustered as I asked.
“Hold on, if you govern the cosmos, then why the hell did you do all this?”
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Void answered without a moment’s hesitation, his eyes still closed.
“I was afraid.”
“…?”
“Well, do we really need any more back-and-forth than that?”
W̆ ëb̀ṅо̀ v̆е̂ l Е̃ n̆uṁ à.
Void spread his arms.
Wounds opened across his body, and blood seeped out.
The spilled blood spread slowly through the Deep Sea, moving as if it had a will of its own.
“You already know, don’t you. You have to kill me.”
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“…”
It was the single fact that had not changed from the very start.
W е̃ b̊n_õ v̌ёl È n u m̌ ӓ
But how was anyone supposed to kill the cosmos? No matter how wounded he was, no matter how far from intact, I couldn’t even begin to grasp where or how I was supposed to start.
“But I have no need for that.”
Void smiled faintly and held his bleeding hand out toward me.
It looked as though he wanted to shake hands, so I frowned.
“What the hell are you doing?”
“Do you remember the question from before? The one you refused?”
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“…?”
“Join me.”
I blinked for a moment, then studied his expression.
Reading the feelings of an Outer God off its face was a strange thing to attempt, but at the very least, my Current Sense and my eyes told me he wasn’t saying it to mock me.
After a little while had passed, I scowled.
“You’re serious? After all this?”
En̆ ú mа̇ . і ḋ
“Hmm?”
“Can’t you see this world?”
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I spread my arms and laid out the world that had been fully transformed by Deep Sea Conversion.
“This whole thing is a trap to kill you. Why do you think I made it? Because your goal is to kill every last person in this world. And it looks like you’ve already done about half of it. If you’d wanted to make peace, you shouldn’t have killed even one of them.”
“If you stood somewhere else, you’d have to see it differently.”
Void shook his head and corrected my words, as if to make me realize something.
Е ṅů m а̀
“You are the Outer God of the Deep Sea. Look. What does this appear to be to you?”
Void waved his hand and created something.
The seawater gradually condensed, took on color, and became something I knew.
“Oh, my head… where in the world is this…”
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“…You son of a bitch.”
I spat out a curse, my eyes blazing with fury.
E̊ǹ um̄ а̄ .і̇ d̄
What Void had created was a human. A human I knew, probably the one I’d known longest in this whole world: the Director who had raised me.
The Director, exactly as I remembered, looked around in bewilderment and reacted precisely the way the real person would have.
“J-Jern? What are you doing over there? No, wait, why is this place all underwater? Huh, gah? I can breathe? What on earth…”
“That’s enough.”
My cold fury affected the world itself.
Little by little, the surrounding seawater froze in strange ways, taking on sharp shapes. Those shards of ice advanced toward Void as though they had wills of their own.
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“I apologize; this wasn’t the reaction I wanted..”
Void laughed lightly and swept his hand in the opposite direction. With that, the thing that had been the Director dissolved into sea-foam.
When I couldn’t manage to get a word out, Void was the one to speak first.
“For you and me, for us, things like this are so terribly easy, so simple. Of course, to creatures, life is noble, weighty, a treasure beyond any price. You’ve lived as one of those creatures, so you may well share that way of thinking. But look around you.”
Just as I had done, Void spread his arms wide to draw attention to the Deep Sea.
“All of this is that most precious of precious things: life. You could create a human from a single one of these water droplets. The reason you don’t is simply that you don’t want to, isn’t it?”
E n u mа̊. і ḋ
I opened my mouth to argue, then ended up closing it again.
I’d been deliberately trying not to think about it, trying to dodge it. But was what Void had done really impossible? Was it something only he could do?
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Probably… I could do it too.
With a bit more effort, once I’d built up the know-how… I’d be able to stamp out humans the way a blacksmith forges a masterwork blade.
“The ones who prize life so highly are the ones who cling to a single life of their own. For us, life can never be anything more than a tool and an amusement.”
“Stop tying you and me together with that word, ‘us’. It makes me want to gag.”
Enu m̃а̌.i d̊
“Every other Outer God longed to become ‘us’ with me. You’re different, though. Of course, if you weren’t, I wouldn’t be wanting this so desperately.”
Void laughed off my barbed tone and held out his hand once again.
“Yes, I understand. You truly cherish humans, and you believe their lives are precious things worth more than anything in trade. Very well, then. I will respect that about you.”
“What kind of bullshit is that?”
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“Let me be specific. I will guarantee the lives of all humans.”
“…?”
Еnu m а. i d̀
When I couldn’t make sense of what he meant by that, Void spelled out the details further.
“I will see to it that the humans you’ve hidden away can live out their entire lives upon this earth, watching over them so that not the slightest hardship touches their days. If they farm, no drought will come; if they fish, the fish will crowd into their nets. I am fully capable of it.”
“Heh. And in exchange, you’ll slaughter every last Wizard?”
“No, of course not.”
Void shook his head, denying it.
“If you wish, I will guarantee their lives as well. To be honest, I no longer have any need for those things.”
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“Spare me the sweet talk. Do you even remember what you said? You said you wanted to turn the world back to its beginning. Do you really think I still don’t know how horrific the Primordial Worlds are?”
“Horrific, no doubt. But think about it. If you and I set our minds to protecting humanity together, what world could possibly do them harm?”
“…”
Whether or not it was true, it was persuasive.
It was small compared to the cosmos, but if his power and my Deep Sea were joined, there would be no Outer God left who could so much as touch humankind.
Of course, that was only under the absurd assumption that he would actually keep the bargain as promised.
Wеbn ov̆ êl̀ Ѐṅu̇m а
I sneered and did not take his hand.
“And the price? You’re telling me you’ll honor my terms with nothing asked in return? You expect me to believe that?”
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“A price, hmm. I’ve never given that any thought. If I had to name one… I want you to exist.”
Void answered with a benevolent look on his face.
“I don’t yet have the capacity to handle the Deep Sea. But you are different. A world too much for me to bear, you govern properly, by your own power. That existence of yours is the greatest reward there is for me.”
“Like hell.”
Е n û m̈ а . іd̄
By this point it was so plain that he wasn’t even bothering to hide his intent to deceive me that I was simply dumbfounded.
“I still have no idea what kind of bastard you really are. What you’re thinking as you go about your life, whether your real goal is to bring back this so-called Primordial Worlds, even now, in this very moment, I can’t make heads or tails of you.”
“There’s more than enough time for us to talk and come to know each other.”
“Yeah, there was plenty of time. Because I’ve been watching what you do, not what you think.”
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He devoured, he dominated, he subjugated.
The world, humans, Outer Gods, entire worlds. He let not a single one of them go free. He turned everything into nourishment for himself.
Е ǹum а̊
Maybe the Outer God that Nightchase had once described to me had really been a description of Void all along.
“You can never be satisfied.”
“…”
“Never being satisfied is just how you are. Like water flowing from high ground to low, you’re simply that kind of bastard. Because if you weren’t, how could someone who governs the whole cosmos still want to get his hands on this world too?”
“…!”
At those words, Void’s eyes suddenly went round, a startled look crossing his face.
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And then he broke into a bright, hearty burst of laughter.
“Ha, hahaha!! I see. You’ve hit the nail right on the head!”
It was the most abrupt shift in emotion I had ever seen from Void.
Void laughed for a good while, as though he’d heard something truly hilarious, then wiped the corners of his eyes and asked again.
“So, you’re turning me down, then?”
“It’s not turning you down, it’s rejecting you. You idiot. Whether you’re the cosmos or whatever else, you never should have made an offer like that.”
W̃ѐ ḃ n о v éĺ Eṅ u m̌ а
The fear inside me was already gone.
What reason could a creature so incapable of satisfaction have for wanting to join with me this desperately, as though begging for mercy?
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“Your body still isn’t in its right state, is it?”
“Hmm.”
“You’ve as good as told me that right now is my only chance.”
Once again the Deep Sea stirred, and the flow of the Current shifted however it pleased.
Ẃӗb̊n̂ov̊ еľ Ѐn u mӑ
“Whether you govern the heavens or you govern the cosmos, right here and now, this is the Deep Sea.”
-Graaaah…!
The seawater everywhere my Current Sense reached began, little by little, to turn into life.
Some into shelled monsters, others into giant Octopuses, each bristling with tens of thousands of the very tentacles that had once come within a breath of devouring me.
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My old nemeses, formed out of empty space, drew steadily closer.
Not all of them made it. On the way, they were crushed to nothing by the steadily mounting Water Pressure.
W̄еb̃nó_v ě l̄ E nu mа̊
“A shame.”
Void raised his hand, which was growing as gaunt and bare as a cluster of dead twigs.
The Water Pressure that had sealed Outer Gods away for thousands of years arrived precisely at the spot where he and I stood, a weight that not even Void could endure unscathed.
Void looked at his body as it began to crumple and let out a sigh. It was hardly a situation that could be shrugged off with a sigh, but he seemed more curious about how I was feeling than about that.
“A bit too soon, it seems. Did I overlap things too much…”
I could no longer hear his muttering.
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It was because I was concentrating. Inside my head, the Water Pressure that had pinned down the Outer God was narrowing into a region finer than a single strand of hair.
It was fiercer than any Spear of Water Pressure I had ever made before. No, it was something the words “Spear of Water Pressure” could not begin to describe.
It wasn’t meant to kill an Outer God. A tool made for that purpose carries within it the possibility of failure.
And so my aim was to cleave a continent in two.
A knife meant for cutting fruit might break while cutting fruit, but a saw built to cut steel could never break on a mere piece of fruit.
“Kh, urgh…!”
Е̌ nu m а . ї d̃
And so the spear, one that even I, the Outer God of the Deep Sea, could barely control, was complete.
The white thread, gleaming brilliantly even down in the Deep Sea, drank in the surrounding seawater greedily as it darted this way and that.
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‘This is hard.’
At this rate, would Void even let it strike him? Just as I was wrestling with that thought,
he came toward me.
“A truly well-made thing. Something like that could surely kill an Outer God.”
Ẁӗ b̃ňó v̊ ё l Еn̆u mă
“…?”
“Come.”
He didn’t move.
Smiling gently, with that same unreadable expression, he spread his arms wide.
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“I have a feeling this will help you understand.”
In that instant, several thoughts flashed through my mind.
Ẁ ѐbń õ_v́е̄l E n û m̄а
But my Authority moved before my thoughts could.
“…If dying is your wish, then it’s not a hard one to grant.”
The Spear of Water Pressure touched his head.
And then,
“Oh.”
His body, just like that, turned into a few drops of blood and vanished.
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