Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

Kai showed an expression as though he was going through an intense struggle in his heart. However, his heart was calm; his soul almost frozen.

Kai knew words wouldn't be enough to fool the kings. Only an idiot considered others stupid, and he had learned it already in his previous life.

What mattered now wasn't his acting, but material proof.

Here came into play the ultimate thing Kai had taken out before his arrival. A thing that he had already showcased. A thing that even the Sponsor had been avoiding asking about so far.

How could the falling of a star didn't interest Shadow Origin? How could the arrival of a Legendary Pokemon didn't catch an 18th-floor Candidate's eye?

Kai was but a 4th-floor Contestant!

How could he have obtained such an Item at his level?!

These were all the questions Kai had been aiming for when he had showcased the Top-Rare Item.

"Why beat around the bush?," Kai chuckled dryly, showing his helplessness. "Haven't you already seen it?"

"You mean…"

Before Shadow Origin could finish his words, Kai spat the gambling chip, "— Soul Dew…

"… Grade Legendary!"

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"What?!" the Viceroy exclaimed.

Shadow Origin's mouth gaped at the sight and hearing the answer.

He killed the sound and looked to his left. "Your Grace," he said incredulously, "is this even possible?"

The purple mist around the king churned, and it had been flailing furiously since Kai had answered the first question.

The throne had been remade and hidden behind the mist, the king was leaning against it majestically.

Now, his voice thundered with a nod.

"It is," King Purple Mist said. "If he has a Legendary Item, then its definitely possible."

Legendary grade Items, consumable or not, weren't something even kings could look down upon.

"Does the Temple of Many-faced God have such reserves?" Shadow Origin mumbled to himself. "Why would they even invest so much in Red, even if they can afford to?"

Silence reigned for a moment before the purple mist hissed.

"They have," the king confirmed. "Why would they invest? Heh! Fucking lunatics have never learned the word Reason in their lives."

Shadow Origin licked his lips, for he knew he must not pursue the matter related to the Faceless Men with His Grace anymore.

Yet, the king did resolve the doubt related to the Red.

"Damn!" Shadow Origin cursed under his breath. "This Red's Luck must be above 50. Otherwise, I am a fucking dog!"

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"Good, good," the Sponsor said casually after some time. "You did well by telling me, kid. Believe me. Now, ask your second question."

Kai sighed inwardly.

In the open, he cursed, moving his lips slowly to let the sponsor read them easily. "My answer is worth two questions," he said in a tone that sounded wounded.

Shadow Origin chuckled ruefully.

"Worry not," he told Kai. "If your question is not up to the level of your previous answer, then you can ask another one. But you must hurry, kid. You have only a few minutes remaining to your Privilege."

Kai reluctantly nodded. "What can heal a corrupted or broken soul?"

"Tch-Tch!" Shadow Origin tsked, sounding extremely displeased. "Another worthy Contestant about to enter the gutter, it seems.

"Are you too planning to regenerate Voldemort's souls after taking them out of the Horcruxes, kid? I have great expectations from you, and greater after seeing you creating a Breathing Style. Don't let yourself fall into this hellhole."

What the?! Kai gaped. This wasn't what he had in mind at all.

"Just give me an answer," he urged. Why would he show his true intentions when the other party had already wrongly imagined them?

"Sigh!" Shadow Origin's sigh was longer than Kai had expected.

"No Item can mend a broken soul, kid," the Sponsor told him. "Forget it.

"However, you can heal a corrupted soul; even a cracked one.

"There's only one Item that can do so to the greatest degree possible, making the Soul as new as it was before — "

"What is it?" Kai asked impatiently.

Shadow Origin chuckled. "The Philosopher's Stone!"

Kai's pupil shook by the faintest degree as he heard the answer.

Even his frozen soul trembled with excitement. This answer meant too much to him and was hideously important for the plans he had in his mind within the Harry Potter Random World.

Who could've thought the answer would lie in that very Random World as well?

"Well," Shadow Origin continued, "you were right. You can ask one more question. Be quick about it."

Only a few seconds were left. Kai pushed down his joy and fired the next question,

"In the Harry Potter Random World, what is the importance of the Book — Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue?"

"Oh!" Shadow Origin showed some interest. "Hmm, isn't that the book which gives the Candidacy to an Inheritance?"

"Whose inheritance?" Kai urged.

"Haha!" Shadow Origin guffawed as the channel died. "The Inheritance of the Legendary Wizard — Herpo the Foul!"

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Dawn

Last day of the ToW

A streak of purple blur met a speckle of blood; cicadas cried in winter and the clash of steel against steel woken up the night.

Hisss!

Kai hissed out a bloody mist, his entire figure covered under bloody flames of the densest odor of bloodlust and slaughter.

Under his skin, millions of worms and insects crawled and slithered, it seemed.

Selfless Breathing Style!

In front of him, and glued to his two sabers, was Higurashi in its Shikai form, its edge crying and shining with a poisonous purple charm.

Behind the stinger sword was the Insect Hashira, her sparkly, round face adorned by two purple-colored, pearl-like pupils.

The ever-present tiny smile on her face felt wicked and psychotic, but enchanting the most.

Thrown back by Shinobu's sting and the bloody power infused in Kai's sabers, the couple separated and melted into the wind, their figures vanishing like a mirage.

The entire mountain seemed to have become their training ground, an area of 1000 square meters around their hut becoming a home of purple and fiery blood-colored flashes.

Now and then, Kai's flaming figure kept appearing near Nezuko to reset the 30 minutes time limit.

They appeared over two nearby canopies of trees.

However, Kai didn't have his swords in his hands.

Shinobu's eyes narrowed.

In the next moment, Murasame swished towards her from the right, and Afro's Tachi came at her from the left; both fast enough to leave behind blur in their wake.

The Insect Hashira spun horizontally mid-air, and her petite figure passed in between the swords as the weapons flew over and below her, cutting nothing but air.

When she landed back on the tree, a tongue of blood flame licked at her face.

It was Kai!

How could he let go of the chance when he had already used the swords to distract the Hashira?

Yet, the moment his hands were about to land on her shoulder, Kai's ears rang with a wild buzz, the sound so deafening that it disoriented his senses, making him wince.

The hidden headache added misery to the stinging pain.

By the time he forced open his eyes, the Insect Hashira had already melted away.

The blood flames over Kai diffused as well, and he landed on the snow with a thud, panting and sweating in the cold.

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