LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 151
[So, you came from another universe…]
[What do you know? You’ve been mumbling to yourself since earlier.]
[What do you mean? You explained it to me.]
[Huh?]
[Ah, no. I got confused. It wasn’t ‘you’ who said that.]
[…….]
Why is the Magical Girl of [Star] looking at me with a friendly expression?
Why is she showing kindness while wearing the face of a gentle girl?
The thoughts behind that behavior were completely unfathomable.
Magical Girls, always holding the seeds of divinity, were like this.
Animus,
[Death],
Erebus,
And Hecate before she got her name.
[Hmm, by the way, this ‘you’ is surprisingly laid-back. Are you getting used to this?]
[…….]
The pieces born from the twisted fate of [Star] all muttered their own thoughts. Trapped in their own minds, ignoring the thoughts of others, and unable to imagine being with anyone else. They forced themselves into horrific imaginings drawn solely in their heads.
‘Their thoughts, too, were ultimately an incomprehensible unknown.’
Because they were beings born from humanity, they felt anxiety about an unstable world even with their powerful powers, and there were things they desperately wanted in their hearts.
Animus who wished for humans to grow,
[Death] who wished for the girl to awaken,
Erebus who wished to survive,
Hecate who wished for her command to succeed,
And the three goddesses who wanted to return to the flow of stars and once again be the Daughter of the World.
Each looked at the world through different perspectives, moving down a distorted and twisted path from their own positions. They didn’t truly understand ‘humans,’ but they wanted to create a ‘world.’
A world
That a Magical Girl, who harbors divinity, must create.
‘Even if compromise is impossible, I’ll do my best.’
Suddenly, advice from a dark blue crow popped into my mind.
What kind of world was this incomprehensible Magical Girl trying to create?
Normally, I would have attacked with an inverse causality as soon as I became aware of my existence, but recalling the four Apostles that flitted through my mind, I questioned the one who calls herself the last Magical Girl.
[What kind of world do you want to create?]
[…This is a first for me.]
[Answer me.]
[You expect to be acknowledged if I answer, huh?]
[…….]
[…Then I’ll tell you.]
I felt that I could finally defeat the Magical Girl wrapped in the powers of chaos, speaking on behalf of the voice of the stars.
[A world where you live as one with the stars.]
It wasn’t a clumsy cohabitation.
It didn’t simply mean living face-to-face in the same land like neighbors, nor did it mean brushing past one another like animals and humans, each defining their own territories.
Perfect unity.
To completely strip away human will and push everyone into the primordial chaos and void that claims to be a perfect world, in order to seal wounds.
[You really are a being with no relation to humans.]
[Yep, that’s right. You’re the first one to figure this out.]
[…….]
A face just like Yuki’s.
In the familiarity of the expression of chaos, recalling my first meeting with Yuki. Even in the precious memories I had kept deep within, Yuki had suddenly acted as if she recognized me.
‘…Could it be.’
I quietly looked at the Magical Girl of [Star] and drew up the power of inverse causality. At the same time, the Magical Girl of [Star] ‘familiarized’ herself with the fragments of the world. She dealt with my unique skill as if it were a common ability, something that should be foreign to those I was meeting for the first time.
[You know I’m trying to do something, don’t you?]
[You’re the first to notice that too.]
Eternal Recurrence.
It was a colossal miracle that a girl had abandoned to gain a second chance amid destruction.
A miracle that even the Goddess of [Start] couldn’t use carelessly, passing it off through all sorts of tricks.
A face resembling Yuki.
Familiar with using Eternal Recurrence.
It didn’t make sense, but rather, it gave more credibility to the identity of the Magical Girl of [Star].
This one wasn’t from the age of humans.
As a divine being affirming humanity’s future, I surmise that she was born from a place unrelated to humans.
She was a being birthed from the silence of destruction.
[Did you… come flowing in from a time of destruction?]
[…Yes.]
[You’ve been surprisingly forthcoming since earlier.]
[For me, it’s a time that’s been repeated for almost 20 days. I can’t stay silent and tense forever.]
[…….]
That made my skin crawl.
[And anyway, the fate of this star is destined to return as one, beyond time and space.]
[I’m going to stop it.]
[You can’t stop it. Because I’ve already twisted one of the laws of the star before you arrived.]
The Magical Girl of [Star] smiled while looking at the small fragments scattered around. Among those fragments, the heartbreaking cries of the Goddess of the Plague echoed faintly.
—Ah…! No, this isn’t right. I just…!!
She wanted to return to the flow of the stars.
That was all the Evil Gods desired.
To that end, they released curses that would sacrifice countless beings.
Casting curses to hinder humanity with their weakened forms, pushing their desires according to the will of the stars was the pitiful end of one of the Evil Gods.
A sacrifice for the miracle of the world.
A colossal miracle.
The star we live on began to tremble.
The sky filled with red air, signifying the star’s wrath, collapsed, and the ground cracked as innumerable people’s anguish and despair echoed like never before.
Starlight was dimming.
Despair was rapidly growing.
The light of hope was shrinking smaller than a candle.
The threads of fate were severed, and the communications of the Magical Girls quieted.
[Before you arrived, I denied the lands and skies that the first daughter had divided, staining the surface where humans live with chaos.]
[…….]
[Even now, the humans you cherished are but a little flipped over on the surface of the star; they are killing or abandoning each other just to live a little longer.]
[…….]
[Does it even matter that we’re fighting now? Everything you’ve protected until now has been shut down so simply.]
[…….]
[This world is struggling to return to chaos like this, to the point that such a simple will could cause collapse.]
[…….]
[Just leave.]
Whoosh—
As the Magical Girl of [Star] waved her hand, a tremendous miracle activated born from the will of the stars. Finally, the miracle that could be unleashed through the power of the world, where countless humans died and were restored, was allowed to unfold.
A power that transcends dimensions.
The blue star.
That star shrank through the gates veiled in the starlight of chaos, gradually expanding into a familiar form. The expanded form began to reflect a familiar country, a familiar city, and finally aimed toward a familiar fruit store in some countryside.
[Hyeonwoo's Fruit Store]
There, a grandmother with completely white hair and a limp leg was stiffly packing apples into a bag. The warm smile she always wore for her neighbors had completely vanished.
With a sullen face, she handed the apple bag to the customer, rummaged through the cash register, took the cash, then lethargically pulled the blanket on the corner of the shop and lay down.
In the cash register, there was a photo of a middle-aged man and a young man, both smiling brightly. The frame of that photo was so worn from being caressed, the corners were completely frayed.
Father and me.
And my mother who was still alive.
My heart was pounding as if it was going to burst, and tears flowed from my eyes.
Against the backdrop of the chaotic red star filled with screams, the blue star where my mother was running her shop seemed so sorrowful that tears fell.
I felt the divine loss of life in real-time from the red star where people were dying, but I couldn’t take my eyes off the blue star where my mother lay.
If I just took ten steps forward, I could hug my mother and shout that I was alive.
Next to my aging mother, whose strength was fading, I could cry out that I was sorry for leaving her all alone.
I could begin a new life as an ordinary girl on that Earth I knew.
[Leave this star.]
[…….]
[In another dimension, the miracle derived from your will of the star will mostly disappear, but at least you can live as a human in the place where you were.]
[Hu…man.]
[Yes. During the tens of billions of times the star revolves around the sun, the predetermined fate cannot be averted.]
The time created by humans appearing from the star.
A time that began from the age of gods and humans.
[But it’s just one day out of a year’s worth of time.]
From the star’s perspective, that was an incredibly fleeting and meaningless time.
Tens of billions of years of chaos.
Thousands of years of history.
The weight of time that determines destiny was different,
And the scale at which destiny was decided was different.
Ultimately, humans and gods would rise like bubbles from the void and return to the void.
[This is only natural.]
[…….]
Even I, as the son of the mother rather than the Goddess of the stars, was but a little human in such turmoil.
[Go.]
[…….]
The fate of the star is unavoidably bound.
[…….]
[…….]
Is that so?
I let out a question born from my resentment as tears flowed down.
While looking at my mother’s back, I tightly grasped my chest, which felt like it would explode, forcing it to stay still and biting my lips until they bled to the point of nearly screaming from sadness. My trembling legs were twisted and fixed with effort, and I gripped my shaking arms until the muscles tensed.
I desperately clung to my body, which was trying to escape through the gate in front of despair.
And I yelled at the Magical Girl of [Star] and the will of the star.
[Then why are you… trying to persuade me like this? If it doesn’t matter what I do, why do you want to send me back?]
[…Huh?]
[If the difference is overwhelmingly vast, why couldn’t you wait for humanity to naturally perish?]
[…….]
[You said that human history is just a day!! Why couldn’t you wait just a week!!]
[…….]
Ah.
I understood.
[You aren’t the will of the stars.]
[You’re not truly representatives of the incomprehensible and great will of the stars.]
[You’re just ‘fake gods’ trapped in your own stubbornness.]
Upon hearing those words, the Magical Girl of [Star] finally showed a cold expression.
Now I understand why you were upset.
If someone were to write a story that shoves humans into a corner and mocks them as if this is their nature,
[That person is you.]