Chapter 133. Holy King Collapses?
Celestial Curtain.
[Failure!]
[Failure!]
[Failure!!]
[Again and again, again and again.]
[Whether it's the ancient world or the cosmic void; with or without magic.]
[No matter how many years earlier she descended, no matter how powerful the race she was born into, even if the mental consciousness of the two was split into hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of parts and sent away...]
[The ending never seemed to hold any surprises.]
[How many times has it been?]
[Ten thousand? A million? Or ten million?]
[Three hundred seventy million cycles of reincarnation in the past no longer seem to be the limit; if all the reincarnation worlds are counted, the number may well have surpassed ten digits.]
[The so-called difference in talent she once believed to be the reason has now become a joke.]
[Because even if she stripped Raku Sou of his talent, threw him into the mud, cast him into the abyss, he would still crawl out and walk toward victory.]
[Just like the legend of the Eternal King who was "invincible in ten thousand battles," leading humanity to sever ties with the Gods and open an era of their own.]
[Then…]
[Onii-chan.]
[Are you really my brother – Raku Sou, or are you that Eternal King?]
[She suddenly recalled.]
[This stubbornness before her gave her a familiar feeling.]
[But that memory was too distant, so distant she could barely locate it within her massive data bank.]
[Suddenly.]
[Crack.]
[A very faint sound, in the final clash between two planet-level disasters, so faint that almost no one noticed.]
[But how could it escape Kaguya's perception?]
[This world was originally created from her own mind.]
[The Holy King in front still maintained a cold, emotionless expression, but at the corner of his eye, a crack appeared, leaking light from within, as if reflecting everyone's ideals.]
...
"What's going on??"
Everyone was in utter shock.
The Holy King cracked?
Wasn't he just gaining the upper hand moments ago?
Everyone instantly became extremely tense.
...
In a certain garden.
Raku Sou looked at the rapidly rising Divine Authority Jade, smiled with satisfaction, then turned and walked away calmly.
Looks like… it's almost over.
...
["In the end, you're still just a regular human~ Onii-chan!"]
["Just as you once said, the Eternal King is you, but now you are no longer the Eternal King."]
["And now you…"]
[Kaguya curled her lips into a smile, her laughter growing louder and louder, her attacks becoming increasingly relentless.]
[She was the enemy of humanity.]
[A Beast whose scale of existence rivaled that of all humanity itself; what she feared least was being worn down.]
[Unless one possessed one of the five True Magic of Root, the Third Magic, the power allowing "Materialization of the Soul," then no living being could match the endurance of a Beast.]
[The thousand arms of the Bodhisattva radiated endless allure and demonic power, wildly swinging and unleashing destructive magical light with overwhelming force.]
[The dense crimson-purple beams seemed to drown the entire world, leaving no space to dodge, no ability to escape the attack.]
[But Raku Sou was like a stream of light.]
[An absolute stream of light.]
[Like a pair of scissors cutting fabric, he cleaved through all the sky-filling destructive magical light.]
[Shining with infinite brilliance, symbolizing the pinnacle humanity could reach.]
...
"Doesn't look any weaker at all, isn't it still just as strong?"
United Kingdom.
Lupin III, who had just rushed in to capture Mine Fujiko, like a large monkey, clicked his tongue and said.
"This is pure swordsmanship!"
Goemon, the one who once sliced down a satellite using nothing but pure swordsmanship, was dumbfounded.
When it came to swordsmanship, he was confident that even among Servants, very few could match him.
But now…
It was as if he had seen a god!
...
Celestial Curtain.
["As expected, Onii-chan..."]
[The massive and compassionate Bodhisattva faded away.]
[Beast Kaguya manifested, full of allure, enchantment, purity, sincerity… as if all words had gathered into her.]
["You're about to lose!!"]
[That voice was bright, sacred, as if the ruler of the world.]
[The entire world seemed to resonate, to shine, to tremble together.]
[Kaguya raised her hand and formed a long pitch-black spear, like the symbol of the death of all things, the end punctuation of the world.]
[Radiating an aura strong enough to destroy everything.]
["Your sword has dulled!"]
[The pitch-black demonic spear shot out like thunder, tearing through space, like a flash of lightning, and appeared right in front of Raku Sou.]
[Not a sound!]
[Ultimate destruction!]
[But the Holy King slashed apart the echo of destruction, stepped out from the dust, looking completely unharmed.]
...
"Tch, that was almost scary as hell."
Yuigahama Yui slapped her chest hard, making it jiggle: "Good thing I'm okay."
But Yukino didn't pay attention to that, she was staring intently at the corner of the Holy King's eye.
The crack… had widened!
...
["You've grown weaker!"]
[The enormous Heavenly Wheel covered the entire sky and pressed down.]
["Your magical energy has been depleted."]
[Countless black rhombus-shaped pillars kept rising from the ground.]
["You're about to lose!"]
[The Bodhisattva walked step by step like the master of the world, releasing incomparably deep and invincible power at will.]
["What you possess will disappear, what you cherish will be destroyed."]
[A region of destruction even more terrifying than before emerged in the center of the world.]
[In just a blink, who knows how many times they had already clashed.]
[A thousand times, ten thousand times, or a hundred thousand times?]
[It didn't matter.]
[Just a minor thing.]
[Beast Kaguya had always been this arrogant.]
[The Holy King, relying on swordsmanship elevated to the divine realm, still had not fallen into disadvantage.]
[But the crack on his forehead had now spread to his cheek, like a deep tear mark, and his eyes gazed forward — that was the Holy King mourning the ending of humanity.]
[As if even the two restraining forces themselves were starting to feel uneasy.]
[Below.]
[The stratosphere of the planet roared like a tsunami, winds stirred, clouds rolled, as if furious, as if weeping, as if… afraid.]
[On the sky of the Plain of Despair, bumps began to appear clearly.]
[That was Alaya trying to deploy the Servants.]
[Although ordinary Servants wouldn't be much help, if there were enough of them, no matter the cost, at the very least they could buy the Holy King a bit of breathing space.]
[In truth.]
[This world was not without individuals powerful enough to be worthy of the scene.]
[But those high-level figures had all already transcended the limits of any single world, each having crystallized their own ideals.]
[Either observing indifferently.]
[Or respecting humanity.]
[Though humanity itself felt that such respect was completely unnecessary.]
...
Netizens went completely crazy, everyone tense and anxious.
This might have only been something that happened in the past of some parallel world…
But think carefully about it.
That Beast Kaguya in the Celestial Curtain was the holder of the Second Magic, traversing parallel worlds as if for fun.
Many people panicked.
Afraid that Raku Sou would lose and that Beast Kaguya would soon come for this world!
...
United States.
A group of high-level officials also began to grow uneasy.
In times of danger, of course the strong must take the front line.
They had always claimed themselves to be a superpower, the strongest nation in the world.
If that Beast really showed up, were they supposed to have the Americans take the hit?
Everyone recalled the battle in the Celestial Curtain the other day — no, the one-sided beatdown of the Heroic Spirits — and shuddered.
We're screwed!!
Suddenly, a secretary seemed to remember something.
"Wait a minute, we're not the strong ones here, there's someone like that in this world too!"
"What do you mean?"
"Have you forgotten already? Last time in Japan, the one who crushed that super creature!"
That rhetorical question hit like a blow.
Everyone had already seen the records, and now thinking back carefully, then looking again at the sky screen — their eyes widened instantly.
Back then in the Celestial Curtain it was a young boy, so it wasn't clear — but now he had grown up, taller and stronger, making people instantly feel that the two looked seventy to eighty percent alike, enough to trigger association.
Moreover, the name of that person in reality had long since been identified.
It was… Raku Sou?!!
Hiss~~~~
They had almost forgotten that beside them was always such a Great Buddha?
Remembering back then, they even considered whether it was possible to capture that great individual.
The bigwigs present instantly broke out in cold sweat.
It was as if they had just walked across a river, and on the opposite shore… their ancestors were waving at them.
...
["Just meaningless struggle!"]
[Kaguya had never once taken the Counter Force seriously, she didn't even bother to care.]
[Casually forming a long spear out of nothing, blocking the sword light from the Holy King.]
[Relying on a ridiculously enormous amount of mana, she forcibly resisted the sword technique that cut through space from the Holy King.]
[But that also meant her spear technique had reached the very limit of the world.]
["What's wrong, surprised?"]
[As if sensing Raku Sou's shock, Kaguya wildly swung the long spear, completely mismatched with her slender frame, piercing everything with the posture of utter annihilation.]
["Three hundred million cycles of reincarnation..."]
["That's six billion years, six billion years."]
["Do you understand? Onii-chan."]
["Understand my ideals, my thoughts, my will, and also… my great vow!!!"]
[Kaguya looked at the Holy King charging straight at her, like a storm and tempest giving Raku Sou not a single breath to spare.]
[Finally….]
[Crack — a fissure appeared, then shattered.]
[But the one that broke wasn't Raku Sou, but the mental world that was trembling and about to collapse!]
[The ultimate, endless clash between the strongest Beast and the Eternal King — just how terrifying was it?]
[Even the real world should have long since shattered.]
[A blinding light engulfed everything.]