Usotsuki Senki, Meikyu wo Yuku

"Well, let's start with the formation of the world."

We woke up. Lil sees no war on our own enemy, Krook Looper.

Lil and Heeko get suspicious and alert after all those fights. It was the same with the colo that made me wonder, but I take a look at the condition of Krook Looper.

"O, uncle, hungry……… hole, …………"

"Don't worry about it. It's a scratch that will kill you in a minute. Yeah, but it's just fine. You guys can't beat a dying old man like this without asking questions."

I laugh lightly that it is convenient to have a fatal wound pierced through my belly from my back.

He sits back and gazes at the lils as they fall.

"Hmm... well, listen carefully because you don't care about me, ladies. We don't have time, but we'll talk as much as we can. The formation of this world, the mechanism of the Sephiroto system that forms the labyrinth. With that in mind, and about the colorful boy..."

Scratchy he speaks slowly as he slightly softens his tiredness in his tone.

While the lils are bewildered and alert, they can no doubt stab him in the face of death. We can help ourselves without a scratch, and Alicia is safe. You wouldn't do that if you were going to kill me. While I looked deeply into suspicion of what the intent was, I couldn't attack my dying opponent.

"This labyrinth is that the Sephiroto system is… a system for creating people flying out of this world"

"The world...... outside? Jump out?"

"Oh... that's where it came from. It's this world, and I don't know if I can feel it when you say it, but it's really a world. It's a finite world, not even containing the concept of infinity. It is only one of the fruits of a cosmic tree (Yugdrasil) that grows into a vast and infinite universe."

"Become."

The vast and endless world we believed we lived in. The lils are stunned by the story of too many different scales of jumping over it.

Seeing the amazement of the breathtaking lils, Krook Looper laughs at them.

"An infinite universe is a conceptual space with hundreds of billions of worlds, whether finite or infinite. The cosmic tree (Yugdrasil) is the tree of the world that grows there...... It is the name of the great tree that is fruiting hundreds or thousands of worlds in one of them (Yugdrasil). And the fruit of the cosmic tree (Yugdrasil) is to create transcendents, creatures that can live in an infinite universe where creatures like those who devour the world jump."

"What makes a space tree (Yugdrasil) so transcendental……?

"I'm not doing anything for you. That's like asking what weeds grow and blossom and bear fruit for. Good, bad, then. That's just how it works. I don't want to be in the cosmic tree."

Talk about it starting to get harder. Truth that is unrecognizable in a person's perception and so vastly spread that it can only be captured with the knowledge of concepts. And to Colo's question, which he desperately eats up, he answers that he is just a steward.

"It is the labyrinths around the world that are the very systems that evolve people to create transcendents. That's the Sephiroto system. Twenty, forty-four, fifty, seventy-seven levels. Through its trials, it creates and forges flesh tough enough to cross the infinite universe, the bearer of the indomitable spirit, and is made to be able to go beyond a hundred layers of doors. The Sephiroto system for it… only a man who tries to break through it and go out into the world can transcend the world."

Pompous and what he talks about is the formation of this world itself. What this world is like in the first place. It's not a myth of Genesis, it's just a fact. It reveals the truth about what it is and how it was made.

"I couldn't go beyond the world... it doesn't matter what's outside the world. It's just silly to live in this world, and if you die, that's fine. Funny, I thought Iason was going to kill me one day. He killed me. I've lived so much, but that's all I am."

I don't even think the words I mock belong to the man who made me do all this.

"I got immortal aboard that haunted cat invitation after Iason died, but I was desperate to hear about the life expectancy of the world there. If the world dies, Iason's name will be destroyed."

"If this world was right about you, why is the world doomed?!?

"Life expectancy. Tree-grown apples fall off when they ripen, right? Same as that."

It was the life expectancy of a world where there was too little that could be done and no good or evil intervened.

"No, that's not much. Wow. What happens to people who live in this world!?

"There's nothing I can do about it... that's why. You guys, over a hundred layers in this labyrinth, go outside the world."

To Lil's appeal for hearing the doom of the world, he presents one answer.

"I can't do it, Iason and Toja, who were possible, are dead. I can't do it with Lila's lady. I was hoping to hear it had reached a hundred layers... but he looks too much like me. As you can see, Lila's lady fell. It's what I did, but if the roots are pure, they're worse than me... but I thought you guys would... that's all for me."

"Why did you do that to us………"

"At first it was just the colorful one... because if you three... I'm sure you can transcend the world..."

To the leaning heeko, Krook Looper smiles softly.

His words seem messed up, and even though his behavior is actually messed up, I'm not uncomfortable with his words and actions for some reason.

That's him.

Thoughts leading to magic. Throughout his life, it's his core.

"Nest from the world and disappear. It's about the guy who stays after the world trembles, don't think about it. You guys deserve that... don't get lost..."

That means overlooking the doom of the world. I mean abandon this world. If he is right that the world has perished helplessly, and only the lils have escaped there, it would be far too cruel.

Lil and the others see Alicia. Not speaking a word, she was turning bright blue when asked about the end of a world she couldn't resist. Going outside the world overlooking the end of the world means killing innocent people like Alicia.

To the lils trembling at the sin they await, Krook Looper assures them.

"Don't get me wrong. It's not your fault. Leaving you alone, this world falls... Colorful, it's proof that you were born."

"I am."

"Oh... this world is finite. It does not contain an infinite concept. The heavens of this world, which are but fruits in the trees of the world, have canopy, and the horizons endure. At its end mankind has not yet reached... but before it reaches, it falls"

That is the spherical limit world where history is even finite.

Decided end. The history of this world is to be exhausted before man acquires the technological power to transcend heaven and to the end of the earth. That's how it's done.

And before that, it was Colo that was created.

"That is why the Sephiroto system produces heroes that inevitably become transcendents just before the world falls… that is the species of heroes. It is the last seed left by the ripe and falling world. That mountain hut you lived in... it's actually the gateway to the labyrinth."

"Eh?"

"You can get a baby through the fireplace. Yeah, there was a little hole, right? You came from there. You're the one created by the Sephiroto system."

That's the colo.

The girl who carried the fate of a hero, created in the Sephiroto system.

When Colo hears of his outborn birth, he loses his word to the shock. Lil inquires after seeing what such a colo looks like.

"……… Colo doesn't have a father or a mother?

"Hey. But don't worry about such triviality. It may not be any consolation... but I'm a better person than I am. If you want a mother... right. It's Luciferillis. He's the final test of the Sephiroto system. Then what about the father, Iason? Ha ha. That's amazing. You're born with talent."

He laughs funningly at how delightful his imagination was.

"Now, roughly. So... do you still have anything you want to ask me?

"It comes out of your story many times, what is a haunted cat?

"Oh, you mean him... that's a collection of resentments, one of the transcendents outside this world... Living in an infinite universe, the kind of out-of-standard buckets that devour the world... Well, I know very little about the infinite universe either..."

"Resentment outside the world......? Why did you come to this world? You said you were going to eat the world, but you didn't think he was going to eat this world?

"You're not, this is it... haha, listen and be surprised... what a cat that is. I'm trying to (,,,) save all humanity living in this world..."

As he prefaced, that was a word I wouldn't expect.

"Save? How the hell? There is still a way to save the world!?

"Oh yes... he's trying to save humanity in a world that will perish... but I don't care how he does it..."

The conversation gradually stopped engaging. Alicia also sees that the words are getting interrupted and Krook Looper's consciousness is diminishing. He turns his tongue to convey his thoughts, but still to convey them.

"Besides... he kills a man who leads to a hundred layers, a hero who can open a hundred layers of doors, without hesitation. I don't care what it is, but I'll kill it. So watch yourselves... Iason died because of it. The reason why that scurvy cat in the cosmic tree (Yugdrasil) is making the most out of it is against the Sephiroto system... probably because it's unforgivable."

I'm done, he takes a breather.

There was a dead minister clearly floating on his face. Compared to the first, the tone is weaker and occasionally out of focus.

"Now, all of it... Now, do me a favor. Maybe it's harsh... but make me feel better."

When Lil asked for each of his favors, Heeko was so upset that Alicia was no more than those three.

"Kill me and move on... anyway, this tiny world is doomed... so don't turn back. Keep your chest up and move forward. Sacrifice, you don't have to carry any shards..."

"So, but can't you save a hundred layers of cats?!? This world. That's what you said!?

"Right...... sure, right. That cat would make us all happy. Then don't even worry about it. Alicia's lady there will definitely be happy too... so I can assure you that this is the world... his crap. Leave it to the salvation... you guys go forward... I promise."

One day he pushes softly and powerfully with words the backs of the lils who disappear from the world and tremble the world.

"Even if the world falls, you're heroes."

He, the villain, blesses the hero who kills himself, and so he entrusts only one.

"So don't forget one thing."

Before dying, he tells the lils one last hope.

"I don't care about me... I was in this world... remember the name of a great hero named Iason, who was even more amazing than me"

That was his wish.

If this world is to perish, Iason's name shall be inscribed in his own victory over the transcendents who will survive outside the world even after this world perishes. That's all he accomplished for a spectacular farce.

For the last three hundred years, I have lived and continued to kill just for this time.

That was all for three hundred years.

"Hey, don't cry............"

Stay at the end of his spectacular life and bitterly smile at the worn out and tearful colo.

"Hey, ladies. You're talking about killing people more than anyone else, because you're gonna kill me, so what?

Ask Lil, Heeko and Alicia to agree to cry. No one was able to respond to the words.

He is.

I want to disappear from this world soon. Surviving this world means nothing to me anymore. If anyone is stunned by the crap in this world and remembers Iason for longer than himself and longer than this world, he must have just wanted to disappear from this world.

So much so that he was disappointed in this world.

When he found out that this world would crumble and a hero would emerge from it, he set his end. If this world were to fall, he found the purpose of having Iason's name remembered by those who lived longer than this world, and he kept killing for the last three hundred years.

To deliver the awesomeness of your best friend to the heroic species of this world.

That's what made Lil, Heeko, Colo.

To a hero who can transcend the world, he has lived with disappointment in the world for the last three hundred years, only to engrave the name Iason with his never-healing wounds.

"I'm a murderer. It's not worth being spared. You've seen it, you've shown him how bad I am. You're killing me like that. You'll blame me."

No lil, no colo, no heeko, never killed a person.

For those of them, Krook Looper showed off his sins in front of them so that he could kill himself at will. Hate me. I made enough reason to be killed. It was an assault on the ground for that.

He was selfish everywhere.

"So strain your chest. Be proud. If you kill me for surviving Iason... you're the best heroes on the continent."

It was Colo who grabbed the sword as soon as possible as if he had been pushed back by the words.

I'll do it.

It's not my sister's soul. Not the twin flames of his soul, but to defile his own hands at his will, Colo takes the great sword that was erected on the trunk of the tree. Grab and pull out the blade of the Great Sword with the glow of destroying the demon.

"Ooh. Colorful."

"Yes."

"I borrowed Iason's sword instead of the amulet. I helped this world, I stepped through this labyrinth, it's proof of this guy who kept beating me.... I'll do that. You wouldn't complain either."

"……… Yes"

Mithrill alloy sword. It's the supreme wave Iason once waved. Heavy, too heavy. Hold on to that, Colo. Grasp the pattern of the sword conceded from Krook Looper.

There, another hand was attached.

"I'll do it, too."

"Me too."

Yet another. Neither Lil nor Heeko will ever let a single colo bear his sins. Alicia closes her eyes in a gesture of prayer with her hands together. The lils are about to hold the pattern.

Looking at Lil's face with perseverance, the expression of a resolute heeko, Alicia, who closes her eyes and prays all the time, and finally - a sneezy crying face colo, Krook Looper smiles bitterly.

"Oh, I knew I was a terrible guy..."

Girl with burning redhead, wrapped in a hazy shape. Weak, strong, still crying. I laugh at such a blurred vision of her.

It makes a girl like this cry to the end, so he's, after all, a terrible villain.

With a perfectly heart-wrapped cut, Krook Looper narrows his eyes and loosens his mouth.

"Seventy-seven Hierarchical Sovereignty [World (World) Video (VISION)]"

The footage we are about to send to the world is a small gift to the Colos returning to earth.

Finish preparing to deliver his death to the world and say something at the end of the day.

"…… Goodbye, Colorful"

His heart was pierced.

***

When I was cooking the meat, I stopped by.

In the endlessly wide mountains, I couldn't find what I was looking for, and it was when I was about to grill and eat the meat I had brought. A thin, dirty child attacked me with agility.

If I tried to control wild children, apparently they wanted meat. If you try to feed them, they will miss you, and they will wonder what happens to this world when they find out that their child is a hero's seed.

She was such a child that I couldn't imagine that the girl would one day be a hero to the world. Ugh - he was just roaring, a dumb kid who wouldn't think about it later, and he had an energetic weather head for the bottom line.

I started living with the flow just to see how things were going, telling the colo I knew nothing about the art and common sense of human life, laughing at me, fighting occasionally, and living like falling asleep when the colo I was angry and crying about was tired.

Not surprisingly, when I woke up one morning, I was crying.

If you ask him what's wrong, Colo grabbed his sleeve and said this as he sat down.

"My uncle dreamed he was going somewhere."

You're an idiot, I was stunned trying to laugh at you for not going anywhere. I couldn't believe myself what I was trying to say. He stared seriously at Colo's face and felt his hand grabbing his sleeve.

Colo's hand that is supposed to grab a special honor. I realized my heart started touching me that it wasn't special, and I decided, oh, it's tidal time.

That night, he walked away from the Colo.

In the seventy-seven hierarchies that returned that way, he thought as he killed the occasional adventurer.

Three hundred years, I've lived only to keep Iason's name. He had no choice but to kill people. I only lived to beat Iason, and after Iason died, it was only with the skill to kill the others in red.

He is not particularly good at speaking, nor can he wake up letters appealing to people's hearts. But if he wronged himself, the bard told me the story of Iason. A smart guy left Iason's greatness in the history books. An imaginative guy wrote Iason's life.

So he kept killing. I was just adamant about keeping Iason's name. One historical fact, ten oral biographies, a hundred heirlooms, a thousand stories are made and tell the story of Iason's life. That's why he killed people.

That's why I thought I was breathless. I should have stopped breathing and kept it solidified when Iason died. He was the one who killed his own heart with evil behind his back. But that's when Colo cried and grabbed his sleeve. It may have been only a few, but he lived, breathed, exhaled, and moved.

He decided to change the plan's deadline just a little bit.

Leaving Iason's name unchanged. I was just trying to engrave Iason's name on the seed of a hero, but only for the last moment, I thought that was the only gift he could give the villain to make him a hero by showing the world and spreading the moment of killing himself in an attempt to create a sunny stage for that crybaby colon boy.

The feeling of piercing the heart. He laughs, feeling his body crumble into dust, where his life has been lost and he has become a Phantom.

Colo won't forget Iason's name. And the world that received the footage now should take Colo as a hero. There's only two more, but, well, it's acceptable.

He is one of the most deviant from destiny and so forth. I lived a life horribly far from his true history as described in the Sephiroto system.

But what does destiny mean? It's not about the determined rail, it's about fate choosing that path only by his will, which is probably crappy, but sometimes nice.

He was surprised at the unexpected discovery, even he thought so, so he might not have abandoned the world.

I regret only a little at the end of my consciousness turning to dust, and oh, I reckon I never regretted it.

It's a world he advised me to abandon by saying I don't care, but what do you think? I'm talking about those three guys who are no less friendly than Iason.

I guess I'm going to do something unexpectedly in a way that I can't think of myself.

Smiling at delightful expectations, he became dust.

One of the earliest pieces of his disintegrated consciousness must have been made of hope.