A gray domain completely devoid of all color.
Only the young girl's crimson eyes shone brilliantly.
She revealed a brilliant smile, a smile that made Leviathan, seated upon the white bone flower, feel fear from the bottom of her heart.
Then... came a near-pilgrimage-like frenzy.
Yes, oh yes!
Exactly so!
Such a posture of reigning supreme over the earth.
She gazed at Su Yuzu with near fanaticism.
Su Yuzu, merely a First Sequence, seemed to dominate the world in this instant.
Sequence?
Does it matter?
The girl pressed her left hand against her sunken side ribs. Just now, in that strike from the bone whip, Su Yuzu didn't know how many ribs had been snapped.
Su Yuzu's fingertips flicked.
As if flicking time itself.
The snapped ribs restored themselves like a temporal paradox; bone fragments returned to their positions, fresh blood flowed back into blood vessels.
The girl had swept away the years and flattened the world.
She released the roaring beast within her heart, letting it roar into the world.
Only at this moment... did Su Yuzu truly realize...
That inside her hollow chest, there was never any beast that could never be satisfied hiding there.
From beginning to end, the only thing hiding in Su Yuzu's chest was herself.
It wasn't some dark side of herself, nor a second personality, or something crude like a "darkened Yuzu."
From the very beginning... Su Yuzu was Su Yuzu.
And only Su Yuzu.
It was just that—
Su Yuzu's world and this world were slightly, just slightly, different.
This caused those Aberrant girls who intruded into Su Yuzu's world, or were squeezed into their spiritual worlds by Su Yuzu, to view Su Yuzu with a slightly, just slightly... massive filter when they saw her.
Now—
She was merely unfolding the world that belonged to her.
Stepping over the fallen body of Hayabusa.
She unhurriedly... stepped one by one toward Leviathan, who sat sideways on the blooming white bone flower.
The girl's footsteps were very light.
But those slight footsteps seemed to shake the earth.
A deafening sound of mountains shaking and seas roaring pressed upon Leviathan's heart.
"You are sitting too high." The girl's voice was indifferent, yet like a monarch... no, like a divine decree issued by a deity that could not be violated.
She hated looking up.
So, she would just make all those guys who looked taller than her fall down.
Crack, crack, crack—
The white bone flower extracted from the body of the Third Sequence Chimera Amalgam disintegrated section by section.
The woman, who had originally been sitting on the white bone flower with legs crossed in an elegant and charming posture, fell from the flower branch in a near-wretched state, landing on the black bone fin throne.
Su Yuzu looked at that pitch-black bone fin throne, the corners of her mouth curling up wantonly.
"You have a seat too, huh..."
"Look—"
"I have one too."
Accompanying the girl's wanton smile, black thorns unfolded behind Su Yuzu, growing wildly.
The root systems and thorns of the brambles pierced deeply into Leviathan's colossal carcass.
And Leviathan, standing before Su Yuzu... retreated step by step.
The woman seemed to be able to hear the sound of those wildly growing black thorns devouring flesh and blood, bite by bite.
She suddenly realized...
The words Su Yuzu had said at the beginning... "You look—"
"Like a very hefty portion."
It wasn't a metaphor; she was simply stating a fact.
The nearly hundred-meter-long Leviathan.
To the girl, it was just a reasonably sized portion of "meat."
And she herself... was merely a part of that "meat."
Su Yuzu stepped up onto the black seat one step at a time, approaching Leviathan.
Then, under the woman's fanatical yet terrified gaze, she deeply embraced her.
Her faith made her fanatical.
But her body... every inch of her skin, every single cell was trembling in panic, wanting to drive her body to flee.
Only, she couldn't—
She absolutely couldn't. From the instant that gray domain covered the erosion domain, she had lost even the qualification to run away.
The Kirishika on the girl's neck bloomed brilliantly. She said... Kneel.
Su Yuzu's embrace was very strong, so strong it seemed as if she wanted to strangle her within her arms.
If she were an ordinary human, her body would likely have already been shattered, bones twisted.
But she was a Chimera Amalgam.
She was the "Perfect Creation" created by the [Eye of Insight] by sacrificing everyone in an entire laboratory... all the test subjects of past generations.
She could only twist her fingertips, wanting to struggle... to moan.
Yet her lips were blocked by the girl's raised finger.
"Shh—"
"Food does not need to be noisy."
Leviathan discovered in horror... that now she had been deprived of even the right to make a sound.
Su Yuzu embraced the woman, looking at the white bones extending from the woman's neck... like the straps of a small camisole dress.
Those sparse... bones tightly protecting the woman's vitals were just like the silk on Aberrants; they were Catastrophe Crystals.
They were also crystals connecting the spirit of the Aberrant or the Chimera Amalgam.
Under normal circumstances... trying to strip away those crystals was even more difficult than directly killing them.
But—
"I'm digging in~" Su Yuzu revealed a brilliant smile.
"Although you all look crudely made... but... you look much tastier..."
"Than that guy from last time."
Crack—
Su Yuzu took a bite out of the white bone spreading over the skin on the side of the woman's neck.
Instantly, the woman in her arms struggled with all her might.
Her body tensed up, toes and palms almost convulsing.
Her slender, snow-white neck arched upward as much as possible; her dark golden vertical pupils lifted to gaze at the colorless starry sky, then gradually became hollow.
Crack—
Crack—
Crack, crack—
With absolutely no room for resistance, Leviathan could only allow the King who had descended upon the earth to enjoy this feast.
Watching helplessly as she smiled... embraced her... and ate all the Catastrophe Crystals on her body, bite... by bite.
Fanaticism and terror spread simultaneously in her heart.
Her dark golden vertical pupils, completely bereft of spirit, gazed helplessly at the sky.
That despairing... crumbling... sensation of having the Catastrophe Crystals, which were completely linked to her spirit, slowly cannibalized; it took only a thousandth of a second to make the woman, shoulders trembling, break down completely.
Yet... she had to endure, to wait... she didn't even have the ability to faint.
Opening her mouth, even the right to make a sound was stripped away.
Trembling, she opened and closed her lips helplessly, yet she had lost even the strength to bite her lip.
Her will was rapidly disintegrating and collapsing.
In the final moment before her consciousness was lost, Leviathan's lips seemed to open uncontrollably.
The woman sang silently.
"Throughout history..."
"The long river of time..."
"There will always be people... whose birth is to complete some heavy mission."
"After that, they will sink into the long river of years."
"Propelled by time, they become historical notches on some clock of the era."
"Silently watching the birth and destruction of civilizations."
"The cycle... repeats..."
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