Aze shot upward, tearing through the air like a bullet fired by reality itself.
The sky fractured around him.
Shards of blue, white, and violet scattered as he passed, each piece showing a different world—pirates battling Marines, heroes fighting villains, shinobi sprinting through forests, adventurers delving into dungeons.
But Aze ignored every glimpse.
He focused only on the girl floating at the center of the tear.
Sera.
Her eyes were silver and empty, like moons drained of light.
"Sera!"
No reaction.
The Redactor spoke again, emotionless.
—DO NOT APPROACH THE VESSEL—
Aze didn't slow.
"Make me."
The tear pulsed violently.
More beams formed—hundreds this time—fired in perfect synchronicity like a celestial firing squad.
Aze's fingers twitched.
Then—
He twisted space.
Every beam split around him, spiraling outward like ribbons of light.
None touched him.
None even grazed Sera.
The Redactor paused.
As if recalculating.
Aze reached her.
Close enough to touch.
"Sera… look at me."
Her lips parted slightly.
But her voice wasn't hers.
—VESSEL COMPROMISED—
—REINITIALIZING CONTROL—
Aze grabbed her shoulders.
"Fight it. Please."
Her hand rose again, mechanical and trembling.
An erasing sphere formed between her fingers.
It pressed against Aze's chest.
He didn't flinch.
"If you want to erase me… then do it yourself."
For one second—
One heartbeat—
Sera's eyes flickered.
Silver cracked into warm brown.
Her voice was barely audible.
"…A…ze…"
Aze's breath caught.
"There you are."
But the Redactor surged with violent static.
—CORRECTION FAILED. FORCING RESET—
Sera's body jerked as if struck by lightning.
Her eyes snapped back to silver.
And she screamed.
But no sound came out.
Aze felt the pressure in the air twist—sharp, unnatural.
He shoved his palm out.
A barrier snapped into existence just as Sera exploded with erasing force.
The shockwave rippled across the sky.
Down below, students watched in terror as the clouds split apart.
Midoriya shouted:
"The sky— it's peeling open!"
All Might shielded the students.
"We cannot interfere! This is beyond our level!"
Rinne clenched her fists.
"Aze… please come back…"
Above, Aze gritted his teeth, struggling against the wave of deletion.
Every second hurt.
Every second burned.
"Sera! Fight it! I know you can hear me!"
For the first time—
A tear rolled down her cheek.
Then another.
Aze froze.
Her eyes flickered again.
"A… brother…"
He almost collapsed.
But that tiny moment of humanity triggered something.
The tear in the sky convulsed.
The Redactor's voice thundered.
—VESSEL NONCOMPLIANCE DETECTED—
—PURGE PROTOCOL ACTIVATED—
Sera's body arched backward as a massive sphere of erasing energy formed behind her, swallowing the cracks in the sky.
Aze's eyes widened.
"No— NO—!!"
The sphere wasn't aimed at him.
It wasn't aimed at Sera.
It was aimed at the world.
Rinne felt her heart stop.
"It's going to erase everything—!!"
Aze didn't think.
He moved.
Faster than ever.
Faster than possible.
He grabbed Sera, pulling her into his arms.
The erasing sphere expanded to consume them both.
Aze whispered into her hair:
"I'm not losing you again."
Then he forced all his power outward.
Reality cracked.
Light swallowed everything.
And the world beneath them—
Vanished in white.
Author's Note
We just hit the biggest twist so far: the Redactor is purging the entire world, Aze grabbed Sera, and they were swallowed by the erasure sphere! What did Aze just do?!
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