Chaos organizes itself.
No. He learns to imitate the order.
Tsuki refused.
And that night, his store exploded.
The Cults of the Serpent
From the ashes of the store, a new rumour has emerged.
The sect known as the Children of the Cosmic Serpent began circulating among the colonized planets.
They believed that Tsuki was the physical embodiment of the Dragon and that the end of the cycle would only come with her sacrifice.
In underground temples, they re-enacted their deeds through chants and holograms.
"He conquered the void, brought the light, and now he must return the fire," they said.
Entire cities began to convert.
Governments panicked.
And Tsuki — weary of eternity — understood the horror of his own existence:
He was no longer a hero.
It was a myth that needed to die so that the universe could continue.
The Souls Market Reopened
To survive, Tsuki returned to Enraal , the labyrinth planet.
There, he reunited with old acquaintances — merchants, assassins, and decadent gods.
Among them, a woman: Naomi Rha , a hybrid of human and spirit, a smuggler of forbidden memories.
I heard you sold the heart of a god for a cup of wine.
It was a very good wine.
— And he still lies like before.
Naomi helped him negotiate his own identity.
Tsuki traded fragments of her soul for information.
He discovered that one of the relics — the Neon Clock — had been stolen.
And he was now in possession of a magical empire that used him to predict wars.
The Return to the Void
To retrieve the Clock, Tsuki traveled to the planet of Anarion , now transformed into a war arsenal.
The weapons were alive — made of memory, fear, and condensed light.
The general who received him was a distorted version of himself, an echo left behind by time travel.
— It's you, Tsuki.
No, you are the shadow that remained when I chose to survive.
Then die in my place.
The struggle lasted what seemed like a century.
The sky dissolved.
When it was all over, Tsuki was holding the clock.
But it was now cracked, marking time in two directions — future and past — at the same time.
He pressed it to his chest, as if it were a heart.
And for a moment, the universe stopped breathing.
The Judgment of the Stars
Back in the City of Dead Echoes, Tsuki was captured.
The Sons of the Serpent took him to the Throne of Fire, at the center of the solar system.
Thousands of voices cried out for redemption, pleading for his death and his ascension.
The dragon must die!
The Dragon must be reborn!
He looked up at the sky.
The stars twinkled like ancient eyes.
— You want a god.
We want meaning.
— The meaning is fear.
— And the fear... is you.
Tsuki then smiled.
He raised the clock.
Time has shattered — a crack has pierced the fabric of reality.
The light devoured everything.
Epilogue — The Man Who Remembered the End
Nobody knows what happened next.
Some say Tsuki destroyed the universe.
Others restarted it, silently.
The cults disappeared, the corporations crumbled, and a new era began without previous records, even in a forgotten city, under a sky that never dawns, followed by a man in a black coat walking through foggy alleys, selling relics to anyone who dares to ask about the past.
He smiles, tired, and says:
"Time is a cracked mirror."
And I am the reflection that shouldn't exist."
THE LORD BLACK DRAGON
Chapter VI — The Detective of Lost Time
(or: The Man Who Returned a Year Before the End)
The universe hasn't ended.
Not yet.
Tsuki stopped him—at a price only he understood.
The Spheres of Chaos, the Relics, and the Neon Clock had merged with his soul.
And when he activated the Clock on the Throne of Fire, he didn't destroy the cosmos; rather, he bent it.
Time has been reversed.
A silent turn, an invisible fold.
And when Tsuki opened her eyes, the universe had regressed by a single year.
One year before the collapse.
One year before the deaths.
One year before the end.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
He woke up in a vibrant city.
The buildings breathed; the people smiled.
Nobody remembered the apocalypse, in which nobody, except him, was present.
Now, Tsuki knew who would betray her, who would die, and which worlds would crumble.
He knew the villains' secrets, the sects' plans, the gods' lies, but there was a price:
Each time he remembered, time devoured him from the inside, as if the cosmos itself were trying to erase him.
To hide, he adopted a new identity.
Tsuki Kael , private detective in the City of Dead Echoes.
"I investigate what people forget."
And what time tries to hide."
The Case of the Woman Who Dreamed of the Future
It was on a rainy afternoon that she appeared, a woman with amber eyes and an impossible smile.
Her name was Elara.
She said she dreamed of a man watching her from among the stars, and that every time he appeared, time would break apart.
Tsuki recognized her.
In the previous timeline, Elara had died, sacrificed by the Sons of the Serpent.
Now, alive, she was searching for him, saying:
You are the man of my dreams.
I am the man from your nightmares.
She didn't know it, but inside her was a fragment, the eighth Sphere, the only one Tsuki hadn't yet recovered.
The Cult of the Awakened Dragon
Meanwhile, the Sons of the Serpent were gathering again.
This time, however, they didn't want him dead.
They wanted to train him.
They believed that Tsuki was the Dragon incarnate, the chosen deity to bring balance to the universe.
The sect expanded across planets, temples, and parallel realities.
Priests and scientists studied his energy, seeking to understand how a man could become the very axis of time.
But Tsuki knew the danger of that.
"No one should control time. Not even the one who saved it."
The Game of Echoes
The world seemed the same, but there were subtle differences, with streets that ended in non-existent alleys, and people who spoke in phrases he remembered from dreams.
The past and the future were intertwined, where fragments of relics—now within him—manifested themselves in dreams and lapses of reality.
One night, Tsuki found himself facing a future version of himself with silver eyes, who said to him:
You can't stop the end.
I already stopped him.
And that's why it will never end.
The paradox echoed like a distant laugh, in which the mirror shattered.
The Prophet and the Detective
As the weeks passed, rumors spread.
There was a detective who solved crimes before they happened.
which predicted the fate of victims and murderers?
who dreamed of the future and woke up with blood on his hands?
Some called him a prophet.
Others, cursed.
But those who knew what truly moved through time called it:
"The Dragon That Walks Between Days."
Tsuki, however, only wanted peace.
But each case he solved brought him closer to the cult —
And Elara, who was beginning to remember something she had never experienced.
Elara's Revelation
On a night when time folded in on itself,
Tsuki and Elara became trapped in a time loop.
Every hour, the clock would turn back, and the same conversation would repeat itself.
Finally, on the thirteenth repetition, Elara looked him in the eyes and said:
You lied to me.
— About what?
— About the future. I saw it. I die.
— Not this time.
— You've said this before, haven't you?
She began to remember —