Chapter 670: The Birth of the Anti-Universe! Silver Wolf's Troubles!
Feeling that Tomori Nao was very nervous right now.
Ren simply stopped being mysterious. He leaned against the railing of the abandoned building, the wind whipping his hair, and looked at her with a calm, almost bored expression.
"Amano Hina does have the ability of a Weather Maiden, but it's not Adolescence Syndrome; she was bound by a contract with a boring god."
"Weather Maiden... meaning she can make the weather clear!"
Tomori Nao's eyes lit up. The realization clicked in her mind like a puzzle piece.
This meant her observations were correct. All those days spent trailing Hina, documenting the sudden shifts in weather, hadn't been a waste of time. She wasn't chasing ghosts; she was chasing a phenomenon.
However...
"What do you mean by 'god'?"
She is the Student Council President of Hoshinoumi Academy, and her duty is to find young boys and girls with Adolescence Syndrome and observe them.
To observe whether their manifested abilities and personalities are dangerous. To categorize, to understand, and if necessary, to intervene.
Based on the results, they manage the Psychics. It was a self-policing system designed to keep their kind safe from a world that wouldn't understand them.
In reality, this is also to protect the Psychics.
Because there are scientists in this society who capture Psychics. Cold, unfeeling men in white coats who see them not as children but as lab rats.
Her brother was tormented by a scientist's experiment, which caused him to have mental problems and be hospitalized. The image of him, broken and vacant, haunted her every step.
Tomori Nao didn't want to see all Psychics targeted because a few people abused their Psychic abilities. She carried the weight of their safety on her small shoulders.
But now Ren brought up a term that was familiar yet strange to her.
God!
Do gods really exist in the world? It sounded like a fairytale, or a nightmare.
"You don't need to understand what a god is, just know that Amano Hina's ability is fundamentally different from the Adolescence Syndrome you understand."
"And the world isn't as simple as you imagine."
Ren seemed to think of something and casually squeezed his hand into empty air.
"Ah ah ah ah!!"
A screeching wail erupted from nothingness.
A malevolent spirit, emanating black mist, was squeezed in his hand. It had no distinct form, just a shifting mass of shadows and malice, struggling against Ren's grip like a trapped insect.
It opened its mouth wide—a gaping maw filled with jagged darkness—and roared at Tomori Nao in front of it.
!!!
Tomori Nao, who had originally calmed down, was instantly scared and retreated repeatedly. Her back hit the wall of the stairwell, and she slid down slightly, her legs trembling.
"What is this?!!!"
She looked at the roaring monster in horror. It was something out of a horror movie, something that shouldn't exist in the daylight.
Ren's palm exerted a slight force.
"Gah!!!"
The malevolent spirit let out a shriek that pierced the eardrums and then dissipated into white smoke, vanishing as if it had never been.
"This is a malevolent spirit."
Tomori Nao being able to see the malevolent spirit was within his expectations. Her heightened perception due to her ability allowed her to peer slightly beyond the veil.
"This world is much bigger than you imagine. If you were tracking not Amano Hina, but a man-eating monster like a Ghoul, you would probably have been eaten already."
This was Ren's kind reminder.
Compared to more abnormalities, these incomplete Psychics with Adolescence Syndrome are truly weak. They are children playing with matches in a world full of flamethrowers.
Except for the Otosaka Yuu family, everyone else is pretty much the same.
The Otosaka Yuu family still has something going for them.
One has Plunder, one has Collapse, and one has Time Leap.
Unfortunately, Ren had investigated.
The existence of this universe currently has no temporal changes. The timeline is linear, unbroken.
Otosaka Shun's Time Leap simply cannot affect the entire spacetime. It's a localized phenomenon, a ripple in a pond, not a tsunami.
This universe is not an ordinary universe. It has rules, rigid and unforgiving.
His Time Leap can only act on individual entities.
"Adolescence Syndrome, that reminds me."
This is also an anomaly born from a Cognitive Doomsday. A distortion of reality caused by the collective unconsciousness of puberty.
A slight perception revealed that many active Psychics with Adolescence Syndrome have already appeared in the world. They were everywhere, unseen by the masses, struggling with their own personal demons made manifest.
He raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
Snap!
At that instant, Tomori Nao's body trembled as if a cold wind had blown over her. It was a sensation of loss, sudden and absolute.
She also felt a sense of losing something in her heart. A hollowness where there used to be a spark.
"What... did you just do?"
She stared at Ren, instinctively feeling that his snap must have done something. Her camera felt heavier in her hands.
Ren casually withdrew his hand, looking at his fingernails as if inspecting them for dust.
"Nothing, just erased this so-called Adolescence Syndrome from the world."
"What?"
Tomori Nao's eyes widened.
Her own body... seemed to have really lost its Psychic ability! She tried to invoke her invisibility, to fade from view, but she remained solidly present.
But Ren said he erased Adolescence Syndrome from the world... is such a thing possible? To rewrite the laws of reality with a gesture?
It was very easy for him.
He also released those captured experiment subjects and others, modified their memories, and returned them to normal lives. The scientists would find their data corrupted, their subjects gone, their memories foggy.
After resolving this.
He didn't pay attention to Tomori Nao's uncertainty. She was safe now, an ordinary girl in an ordinary world.
Instead, he remembered the malevolent spirits and demons that he hadn't dealt with yet. They were pests, cluttering up his territory.
He spread his hand.
A spherical space had already gathered many malevolent spirits. It was a prison of compressed space, teeming with dark energy.
With a thought, all the malevolent spirits within died, crushed out of existence, earning him quite a few doomsday points.
Then he slightly narrowed his eyes.
He used to not be able to see the source of the malevolent spirits. It had been obscured, hidden behind layers of reality.
Now he easily found it.
"The opposite world of the universe?"
That was the dark shadow on the back of the universe, containing the negative energy born from the universe. It was the mirror image, the dark reflection where all the waste and malice collected.
Besides malevolent spirits, even demons were born from it.
[Ding! Detected that group member Ren has come into contact with the Abnormal Doomsday Anti-Universe, Doomsday Companion activated!]
[Companion Time]: One day
[Companions]: Ren, Nameless, Silver Wolf
[Companion Mission]: Erase the existence of the Anti-Universe.
"This..."
Ren was quite surprised that his casual exploration had triggered a Doomsday Companion. It seemed the system was eager to give him points.
He also directly notified the Chat Group.
[Ren: Nameless, Silver Wolf, check the time. This Doomsday Companion is not dangerous or urgent.]
[Nameless: Oh oh, okay, Big Brother. I'm ready anytime!]
[Silver Wolf: Tsk, why is it to your side?]
Silver Wolf, who was playing a game, clicked her tongue in annoyance. The "Game Over" screen flashed mockingly on her monitor.
In fact, she had been avoiding Ren for a long time.
Even when Ren went to Luofu last time, she didn't go to find him. She had stayed in the shadows, hacking into the local networks just to keep busy.
It wasn't because she disliked him, but because she was ashamed... she didn't quite know how to face Ren.
It was all because of that time in the bath, when Kiana, that idiot, caused her to be affected, and then she was taken by Ren. The memory was vivid, embarrassing, and confusing.
Silver Wolf really wanted to say it was an accident. A glitch in the system.
But...
"Annoying..."
The annoyed Silver Wolf threw down her game console, grabbing her hair in distress; this time, she seemed to have no choice but to face Ren. The system had summoned her.
She still hadn't decided what attitude to use. Cool and detached? Or maybe just pretend it never happened?
"Silver Wolf, if you've encountered something troubling, you can tell me."
Kafka had already noticed Silver Wolf's changes during this period. The usually stoic hacker had been fidgety, prone to outbursts.
"If you have difficulties, please tell me. I can help you too."
The girl Firefly's eyes were firm, her concern genuine.
...
Silver Wolf was very touched, but she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
They really couldn't help her with this kind of thing. It wasn't a code she could rewrite or an enemy she could delete. It was... feelings.
[Stella: This time, it's the apocalypse of Ren's world! Is it serious?]
[Kiana: Too bad I wasn't chosen. I wanted to go play in Ren's world. I bet he has good snacks.]
[Ren: Later, when there's time, everyone can come visit.]
[Erza: Hmm, why don't you tell us about the current doomsday situation? Is it a monster? A natural disaster?]
[Shiroyasha: Anti-universe, interesting. That sounds like a cosmic-level threat.]
[Ren: Nothing interesting. It's just the dark side of the universe, the birthplace of negative energy. It doesn't pose any offensive threat. It's just... clutter.]
If he wasn't waiting for the Doomsday Companion reward, he would have devoured it in a second. Why waste good food?
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