Pick Me Up!
Chapter 307: Ragnarok (12) (2)

“Transcender.”

I turned to the side.

Far beyond the back alley, an old man staggered out.

“Alpha Zero, huh.”

“That title no longer holds meaning. Call me Recardis.”

He had aged greatly.

When I first saw him, he was a middle-aged man, but now he looked as if he were near death.

“I told you to flee. Why are you still here?”

“I’ve lived long enough. Continuing such a pitiful life would mean nothing.”

The old man coughed.

Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.

‘Now that I think of it, he used to stutter.’

His body had weakened, but his eyes were clearer than ever.

It was like a final flash of light before death.

“I am the former representative of the Gods. After observing the end of the universe, I passed the burden onto those children. They were so pure. They loved life more than anyone.”

“…….”

“My twisted desires… created this tragedy.”

Recardis closed his eyes.

I let out a short laugh.

“So what? Trying to undo it now?”

“Once something has happened, it cannot be undone. That’s the providence of the universe.”

The old, wrinkled eyes stared at me.

“But you try to go against that flow.”

The old man looked up at the sky.

Above, the mass of shards twisted and writhed.

“The more you resist, the stronger they’ll come back. Like an unscalable waterfall. Even all of us Gods failed miserably when we resisted. They are… true infinity.”

“…….”

“In all the countless universes, including Earth and Moebius where you once belonged, a common law exists. I was a fool in the past. I dared to defy the flow.”

The old man lowered his eyes.

“When I created the System, I wanted to transcend it. I poured all the knowledge I had as a Wise God. But what was the result? As you see, it ended so pathetically.”

A bitter smile crossed the old man’s face.

“As long as Moebius exists, they will endlessly invade as infinity.”

“Infinity, huh.”

“No matter how strong you are…”

“If they’re infinite—”

I gripped my cloak, staring at the chaos covering the sky.

“If they really are infinite… it’ll be a fun fight.”

I wanted to test it.

My hands itched to move even now.

“Someone once called me the Chalice of Infinity. What about them, then? A spear that pierces all shields against an unpierceable shield. Curious to see the outcome?”

“But that span of time…”

“There will be an end.”

I stretched out my right hand.

“Victory and defeat exist.”

Shhh.

Dragon scales spread out, forming the shape of a sword.

“I don’t fight battles I can’t win.”

“…….”

“Fate? Gods? Infinity? Spare me. I don’t believe in such trivial nonsense. What I believe in…”

The sword in my hand.

And—

An unyielding will.

“If you’ve already lost to them, shut up and get out of the way. Don’t hinder my fight.”

“……You.”

“Who decided it couldn’t be undone?”

“…….”

“Telling me to give up? That it’s impossible, that I should quit?”

I won’t regret it.

I don’t regret standing here.

In all the time I’ve fought, and in all the time I will continue fighting.

“If they’re coming, let them come. I don’t dodge battles that come my way.”

Gwooooh!

The shards howled.

Their eyes locked onto me.

‘Look closely.’

Here stands your enemy.

‘Remember it well.’

I will destroy your rules.

The laws set across the universe? I don’t care about them.

I’ll do it because I want to.

“This battle might… affect the survival of other universes.”

“Yeah?”

“Universes connected to Moebius may tremble. To them, you’ll be called ‘evil.'”

“Good. I hate being cheered for anyway.”

To protect one Townia, tens of thousands from another world might die.

I don’t care.

Some might curse me with hatred and contempt.

Still, I don’t care.

“Phew… haha.”

Recardis laughed.

And then, the old man’s body began to scatter into light.

“Transcender.”

“…….”

“Will you truly surpass?”

“I’m not surpassing.”

I continued.

“I’m winning.”

This is my war against them.

Someday the result will come.

And I could be sure of the outcome.

‘The one who wins…’

Is me.

I win.

Whether it’s billions of shards or tens of millions of crystals.

Even the unknown beings standing behind them.

I’ll wipe them all out without leaving a single one.

Until they dare not move again.

Kraang!

The ground began to crack.

Skyscrapers collapsed into the rift of chaos.

The city had completely lost its form.

『Transcender.』

Recardis, now without a body, had become a crystal of light.

『I shall watch your tyrant’s path.』

Soon, that light was sucked into my heart.

The crystal of the Wise God.

<Before I go, let me tell you something.>

“What?”

<In your… tyrant’s path…>

I listened to Recardis’s stammered words.

<Seris-chan……>

Leaving just one word, Alpha Zero disappeared.

I let out a laugh, dumbfounded.

Seemed like he went senile at the end.

‘Seris?’

It sounded familiar, but I couldn’t recall.

Well, it didn’t matter.

There would be no distinction between day and night in this battle.

No need to eat, sleep, or rest.

There was no need to wear the skin of a human anymore.

Gwooooh!

The shards screamed so fiercely it felt like the sky would collapse.

Searching for prey.

Shrrrk.

I let the Dragon Scale Sword fall loosely.

I climbed the wall of a half-collapsed building.

Kiaaah!

Hundreds of thousands of shards swarmed toward me.

‘Until I die.’

No one will leave here.

There would be no accident.

Except for the “boundary” where I stood, the shards would not appear anywhere in Moebius.

I fluttered my cloak.

A wave of gold spread from its hem.

‘In this place…’

I spread my left hand.

A golden radiance covered the underside of the city.

‘Time will flow tens of thousands of times faster than outside.’

Eventually, space-time would twist, and the dimension would be offset.

No one could escape, no one could enter.

This place would be completely isolated from Moebius and treated as a separate dimension.

A boundary on the plane of existence that exists yet does not exist.

“Remember.”

Srrrk.

I pointed the Dragon Scale Sword at the enemy.

Gods or whoever — they must be watching me from somewhere.

“Remember my name.”

This was my declaration of war.

My gift to them.

‘Let’s begin.’

Bang!

I kicked off the top of the building.

The Dragon Scale Sword in my right hand stretched far forward.

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