Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjo, Aruiha Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen - Volume 12 - Chapter Ep

EPILOGUE

The Dream That You, the Lord, Saw

Yunmelngen had a dream.

This was the dream. And even though they knew it was a dream, they could not resist it, nor could they wake from the nightmare. And that was how they had realized it.

This dream was a prophecy that the astral powers were trying to show them.

They fell.

In the dream, Yunmelngen sank hundreds of meters, then thousands, into the planet, like they were sinking into the dark ocean’s depths.

They fell through the roads, the crust, the rock bed, even the lava, passing right through everything, deep into the planet.

“Crow?!” they yelled out of fear. They were afraid of sinking deeper into the dark depths of the planet alone and reached out for the surface. “Crow?! Help me! I’m here…!”

They received no response. The man they trusted most did not come running to save them.

Of course he couldn’t. This was a dream the astral powers were showing them. And so all they could do was sink deeper alone into the planet as the astral powers wished.

“Ugh.”

Suddenly, there was light.

Yunmelngen looked below; deep in the planet, they saw red, blue, green, white, yellow, purple, and countless other lights glittering and rising.

It was a vortex. It had been created from the planet’s core—astral energy rising from the depths.

It was a great migration of astral powers. But why were the powers moving to the surface like this?

“They’re running… The Eight Great Apostles. You must have known that, too…”

The astral powers were afraid. They had fled from their home, the planet’s core, all the way to the surface. That was what the vortex actually was.

Once astral powers left the planet’s core, they couldn’t continue existing in their pure form, so they would erupt through a vortex and take possession of a human on the surface.

In which case…

What were the astral powers running from?

“The astral powers… You all were probably trying to show me this…”

The astral power in them was attempting to show them this. The power in Lord Yunmelngen was called the Planet’s Defense, and so Yunmelngen would be the most sensitive to dangers threatening the planet.

Therefore, the powers were warning Yunmelngen.

Yunmelngen continued to sink deeper, and as they reached the abyss that was the planet’s core, they realized something was there that shouldn’t have been.

“That’s it!”

There it was.

They were at the planet’s abyss. The scorching heat of the lava acted as the thing’s cradle.

And the abomination that was like astral power but also not, stirred and seemed to pulsate.

It writhed like an exposed heart. In the heat of the lava that could have melted steel, it slept quietly and grew. This was the calamity that the Astrals feared and called the Planet’s Demise.

In other words, it was the World Enemy.

And its name was…

“La Selah Milah Uls…”

Yunmelngen did not know where the name came from and did not intend to find out.

But what was most abominable of all…

This calamity transformed humans and astral power into grotesque monsters, into enemies.

One human had become the fallen angel Kelvina.

Another the witch Vichyssoise.

And another the witch Elletear.

Astral power into an eidos of the earth.

And into an eidos of the sea.

All would be corrupted into an abomination.

And the astral powers, in fear of that, had fled the planet’s core.

“So you’re the cause of this…”

As Yunmelngen glared at the abomination writhing deep within the abyss, they bared their teeth.

If only the calamity had never existed…

There never would have been a vortex. The astral powers would have never fled. Astral power could have remained astral power. And humans could have remained human.

“…Tsk!”

Then they felt a sharp pain in their chest. Though they were in a dream, the pain felt real.

That was right.

They were also possessed by this power, and that was why they had transformed into this.

No astral power or astral mage could win against the calamity.

“I know that…”

As they clutched their chest, they glared down at the calamity.

“You don’t even see me as an enemy…”

The monster probably didn’t even notice Yunmelngen was having this dream. Even though it created such fear and nightmares for others, the monster itself was soundly asleep.

In that case…

“You can just stay asleep.”

And this was what they had to say to it, to the disaster that sought to desecrate both astral powers and humanity: “While you’ve been here gathering strength for decades or centuries, humans will keep giving birth to new generations… No, they already have, and they’ve continued to change!”

Yunmelngen believed they would be able to find it. They swore they would. In these hundred years.

“Even if I can’t defeat you myself…!”

It would not be the Founder Nebulis or Crossweil the Black Steel Gladiator.

The only one who could fight against the calamity was the successor and his astral swords.

And…those who wished to help him.

“You’ll see! We’ll go for your throat, World Enemy!”

“Lor—”

“Lord? Lord?”

They felt something brush their shoulders. Yunmelngen realized only after opening their eyes slightly that someone was jostling them.

“Um, you were making a very scary face…”

The girl with strawberry-blond hair was looking at them in fear. It seemed she had been watching them as they slept.

“What is it, Princess Sisbell? Didn’t I say I would sleep?”

“B-but your face was so frightening that I thought something was wrong! You were gritting your teeth and groaning!”

“Hmm…”

They had seen that dream, after all. Of course they would look rather frightening in their sleep, given that.

“Well, it’s all right, then… Hmm.”

They stretched and enthusiastically got up. Surprisingly, they weren’t drowsy. They couldn’t tell if it was because they had been woken or because they were free of the nightmare.

“All right, I’m awake. Princess Sisbell, please bring over your sister. And that amusing attendant.”

“Do you mean my sister Alice and Rin?”

“Oh yes, and the four from Unit 907.”

“Out of curiosity, why do you need them?”

“To talk about a dream.”

When the princess gave them a strange look, Yunmelngen bit back a yawn.

“I’ll tell everyone about the dream I saw. And about the cause of all this.”