Part 5
---In Kasukabe Yō’s mind, flashes of her past encounters started to replay in her mind like a revolving lantern.
From the mountains, seas, jungles, rivers, forest glades, lakes, cities, islands, land, world, the strange new worlds and all the meetings with others in Little Garden.
The first person who told her ‘Please be my friend’.
The person who had silently sat by her bed while she was bedridden by the disease.
All the people who needed her.
“Abandon your family, friends, wealth and all that you have in your world and come forth to Little Garden”.
To give me, the girl who had nothing to give up, a chance to change myself.
“……!”
No. I can’t give up now! Even if it’s just a small chance, I will definitely not let it go.
And so she stopped the replay of her past in her mind to focus.
---On the first day of the battle. Faceless had said it before that [Genome Tree] has two stages of [Evolving] and [Combining]. By referencing to her advice and utilising the Phylogenetic Tree’s collected information that seemed almost boundless in it’s limits, one might just form the DNA structure that can imitate that of a Eudemon.
---Eudemon races were existences that came about from the combination of two or more races.
The holder of an Eagle and Lion’s gene.
The holder of a Deer and Bird’s gene.
The holder of a Monkey, Snake and Tiger’s gene.
Precisely due to the evolution that should not have been possible in the original Phylogenetic tree, these creatures were then called as Eudemons.
Hence if one could freely control the DNA structures to change the very foundation of a life form---that person will undoubtedly be an amalgamation of all beasts and a scary mutant.
But, that’s not true! What dad gave to me…… can’t be that sort of thing!
A Gift to allow his daughter to be able to stand on her two legs to walk into the outside world.
A Gift that held this sort of feeling shouldn’t be that kind of dangerous item.
So she chose to believe. To believe in the time that she spent with her father, to believe in that present, to believe that she possessed the right to use various Gifts.
---Kuro Usagi had once said that the spirit was the accomplishment and hallmark of a person’s life.
Then Kasukabe Yō’s spirit would have amassed a wealth since the time she started to walk on her path of ‘Encounters’. The pendant that her father had given to her---held the meaning of a Gift of ‘Encounters’ to her.[53]
To open the path in the world with one’s own legs; cradling the spirals in her hands, starting from the beginning of life to the end of the world, all the various DNAs of the millions of life forms. To count on the stars that shone the brightest in the millions of encounters. A Single life form. A High-level life form. A Third generational Eudemon--- One that ruled over all the other races from ancient times till now, to utilise all the strands that exceeded Thirty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight to form a single existence in the fastest time possible, becoming the greatest collector of all life itself---!
“WHAT?!”
Graiya couldn’t keep his consternation[54] from his voice.
The heat wave had been blocked by the thing in her hands---a transformed [Genome Tree].
“That’s wrong! The [Genome Tree] you have described isn’t the [Genome Tree] that I know of!”
Yō gripped the pendant that had transformed into a staff in her hands.
Raising the staff that had a huge serpent head at its tip and coppery green wings, the fangs of the snake held the heat at bay before spitting out what seemed to be a dazzling ray of energy that crashed into a wing of the Black Dragon.
“GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”
The energy wave tore through the wing like a thin piece of paper in the wind. And with the scream of agony that seemed to mark the end of the battle, Graiya who had been hit by the attack was shot out of the Citadel to fall to the ground below.
As her consciousness started to grow hazy, Yō confirmed her win before allowing herself to collapse to the ground.
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