Ending
by Afuhfuihgs
Luna was walking endlessly through the darkness where nothing could be seen, overcoming her fear and hesitation. Each step brought a twisting agony to her soul, and all sorts of temptations tried their best to slow her down… but Luna’s gaze remained only on the compass, and her legs moved only towards where the compass pointed.
Then, a wind passed by Luna’s side, whispering Ross’s voice.
“I hate you. Because of you, I lost everything precious.”
“It’s all your fault!”
“I never loved you from the beginning.”
“You’re a fake I created! Did you think I would really love you?”
“Ellie is prettier than you and has special talents too. What can you, who can barely use your hands like others and even struggle to walk, possibly win against Ellie with?”
Even as the monster created by the chaos in the abyss whispered endlessly in Ross’s voice, Luna, who had been fixing her gaze on the compass, stopped walking for the first time. The monster, thinking that its whispers had finally worked, smirked, but Luna moved her blue eyes and stared straight at the demon hiding in the abyss.
“Even if hell awaits… I will be with Ross. I promised that, and I love Ross no matter what. Even if everything you said is true, it’s okay enough.”
The power of the intense will dwelling in Luna’s blue eyes could not be hidden even by the darkness of the abyss. The monster could only watch helplessly in silence as she escaped the darkness.
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“…”
The God of Chaos slowly lowered his head with an unbelievable expression. A clear wound had appeared on the body he had descended into. In countless battles, Roel’s holy sword had touched him for the first time. Moreover, it directly denied his [Authority].
“…Is this possible?”
The wound quickly regenerated, leaving no trace… but the fact that Roel’s attack had worked was important. It wasn’t that the Authority had been pierced. It was just that Roel’s holy sword continued without obstruction, as if the [Authority] didn’t exist at all. Roel, who had succeeded in the attack, was also smiling faintly as he looked at his holy sword.
“―――Don’t be ridiculous!!!”
The attempt to create a shockwave with a powerful force that could destroy the world, revealing his immense presence, was subdued so lightly that it was almost absurd, as if Roel was chasing away a bothersome bug by waving his holy sword.
“I told you. Checkmate.”
Roel, aiming his holy sword at the God of Chaos who wore an incomprehensible expression, continued speaking in a confident voice.
“Can you cause a setting collapse by interfering with the story using the setting collapse?”
“What…?”
“To avoid the world’s denial, you have to forcibly fix Ross’s synchronization rate. But in that situation, you can never ignore Ross’s settings. If you ignore the plausibility, the forcibly fixed synchronization rate will drop again.”
“…!”
Only then did the God of Chaos realize what the huge trap he had fallen into was.
Ross had a setting that he could never win against Roel. That was the origin of the character Ross’s inferiority complex towards the hero Roel. Unlike the Rosses of other worlds, the reason why the last Ross couldn’t escape his inferiority complex until the end was because of that.
The last Ross had to be the most ‘Ross’-like.
In other words, the method the God of Chaos thought was a clever move-using [Authority] similar to what Roel had been doing until now to stall for time until the world was destroyed to avoid defeat-was impossible because it was a method that went against plausibility.
The human Ross naturally couldn’t use [Authority], which belonged to the power of God, without any restrictions. So, if he blocked Roel’s attack with [Authority], the forcibly fixed synchronization rate of Ross would drop, and he wouldn’t be able to avoid the world’s denial. Conversely, if he didn’t block Roel’s attack, he would surely be defeated by the holy sword.
The God of Chaos couldn’t block or avoid Roel’s attack… he was literally checkmated.
As Roel had said earlier, the trap wasn’t just one. No, everything was a huge divine plan designed only for this moment.
The God who deliberately allowed the God of Chaos to glimpse the fragments of fate so that the God of Chaos could descend upon Ross.
Bella, who used Ross’s character setting, which became stronger the more he lost, to make Ross lose what he considered precious through the labyrinth, thereby solidifying Ross’s character setting.
Patulga of the Management Bureau, who obtained the abilities of the Rosses of other worlds and helped Ross by doing what God couldn’t do, so that he could reach the trap designed by God.
And….
“Who are you?”
“I am….”
It was the trap that Ross, who had finally found the answer to the question God had thrown, had created together.
“I am Loss. The meaning of my name is… loss.”
Puuk―――!
Roel swung the holy sword filled with brilliant light towards the God of Chaos.
Kwaaang―――!
Looking at the holy sword that had stopped right in front of his head, Roel gave a bitter smile.
“…You shouldn’t have blocked my attack.”
No sooner had Roel finished speaking than the God of Chaos began to emit light as if multiple colors were overlapping, and then suddenly his body began to be dyed gray. Because he had used [Authority], the fixed synchronization rate of Ross had dropped again, and he was facing the world’s denial.
“Damn it, damn it, damn it…! Don’t be ridiculous! This, none of this is fun!”
“Sorry, but there hasn’t been a single time when fighting you was fun.”
Roel stabbed his holy sword towards the chest of his old enemy without hesitation.
And this time….
Puuk―――!
“Kueueueueuk―――!!!”
The God of Chaos did not block Roel’s holy sword. If he used [Authority] again to block the attack, the world would immediately deny him. So, he chose to be pierced by the holy sword in order to buy a little time.
Yes, it’s a definite checkmate.
―――In this game, that is.
“Puhk, pukeukeukeuk! Do you think our eternal battle is over with this? Jinshian is a clumsy writer. Surely there must be another contradiction somewhere in this world. I will definitely find a setting error that is a justification for interfering in this world again. When that time comes… I’ll be able to continue a long fight with you again.”
The God of Chaos, who was holding the holy sword that had pierced his chest, pushed the holy sword further into himself and approached Roel.
“I promise. Next time, I’ll show you an even more enjoyable fight, friend.”
Ross, who had been completely dyed gray, slowly began to turn to ashes and scatter. As Roel watched the God of Chaos slowly returning to nothingness, he heard someone’s desperate voice in his ear.
“Ross―――!!!!!”
In that instant, Roel saw the glass-like eyes of the God of Chaos waver. He could feel that Luna’s voice, which he heard from somewhere, was giving a slight change to the connection that had only conveyed chaos to Roel until now.
Roel muttered without realizing it.
“This is….”
Roel had experienced countless deaths of Ross until now. He could always know and feel when Ross died in various ways, such as being killed by his own hand, being murdered by someone else, or committing suicide. This was because Roel and Ross had been connected since Ross was born.
So, he also knew several emotions that he felt whenever Ross died. The emotions conveyed in the face of death were highly volatile, but they were clearer than ever. Through that, Roel could learn very intense emotions such as regret, anger, futility, bitterness, and self-abandonment that Ross felt at the end.
However, this time it was different. It didn’t burn like gunpowder in an instant, and it wasn’t a fierce and vivid emotion either.
Yes, the expression ‘softly’ would be correct.
Before the God of Chaos, pierced by the holy sword, turned to ashes and completely disappeared due to the world’s denial… Roel, feeling the emotion of Ross that was softly conveyed in the connection that had only conveyed chaos until now, unknowingly released the strength in his hand holding the holy sword.
Roel, who thought he had learned countless emotions through Ross, could only wear a bitter smile. The emotion that Ross felt at the end was not an emotion that he could understand with his head, such as regret or apology.
Relief.
Relief that Luna wouldn’t remember him thanks to the world’s denial. That was the only emotion Ross felt in the face of death.
“…Luna.”
With those words, ashes scattered all over the world.
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Having finally escaped the darkness of the abyss, I was strangely shedding tears. Why is that? Why did I desperately try to escape the darkness and arrive at this place? No matter how much I think about it, I can’t recall the reason.
As I closed my eyes for a moment and caught my breath because I felt like I was suffocating, I heard the people gathered around me murmuring.
“He, he won. Roel won!”
“Roel killed the cult leader who was trying to destroy the world!”
“Roel, our hero…!!!”
Ah, I think I know now. I came here to see this. I wanted to see with my own eyes that the efforts of the Messiah members who sacrificed themselves to save the world were not in vain.
Among the people who were shedding tears and chanting Roel’s name, I also called out that name vigorously with my face covered in tears. After all, the world was finally able to overcome the crisis thanks to the hero named Roel in the midst of the crisis of destruction!
“Roel!”
“Roel!”
“Roel!”
The sky and the surrounding darkness disappeared, and the sun began to illuminate the world again, centering on Roel. When someone knelt down at the sacred sight, everyone around followed suit, so I also knelt down and looked up at the hero.
Roel, who raised his holy sword towards the sky….
He was definitely the hero who saved the world.
Although he was somehow crying sadly.
-The End-
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★Wizard King★: Hey, you don’t actually think this is the real end, do you? We’re gonna reach a happy ending no matter what! Got it?
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