
While Charlotte and Klara engage in the fight against The Stellar Gateway, there are four people around her battle, or as Charlotte like to put it sometimes, a dance.
"Seriously, why does she keep doing these unnecessary things?", Hoa sighed as she clapped her hands twice, staring at the burning Yokais in front of her, "I offer this ember to my Lord and Fire."
"It's fun!!", Mitsuki replied, slicing a frozen Yokai in front of her before looking at Hoa, "Plus, there is no way we can intervene! Or else we would be in her line of sight!!"
Earning Charlotte's wrath is never a good thing. Mitsuki might get a slap on the wrist at worst but Hoa was a different story, being an alien, Charlotte would find an excuse to kill her. The only reason why the Monarch cannot is because the Regent can destroy the world.
"Hmph, what do you think of Charlotte to follow her like a loyal dog, anyway?", Hoa tilt her head, incinerating a Yokai in the process.
"Because I was drawn to her ideal.", Mitsuki answered with a fanatical gaze, "Charlotte is pragmatic, morality isn't even a concern in her plan. To cut off the past, ending traditions and cultures that had lasted for thousands of years. It awakened something within me..."
She stare at the Regent, her brown eyes shine brightly with a hint of madness in them, "I want to see the world burn!!"
"You are also batshit insane.", Hoa nodded, agreeing with herself, then she took out her phone, given to by Charlotte, "Hey, Grand Array, what is your opinion of that crazy bitch? I won't accept a neutral answer."
Utopia spoke from her phone, "[Her Majesty is the one who got me out of the grasp of The Golden Order, I owe her that much, even if she traded something more valuable than me.]"
"What is more valuable than you?", Hoa narrowed her eyes.
"[A Coin with the ability to summon The Necro Lord, additionally, The Necro Lord will fulfill anything she wishes for the rest of her life with not a single drawback.]"
Hoa widens her eyes at the possibility of having an Eldritch God at her very command. Especially an Eldritch God of Memory, reviving every single dead creature in the world as Undead is not an issue for it.
One of the criteria of being a Harbinger of Life is the capability to express their full power no matter the place.
Blades capable of destroying planets, an army spanning multiple galaxies, the ability to raise the dead wherever they are, the power to negotiate with the universe itself, the power to travel everywhere in the universe, the power to influence any world they touch, the power to violate the laws of the universe, the power to reap any life they want, the power to destroy planets by merely existing.
Those are the qualities of the Harbingers of Life, not too dismiliar from another faction Hoa have in mind. The galactic threats that are the Lords of Annihilation.
"To my Lord and Fire The Madden Flame, I offer you a sincere prayer for Charlotte not going crazy with the control over The Necro Lord.", Hoa clasped her hands and prayed with everything in her plasma heart.
"[You are dramatic, Regent.]", Utopia replied in his usual neutral tone.
"But Charlotte using an army of Undead?", Mitsuki chuckled in an uneasy tone, "I... I don't want to imagine what kind of havoc she might cause."
"She already cause enough damage with the Grand Array here, there is nobody opposing him in this world.", Hoa scoffed.
"[That is false.]", Utopia objected to the other two's surprise, "[Although they had yet to show themselves, I know there is someone capable of interfering with my control.]"
Everyone fell silent at his words.
Also, Enna is in the sky, walking Charlotte with a bucket of popcorn.
=0=0=
As the truck moves around, drifting way too well, riding on the sides of buildings, weaving through the street, and do things a semi-truck shouldn't do. All to avoid the grasp of my crystal arms.
While Klara was busy creating a magic circle, the Nuraihyon was chasing the Eldritch God but couldn't catch up to its speed. Then The Stellar Gateway stopped and drifted back, avoiding my grasp— and hitting the Yokai at full speed.
I can't teleport close to it to get a hit in, it would just open a portal and run away... it is too fast and too agile for me to catch. And with Klara being here, she is more of a hindrance than help.
Well...
"I don't need your help.", I stated.
"I know.", she smiles, "I was just limiting you."
To buy time, huh. Interesting. Babel is trying to capture me.
"Hey, Ahkar Karbiwa.", I adressed the Eldritch God, "Try to catch me."
I took a step back— and I vanished.
I found myself right in the middle of a snowy biome, specifically Hokkaido.
"Fuu...", I let out a breath of cold air, and I smile, "Declaration of Annihilation: Grand Order."
Blue flame and mist merged into one, and a field of blades sprouted around me... but the fucking Eldritch God had to become a commercial airplane... it is coming straight at me.
The blades launched upward at the plane, hitting it and The Stellar Gateway was falling.
I took a step back, moving a significant distance far away.
I separate my sword back into its components, returning them back to the ship.
"Open, Gate of Akasha.", the sky suddenly becomes dark as it connects to my treasury, "Come, the wealth of love and hatred! The Curse of Monte Cristo!!"
An explosion happened as The Stellar Gateway hit the ground, and a car came out. From the smoke... but it quickly lost control due to the snow and the raining coins disrupting destiny.
My halo lit up the colors of Ambition and Delusion... yes, I am going all out.
With a snap of my finger, I summon Fallen Starlight. I aimed the gun at the sky, closing my eyes.
"O' Souls of Divine, May you be Forgotten."
The rifle sparks electricity and boiling purple steam gathered. The Stellar Gateway moves closer.
"O' Spirits of Nature, May you return to Nothing."
A bullet formed inside the chamber, and the symbol of a purple Rose Compass flickered into existence, and around the Eldritch God too, were the same symbols.
"To you, God of a Faraway Sky...", I let out a puff of white air, "May your Existence be Denied."
And I pulled the trigger.
"Phantasmal Denial."
A stream of light exited Fallen Starlight into the symbol— then the Eldritch God was pierced by eight beams of light.
I took the chance as its Avatar was disconnected from its Light—
"In the Name of Humanity.", I appeared right before the car, stabbing my lance into it.
At the same time, my halo flickered to the red of Malice and azure of Survive.
"Escalation Theta: Nameless Light."
In an instant, the spikes grew and infected the car with thousands of thorns. Then I twisted the lance, breaking off the thorns... and The Stellar Gateway lit ablaze.
All that remained in front of me was a burning car, nothing special about it, not anymore.
Well, that's it for now.
Utopia can handle the news about my gang's followers being spotted. There is nothing to link me back to my activity, virtually, anyway.
"Utopia, tell everyone to return to the ship, we are leaving.", I spoke as I took a step forward, returning to Prydwen.
"[As you wish, Your Majesty.]", he complied.
Hmm, there is still time before my sister gives birth. So I should visit that place again...
Mu, Ataraxia Academy is under attack right now, after all. By none other than the Beasts of Tindalos.
=0=0=
"This is clearly overstepping some boundary, ya know?"
Under the Arctic, a woman wearing a white prismatic skinsuit frowned. Her hair was divided, with the left half being yellow and the right half being blue. Golden eyes bearing the power of Judgement shone brightly, they were sharp yet also round, and yellow circuit lines extended from her right eye to the rest of her right side. Her hair cast down and gleams like the first snow fall.
She walks beneath the Arctic, each step leaving behind a pulse of yellow circuit that quickly fades away.
Around her were holographic screens, showing articles and viewing captured footage of Kyoto, ones that were blocked by Utopia.
"To think a mere machine can do this much, it is indeed commendable.", her lips curled up into a smile, "But alas, there are always lines one should not cross."