Chapter 241 – Showdown (8)
Power of Destruction. The fear of the apocalypse to realize it rose up to burn Scarlett’s body.
And when it swallowed Scarlett’s body.
Only then did Scarlett realize.
Fire–! Scarlett stood in the middle of a black flame that consumed the world, the stars, and everything.
As if there was no damage from the fire.
“… Was it?”
“… What, are you making an enlightened face?”
Doesn’t burn.
The demon king realized that it was a precursor to something strange. In the battles so far, there have been many cases of being resurrected after being burnt to ashes, but there has never been a time when the flames have not reached like now.
That’s why the demon king expressed his authority again while questioning Scarlett, who had a strange look.
This time it will really devour him and burn him.
“… Mmm.”
However, Scarlett was immersed in her own world, not even paying attention to the scare that the demon king manifested and gradually increased in size.
It’s as if you can’t see straight ahead because of the infinitely wide field of view.
“Infinity wasn’t infinite for nothing…”
Infinity is infinite because there is no end.
Because Scarlett and the Demon King became beings that transcended their own vessels, they were able to grow in such a way as to surpass their previous selves with each passing moment while embracing an infinite vessel.
If so, is it true that Scarlett and the demon king have infinite power?
No. Scarlett and the demon king knew that much. They can only grow infinitely and without a limit, but their power is limited.
In other words, the infinite is not their power, but the receptacle to receive it.
However, can there be an infinite vessel in the first place?
If the role of a vessel is to contain something, does not the fact that there is no limit mean that there is no such thing as a vessel?
So that.
Given the status and authority that grows stronger every moment, it is called ‘infinite’ intoxicated with its omnipotence.
It is because the power itself that grows infinitely touches the concept that there is no end more than the invisible infinite vessel.
“In the first place, it shouldn’t have contained anything.”
Scarlett murmured.
I already had an endless, ‘infinite’ within me, but I was fascinated by it and intoxicated by only seeing a far-shining mass above it.
As the clump of light continues to grow, it would be my fault if I was immersed in it and did not take a closer look at what was supporting it.
“…”
With her wry smile, Scarlett cleared away the things that had covered her eyes all this time.
After that, I could feel the grand expanse, nothing—but everything.
The Demon King asked quietly.
“Now, what are you looking at?”
Scarlett replied.
“Everything.”
*
Where there is a beginning, there must be an end, and an ending implies a new beginning that will follow.
It is not a strange expression.
It is also a fairly important expression in terms of mythology.
For example, Shiva, the god of destruction who is in charge of destruction for creation in the mythology of the earth, or like the Buddhist cycle of life where the end of one life leads to the next.
A circle of infinite cycles.
Wouldn’t that be a hope for mortals who always live with awareness of the end of life?
Even if this life ends someday, it only means another beginning.
If you think so, the fear of death in the distant future may have faded a little.
That is why the beginning and the end are inseparable from each other.
Mitra, Luna.
The twin goddesses of creation who created the world, not the sun and the moon.
There are two goddesses who must have been the beginning of everything, so where is the existence of the ‘end’?
Clearly there is no existence that should exist.
It’s just that even the two goddesses didn’t know that. The ‘end’ must exist, of course, but it didn’t interfere with creating the world just because it didn’t exist.
However, the world created in this way is like a child who was born as a deformed child from the beginning.
It’s out of balance. The weight of the scale is tilted. That’s why there were existences that shouldn’t exist—that shouldn’t exist.
That is the Demon Realm, the Demons, and the Devil.
Why were beings from other dimensions able to cross the portal so easily, even though they had to pay some price?
This is because they are secondary worlds and existences that were created due to the mass of errors that this world had in the first place.
Because it was created through errors, the Pandemonium is not a proper dimension.
An environment in which living things cannot survive.
Originally, in a world created like this, no proper life form would have appeared, and it would have drifted leisurely to a dead dimension.
Unfortunately, the Pandemonium was not an ordinary badly created world.
The Pandemonium was a kind of garbage dump that swallowed up the errors thrown away by the world born as deformed children.
That’s how the devil was born.
Those first lifeforms who were finally born in a world where living things couldn’t survive—- had to struggle to survive.
Time passed like that——.
No.
Scarlett decided not to look any further.
He saw it unintentionally, but even now, he still hoped that demons, including the Demon King, were just evil beings.
A pure and absolute evil who was born evil just to be born without any story.
He made up his mind, and Baal accepted it.
Now, if you peek into the past and change your mind, Baal will not accept it.
Scarlett also had no intention of changing her mind.
He looked inside himself.
A whole world was contained within it.
The opposite point of the twin goddesses of creation——the incarnation of the “End” Was finally appointed here.
Now, just by Scarlett being alive and breathing, many errors in the world will be corrected, and the Pandemonium will be stabilized and slowly demolished.
I don’t know if demons including the demon king are alive.
Otherwise, the Demon Realm that has removed the malignant tumor is nothing more than a blister or scar.
Scarlett felt a warm, warm feeling, along with the distant and empty power that filled her inside.
‘Are they goddesses?’
As Scarlett became the existence of the ‘end’, the power of the two goddesses who naturally regained their original strength and status as opposites surrounded him.
Beginning and end.
Having put both powers into one body, Scarlett felt his heart thump.
“… Everything, everything.”
In the meantime. Baal was chewing on Scarlett’s answer as if he felt a lot from it.
At that point, the enemy’s momentum, which he felt equal to himself, had completely disappeared, and he could not feel anything.
“I lost.”
Because he already sensed his defeat.
Baal gave up the fight.
If he recalled the fierce battle just before and spewed out speculation, he would not even be aware of the fact that he had been annihilated and would turn into dust.
“You really… You have seen and embraced everything. I’m done… What you wished for.”
“…”
Scarlett listened to him instead of answering.
Aside from his still hating Baal, he wasn’t so much that he couldn’t be heard.
It was also because he knew the identity of the Demon Realm and the devil, although he did not intend it.
I can’t see you, but
I can hear the last thing.
“So Jim’s… Will be your home Indeed, you are right. If not me, you are the most suitable. However… It’s futile. I’ve been waiting for eons of time.”
In the midst of that murmur, Scarlett recalled the scene Baal had shown her before.
When she made a pact with Libra and obtained eyes like Baal’s, she synchronized her vision with him for an instant.
At that time, Baal had called Scarlett to this place.
It is the ‘source’ of the world and a place to contemplate providence.
Countless stars sprinkled beneath my feet—and a huge stem that pierced through the middle and stretched out like a painting on the floor.
And the branches and roots that do not grow from the trunk, but are severed as if they were burned.
World stopped.
Scarlett noticed that Baal’s ‘eons of time’ was not an exaggeration or metaphor, but a literal meaning.
“… Can I ask you for one thing?”
“No.”
“You are merciless.”
Still, I thought that if it was the same atmosphere as now, I would listen to at least one.
Even though Baal laughed bitterly, he was content to say that he was his nemesis.
“One person.”
“… Hmm?”
“There is only one person who does not fight until the end and stands by.”
“… It’s Gamigin.”
Scarlett knows what Baal was trying to ask for.
He probably didn’t mean to ask her to bear it with her own neck without shame.
She would have liked to have been moderately extenuating.
However, she had no intention of doing Baal’s favor for him.
“Not you.”
“… ?”
“To Citri, I owe you.”
“… Her.”
Were those words enough?
Baal closed his eyes. It was hard for him to look at what was standing in front of him any longer.
A far-flung difference. It’s a presence that makes you want to kneel down and submit at any moment… Still, I didn’t want to do that to someone who was my nemesis.
To him with his eyes closed, in the world of light and darkness, within that boundary, thump—! A closing sound is heard.
With that, the life of the demon king Baal, which had been going on for eons of time, came to an end.
