Chapter 2.2 - 2. 100 Million Years Button and Prison of Time [2] – part 2 (1/2)

2. 100 Million Years Button and Prison of Time [2] – part 2

I immediately turned the tip of the sword towards my chest, and closed my eyes.

Now I just have to stab myself.

The pain will only last for a brief moment.

Yes, that’s all it takes.

That is all… and yet…

「Why won’t my hand move…」

My hand felt as though it was petrified.

I simply felt afraid.

The fear of death far overwhelmed my present agony.

That’s what I had thought.

10 000 years later.

I had stopped thinking.

Raise the sword overhead, and swing in downwards.

I became an existence which simply repeated that concept.

Why do I swing the sword?

Why do I live?

In the first place, what is 『I』?

I had forgotten everything.

Even when I fell into that state – I never let go of the sword.

I must never let it go, is what I thought.

It might be some sort of obsession.

Even after 100 thousand years… 1 million years… 10 million years… I kept swinging the sword throughout.

Finally it became, 99999999 Year 12 Month 31 Day 23 Hour 59 Minute 59 Second… one second later, this world slowly started to collapse.

「Over… at last…」

The existence known as I, will be pulled back into reality.

(Never… push that… button again……)

I etched that onto my soul.

That is the Devil’s Button.

Something that must not exist in this world ー a cursed button.

(When I return to the real world, destroying that button will be my first task…)

Never forgive the hermit of time.

Never forgive that bastard geezer who sent me into this hell.

I will beat him to a pulp.

And when he can no longer move, I will make his hand push the 100 million years button.

I will make him go through the same hell as I did.

I will make him experience 100 million years in this hellish empty world.

I closed my eyes gently so the black light that burned in my chest wouldn’t disappear.

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A mere few seconds laterー I was once again, back in that white world.

Unbelievably, the clock suspended in mid-air indicated, 00000000 Year 1 Month 1 Day 00 Minute 01 Second.

「…………Ha!?」

I doubted my own eyes.

Impossible, Impossible Impossible Impossible…!

「Did I… push it again…!?」

There is no doubt, after returning to reality… I pushed it.

The cursed 100 million years button.

I have to go through… that insanely long time… once again…?

「U, U, UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!」

I screamed.

I screamed and screamed while running around.

However, I didn’t go mad.

In this world, when emotions swell up beyond a certain threshold, it will be forcibly restrained.

Happiness, Sadness, Joy, Regret ー none of these can exceed beyond a certain line.

This prison of time, will never ever allow emotions which make you 『Forget the time』.

Regardless of my raising hell, the clock suspended mid-air continuously and precisely marks the passage of time, second by second.

After that, I looped around the real world and the prison of time countless times.

The stupid, foolish and helpless me in the real world, pushed the 100 million years button countless times.

Can’t fault myself either.

After all, the me over there, does not have the memory of this 100 million years of hell.

I have to find some other way.

The way things are, I will be eternally trapped in this world.