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All dat symbolism tho…

Chapter 363: The Power to Protect Everything

And I continued walking down the dark path

Luckily, it see down it was possible in itself

On the way… I’ain, further, and further

Eventually, various worlds start passing me by

Honestly, I re that I was lost

Sometimes I found ap that connects worlds

But I never , be it monster, animal, or human

A place without the breath of life… I guess

I often found s sprained and bruised

But in order to reach that world in the sky I… walked on

In that world, there’s Raphtalia There’s everyone

I decided to protect it

Even if I cruoal, I will…

The Four Holy Weapons’ Manual was in my hand

I would regularly open it, and check for changes

But the story isn’t proceeding

Many tiive up

As I continued walking, quite a bit of time passed

Was it a day, or a week or a month, or even more?

My sense of time is really dull here

And in the world of the rift, I can’t really feel hunger

In the desert, I was given the sensation of being so hungry I would keel over, and so thirsty I would wither away

But still, I overcame it

I get the feeling I’ve been walking for quite a long time, but still I have yet to reach it

My body is telling me I’ve already walked the circueration

It’s usually quite dark, so I really can’t tell

But without the need for sleep, only fatigue piles onto itself

I forgot that Arc was probably so similar to that bitch Goddess

For a hureat difference in our sense of time

When I look in the sky, I see worlds other than the one I’ to one another

Is that… World assimilation?

It really is like two soap bubbles

My Hair is growing like crazy Really, just how much time has passed?

But I don’t stop

I was sick of it when I wandered into a labyrinth-like world

I wasn’t able to proceed in the direction I wanted to go

This isn’t getting anywhere

Occasionally, I see shooting stars collide with the worlds in the sky

I wonder what those are

I’ve started to lose a sense for just how far I’ve walked

The scenery that re at the sky above me

At that point, I was only walking by resolve alone

It was around that tie

I began to hear voices

If I turn around, I can io to the world I came from

I can forget everything, and write everything off as a dream A voice whispered this in my ear

But, I a

I mean, I wasn’t able to run away

There are people who believe in me

There are people who depend on me

There are people ant to get stronger for my sake

And for those people, what can I do?

I can only use up my body to protect them

I don’t intend to go out in that unreasonable way

I started thinking as I walked

I began to iine hoould be able to combat that bitch of a Goddess more efficiently

At the start, I couldn’t get the slightest grasp of what to do, but if Arc’s words are true, then it’s not impossible

The 0 Series can inflict dae

Similarly, the shi+eld of 0 can endure hers

Well my defenses were breached

The order of the world?

Then let’s just rely on the order of another

As I walk, I approach the probleain

Just how can I get the order of the world to rest in my body?

I reic

Magic is created in one’s self

If it’s merely a manifestation of the poithin, then I need to make it more efficient, so that it can help just a little bit more… Just one step closer I want the power to defeat Medea

My disposition is for Healing and Support The shi+eld interfered, but it’s still the same

Then let’s wring out that nature

Let’s refine the ic within me to its limits, and create one that can combat her

Those thoughts eternally… until I began losing sense ofaround on Pulse Order

Revelation was a mixture

The Dragon Pulse Order manipulates the power outside

With it… based on how you approach it, it’s like… borrowing power from the world

What if I change the borrowing to theft, and abuse it as power of my own Isn’t that how Medea’s rules work?

That’s why I’ll place i part

Luckily, here I’m able to accomplish that

In the worlds I stopped by, I began polishi+ng the Dragon Pulse Law

Eventually… I worked out a way to release ic outside, and take the pulse within

I searched for a way to borrow the world’s power, and fight

In order to fill up your es

While I was thinking about it, I felt the sensation ofwith the world

There’s still a way Let rasp the nature of this

When there’s nothing to do but walk, you really do think

My body’s sense of tie

It feels like… I’ve been walking for years and years, but it also feels like it’s only been a night

As I think that… by the ti spill out from within me

The next moment, I lost my voice

“Wha–”

There… was the fae I revived

But no one was there It had completely been abandoned

“Oy! Is there anyone here!?”

I’ve returned As I think that, I search through the village’s buildings

But there wasn’t a single soul anywhere

Could it be… the world has already fallen to ruin!?

A black emotion welled up in my heart

But my desire to deny it calls out to my rationality

They ed base due to the war

Yes, that’s right That must be it

And I entered as once my house

As I thought… it isn’t much different from how I remember it My house

… What’s happened?

Did I not return?

I leave the house, and look into the sky again

In it, a vast array of worlds was still spread out

I’m still within the rift

… I can’t give up

No ive up

I’ to reunite with Raphtalia

And with everyone

Law of cause and effect, was it?

In the worst case, even if the shi+eld lends me poill she be able to tas?

Thinking back, wasn’t her attack based on that concept in the first place?

Then the changes my shi+eld carried out in my world were of a similar suit

I can’t use the shi+eld forcefully like she does Or perhaps I don’t have enough power

I continue walking

And I arrived at yet another world

It was an infinitely expanding one-way staircase

The place I just saw earlier was my own hallucination

Then I’ll just keep on cli

And in that time, I tried to polish my own skills as much as possible Little by little

And… eventually, I was unable to tell the difference between ic from the outside or inside

“Good job getting all the way here”

At the top of the staircase, Arc was sitting as if he aiting for me

“Just a little longer, and you’ll reach it A normal person wouldn’t be able to make it here”

“Back there, I was a village I knew of” (Naofumi)

“Right… that was a place you made with your oer, a place embedded in your me desire to return to that place? I o to”

“Take me already” (Naofumi)

“When you’re this close, I don’t see the need to It’s right before your eyes”

“Muu…” (Naofumi)

… So that was soic

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