**One Kick Girl — Chapter 136:
"Where Time Has No Meaning"**
If you can't arrive, you can't be late.
1. The Door That Wasn't There
It didn't open.
Because doors require time.
One second Raon and Shion stood in the city street—
The next, the street politely forgot they existed.
No flash. No pull. No sensation.
Just absence.
Raon blinked.
"…Did we die?"
Shion checked herself, then Raon, then reality.
"No. If we were dead, this place would at least be dramatic."
2. The Place Without Before
They stood on nothing.
Not floating.
Not falling.
Just… standing.
No sky. No ground. No horizon.
Only a pale, endless gray that didn't stretch—
because stretching implies direction.
Raon waved her hand.
It left no trail.
"…I hate minimalist design."
Shion's tablet flickered, then went black.
"…Data cannot initialize," she murmured. "There is no timestamp. No sequence. No after."
Raon frowned.
"So… this place doesn't have time?"
Shion nodded slowly.
"Not even broken time."
"…Just none."
3. The First Rule Breaks
Raon lifted her foot.
Nothing happened.
Not stuck.
Not resisted.
Just… meaningless.
Her foot being up or down didn't change anything.
"…Okay," Raon said carefully. "That's worse."
Shion swallowed.
"In a timeless space, movement has no reference.
Action has no priority."
Raon looked at her.
"…Say that in punchable terms."
Shion met her eyes.
"You can't kick first."
Raon stiffened.
"Oh."
4. The Enemy That Was Already There
A voice spoke.
Not behind them. Not ahead.
Just present.
"WELCOME
TO THE NULL INTERVAL."
A figure stood with them.
No arrival. No emergence.
It simply was.
Tall. Segmented. Made of overlapping frames of itself, each slightly misaligned.
Raon felt sick looking at it.
"…That thing makes my eyes feel late."
Shion whispered,
"It's a Chronal Auditor."
Raon blinked.
"…A what?"
Shion swallowed.
"The entity that checks whether causality is being abused."
The Auditor tilted its head—
all frames did, slightly out of sync.
"RAON."
"THE GIRL WHO MOVED
WITHOUT TIME."
Raon crossed her arms.
"Okay but in my defense—
you started it."
5. The Accusation
The Auditor raised a hand.
Reality didn't react.
"YOU HAVE COMMITTED
SEQUENCE FRAUD."
"ACTION
WITHOUT ORDER."
"RESULT
WITHOUT PROCESS."
Raon scowled.
"I kicked a god."
"YOU INVALIDATED
THE RULE
THAT ACTION
REQUIRES TIME."
Shion stepped forward.
"She acted on intent—"
"INTENT
IS NOT PERMITTED
HERE."
Shion froze.
Not physically.
Logically.
Raon stepped between them.
"Hey."
The Auditor focused on her.
"YOU WILL BE TESTED."
Raon sighed.
"…I hate tests."
6. The Rule of the Null Interval
The Auditor gestured.
Nothing changed.
But Raon understood.
"IN THIS PLACE,"
"THERE IS NO FIRST."
"NO LAST."
"NO MOMENT
TO BEGIN."
Raon clenched her jaw.
"So I can't kick."
"YOU CANNOT ACT."
Raon exhaled.
"…Okay."
She relaxed.
Shion's eyes widened.
"…Raon?"
7. The One Thing Time Isn't Needed For
Raon looked at the Auditor.
"I don't need to act."
The Auditor paused.
"EXPLAIN."
Raon shrugged.
"I don't need to move first."
She tapped her chest.
"I don't even need to move at all."
Shion stared.
"…Raon—"
Raon smiled.
"I just need to be the reason something happens."
The gray space trembled.
Not before.
Not after.
Just… acknowledged.
8. Causality Without Sequence
The Auditor's frames began to jitter.
"CAUSE
REQUIRES
TEMPORAL
ORDER."
Raon shook her head.
"No."
She leaned forward.
"Cause requires commitment."
She lifted her leg—
Not in time.
In certainty.
The Null Interval cracked.
9. The Kick That Has Always Happened
The kick landed.
Not now. Not then.
Always.
The Auditor shattered across every version of itself simultaneously.
No explosion. No sound.
Just erasure.
Shion gasped as the gray space collapsed into direction.
10. Falling Back Into When
Time slammed back.
Raon and Shion fell onto solid ground—hard.
Raon groaned.
"…I hate conceptual falls."
Shion lay there, stunned.
"…You didn't kick in time."
Raon rolled onto her back, staring at the sky.
"Nope."
Shion whispered,
"You kicked causality."
Raon smiled faintly.
"Yeah."
"…That tracks."
11. Stinger: The Final Escalation
Far beyond auditors and gods—
Something rewrote its assumptions.
"SPEED FAILED."
"TIME FAILED."
"SEQUENCE FAILED."
A final directive activated.
"INITIATE
ABSOLUTE CONSTRAINT."
"SEND
ONE KICK GIRL
TO
THE PLACE
WHERE EVEN CAUSE
CANNOT EXIST."
Raon sneezed.
"…Why do I feel like I just got promoted?"
Shion pushed herself up, grim.
"Raon."
"…Yeah?"
"There are no more rules left."
Raon cracked her knuckles.
"Good."
END OF CHAPTER 136