That won't do. He also would not allow this moonlight to reject him over mere pests.
In that case, wouldn't it be better to erase even the very concept of existence itself? That would be true, thorough annihilation.
Annihilate all traces.
Eu, who was only passively feeling Raize's tenderness and affection, was filled with shyness and nervousness. Her heart raced as she became utterly intoxicated by a warmth that belonged solely to her.
She had no way of perceiving what kind of "monster" the man before her—who was domineeringly kissing her and wantonly invading every inch of her heart—had become at his core.
While maintaining his gentleness toward the girl, he grew ever more extreme.
The desire to protect Eu, and the longing to preserve this tenderness, grew like the uncontrollable claws and fangs of a beast. In guarding it, there was also possession.
Not only would he refuse to let any external factor disturb this tenderness, he also would not allow the tenderness itself to fade.
A ferocious killing intent, together with an extreme desire to indiscriminately unleash malice upon everything other than tenderness, swelled like a grotesque, tumorous cyst.
With such immeasurably contradictory and complex emotions within him, Raize's inner self gradually transcended the boundary of being "human."
As the intense kiss ended and their lips parted, a silvery thread stretched between them before snapping at its limit.
"Mmm…"
Her face flushed as if scalded by boiling water. An alluring red spread across Eu's delicate, tender cheeks. Her dazed, slightly misty eyes looked at Raize before her. Her slightly parted, moist, enticing lips exhaled faint, heated breaths.
This adorable, tempting sight stirred and amused Raize's heart.
During the kiss, Eu had nervously held her breath. That clumsy, innocent reaction made Raize cherish her even more.
At the same time, the resolve and longing within him intensified further.
Carrying such fierce yearning and determination, Raize—under Eu's stunned, shy, mist-filled gaze—forcefully activated the magic within him that belonged to Eu. Enduring a mind-shattering pain as if his brain were being thrown into a blender, he imposed a compulsory incantation upon himself, like a vow engraved into his very being.
Forcing out his best smile for her, Raize spoke:
"I won't lose again… I will absolutely not let anything be taken from me, nor allow anyone to destroy this. I will never accept an ending of loss. I will make this moment—with you by my side—exist forever."
An invisible decree descended upon Raize. The vow spoken under Eu's incantation seemed to awaken something indescribable within him.
Before Eu—whose eyes suddenly widened—and under someone's deeper "gaze," the immense causal threads she was so familiar with once again revealed their supreme form within her vision.
Using Eu's power and incantation, Raize did not merely let her sense the vastness of causality as before—this time, she could clearly see most of it.
From the invisible void behind Raize, two pristine, noble serpents extended forth. Like sublime, endless serpent deities, they emerged from the distant mist of the future and reached toward Eu.
Hiss…
The two white serpents flicked their forked tongues and fixed their gaze upon Eu. Their eyes carried an immeasurable, overwhelming weight—yet Eu felt no discomfort.
Because she sensed that the serpents' gaze was just as gentle as Raize's.
As if bound by some restriction, the two serpents did not linger. Human-like reluctance appeared in their eyes.
Then, to Eu's astonishment, they opened their massive jaws toward her own immense thread of fate.
Eu—who carried the world's central power and destiny—had her vast causality and fate completely devoured by the serpents.
Only then did the two serpents vanish entirely from Eu's sight, their forms no longer perceivable.
Staring blankly at Raize, who wore a strained smile, Eu looked into his eyes with complex, deeply moved emotions.
After her power activated and then settled within Raize, Eu realized that her own "thread" had been completely and forcefully seized by the deeper existence within the boy before her.
Future, present… and even the past.
Eu, who had always been troubled by her power interfering with others' destinies, now personally experienced the feeling of her own fate being interfered with—and firmly controlled.
So it wasn't that I came to find you, but that you made me come to you, wasn't it?
Understanding this, Eu looked at the young man forcing a smile and blossomed into a radiant, flower-like smile. Under Raize's stunned gaze, she softly spoke words that left him confused:
"Aize… so it was you."
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