The suddenly braking car scraped long black skid marks on the highway. Glancing at the girl in the wind-cyan qipao sitting in the passenger seat with a gloomy expression, the excessively tall and voluptuous woman pushed the car door open and stepped out.
Her gaze fell upon the girl blocking the middle of the highway.
The young girl possessed an appearance exactly identical to her target—Soga Yuzu.
Those crimson... cold eyes that seemed to judge all living beings looked down upon the world like a monarch.
She was clearly looking straight at the woman.
Yet Dai Ling felt... that the girl was looking down upon her.
It had nothing to do with their respective strengths. It was a kind of class... or rather, a hierarchical looking down.
Truly ridiculous—
Who did she think she was?
Soga Yuzu?
Although she had the exact same appearance as that yet-to-awaken King, she was ultimately a fake.
The young girl's barren chest with almost no curves and her long hair dancing wildly in the sea breeze both proved her identity—Soga Yura.
Dai Ling didn't choose to drive the car directly into her or bypass the girl to quickly leave the scene; instead, she slammed on the brakes and stopped.
That was because... the woman could clearly feel that she had intruded into the girl's 'domain'.
This was also the root cause of the young girl looking down on the world.
Within her domain, all things and matters had to prostrate; she was the true master who held 'Domination' over the world.
If the woman had just run straight over Soga Yura...
Whether anyone died or not was unknown, but the car... would definitely be destroyed.
Dai Ling sighed slightly.
A mere Level.39 girl. Yet she was already infinitely close to that world, infinitely close to that chasm.
"What a tragedy..." The woman looked at the young girl's silhouette reflected in the snow-bright headlights. "To think that heaven actually made you and Soga Yuzu twins. Whether for you or for Your Highness Yuzu... it is just so sorrowful."
Soga Yura merely tilted her head.
She was very cautious. And very careful.
Completely different from herself who was infinitely close to the Fourth Sequence, or that dead [Raven].
She could feel it—the woman before her... was a bona fide Fourth Sequence Aberrant. Someone who had already stepped into another world.
Whether an Esper, an Aberrant, or a Catastrophe Beast, once they stepped into the Fourth Sequence, it would be an earth-shattering transformation.
If before the Fourth Sequence, Espers were merely using their abilities, drawing power from themselves, then once they stepped into the Fourth Sequence, it became manipulation.
They began to manipulate the world.
Everything around them began to be used by them.
Of course—that was a bit of an exaggeration.
A fire-based Esper would no longer be limited to triggering the power of fire from themselves, but could make flames start burning spontaneously. Materials that were originally incombustible would also become combustible.
A Hydrokinetic like the little rabbit would begin to touch upon meteorological phenomena; gathering clouds to make rain and overturning seas and rivers would no longer be mere legends, but practical, within-reach power.
It is said that... when Saint Michael, the incarnation of the sun, engaged in a decisive battle in the dark night with The Abyss of Eternal Smiles, the dark night shone as bright as day.
Between the Third Sequence and the Fourth Sequence lay a chasm, a nearly insurmountable chasm.
But Soga Yura was different.
She was a natural 'Dominator'.
A person who rightfully exercised 'Domination' over all things.
That was why Dai Ling said that Soga Yura and Su Yuzu being twins was a tragedy.
"Being too dazzling to one another is a form of harm to both."
If there were no Su Yuzu.
Soga Yura would definitely be the most dazzling person of this era.
A seventeen-year-old at the peak of the Third Sequence, a girl infinitely close to the Fourth Sequence.
She could even be said... to be unprecedented throughout history, utterly unique.
Even if Soga Yura was not the one watching Fate, she would still definitely leave a heavy, colorful stroke in the history of humanity's destined extinction.
But—
Her younger sister was Su Yuzu.
That Throne destined to be the finale.
That... Demon King of evil karma who, before the Throne of Eternal Night, would lift the prelude to the Eternal Night.
Soga Yura's radiance was destined to be swallowed by the darkness.
For Su Yuzu, wasn't it also a tragedy?
The strongest of the era, the leader figure who would inevitably become the main force in a crusade against her.
Yet it was her own twin.
"How sorrowful—"
"You see, how sorrowful."
The woman leaning against the hood of the car laughed wildly.
Just thinking of the image of the sisters crossing swords against each other, she felt... delighted—
Delighted and yet sorrowful.
As Soga Yura watched the wildly laughing woman, the sound of the sea breeze in the night suddenly stopped.
Not just the sound of the sea breeze. Even the surging sound of the tide also stopped along with it.
The entire world plunged into a deathly silence.
Even the headlights of the luxury car seemed to have been killed off, becoming dim.
In the dead silent world, only the girl's crimson eyes, filled with murderous intent, were vivid and eye-catching.
Dai Ling suddenly raised her right hand and pressed hard against her own temple.
A dark red erosion domain howled out.
She glared at Soga Yura with a ferocious expression; the earth began to churn, and the highway fractured. It was as if a rock python was slithering beneath the ground, before suddenly erupting upward and lunging at Soga Yura.
Soga Yura remained motionless.
She was inherently a physical weakling. Dodging wasn't her strong suit.
But... she wasn't just waiting to die either.
When the rock python charged to within two meters of Soga Yura, it suddenly began to crumble and disintegrate, as if it had lost its support.
It transformed into falling rocks that piled up in front of Soga Yura.
Soga Yura hadn't stepped into the Fourth Sequence, but she similarly exercised 'Domination' over everything around her.
Within this square inch was the girl's inviolable domain.
With a ferocious expression, discarding all elegance and reserve, the woman charged at Soga Yura.
It wasn't that she didn't want to be elegant.
Rather, it was because the girl's monarch-like mental power kept savagely crashing into and tearing at her mental world.
She glared angrily at Soga Yura.
Although 'Domination' was useful... it could only neutralize this kind of long-range attack.
In close combat, a physical weakling like Soga Yura simply wouldn't be enough for her to crush.
However... in the instant Dai Ling was about to rush up to that small rocky hill.
The rock hill was suddenly split open vertically.
Behind the cleaved rock hill was a golden light even more dazzling than the vehicles that had overturned due to the churning earth.
"Wh... what...?"
The girl in the white trench coat appeared at an unknown time. She stood in front of Soga Yura, her hands clasping a brilliantly glowing golden longsword.
The blade couldn't be seen clearly at all, looking as though it were forged entirely from flowing light.
Yet... what laid hidden behind this light wasn't hope. Instead, it was—
"Erasure!!!"
"Extirpation!!!"
"Tyranny!!!"
With unparalleled will, the girl painstakingly drew out the most evil magic sword.
"This sword—"
"Is named Erasure."
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