Chapter 53: Hand-Crafting a Black Hole
Chaos should not have existed here, but due to certain special reasons, it had been dropped into this Singularity and launched an attack on the Heroic Spirits, who were the first to discover it.
As for the sudden, maniacal climb in Shirou's aura, even Chaos found it difficult to understand how such a situation could occur. The entire Singularity began to tremble violently under the impact of this aura, teetering on the verge of collapse, while cracks and fissures appeared in space itself.
At the same time, a brilliant light radiated from Shirou's body.
"This is... 'Another Cosmology'...!'"
"Another Cosmology," also known as a "different view of the universe," is a perspective of the universe viewed from both the mythological world and the material realm. It is known as the "blueprint created by gods for the universe" and can be understood as a Gift that infinitely expands one's own view of the universe to interfere with external matters.
This is the mystery of a pantheon, or rather, the core element that constructs a pantheon. It can be said that "Another Cosmology" is the manifestation of the roots of a divine system. Anyone who possesses "Another Cosmology" is destined to become the center of a pantheon and create a divine system of their own.
In the face of this torrent of power, there was no means of resistance other than using another "Another Cosmology." Whether it was a mythological weapon standing at the pinnacle of the world or an omnipotent principle dominating the world, they were merely elements constituting the world and could not reach the realm where one wields the world itself as a weapon.
Its power was so great that, even outside of Little Garden, the energy generated merely by activating it was sufficient to reduce the entire world to ash. In terms of mass and conceptual quantity, there was nothing in the world that could surpass "Another Cosmology."
Shirou rolled his neck. Like the reflection in a mirror, he imprinted the universe of the enemy before him—along with all of its properties—intact onto himself. At the same time, he unleashed all the power suppressed within his body, and a feeling of incomparable exhilaration suddenly surged through him.
Then, as if he merely intended to swat away a mosquito, Shirou waved his arm toward the void.
—Boom!
The destructive beam fired by Chaos was swallowed up entirely by an invisible impact, and the impending threat vanished in this short instant.
Afterward, jet-black wings resembling the void emerged behind Shirou, creating a scene where it seemed as if the stars of the universe were flowing within those wings. It deeply shocked everyone present.
"What kind of power is this...!?"
"This situation is truly unexpected; I feel like my brain is breaking because it can't keep up..."
"Just what has Orihara-senpai..."
Under the gaze of the Heroic Spirits and Gudako, the wings behind Shirou, which seemed imprinted with the stars of the universe, changed shape. It was as if all of creation was being condensed into a single point, causing a black hole to appear in the void.
He had long wanted to test the power of this "Another Cosmology: Avesta." The arrival of such a powerful existence as Chaos was exactly what Shirou had hoped for.
"—'Avesta,' clash and spin wildly!!"
While approaching Chaos at the fifth cosmic velocity, Shirou issued a direct command.
Having already acquired the power that was diametrically opposed to it, Shirou had no intention of holding back. He compressed all his power to the absolute limit at this moment, creating a vortex of force that even distorted and devoured light itself.
It was a blow sufficient to instantly crush all matter; at this point, range had lost all meaning.
—Boom, boom, boom!!!
This pitch-black vortex of power rolled and devoured everything; not even all of creation could escape. The time fissure where Chaos was located had already been occupied by indescribable chaos. Apart from Shirou's attack, it itself seemed as if it had been fixed in this space-time; it could not even move, and just like that, it was annihilated.
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"I get the feeling that something is not quite right..."
After correcting the final Singularity, Shirou returned to Fuyuki City with a group of Heroic Spirits. Life returned to its usual tranquility, as if everything they had experienced before was merely a dream.
However, the Heroic Spirits constantly appearing in his daily life reminded Shirou at every moment that these things had indeed occurred. The bonds forged with this group of Heroic Spirits had become an important part of the world.
During this time, Shirou not only caught up properly with Saber but also balanced his time accompanying Sakura and Illya.
As for Rin, who was under the occupation of her three personalities, she was recently undergoing rigorous training under Scáthach, practicing the path toward the end of magecraft. Reaching the Root is the inherited ideal of the Tohsaka family, and Rin was not a passive successor; she herself wanted to reach such a realm. Therefore, she was quite diligent on this path, a drive for which Scáthach had expressed considerable praise.
As for the various Heroic Spirits, they each went about their own interesting daily lives.
Karna and Arjuna wanted to fight the moment they returned; as a result, because the destruction caused was too great, they were dragged back to the Throne of Heroes by Alaya for reflection, and they wouldn't be let out for several days.
On the second day after arriving here, Gilgamesh couldn't wait to take Enkidu to the arcade, where he ruthlessly crushed Enkidu, who had just arrived and didn't know much about the games here. When Enkidu realized that Gilgamesh had simply been looking for someone to bully, he puffed out his cheeks in anger.
"Hmph, Gil is too mean! I'm not playing with you anymore!"
"Eh! Wait, I can play other things with you besides this—"
While Gilgamesh was busy trying to salvage their friendship, Mordred, who had finally reunited with her Father, came before Saber with a sense of nervousness and anticipation.
"T-that... Father, may I ask, what is your opinion of me?"
The young girl, fidgeting uneasily with the corner of her clothes, looked at her Father with great trepidation. However, the girl did not realize that the person she was facing at this moment was not King Arthur, but the Goddess of the Holy Spear, that cold Lion King.
Moreover, this Goddess was in a foul mood because of the various complicated actions Shirou had engaged in the previous night.
To Mordred, who had finally mustered the courage to ask her question, she merely glanced at her casually.
"(Without hesitation) Waste! (Frowns)"
"—Ugh!?"
The Knight of Treachery, who had never shown fear on any battlefield, who could be defeated repeatedly by powerful enemies and yet always recover with even more courage, was now stunned into silence by a single sentence from her Father.
Then, clutching her face, she turned and fled, her tears scattering in the air like beads as she cried at the top of her lungs.
"—Wuaaaaaaah!!!!"
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