PHASE 104 - FROSTHALIA ULTIMA

“Amy?” My voice was under my breath.

When the bright light faded, I had a better view of her appearance. Wearing a shrine maiden’s dress with short red skirt, white thigh-high boots, she is the woman I’m most familiar with. She transformed her twin submachine guns into fingerless gauntlets that are used to punch monsters.

Her platinum black hair danced as she turned towards me and gave me a blushing adorable smile. Her sky-blue eyes locked unto me as she booped my snout like a puppy.

“Wrong, Rikkun~” Tiara giggled. “I am your only Tiara. You forgot that Necchan and I are originally one and the same person.”

My sense of time stopped, and the background became white for a split second. Memories from the previous timelines flashed right in front of my eyes until I finally got to see the very first timeline where Tiara and I first met.

In the first timeline, there was no Amy. It’s only Tiara, the only person whom I became acquainted with. It was only her. It was only the subsequent timelines that Amy existed to fill the role of my first love in different million fates. Destiny bounded her to be split into two to prevent our love to each other. But originally, Tiara and Amy are the same person, which is now right in front of me.

Tiara lent out her hand, offering for help. Without any second thought, I took her hand, and then she helped me stand up back to my feet. We both smiled at each other, but then I remembered that there is something crucial that Tiara might have forgotten.

“Wait, if you’re here… who is singing the ?” I asked.

“I have already finished singing, Rikkun.” Tiara made a carefree smile as she cutely bit her tongue. “We don’t need the omnipotent powers of the song of the Frozen Soul anymore~”

I looked around, and I saw the battlefield. Our allies have successfully wiped out the Eidolons in this universe, and they are now cheering for momentarily victory in this fight.

The skies are still a dark void. The enemy might be expressionless and formless, but the god of Eidolons must have to be pissed off right now. Crimson lightning started to crack the dimension, signaling the eternal wrath of the Sin Universe.

“YOU DON’T GET IT!!! I CAN NEVER BE DEFEATED!!! I AM THIS UNIVERSE!!!”

The skies opened up millions of dark Gates ones again, spawning endless hordes of Eidolons.

This battle would be endless. We may defeat the enemies millions of times, but it will keep on spawning more. This is a complete stalemate where no one is allowed to win or lose. We can be stuck here forever.

The Sin Universe is what it is. It has no form, so it cannot be destroyed. This Eidolon is the universe itself, and the only way to do this is to destroy everything. If we’re talking about the probabilities, there is a zero percent chance that the enemy can be defeated.

I clenched my fists. I gritted my teeth. I don’t have a way to win this fight, and I can’t see any future instances of us winning. This battle is hopeless from the start.

But…

Tiara is still smiling. Her cute blue eyes have been staring at me for a while now, not paying attention to the ultimate enemy is facing. Her facial expression has no worries as if success is already assured the moment she came here.

“Tiara…”

“Rikkun… Thank you for loving me. I finally know it now. I finally realized the meaning of our love for all seven million timelines. Your confession and marriage proposal to me made me realize a lot of things that are truly endless to describe. You said that you loved me from the start, and you know that I also loved you till the end. And now… let us face this evil fate together…”

In an instant, rainbow lights glowed from my chest. I can feel a gentle warmth from my heart similar to a lover’s hug. This infinite power I have stored in my soul is enough to materialize a platinum hilt of a sword.

“Tiara, this is…”

“Mmm!” Tiara jollily nodded. “This is our Heavenly Blade: !!!”

As Tiara grabbed the hilt of the sword from my chest, rainbow winds swirled as it materialized the blade of the prism-looking sword that reflects a million colors. The ice diamonds is five times thicker than the regular , and I am confident now that it classifies as a giant buster sword!

As the magnanimous sword made its existence, the angry skies roared once again.

“IMPOSSIBLE!!! ONLY ONE HEAVENLY BLADE CAN EXIST AT THE SAME TIME!!! HOW CAN THERE BE TWO HEAVENLY BLADES OF ETERNITY!!!?”

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“Of course it was possible, dumbass.”

Meanwhile, at the center of the battlefield between Gate Guardians and Eidolons, a peculiar existence mumbled. He’s the man with a black jacket and a red scarf. His brown hair swayed as his brown eyes sparkled upon the sight of the ultimate Heavenly Blade. It was the Fake Outsider, Yohan Hikari Romanov.

“So… You planned this from the start...”

Beside him is a beautiful fair maiden with long blonde hair and emerald eyes. She’s currently taking the form of Lord Artemis during the fight, but she halted doing business the moment she saw her lover. She is the Ex-Frozen Soul, Erylle Fontaine.

“It’s not that I planned it all. Alaric Eisenhower and Tiara Hikari forged this fate to themselves. It was their choice to have this ending. I just helped a little.” Yohan smirked.

“Hoh? You made Alaric’s seven million deaths to cultivate the Heavenly Blade inside Tiara’s heart. It was your masterplan to free me and have Tiara become the Frozen Soul for a few months. You also made Tiara wait for a whole lifetime waiting for Alaric’s return to cultivate the ultimate form of the Heavenly Blade of Eternity. Aren’t you the one to blame here?” Erylle squinted her eyes with a teasing smile.

“As I said, they chose it themselves. They fought fate, no matter the odds. All the things that I did… corrupting Alaric and Tiara, killing their friends in the process, helping Aeternos, and making all situations more chaotic… It is a necessary means to achieve the happy ending they deserve. If I didn’t intervene… their story will just be stuck in a bad dead end.”

“Oh my, so you’re still a cute sweetie pie I know, Yohan.” Erylle laughed. “How thoughtful of you to guide them to their happy ending.”

“As I said...” The Fake Outsider smiled as he stared at the dark thundering skies. “...I’m always in the side of love.”

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The Heavenly Blade of Eternity was too big and heavy for Tiara to wield, so its blades sunk in the blackwater-like ground. Even without swinging it, the diamond platinum sword kept on unleashing rainbow threads that erase all Eidolons that touches it.

“Ah! Rikkun!” Tiara is going off-balance, so I immediately supported her and held her wrist. I also had my right hand have a grip of the Heavenly Blade, and surprisingly, I can touch it.

“Grr..aaah!” I used my full weight in order to raise the sword. Tiara also did the same, and now we can lift the sword with ease. It felt infinitely heavy for Tiara to wield alone, but now that we’re both holding it, it’s just as light as a feather.

“Ahahaha! So this is how wielding a Heavenly Blade feels like~” Tiara made a forced laugh.

“Yeah, but this one is really weird,” I said with a smile. “It seems that is meant to be held by two people.”

Rainbow lights and dust started to swirl around us, giving us a magnanimous view on one another. From my point of view, Tiara is more than a shrine maiden, an idol, or even a demigoddess. She is Tiara, the only thing I loved the most in all timelines and universes.

“Rikkun…”

“Let’s go, Tiara. Let’s defeat this evil god once and for all.”

“Mmm!” Tiara jollily nodded like an adorable pup. “With determination, we refuse to give up!”

The skies roared once again, not because of anger, but of fear.

“I WILL NEVER LET YOU DESTROY ME!!!”

Suddenly, the skies shattered, revealing a huge galaxy that is about to fall upon us.

Instead of being scared, Tiara and I gripped our crystalization of love upwards and prepared to unleash our ultimate attack. As our vocal cords synchronized, we shouted out at the top of our lungs our finishing move to end this universe!

“!!!”