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Chapter 74 - Ch 74 (The Shadow)

. At that moment Sho grabs the potion as if it were the only flame of hope and drinks it to break through to sequence five, and his power increases greatly so that he feels he is capable of touching the God of Darkness, then rushes quickly and forcefully toward him.

"1 Graham death"

"100 Graham death"

. Years and years pass inside this world while outside only a few minutes have passed. Sho feels complete despair while the sequence-four potion appears behind the God of Darkness again, becoming clear as it says:

"There is no hope for you in standing against me. It is over. You will remain here forever in that never-ending cycle. Just touch me so you can exit this suffering."

. The God of Darkness smiles and laughs as if he feels happy, so Sho tries once again to activate the Fool and shouts many times, saying:

"Ruler of the beginning and the end, ruler of the beginning and the end"

. Nothing happens, so the God of Darkness whispers, saying:

"Do not think that you are the only one who hides some entity within him. While you have the Fool, I have something else different and its opposite inside me. Although this manifestation does not possess much of what I am, I also have a more evil and more terrible entity inside me, and its presence is enough to annihilate and destroy reality with all creation. It emerges automatically in situations that exceed my ability to endure, and in situations in which I wish to activate it. You are weak, and it is impossible for you to touch me."

. Sho is surprised that he knows about the Fool inside him, realizing that he is facing its opposite and what its opposite could be, which at one time was Sho, the pure cheerful boy who clings to the hope he has, his inner friend, the Fool.

. Sho screams and rushes toward him again, trying to cling to hope, only to die many times and try and try in vain.

"100 Rayo death"

"100000 Rayo death"

"Error.....the number of deaths cannot be calculated"

"Error.....the number of deaths cannot be calculated"

. Sho screams and cries bitterly while the God of Darkness speaks calmly:

"Oh Sho, not everything can be overcome by will alone. Will and hope before absolute power are zero, worthless. You die and die, and years and years pass, and you cannot understand. Sometimes we think things are extremely complicated, but in the end they can be solved easily."

. And while years and years of failure and struggle pass, Sho reaches sequence three, the Flame of the Knower, and reaches the peak of despair. He does not move, only collapsed on his knees without motion, without the sound of breathing, as if he does not exist.

. Sho does not realize the situation and his thoughts become extremely chaotic, as if he has fallen into an abyss with no end, while the Fool tries to speak with him, but his thoughts overlap within one another without stopping.

. The God of the Void speaks with a voice that repeats everywhere, saying:

"I am only you. I am your shadow in the depths, and this shadow has other layers inside it, stronger and greater than it, and at the same time it has control over them. I am not trying to frighten you; there is no meaning to fear here. I am only proving to you the difference. You will remain trapped here, I swear by that. As long as you cannot solve that simple dilemma and think in a different way, you will remain here."

. And while Sho's thoughts are completely chaotic, the God of Darkness continues, saying:

"Human beings are strange creatures. When you confine them to a certain area of thought, it becomes difficult for them to think outside it, despite no one forcing them to think at that point. Only the god you claim exists did not give you the awareness and will so that you do not use your spiritual mind, which surpasses the ordinary human and transcends him in existence and in everything. In the end, a human remains a human no matter how developed he becomes; the instinct and the engineering and the programming upon which he is built remain one."

. Whispers spread everywhere in the forgotten world, while Sho cannot even die or live in peace. He screams inwardly and grits his teeth hard.

"[Even I, who am I, did not help me at that moment, did not intervene. It seems that I alone must do this. I must do this alone then. Me or him. I must focus. I have never surrendered.]"

. And while the God of Darkness orders Sho to attack him and try to touch him, Sho refuses to do that and sits on the ground and says while tears fall from his eyes:

"I have no desire to threaten your existence or attack. Whenever an intention to threaten your existence appears from me, I am erased from existence immediately. I surrender. I can no longer resist. My power is not enough here."

. The God of Darkness smiles and approaches Sho while white claws suddenly appear at the tips of his fingers and he says:

"Well then, no problem. I will kill you myself. Believe me, you have not felt any pain yet. That ability that activated automatically was the smallest thing and the least defense I possess. You do not want to see what I am capable of. What I possess, I am different."

. Suddenly the God of Darkness rushes at a speed that surpasses time itself, at an unmeasured speed, and a strange sound appears like the sound of a monster, and Sho is cut into endless pieces, where each piece exists in every logically possible direction, so that his parts scatter in endlessly logically possible directions.

. The unbearable pain is repeated countless times more than even the number of times he died before, causing the God of Darkness to begin feeling bored and his feeling of happiness to decrease.

And while Sho suffers greatly, he sits motionless, speaking:

"It seems that the state has reversed. I have become, despite feeling this pain, at least more able to feel happiness. The suffering has decreased a little psychologically, and with the increase in the number of deaths its psychological effect gradually decreases, while your happiness decreases and your feeling of boredom increases."

. Sho does not complete his words before he is cut again many endless times, and the God of Darkness devours Sho's heart many and many times so he dies more and more.

. And after countless years, where more than 9 full hours have passed outside and Hian and Shinza and all the defenders have finished training, only Loki and Sho remain inside the doors. At that moment the God of Darkness stops killing Sho and looks at him with a slight smile, revealing his fangs, and says:

"What will you gain in the end? You are trapped here and cannot leave at all except by touching me. How will you achieve that? It is impossible, like the impossibility of combining opposites in one self. Touching me is a literal mental impossibility. I am a higher entity than you, transcendent above you. How will you get out then? Tell me?"

. Sho smiles broadly and laughs, which makes the God of Darkness feel that he is mocking him, and then he speaks, saying:

"And who told you that I want to leave in the first place? I no longer care. The water here is beautiful and pleasant. It does not even matter that the water has become golden because of the countless bloodstains. Although I know it is my blood, who cares? The best thing is that it makes a glow in the sky, beautiful like the calmness of this world."

. The God of Darkness kills Sho again and again, and after another unknown number of years the God of Darkness stops completely, and Sho notices that, so he stands up from the ground, which has all become illuminated by Sho's blood.!

. Sho looks toward the God of Darkness and speaks in a calm voice, saying:

"I told you, I no longer care. In the end, nothing is new. I no longer even feel the pain of death. It has become like a harmless finger touch. Although I am unable to touch you and you are capable of destroying me, in the end my happiness has become greater than yours and my sorrow less than yours. Surrender and end this thing."

. The God of Darkness smiles and claps his hands together, producing a sound, then says:

"It is already over. You did not win, but I have determined your future, and the matter is no longer important now. It is over for me."

. Sho's vision becomes blurry while the God of Darkness continues speaking, saying:

"I am evil, but my father and your father are much more evil. He is the absolute, pure evil without an opposite. As for me, your future before me is now clear. This is the last meeting between you and me. This logically possible probability disappears now."

Then the God of shadow turns and glances sideways at Sho, saying:

"But remember, you alone decide, and you have only yourself to blame."

. Then suddenly Sho's vision turns completely black, and he falls to the ground unconscious, and the door is completely destroyed while a paper falls on his chest containing the components of sequence two, which shocks everyone, including Alfi himself.!

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