Chapter 352: Guiding Hope
gray, as if under a sky that had lost all hope;
black, like the earth overwhelmed by despair;
A blood-colored figure with an unclear face shook forward, slowly raising its bright red palm......
……
Inside Tid's castle.
Ted awoke from his chair ajokingly, pressed his forehead with an ugly expression, and muttered:
"Dream ...... Is it? ”
"But why do I have such dreams?"
"Who is the man who is covered in blood and can't see his face clearly?"
He got up and looked around.
But the familiar scenes around him did not bring him the slightest sense of reassurance.
So he looked up......
At this point, the minute hand of the clock has just crossed the last minute of December 2.
The night was dark, but there was still a waning moon in the sky.
A ray of moonlight shone through the skylight on the seat and on Tid's face, turning his face paler and paler.
Tid looked at the waning moon hanging in the air, his expression becoming distracted......
In a trance, he vaguely heard someone calling his name.
"Tedd, hey, Tedd!"
Ted suddenly came back to his senses, turned his head, and realized that it was none other than Svoruz who was calling his name.
"How do I ......?"
Tid's pupils contracted, and the doubts in his heart disappeared in an instant.
Scene transitions.
The Svoruz standing in front of him vanished, and a new Svoluz was slowly entering through the door.
But by this time, Ted had forgotten everything before, and only remembered the reason for the current scene......
It was the first time that Svoluz, who was active on the Zi-O line, came to "defect" to him.
That's right
Svoruz,
The orthodox prince of the Clan of Time,
Come and join him, the executor of the marginal bloodline!
Ha!
It really makes people want to laugh off their big teeth!
It seems that this era ruled by the King of the Demon Time is not without good things at all.
Thinking so, Tid smiled reservedly and elegantly:
"Welcome to my enthronement ceremony, Your Highness Svoluz, it is my pleasure."
That being said, there was not the slightest hint of humility in Tede's eyes and expression.
Arrogance, contempt, defiance......
Even, after staring at Svoruz for a while, he froze for a moment, his anger was hidden, but he forcibly held back his expression, and he only endured it for a moment, and then he showed it unabashedly.
"Hahahahaha——!!!ha
He began to laugh, wanton and smug.
In the midst of laughter, all the scenes began to blur.
Ted came back to his senses, and his memories returned, and he found that he was still standing in front of the throne on the high platform, looking at the waning moon in the sky at night.
The familiar laughter was still in his ears, but his expression suddenly became extremely dazed.
Because he couldn't understand why he suddenly remembered the scene just now.
This added a little irritability to Tyd's mood to his restlessness.
He subconsciously began to look for a reason for himself to suddenly remember that scene......
Like what
Svoruz brought him the watch of the alien Zeronos,
Another example,
Svoruz took the initiative to take the lead and lead the king to ......
“!!!”
Thinking of this, Ted snapped back to his senses.
He remembered......
He had been informed by Svoruz that the Time King had now entered the Space-Time Tunnel and had begun to wander around the border between the two timelines, so he ......
"Why didn't I finish my plan, but I was stunned here?"
As soon as he had the idea, the scene changed again.
Tid immersed himself in a new setting.
He sensed that a power of the King of Time was approaching, so he took it and obtained the knight's watch.
Tead looked down at the Zi-O Knight Watch in his hand, and was slightly stunned before the scene returned.
And as soon as he returned, he saw a huge palm dripping with blood coming towards him from the sky.
The scene that seemed to break the dream and reality really startled Tid, who had just returned to consciousness, and made him subconsciously take a step back, and "bang" fell on the throne.
The palm of the hand got closer and closer, until it completely covered the moonlight that had been dyed red by it.
The unlit castle was plunged into darkness in an instant.
Tid's eyes were filled with light.
Scene transitions.
A female voice rang out from beneath his throne.
It was the time raider Ola, also from the Zi-O line, who came to report to him the result of monitoring "Tokiwa Sogo".
"The King of Time is Coming......"
News!
For Tead, that's bad news that no matter how pleasant the girl's voice is, it can't hide!
Unprovoked anger and irritability rose from the heart.
"Hmph—it's good to come! I'm not afraid of him coming, on the contrary, if he doesn't, I'll be worried! ”
He made an arrogant declaration.
"Hehe, Ora, your behavior is really as Svoluz expected!"
He blew himself up on his gamble with Svoruz using Ora's choice, and began to refute Ola's choice.
Eventually, he took out the Alien Electro King Watch from his body and used it and the Alien Zero Northwatch to transform Shingo Kunaga and Hana into Alien Knights.
Watching them leave their castle, Tid blinked an eye, and the scene before him instantly returned.
"Whew-"
A cold wind blew, blowing away the dark clouds that were hidden in front of the waning moon.
The moonlight returns, still bright.
Where are the huge palms dripping with blood?
Tead looked at the scene in front of him, and suddenly couldn't tell where was reality and where was illusory.
But no matter which side he was, the irritability in his heart was piling up.
In order to avoid being consumed by the [irritability], Ted slammed up from his seat, walked briskly down the high platform, and walked quickly towards the laboratory where the anomalies were stored.
He's going to do something that will put him at ease......
In the process, his face changed several times, and his pace became faster and faster.
"Bang!"
He pushed the door of the laboratory open.
Ted was about to step into it when his expression froze.
Scene transitions.
He discovers that he is transforming a demon god into the power of an alien electric king through the perspective of Shingo Kunaga, and that the alien god who is being transformed into power by him is ......
"The little bug that escaped before ......"
The scene transitions again.
“…… Give me. ”
Tede suddenly came back to his senses and found himself standing in front of "Shogo Tokiwa".
And the palm he raised handed over was none other than Zi-O's knight's watch.
Tead is immersed in this new scene......
Tead remembered that he had just forcibly split the Alien Electro King wire.
He felt that although he had temporarily trapped the King of Time in another time, that did not guarantee that the King of Time would not come desperately when his plan was about to be completed.
Therefore, he needs a strong combat power that can block the king of time at a critical moment.
Thinking about it this way, isn't "Tokiwa Sogo", who is also a Joban Shogo, the best candidate?
Looking at "Shogo Tokiwa", who raised his hand to take the Zi-O knight's watch, Tide smiled.
"You ......"
The scene suddenly returns.
The smile on Ted's face froze violently.
He noticed that the door to the lab was still closed, and he was reaching out his hands to push it.
But he clearly remembered that he had pushed open that door!?
"Am I still remembering?"
"But why, in this memory, I can recall what just happened?"
Thinking like this, Tid raised his hand and pressed his forehead, and he found that the line between the illusory and the real in his mind was not only becoming blurred, but even beginning to be a little cross-staged......
Then, as if to confirm his idea, when he put down the palm pressed on his forehead, he was stunned to find that he was standing in front of the door of the laboratory and preparing to push the door, he had obviously just woken up from a nap, still sitting on the throne and not getting up!
Ted was silent for a moment, then jerked up and ran towards the lab.
However, at this moment, the door to the laboratory suddenly opened.
"Hoo ——!!"
A strange wind began to howl.
It's as if there's a monster that devours everything in the lab, opening its mouth wide and inhaling slowly.
Ted quickly stopped, trying to turn and flee.
But as soon as he turned around, the suction suddenly increased to the point that he could not resist, and sucked him away in an instant.
"No—"
He screamed in horror.
The result is ...... in the next second
He stood in front of the laboratory again.
In front of him was the door to the laboratory that he had just opened.
As far as the eye can see, everything is so calm and ...... Familiar!
It's like going back to the beginning.
However, this [familiarity] made Tid staggered back.
But as soon as he began to retreat, he heard a "bang", and the skylight behind him shattered, and someone broke in.
Zero North, Sakurai Yoto.
Tead quickly turned, only to see Sakurai Yuto insert a black-green card into his belt, but it turned into a purple-black hollow and sucked him into it in the blink of an eye.
Ted subconsciously struggled, and then "poof" fell from the throne and rolled off the high platform.
He "woke up".
But it is no longer clear whether this is "again" or "again".
I can't tell whether this is a "memory" or a "reality".
It was as if there were countless mouths in my head that were talking.
"Hey, Tid!"
"Raise ......"
"The King of Time is Coming......"
"Escaped bugs!"
"Alien ...... That's the end of ......."
"For me...... Become a ......"
"Masquerade...... Scholar...... Doomsday ......"
"Plan...... It's all fake...... ......"
The noisy noise kept "buzzing" in his head, causing Ted to hold his head and hit the ground hard.
"Bang! Boom! ”
And then......
A feeling of weightlessness came suddenly.
The ground vanished, turning into a bottomless pit that swallowed him.
He began to fall in endless darkness......
However, the [irritability] that permeated his heart did not disappear, but continued to accumulate like snowflakes;
Then, [irritability] becomes [irritability];
In the end, [Grumpy] became [Manic].
Tead also changed from a scene of rejection of memories to anticipation.
Because only in those scenes of memories can he temporarily get rid of the noise in his head, from that bottomless pit from which he cannot escape.
But even in his memories, the emotions that had already spread in his heart would not disappear.
[Annoyance] [Irritability] [Anger]
These emotions were eating away at his sanity.
His desire to talk is getting stronger and stronger, and he is becoming more and more difficult to communicate......
Then he began to enjoy the feeling of his mind being swallowed up and his mind constantly depraved.
He greedily longed for a new round of memories.
Even if those memories are like drinking to quench his thirst, every "return" will make him have an extra noise in his head.
But how painful the scene of "return" was, the more he longed to enter the memories as soon as possible.
He was already looking forward to the moment, expecting the moment when his sanity would be completely devoured.
Tedd thought to himself that it must be a supreme pleasure for him.
But no matter how far he looked, how much he longed, how much he prayed, he could never completely sink.
It's as if, deep in his heart, there is a self that is completely opposite to his choice, no matter how painful, he is consistently holding on to the last point of defense of his sanity.
And just when Ted thought that this hell would last forever, he suddenly entered a scene that was different from his previous memories with those noises......
……
……
【December 3, 2018 17:00】
Gray static space-time, time to stop moving forward into the future.
Tid, who was unable to move because he was blocked by a blood-stained clock magic array, angrily looked at the bloodied figure in front of him, whose body shook, but refused to fall, and shouted:
"Are you crazy?"
"Stop! Even if you do, you won't get anything good! ”
"You're just going to disappear into this timeline completely!"
"I can promise you that if you stop now, not only your uncle, but also your parents will be resurrected in the new world, how about it?"
Anxious persuasion failed, and Ted became angry.
"Damn! My plan was perfect! Even if you do it all over again, nothing will change! ”
"You can't stop me!"
"You can't stop anything!"
Finally, the figure that walked up to Tedd spoke.
"Huh."
He looked up, bleeding but unusually calm with a smile.
"You really don't understand anything."
In this timeline, the original "Shogo Tokiwa" continues while holding his palm to Tede.
"There is only one reason why I will make this choice, and that is that I do not see any future possibilities in you."
Tid shouted with a hideous expression:
"What bullshit is the possibility of the future, the only mission of the birth of this timeline is to be ruled by me! Serve me! You won't make it, I'll definitely turn this time around! When the time comes, I'll ......"
At this point, Tyd's shouting came to an abrupt end.
Because, the blood-stained palm of "Shogo Tokiwa" finally fell on the top of Tid's head.
And for Tid's last cruel words, "Shogo Tokiwa" replied:
"Really? If you are able to do it, then I will witness it in your spiritual world and give you a round of applause. ”
As the words fell, Denoh's knight's watch emerged from Shogo Tokiwa's body, creating a railroad track between him and Tid's spiritual world, which then transformed into a small Den-Liner that kept traveling back and forth on the rails.
Then, like Tyde, "Shogo Tokiwa" was transformed into a still sculpture.
"Click!"
Underneath them, in the strange clock magic array, the hands shaped like Den-Liner began to turn in reverse......
……
……
Tead pressed his head with a headache, and it was very obvious that the scene of this memory was different.
That's when ......
The calm sky suddenly opened a wormhole.
The badly damaged Den-Liner falls out of it and falls to the ground.
Ted looked up, involuntarily looked at the train that fell from the sky, and subconsciously took a step forward...... No, it wasn't him who subconsciously took a step forward, but there was something in that train that was attracting him and pulling him on...... It was the suction that was pulling him a step forward.
Ted controlled himself and thought, what is it? What is there that draws me in? Or rather, what do I have here that is being pulled by there?
And just as he was thinking this, he suddenly froze......
Because he found out that he actually began to "think normally"!?
Ted lowered his head, slowly raised his hand to his chest, and jerked his head up again.
"Huh...... Huhhaha......? ”
The corners of Tid's mouth seemed to tremble, and he seemed to laugh twitching.
He seemed to understand what was pulling him there...... It was the "noise" that filled his mind, the culprit that trapped him, the poison that made him want to stop after trapping him, and the "memories" that he was constantly experiencing!
As soon as he thought of this, Tid suddenly laughed wildly:
"Take it! Take! Take it all! If that's what you want, take them all!! ”
Tid is no longer in control of himself, he wants to take the initiative to step forward and send everything.
But at this moment, Tid suddenly found that his body did not obey his orders.
The other self hidden in his heart, the self who did not let him fall, the self who wanted him to bear all this soberly, resisted him like never before, and rejected his choice.
Aside from holding on to the last bit of sanity like a rock, this was the first time Ted sensed other emotions from her alter ego.
Wrath!
But the question is......
"I'm angry, too!!"
Tedd's expression twisted and he forced a half-step forward.
"Step!"
At the same time, a strange wave of time rippled in Den-Liner.
Under the effect of the two phases, Tid's defense in the back of his heart instantly failed.
"Click!"
With a crisp cracking sound, layers of "time" instantly spilled out of Ted's body like smoke and sucked into the front of Den-Liner's car.
Suddenly, that strange time fluctuation was like a flame that got fuel, and it rose again.
Immediately, a sudden change occurred.
A train phantom slammed out of the front of the locomotive, flipped through the air, and slowly merged with Den-Liner.
During this time, the badly damaged Den-Liner was quickly restored to good condition at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Then, the flute sounded for a long time.
"Woo——!"
In the nick of time, the reborn Den-Liner rose back into the air, brushed shoulders with the ground, and exited through the wormhole.
At the same time, the moment Den-Liner left, Tid disappeared in place.
……
……
Gray is still in time and space.
Above the blood-stained clock magic array.
Seventeen weeks after the minute hand was reversed, a smile suddenly rose on the lips of the sculpture-like "Shogo Tokiwa".
"The perfect answer, worthy of [me]!"
As soon as the words fell, "Shogo Tokiwa" began to sand little by little, and this phenomenon soon spread to Tid along the railroad track connecting him to Tede.
And when they all started to do so, the tiny Den-Liner on the railroad tracks reverted back to Den-King's knight's watch.
At the same time, a yellow point of light suddenly rushed out of the body of "Tokiwa Shogo".
It was an illusion that had been pinched by "Tokiwa Sogo" in the mental image world before, and at this time, according to the plan of "Tokiwa Sogo", he rushed out of his spiritual world, came to reality, and began to materialize.
And in the process of his materialization, his body involuntarily began to absorb the sands of time that escaped from the bodies of "Tokiwa Shogo" and "Tede".
As a result, the point of light quickly expands into a ball of light.
Once it was large enough to fit a watch, Den-King's Knight Watch entered it as the final step in giving the Phantasmal Demon God qualities.
Eventually, the newly-born Phantom Demon God rose to the sky and left the plane through the wormhole.
That's where Windtalus came from......
The time was December 3, 2018, 17:01.
The time and space that was originally in motion, the gray that represented the old future was gone, and the time when Tid completed his plan became completely history, and there was no possibility of turning back.
Color rendering, a new future is born, and a new continuation begins.
The impact of the change of time and space not only made the point in time when "Joban Shogo" disappeared into a special time node, but also made "Joban Shogo" in a special superposition state during that time, both in the future of the old world and the future of the new world.
At the same time, it is precisely because he is in such a special superposition state that "Shogo Tokiwa" will say the above sentence, because he does "see" the future.
Well, it's a little hard to understand.
Let's put it bluntly,
Tide, who was reversed in time by "Shogo Tokiwa",
In sticking to the psychological line of defense,
In the process of trying to bring down "Shogo Tokiwa" to turn back time,
Because of Shogo Tokiwa's perfect response,
ushered in a "doomed" failure.
……
……
[00:00 on December 3, 2018]
"The Abominable King of the Hour——!!!"
Teed's true will returned, and as soon as he opened his eyes from his seat, he smashed the armrest with a fist in anger.
"I haven't lost yet! I haven't lost yet——!! ”
Shouting like this, Ted's figure disappeared in an instant, and when he reappeared, he was already standing in front of the door of the laboratory, holding the watches of the alien Electro King and the alien Zeronos in his hands.
……
Inside the laboratory.
In a container on one side of the specific point force conversion machine,
Suddenly, fine sand flowed out of Shingo Kumanaga's body.
……
Time and space tunnels.
Zero-Liner,
Yuto Sakurai and Gates have seen the light of the end.
And not far behind the Zero-Liner,
Den-Liner galloped forward.
……
Time Desert.
Instead of "Tsukiwa Shogo", through the stable spiritual connection established by the Gate Astronomical Switch, Tsukiwa Shogo, who began to remotely control his body, spread his arms and stretched his waist greatly, and then, he looked at Tsukiyomi beside him, and a warm smile appeared on his face.
"Wait a little longer, I'll pick you up soon."
As soon as the words fell, a teleportation magic array suddenly rose from the ground, engulfing him.