What do you think?
There's no echo sound. I guess I've lost.
d*mn. As expected of a guy who just beat Gila.

　A space-time gap. The two men were standing in a void, isolated from the world.
　One was a boy. One was a girl. They were very similar, but they were a little different from their sister and brother. An alter ego, if you will. One half. The other self.
　It was a binucleate, which is rare for the dominant species.
　The dominant species is born in a nuclear state. Over a long period of time, they repeatedly evolve as crystals and wake up as an individual. Therefore, there is no such thing as childhood. From the moment it awakens, it has a personality.
　It is rare for a dominant species to be born with two nuclei. Normally, they continue to evolve crystalline with two nuclei and awaken as an individual with two nuclei.
　It was very rare for it to split its body into two during its growth and become a separate personality.
　Both of them had crystallized hair that hid half of their faces. The girl's right side of her face and the boy's left side were hidden. The eyes of the one not hidden by the hair were both golden.
　Other than that, the other parts of their faces were very similar. Physically, the girl's body was still rounder and more rounded, and her breasts were suitably full.

The next time the wards come down, we should just leave, Leto.
'No, Lutte. It's not our time yet. Besides, what will Yura say if you do not do what you want?

　A girl of the dominant species who dismisses the idea of her brother (in her perception, because they both claim that she is the older brother and sister).
　The girl's name is Leto. The boy's name is Ruto. They were the dominant species, but there was one part of them that was distinctly different from the other dominant species.
　Their crystallized body parts are dark gold. That was the proof that they had evolved from the creature of the dominant species to a higher stage.

''Utterly... how long do we have to stay here doing this?

　Ruto looked back at the huge egg-shaped cocoon floating in the darkness behind him. Occasionally a high-pitched echoing sound, like a heartbeat, could be heard.
　Suddenly, the two of them felt a slight flicker of space.

''Huh?　You're an unusual visitor.

　Leto calls out into the darkness of another dimension. A dominant species emerges from the darkness.
　Long, crystalline hair and crimson twin eyes. A tall, female-shaped dominant species, Nei.
　She is the head of the faction that is restoring the "King" of the Frase, the "Revivalist" faction.
　I look at the twin-nucleus child, whose red eyes are blurred with anger, and who is smiling thinly.

''You guys........have done something selfish again, haven't you?　Why did you send 'gold' to that place!
Oh, I don't know if I need to say no to you guys. I thought we were already embittered?

　Leto chuckled as if to make fun of him. Beside him, Ruto also grinned.

'Unlike you guys, we don't care about the core of the King anymore. We don't need to get that stuff to be strong.
I say that the power of the 'King' is not the goal!
'Then why did he cross the world instead of serving the new King?　The 'king' is 'king' even though his strength is weak. He could have stayed in the crystal world and supported it.
It's.........

　Nay is at a loss for words. There is only one "king" for me, and that is "she". To acknowledge a new "king" would mean abandoning "her". I couldn't do just that.
　So I took Yura's sweet advice and came across the world the way he had devised. You can't cross the world without the power of a few of the dominant species. That's why he and I have maintained our non-interference with each other.
　I was aware that he and Gila were after the nucleus of the King, but without their help, I couldn't go after the King. I've gnashed my teeth on that dilemma many times.
　Those who want to bring back the "King" and those who want to become the "King". It was obvious that they would break down when the core of the "King" was found anyway.
　Suddenly, however, Yura takes an inexplicable action. He obtained a mysterious power from somewhere and began to create new flames. It was not something that could be called a fellow countryman.
　It seems that Yura's purpose has been removed from the "king". That in itself is a cause for celebration, but I couldn't just sit back and let the current situation with the erosion of the species of Freys happen.

I don't care what you do with your 'king' anymore. Yura doesn't seem to be interested in it either. Oh, and if you feed the nucleus to the egg, will it hatch sooner than expected?
You!

　Ney's hand reached out to Lto, who was smiling at him. It's a good thing that you're not the only one.

I've been tired of your 'king' supremacy for a long time now. We're not in the same boat anymore, so what do we have to do?　...can I eat it?

　Leto's hand grabbed Ney's left hand, eroding his opponent. Ney's wrist had already begun to fuse with Leto's hand, and he couldn't move it beyond his wrist, and he was beginning to lose his senses.
　A dark golden glow crawled up his arm. Ney immediately sliced his own left arm off his elbow with his right hand blade.
　He jumped backwards, putting some distance between them.

'Oh my, you missed a bite.

　Leto swung around with a plop as Nay's left hand, which had been cut off, was fused together. Eventually, as if it was slowly blending in, Ney's left hand from the elbow onwards was absorbed into Leto's body.

''Kuch........''

　Ney quickly regenerated the left hand he had cut off and let himself dance into the dimensional darkness.
　That was the power of Erosion that Yura had given to that twin-nucleus child, the Futago. This is a fearsome and unusual ability to take in the flames and use them as one's own power. Probably, that is the target of the dominant species, let alone the higher species. Once it has been eroded, there is no choice but to cut it off before the "core" is eaten.
　That was an erosion from the hand, but Ney was terrified to think that it would be from the vicinity of the 'nucleus'.
　When Ruto went to chase after Ney, who had disappeared into the darkness, Ruto stopped him.

'Leave it alone. You can't do anything about it anyway. We're just going to do what we're told and keep an eye on this thing.
Shit. Ahhh. I'm bored out of my mind. I wanna see the guy from the other day come back.

　Rutto said and lay back down on his side with a rumble.

'Is that guy an endemuon?'
Yeah. That was a pretty good way to get out of boredom, right?　Well, I hurt him so much, I don't know if he's still alive.

　With a grin, Ruto murmurs. While saying he doesn't know, Leto is "sure" that Ruto is "sure" that that half-dead man is alive. There is no point in hiding anything between the two of them, who are binaries.
　Ney's appearance was a bit of fun, but that's all. It would be another boring time for a while.
　The next time Frase and the others found a break in the wards and tried to appear 'out there', they discussed and chuckled, this time trying to blend in the unusual 'gold'.






"Hmmm.......this might not be so good........

　God World. In the same four-and-a-half-mat room as always, the World God groaned as he stared at the image on the quadruped TV in front of him.

''So yea. You can't do that anymore, can you?　If we don't get this over with, it's going to affect the rest of the world. It's only a matter of time before I give you a hard blow.

　A man who had put his elbows on the tabletop behind the World God and was biting into a cracker with a battered rice cake called out to him.
　He looked to be just before sixty years of age, but his well-trained body was as muscular as steel. The dark-eyed, black-haired, bearded man drank a cup of tea and nibbled on a cracker again with a zuzu sound.

''Your 'end' means to 'end' this world, right?'''
Of course, that's my job as the God of Destruction.

　Without taking offense, the God of Destruction opens his mouth.
　There are many different worlds managed by the God. Although rare, some of these worlds were out of the scope of protection, and it was the role of the God of Destruction to annihilate those worlds.
　Exercising the power of a god in the earthly world is generally not done very often. The exceptions were the gods' relatives, or the new gods who didn't have so much power, but the God of Destruction was a special being who used the power of a god to annihilate the world.
　However, the world would never fall out of the protection of the gods unless there was something very special going on. Hence, the appearance of the God of Destruction would also be limited.
　The fact that the God of Destruction was visiting the World God meant that there was a 'good thing' going on.

If things continue as they are, the worst thing that could happen is that the world will be out of your hands. That's fine with me, but wouldn't it be more troublesome if I annihilated it before that?
I know, but Fuyao-kun is here.............
'Winter's night?　Ah, the Shinjin, the one my grandfather had chosen for his family. You want to leave it to him?　Isn't that a little onerous?

　The God of Destruction frowns. In an unstable world, you never know what will happen. I also think it's a little tough for a new god, Shinjin, to be entrusted with that. Especially for a god without a title, or even an apprentice god.

Maybe he'll be fine. If things go well, I don't think this world will ever leave my hands and you won't have to destroy it.
You get a lot of those. Well, I don't mind if you do. But I'm not sure you're okay with these two worlds.

　The God of Destruction looked over the World God's shoulder at the television. There, the two worlds were lined up in a mirrored line, but he could see that the part that separated them in the middle was distorted.

''An evil god is being born, right?''
You have a Dependent God on your side, you know. A rare occurrence, but not unheard of.
'God-eaters'.

　The God of Destruction crushes the crackers with his teeth.

I would normally send an artifact or an angel to earth, but that happened to be where I sent Fuyao-kun, so I decided to leave it to him.

　The World God sits on the cushions.

''It looks like you've got a very good chaperone down for that.
Including their first vacation in tens of thousands of years. I'm down there myself, and I'm having a great time.
What the f*ck? You're having fun. I'm going down too.
Don't do it. Your coming down to earth is going to destroy the world.

　It's not a metaphor or anything, it's just a fact, so the World God goes in to stop the God of Destruction from coming up with anything.

'So, what is it?　When this matter is safely settled, will you leave the world to this new god of winter night?
Don't chase him. Of course, if he says no, I'll give up. He's still too young to be a god, but I'm sure he'll get the hang of it after a couple of thousand years.
I hope I don't destroy it before I accept it.

　The distortion between the two worlds has created a strange change. Since this was done intentionally and not by the gods, as a god of destruction, I think the best solution would be to destroy everything once and reset it.

'For now, though, I'll wait to destroy it. I think you should isolate those worlds and then explain to that Winter Night thing.
We'll have to talk about this another time. We'll talk about it at the right time. I'd like to see a little more of the transition. Maybe the distortions will go away without a hitch.
I don't know.

　Both of the two gods know that the probability of that is quite low. The God of Destruction doesn't particularly oppose it because he thinks that if it doesn't work, he can just destroy that world and reset it.
　If you think about it, even though they are humanized, there are six gods descending. And one apprentice, huh? If that's all we have, we'll be able to handle it.
　It's not uncommon for a humanized god to defeat evil gods, evil dragons and demon gods.

''But how many tens of thousands of years has it been since a human turned into a god?''
Well, I don't remember. People have different reasons for becoming God.
I guess it's rare that the reason you became a god is because of an inadvertent mistake by a world god.
Oh, shut up.

　The World God gives a reluctant look to the God of Destruction who laughs with a gahaha.
　He certainly thinks that was a mistake that was not like him. But now that it's come to this point, it seems like that might have been fate, too. The World God is glad to have met a boy named Mochizuki Fuyao, a boy who looks like his grandson.

''By the way, I haven't seen that Takegami guy lately, where has he been?''
Yeah, I hear you found a disciple with some highlights...

　The two gods 《Two》 begin to make small talk about the gods across the tabletop. Behind them, on the television screen, a distortion slowly swirls around in the middle of the two worlds, as if something is coming out of them....