Amare listened.
She listened.
She didn’t so much as move.
She didn’t so much as twitch.
She didn’t so much as breathe.
"…And thus, he restored you."
The Progenitor smiled.
"He overcame death with his love for you."
Copious tears spilled from her eyes.
They trickled down her face.
They gushed untrollably.
In that moment, she was oveme.
She was oveme with emotion.
She was oveme with relief.
Gratitude.
Shock.
Amazement.
She was oveme with love.
She was oveme with more love than she had ever felt in her entire life.
A single whisper escaped her.
"I want him."
Her eyes grew determined.
"I want to see him."
Her expression grew powerful.
"I want to tell him I love him."
Her will surged.
"I want to tell him I’m grateful."
Esil smiled at Amare with a melancholic smile.
"How…" Amare gazed around her. "How do I get back? How do I get back to the real world?"
Esil’s melancholic smile grew even more bitter.
"You cannot."
The air chilled.
It grew frosty.
A faint hint of tension hung in the air.
She gazed at Amare with regret.
Amare’s eyes grew fearful. "What do you mean…? I must get back!"
"This place…" Esil spoke with a sorrowful tone, "It is not a haven."
Amare’s fear began turning into terror.
"…What?"
Her tone was chilling.
It was doused in the growing horror that crept into her voice.
Esil’s tone was painful.
"This place is a prison."
Amare’s widened with horror. "No…"
"It is a prison from which you will never be able to escape."
"No!"
Esil’s expression was pained.
"You will remain trapped here for all eternity."
"NO…!" Amare’s roar was a force unto itself.
She rose to her feet.
She ran.
She ran as far as sheuld.
She ran for what felt like an eternity.
And yet…
She never escaped.
She fought.
She kicked.
She punched.
She attacked.
She fought.
She fought harder than she ever had before.
She fought with will than ever before.
She fought.
And fought.
And fought.
And yet, it was to no avail.
She struggled for what felt like eons.
And yet, it was to no avail.
She struggled for what felt like forever.
"Ah…" Despairnsumed her heart.
A guttural scream of despair and misery escaped her.
And yet, it was to no avail.
She was trapped within the depths of a prison of her soul.
Trapped for all of eternity.
"Why…" a whisper escaped Rui in the real world.
The Gu hadme to be oveme by a deathly silence.
As though heaven and earth held their breath.
As though Gaia watched with silence.
As though the universe mourned.
As though all lifeuld feel his pain.
The world watched as a single tear emerged from the blood-red suns in his eyes.
"Why…?"
His tone was chilling.
"Why… does she not wake?"
Heuld sense her.
Heuld sense her within the depths of her being.
He had restored her.
He had restored her mind.
And yet, it was… trapped.
Isolated within her brain.
Isolated bioeletrically.
None of the other parts of her brainuld interact with it.
Her cerebralrtex was isolated from the nervous system.
Sheuld notntrol her body.
Sheuld not perceive the world through her senses.
They too were isolated from her.
Sheuld not see him.
Sheuld not hear his pleas.
Sheuld not feel his warmth.
Sheuld not smell his scent.
Sheuld not taste his love.
She was drowned.
She was drowned in a world of darkness.
Alone.
He had tried much.
He tried stimulating her nervous system.
He had triedaxing her brain.
He had tried forcefully sending signals into her cerebralrtex.
And yet, it was too risky.
Now that her cells had returned to life.
Now that her neurons had returned to life.
Now that she had returned to life.
Heuld not meddle with her brain as extensively as before.
It would be an act of mindntrol.
A horrible violation that he would never dare to do to the one person he loved more than anyone else.
He simply held her body in his arms.
He simply embraced her with all the love he had for her in the depths of his heart.
"Rui’s whisper was drowned in grief.
Heuld sense her despair.
Heuld sense her horror.
Heuld sense her misery.
She was drowned in darkness.
Imprisoned within her own mind.
And he was as helpless as she was.
He had oveme death.
But not even he was omnipotent.
He was not God.
Even he, in all his godly power, had limits.
He wanted to simply hold her.
He wanted to simply feel her warmth.
He wanted to just be with her.
And yet, the blood-red suns in his entranced eyes shined with blinding brightness.
Gigabrain hypnotized him with his own Martial Path.
He needed to adaptively evolve.
Always. 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘱𝘶𝑏.𝑐𝘰𝑚
He needed to find an opposing force to challenge and adaptively evolve.
No matter what.
No matter who.
First, it was Death.
Next…
RUMBLE…
The world shuddered as the two most powerful Martial Sages halted their extraordinary battle.
They gazed at Rui with horror.
Bodhisattva Maitreyi because she, in her endless wisdom, understood what was happening.
Her precious Amare had returned from the dead.
And yet, she wouldn’t wake up.
The Demon of Asmodeous gazed at Rui with a broken gaze.
The man had lost the veryre of who he was.
It was a miracle that he retained his Enlightenment of Self amid even this soul-shattering event.
For a moment, nothing happened.
For a moment, nobody moved.
For a moment, the world was still.
For a moment, the world was in harmony.
And then, a single whisper escaped Rui.
"You…"
The blood-red Suns in his eyes blazed with unfathomable power.
They blazed with grief.
They blazed with despair.
They blazed with love.
And they blazed with hatred.
Hatred unlike anything the world had ever seen before.
A visceral wrath that sent chills across the entirety of the planet.
A single whisper escaped him as his unfathomable gazenverged upon the Demon of Asmodeous.
"I will kill you."
His eyes flared with unfathomable power as he swore an oath in his soul.
"I will kill you no matter what."
RUMBLE!!!!!!
The world shook.
It shook as he unleashed his extraordinary power.
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