An Emanator Who Shouldn't Exist... / It Really Is Firefly Inside the Mech...

The Emanator Who Should Not Exist...

"Click~"

Huang Quan sheathed her blade.

Color returned to the scene.

Rainwater also came pouring down onto the ground.

The scene shifted.

Aventurine Shard suddenly opened his eyes.

"Where... is this?"

"A massive black hole, and an ocean..."

"Did I... succeed...?"

The sight around him left Aventurine Shard bewildered.

Black seawater, a massive black hole—the entire world seemed to have color only for him.

Everything else had faded into black and white.

In his daze, Aventurine Shard seemed to hear his mother's voice—

"...Welcome to this sorrowful world, Kakavasha."

Still dazed, he slowly walked toward the black hole.

His past experiences surfaced before his eyes one by one.

But suddenly, Huang Quan's voice came from behind him.

"I'm sorry, but this isn't the place you were hoping for."

He turned around.

Huang Quan looked completely different from before.

Snow-white hair and crimson eyes.

There was only white, black, and red upon her.

Aventurine Shard said, "The Void... is it?"

"Mhm..." Huang Quan nodded gently. "Perhaps you see me as an Emanator concealing her identity, but..."

"The Slumbering Formless One never casts Its gaze upon anyone. It has no face, no form, and no will... The Void equally envelops everyone."

"Some simply travel farther beneath Its shadow and become tainted by more nothingness... That is all."

"That is all..." Aventurine Shard shook his head with a bitter smile, recalling that terrifying slash. "My friend, you really leave me at a loss for words."

"So this is my end? The place one goes after death?"

Huang Quan shook her head. "This is merely a fleeting dream, one of the countless manifestations of the Void... Under Its witness, we pause here briefly before heading in our separate directions."

"Even if you wished it, I could not