The tides surged, the waves roared.
The eternal river of time shook without end. Waves crashed and rolled up towering swells. Within that illusory river, King of Time's cry rang out like thunder, awakening an ancient beast coiled within the endless current. The beast roared, stirring up wave after world-shaking wave.
The thunderous rumbling continued without pause. The tremendous commotion echoed through past and present, refusing to subside for a long while.
At King of Time's call, tens of thousands of fragments of Chaya's will awakened at that moment.
It was as though countless voices that could shake the ages had converged into one.
"I do not belong to this era. I came from the 'present.' The world of the past exists only in my memories. Now, it is time to awaken!"
As if in a dream, in murmured whispers, Chayas from different points in time spoke those words at once.
At that moment, Chaya across all spacetime recalled his identity. They had come from the future, from the true "present." The past had already become illusory and could no longer bear the consciousness of the present.
With that realization, what followed came naturally.
The Chayas of every spacetime joined their wills as one and activated the power of spacetime within them. Then those powers exerted force together, seemingly drawn by some powerful bond as they drifted toward a particular point in the river of time.
Amid the surging waves of time, Chaya in the illusory past struggled toward the temporal point known as the "present" through the power of spacetime. Chaya in the future world was likewise retracing his way toward the "present." The past selves waited for selves even further in the past, while the future selves waited for selves even further in the future. Then, at the