My Goddess of Destiny, My Moirai, My... Miss Youzi

Take a deep breath--

Kujo Iruka forced herself to stay calm.

They were only Youzi's parents... after all.

What did she have to be afraid of?

She... she and Su Youzi weren't involved in anything, either.

Even as she thought this, Kujo Iruka's fearless, dauntless gaze faltered several degrees after meeting the kind, gentle, benevolent look of the woman embracing Soga Lie.

Su Yao's identity as her "future mother-in-law" made Kujo Iruka instinctively respect her, and even fear her.

"Stay calm--"

"Stay calm... Kujo Iruka." Kujo Iruka warned herself inwardly. "She's the one who will hand Youzi over to me when the time comes--"

"The one who will place Youzi's hand in mine."

"--Stay calm."

The most important thing now was still finding where Youzi was.

Kujo Iruka took a deep breath and maintained the posture of "Forced Ascension."

In the posture of "Forced Ascension," she felt as though she could do anything. She felt like a god standing upon the earth, looking down on the world from above.

Kujo Iruka felt as though her body had been opened.

It had become some sort of door--

Behind the door... lay an inexhaustible power.

But--

Before Kujo Iruka could reach out and touch that power, she felt a familiar sensation and aura rush toward her--

"--Grace."

Kujo Iruka nearly stumbled and fell.

Completely different from all other realms--

The truth of the Eighth Sequence was, in the end, simply opening a door to the Dirac Sea—to the sea of negative-energy particles formed from the zero-point energy of the quantum vacuum—and gaining the right to wield that power.

And by coincidence... Kujo Iruka, who had forcibly advanced to the Eighth Sequence through "Forced Ascension"...

had opened... the same door as Su Youzi.

All along the path opened by that door, traces belonging