Part.85 Youzi's Hands Smell So Good and Are So Soft, Lick Lick

The guess in their hearts had been confirmed.

But that guess only made Su Youzi and the others feel even more powerless.

If an ascendant of the Eighth Sequence could still be stopped... then—

How could they possibly stop the movement of a celestial body?

Two weeks later, when Earth drew near the orbit of the Star of Bethlehem, the Aquarius Meteor Shower would begin to erupt.

People would witness the dazzling spectacle of the Aquarius Meteor Shower tearing across the night sky.

They were meteors formed from the dust and ice particles sprayed out by the Star of Bethlehem when it previously passed perihelion. When Earth passed through them, gravity drew those dust and ice particles toward Earth, and they burned brightly as they rubbed against Earth's atmosphere.

And the "Eclipse"—

Was hidden among them as well.

Su Youzi and the others could almost foresee it: two weeks later, when the Aquarius Meteor Shower began to erupt—

At dawn, countless meteors would seem to rise from the eastern horizon.

While bringing the world its final splendor—

They would also bring the world its final end.

Just thinking about it was enough to make one despair.

Su Youzi did not know what sort of state of mind the Great Shrine Maiden of the Soga clan had been in when she told her, through such an almost suggestive method, about the apocalypse two weeks later.

Was it because she was the "adorable descendant" the Great Shrine Maiden had spoken of?

Or was it that... the Great Shrine Maiden of the Soga clan still felt a trace of attachment to this world that had once belonged to her?

Or perhaps—

She was, after all, once a Rule-based Ability User who possessed the ability that was "destined to save the world."

Wait—

Su