"..."
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Annie hadn't managed to reach the throne room aboard the Heavenly Palace to fight Hua Ye and his army of scum angels in time. It wasn't that she didn't want to go—she just couldn't yet!
The reason she wasn't there was that, not long after she'd rescued that whole group of angels and demons, some bastard named Carl had intercepted her. Then he'd used a fairly decent space-teleportation skill to transport her straight from the Heavenly Palace to the domain of some unknown red giant in some unknown corner of the universe. After that, he'd appeared before her again as a holographic projection.
"So it was you, you rotten bastard, causing trouble..."
=????('ヮ'=????)
"What's the matter? Didn't I beat you up badly enough last time? You've got the nerve to come show off in front of me again?!"
Hahaha??(???*)
Seeing that it was the same death god named Carl who'd invited her to beat him up last time, and that he was bold enough to show his face before her again, Annie didn't bother sparing his feelings. She loudly jeered and mocked him.
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"..."
"Did you know?"
Carl ignored little Annie's taunts. Instead, he silently turned around and spoke toward the enormous star in the distance, a red giant nearing the end of its life:
"Last time..."
"I used the same method I used to bring you here to transport the Holy Kesha near a red giant called Emerald Star. Then I used the light of the sun, Rena, to manipulate Emerald Star into exploding in a supernova. The terrifying power released by a supernova—radiation energy comparable to the total amount the sun emits over its entire lifetime—completely destroyed the Holy Kesha's body. Then I used the Great Clock to scatter the holy atoms that made