A Future of Gazes

Tsuna had never been a fan of Monk who liked to spout riddles and cryptic statements. He didn't even glance at the Monk before heading straight into the palace.

Neither the Monk nor Ōetsu Nimaiya intervened; they had witnessed firsthand the unusual activity of the Soul King that had summoned Tsuna.

As Tsuna continued deeper into the area, the Monk's voice drifted over, "You must win, Sawada Tsunayoshi."

His own success or failure is not important. For the Monk, as long as the world can continue, he doesn't care even if he is ground into powder.

As Tsuna's footsteps drew closer, the curtain obscuring the Soul King opened automatically. The Soul King, just as Tsuna remembered, was sealed within crystal, his eyes staring blankly ahead.

Tsuna was already used to this kind of Soul King. Anyone who had seen it for more than a year would gradually come to regard this motionless thing as a decoration in their home.

Seeing that the Soul King still hadn't made a move, Tsuna sighed. "You're the one who sent me here, aren't you? You haven't said a word. You don't think I can read anything from your unchanging expression, do you?"

The Soul King has always been alive. When he was staying at Tsuna's house, Tsuna would try to chat with the Soul King every few days. However, after half a year without any change, Tsuna finally gave up.

Now that the Soul King has taken the initiative to contact him, he must have something to tell him, but why does the Soul King still have a stern face?

[Little Tsuna, look at his eyes.]

Byakuran's voice suddenly rang out, Tsuna noticed that the Soul King's pupils seemed to move slightly.

This is the true four-pupil eye, the power of true the Almighty, a height that Yhwach could never reach in his entire life.

[Use Mare Flame!]

As the Decimo's notification sounded, Byakuran's power took control of Tsuna's body, and the white Zanpakuto behind him enveloped everything around him, completely Resurrección!

Tsuna, now dressed in white and wearing the White Spell uniform, still felt a little uncomfortable. Subconsciously, the White Spell were all enemies, yet now he was wearing this uniform himself.

Byakuran was delighted by Tsuna's frustrated and helpless reaction. When he was fighting Yhwach, Tsuna didn't have time to pay attention to his body, and now Byakuran finally saw the expression he wanted to see.

After a brief moment of self-satisfaction, Byakuran began to assist Tsuna in mobilizing the power of the Mare Flame. Tsuna also raised his head, and his eyes, which could see countless parallel universes, met those of the Almighty who could see countless branches of the future.

In that instant, Tsuna's Mare Flame resonated with the Soul King's the Almighty, and a flood of images began to rush into his mind—terrifying futures.

With the blood moon high in the sky, Hell descended upon the human world. Countless Sinners, devoid of any concept of death, were released. They were already burdened with immense sins and had fallen into Hell; evil was their instinct, requiring no learning whatsoever.

Empowered by a force called Resentment, the Sinners gained extraordinary powers they did not possess in their previous lives. They stormed into the Three Worlds, burning, killing, and plundering, all to unleash their primal desires.

As Sinners, their greatest wish is to break free from the Chains of Hell. Beyond that, there is another extreme: if they cannot escape their sins, they will plunge the world into Hell and chain all free beings with Hell Chains.

Newcomers always listen to the veterans, and it is these Sinners seniors who create a new Hell, a new cannibalistic world.

The World of the Living, lacking sufficient fighting power, was the first to perish, and humanity was enslaved and Chains to Hell.

Then comes Hueco Mundo. For those Hollows who are not yet able to Arrancar and transform into human form, there is no difference between becoming a Hollow or a monster from Hell. On the contrary, after being Chains to Hell, they do not need to worry about being devoured by their own kind.

Las Noches quickly became an isolated island. Even with the Arrancar power of Vasto Lorde and Adjuchas, they were unable to withstand the siege from the entire Hueco Mundo and Hell.

Led by Nel, the Arrancar were impaled by the Hell Chains and became experimental subjects for Szayelaporro.

Finally, there is Soul Society. The Sinners did not come from the Hell rifts in Seireitei and Rukongai; they fell from the sky, along with the ruins of the Soul King Palace.

Tsuna immediately turned around and glanced at the crack Inner Palace, because he saw that among the Sinners that had descended from the Soul King Palace, the Resentment of several of Sinners looked familiar. They were some of the Resentment that Tsuna had just seen at the crack!

The Soul Society did not collapse as quickly as the other two worlds. Compared to the other two worlds, the Soul Society was more organized and disciplined, and its overall strength was also greater.

However, they still had no way to resist the attack of the indestructible army of Sinners. Even though the Grim Reaper sealed a portion of the Sinners with the Bleach Kido, this force was merely a drop in the ocean.

The West Bureau, which was weaker overall, fell first. After that, Hell concentrated all its forces to deal with the East Bureau.

Under the leadership of the Gotei 13, a small number of Bleach were barely clinging to life. Ichigo once tried to break through the encirclement, but instead, he witnessed familiar figures falling one by one before his eyes.

A silent desolation spread quietly. Even though Ichigo Kurosaki was still resisting, he could not reverse the process of the world's collapse. The Three Worlds were like a punctured balloon. The more Ichigo struggled, the faster it broke and the faster the world collapsed.

Finally, a grotesque ghostly hand emerged from the cracks inside and outside the Inner Palace, piercing through the last cornerstone of the Three Worlds, the Soul King, with a single claw.

Soul King is dead.

The target that Yhwach had tried so hard to kill was pierced through by a claw from Hell. With the death of the Soul King, the collapse of the world was like a roller coaster that could not be stopped.

Crimson mist and earthy Miasma enveloped every corner of the world; even at the ends of the earth, one could see the solitary blood moon simply by looking up.

The scene ends there. Tsuna breathes heavily like a drowning person who has just been rescued. He is quickly processing the future he has seen, the deaths of familiar people, and the collapse of familiar streets and alleys.

"Soul King..." Tsuna's eyes were fixed on the Soul King as he asked, word by word, "Where am I?!"

In the future that the Soul King showed him, Tsuna did not see his own existence. In the final moments of the world's collapse, it was Ichigo who led a very small number of people who were still struggling. Not to mention surviving, Tsuna did not even see the scene of his own death.

A new scene unfolded before him: Tsuna saw himself standing at a fork in the road. One path led to the collapse of the Blood Moon he had just witnessed, while the other led into a fog, the unknown beyond.

Even the Soul King's the Almighty and omnipotence cannot foresee the future of that other path—whether it will lead to destruction or rebirth. This path will be explored by Tsuna himself.

Tsuna understood the Soul King's meaning. "So, when I was fighting the Monk, you chose to gamble on me? It couldn't be worse than the other outcome, could it?"

Tsuna looked at the ending of Blood Moon. In that future, Hell completely devoured the Three Worlds, and the operation of the Three Worlds, which the Soul King had gambled with himself, was completely shattered.

There's no doubt that Tsuna will choose this unknown path. At worst, he'll be swallowed by Hell. How much worse can it get?

A heavy burden suddenly fell on Tsuna's shoulders. It turned out that the time he had enjoyed after fighting Yhwach was nothing more than a short vacation.

"Is there anything else you need to tell me?" Tsuna stretched his stiff shoulders. There were many things he needed to do, and he had to go back and prepare as soon as possible.

Just as Tsuna was about to retract his full Resurrección power, another image flashed into Tsuna mind.

Inside a luxurious, all-white palace, a tall, imposing man with pale skin stood with his back to Tsuna looking in a mirror. He held a bow in his left hand and had a quiver slung across his waist, looking as if he were about to go hunting.

Tsuna's pupils suddenly contracted. Through the reflection in the mirror, he recognized the man in the image as the Soul King!

A fully-fledged Soul King? This isn't a vision of the future, but rather of the past, before the Soul King was dismembered?

Tsuna stared intently at the screen, scrutinizing it closely. He quickly noticed something amiss: the Soul King's eyes were malfunctioning!

The Almighty- powerful eye has four pupils, which are mainly dark red and located at the four corners of the eye. The remaining white of the eye will appear in the shape of a cross.

But the Soul King in the mirror was completely reversed; his pupils were white, and the whites of his eyes, forming a cross, were actually red!

It looked as if it had a pair of eerie red cross-shaped eyes.

Is this person really the Soul King?

Before Tsuna could figure out what was going on, the images in his mind slowly disappeared, and Tsuna's consciousness returned to reality once again. It was still the palace in the Inner Palace, and the same unchanging Soul King.

Tsuna's lips trembled a few times. He wanted to ask the question directly several times, but considering that the Soul King had never actually spoken to him, and that the Soul King had taken the initiative to decrypt the content of the last image, Tsuna knew that the Soul King would not answer his question.

Tsuna could only suppress all his questions and deactivate his Full Resurrección state. Just as he turned to leave, he asked another question.

Do you need help transferring funds?

Tsuna's eyes were fixed on the cracks Inner Palace. The image of the Demon Hand killing the Soul King was still vivid in his mind. He planned to repeat the same trick he used against Yhwach, transferring the Soul King's true form away...

A strange spiritual pressure fluctuation emanated from the Soul King. Although he didn't speak, Tsuna understood what the Soul King meant.

There's no need to relocate; all of this is meaningless. This rift exists solely to keep an eye on the Soul King. Once the Soul King leaves, it might open equally unclosable rifts in other parts of the world.

Let this crack remain in the Soul King Palace; this is one of the few things he, as the Soul King, can do.