[What do you want to say?]
Panel-kun's font was perfectly square and neat now, with not the slightest trace of emotion showing through.
"If the Twisted Aberration breaks out, how would you deal with it? Don't fob me off with the same old answer. I want to know the truth.
[Fine. Since you want to know, I'll tell you.]
[I would draw upon all the foundations of the other worlds to erase the Twisted Aberration. To completely erase this thing, what is necessary is overwhelming force.]
"What about those worlds?"
[Their origins would be exhausted and they would perish. The other worlds are the foundation of the Mysterious Shop's development, and also the final safeguard against the Twisted Aberration.]
"Tch... how heartless." Jiu Ming curled his lip.
[You need to understand the danger posed by the Twisted Aberration. Once it loses control, even more worlds will be implicated, eventually leading to a void calamity that would be difficult to resolve.]
"Fine, I don't know what the void is like, but thinking back on what you said before... it really doesn't sound like it."
Jiu Ming folded his arms and gave a soft laugh.
[...That is indeed true. Now it's time for you to answer my question. You shouldn't have known about this. Who told you?]
"Can't I have guessed it?" Jiu Ming curled his lip.
[Do you think a group of primitive native savages could guess how to make a nuclear bomb just by guessing?]
"Hey!! That analogy is seriously looking down on people, isn't it? Why can't I guess? Fine, I'll tell you the truth—I learned it from the Twisted Aberration. So what?" The instant his words fell, all color vanished from the surroundings. Time throughout the entire Mysterious Shop came to a complete standstill.
The entire world was