Buzz—
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!!
No one saw clearly what had happened.
Only Sakumura and Musashi caught a glimpse of something through their Mind's Eye.
From within Muramasa's Saint Graph came sounds like a blacksmith forging steel. Blue patterns even surfaced across his body, and then—
Radiance gathered in his hand as he drew—
A crimson uchigatana.
Namely—[Tsumugari Muramasa].
Then, Muramasa merely raised the blade, and—
Slashed.
That was all.
In the next instant, the scenery before everyone's eyes—including Amakusa Shirou Tokisada, who stood in the air as though awaiting the descent of the so-called "Root of Fantasy"—began to change at a dizzying speed.
And when they came back to their senses—
The Reality Marble had vanished.
They were still atop the tower, within the castle keep city that controlled everything.
"You said... Tsumugari?"
Amakusa Shirou pressed a hand to his chest, where a burning pain still lingered. Yet his eyes remained fixed on Senji Muramasa, filled with disbelief.
That name—
Had appeared at the tail of Yamata-no-Orochi.
The divine—
Tachi?
"I see, I see!"
"Shuten Douji—Mochizuki Chiyome—Hahaha, hahahahahahahaha!!!!!"
"So the moment my Bantenren Sorcery summoned them—this outcome was already decided?"
Buzz—
BOOM—!!!
Mocking himself.
Laughing loudly.
Grieving.
Raging.
Amid those sounds, the castle keep city—Rejecting the Defiled Land Castle, transformed into Sorcery City—split in two.
The terrifying magical energy carried by that massive slash shot into the heavens, as if it would cleave apart the blood moon in the sky as well. Then came the flames.
Evil flames that would burn away all evil, all filth.
And yet, they resembled the terrifying blaze in Amakusa Shirou Tokisada's memories—the fire that had seemed ready to burn away his entire life.
"Why?"
Amakusa Shirou Tokisada looked at Muramasa and muttered.
"My Reality Marble was divided into two parts. How