· Immediately, Immediately

Black Bullet World.

Because the flow of time differed between worlds, less than a year had passed in the Game of Life World, yet nearly a century had already gone by in the Black Bullet World. At the center of the Black Bullet World's universe, an illusory yet incomparably enormous Fusang Divine Tree stood tall.

Its vast trunk supported the entire world. Galaxies were its branches, suns were its leaves, and above its crown, a sun spanning half the world radiated dazzling light. At the heart of that sun, the king of the Star Beasts slept.

Its body, originally only the size of several galaxies, had grown several times larger again, yet now it seemed so insignificant. All attention was drawn to the tiny figure on the throne above its head.

"Mavis, it's already been a hundred years, Klee..."

Beside the throne, Zera looked worriedly at Klee, who slept upon it like a porcelain doll. Ever since Klee had conquered the Star Beasts and the Insectoids a hundred years ago, completely ruling over the three top races of the entire Black Bullet World—

Klee's true body had begun drawing on the entire universe as nourishment to take the final step. During this time, Mavis and Zera had remained by Klee's side, witnessing all the changes in Black Bullet.

At first, not only Mavis and Zera, but even Tina, Kuri, and the others had all stayed here. But after Klee fell into slumber, her true body rapidly grew as it continuously absorbed the entire universe. In just ten short years—

With the "Fusang Divine Tree" spread throughout the universe as its anchor, its massive roots took root directly in the entire universe. And as time passed, Klee's increasingly enormous true body directly propped up the whole world.

From then on, Klee's