It was as though some existence had stripped them of life's meaning, leaving them able only to see their own figures vanishing into a black hole at the end of the horizon, again and again, in dreams and hallucinations.
Self-Extinguishers were the collective name for such people.
"Assimilating with an Aeon and causing one's own meaning to gradually fade away... That's a bit too much to ask of Mobius."
"If the condition of Self-Extinguishers were so easy to cure, I'd have crawled into the Shadow of the Void and switched to Void's Path long ago."
"Void's Path is the only Path that might allow a mortal to slay an Aeon."
Russell said this to Megumin.
"So there's no cure?"
Though he could not see Megumin's expression, he could still sense that the girl across from him seemed somewhat dejected.
"At this stage, more or less."
Russell spoke, but then the Prompt Device's denial rang out beside his ear.
There actually is a way to save them.
?
There was still a way to save a Self-Extinguisher?
Russell froze.
Just as the Hunt and Abundance, Preservation and Voracity, had their opposing foes, so did Nihility—Existence.
If Nihility was the essence of the silent universe, then Existence was the clamor of all meaning. When life expanded to its limit, Existence would overwhelm Nihility.
So, to treat a Self-Extinguisher, all one needed was a blessing from the God of Existence.
Russell: "..."
A polite yet awkward expression appeared on his face.
Existence?
Wasn't that an Aeon that had never even been born?
You could make a knockoff version with lesser blessings, right? One portion of Elation, one portion of Remembrance, and another from balance of Harmony should more or less do it.
Russell: "..."
He could not hold it together anymore.
He truly