Two Containment Objects Face Off! Plague Doctor vs. Abhorrent Flesh! (Continued)

[Genos: @Monster King Orochi, why are you explaining so much? Are you scared?]

[Ash: Is it possible the Foundation knows the coordinates of our worlds? Otherwise, why would they say they're going to hold so many factions accountable?]

[Naruto: That makes sense!]

[Luffy: That makes sense!]

[...]

Ash's comment was like the child in The Emperor's New Clothes. It punctured every faction's fantasy and laid the cruel truth they refused to acknowledge...

Bare and bloody before them.

They could no longer deceive themselves. They had to face that cruel truth head-on.

Especially the factions that had secretly sent people to explore the Demon Slayer World.

They were terrified.

They began scrambling to cut ties, praying that if the SCP Foundation found no evidence they had sent people to the Demon Slayer World, they could escape the reckoning sure to come.

Just then, a smaller window appeared in the upper-right corner of the screen. Dr. Calvin appeared in it and said:

"The impact of this incident in the Demon Slayer World has been far too severe."

"After deliberation, the Foundation has authorized me to show everyone the files on Containment Object SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates (Heavenly Principle variant)!"

As soon as Dr. Calvin finished speaking, a revolting image appeared in the smaller window.

Masses of humanoid flesh were rooted across the buildings, turning what had once been a bustling city of skyscrapers into a sea of flesh!

Anyone who saw the image felt a discomfort that seemed to rise from their very soul.

Instinctively, they wanted to get away from it.

Just then, lines of information about SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates (Heavenly Principle variant), appeared in the image's upper-right corner!

[Name]: The Flesh That Hates!

[Designation]: SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates (original version).

[Class]: Keter.

[Description]: SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates (original form), is a contagious disease. It can infect any flesh-and-blood organism. Scar-like tissue appears on the infected person's skin until it covers their entire body.

The masses of flesh grow rapidly and irregularly, spreading the infection to other objects and forming vast colonies of flesh.

After reading the files,

Morgana froze, then said without thinking, "SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates, is actually a contagious disease."

"The Foundation's Containment Objects really do come in every variety!"

"I'd love to join the Foundation and see more for myself."

"I was living in a well, thinking it was the whole sky."

As she spoke, more text appeared over the image.

[Experiments have shown that, besides conventional transmission, SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates, can also infect through an unknown means.]

[It is believed that once you enter an infected area, merely believing you are infected will cause you to become infected!]

Everyone in the livestream was stunned.

What the hell?

Enter an infected area, believe you were infected, and you would become infected? Was that another conceptual ability?

These Containment Objects were downright uncanny.

Why did every one of them seem to have a conceptual ability?

Just as the viewers were growing numb from the Containment Objects' strange and unpredictable conceptual abilities,

New information appeared!

[After SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates, infects every flesh-and-blood organism in an area, it becomes dormant. It settles in a position it considers suitable and begins to take root.]

[The fleshy tissue growing on victims then spreads on its own to surrounding objects.]

[According to the Doctor's research, the organisms are creating an environment suitable for mutation. The process takes time, but if left unchecked, they will inevitably mature into a mutated form of The Flesh That Hates.]

[SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates (Heavenly Principle variant), which caused the mutation of the Demon Slayer World, evolved from the original SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates.]

[It can infect every living being in a world by eroding that world's Heavenly Principle barrier.]

[Furthermore, when any flesh-and-blood life-form enters that world and then returns to its own,]

[If it believes it has been infected by SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates (Heavenly Principle variant), the infection can spread to the Heavenly Principle Will of its home world.]

[The Doctor believes its transmissibility is a conceptual-level ability.]

Everyone in the livestream was numb after reading that.

Those who had sent people to the Demon Slayer World hoping to pick up easy gains were especially shaken. "I really had guts back then!"

"That's what they mean by ignorance is bliss."

"I actually tried to scavenge in a world with a Containment Object. I must've had a death wish!"

"No one else could've courted death quite like that!"

Just then, the image gradually faded, and Dr. Calvin appeared on the screen again. "Based on our findings, the mutation of the Demon Slayer World did not occur naturally."

"Someone caused it deliberately!"

"Their goal was to contaminate the entire Super God Universe."

"As for the culprit?"

Dr. Calvin paused, then continued, "With authorization, the Doctor in charge of the base deployed an SCP Containment Object."

"Even so, he could not find the culprit! We can only confirm that they are an evil organization from beyond the universe, calling themselves the Sarkic Cult."

"Beyond the universe is not safe!"

"Be on your guard!"

With that, Dr. Calvin disappeared from the livestream.

Dr. Calvin was gone, but his words echoed through everyone's minds like a thunderclap at the dawn of creation, leaving them speechless for a long time.

Only after a while did they recover and begin discussing it frantically in the livestream!

[Sengoku: There's an evil organization like that beyond the Super God Universe? They seem to be an organization like the Foundation, except the Foundation protects people, while they...]

[Morgana: I was living in a well, thinking it was the whole sky. I thought I stood at the pinnacle of the universe, but I never imagined there was so much beyond it. @Holy Kesha, I've abandoned the Order of the Fallen!]

[I'm going to Earth to learn. We don't need to fight anymore!]

[Holy Kesha: Are you admitting defeat?]

[Morgana: You bitch! I'm not admitting defeat. At the very least, I haven't lost to your Order of Justice. I'm only saying my Order of the Fallen was wrong!]

[But your Order of Justice isn't right either!]

[A bitch is still a bitch!]

[Aizen: The Sarkic Cult, the Foundation... In just a few months, my entire worldview has collapsed. I need to learn about this world all over again!]

[Hiruzen Sarutobi: Me too! Also, I suspect the SCP Foundation isn't native to Earth. They might be from beyond the universe as well.]

[Earth could be just one of their branches.]

[Blast: I agree. From what I've seen and heard, a multiverse does exist!]

[Red-Haired Shanks: I'm tired. Let it all end. I'm embarrassed to call myself one of the Four Emperors now.]

[Luffy: @Red-Haired Shanks, can you let me have your title as one of the Four Emperors?]

[Kaipu: Luffy! Are you asking for a beating?]

[...]

Just as Dr. Calvin's words left everyone feeling small, something SCP-049 Plague Doctor said in the livestream drew their attention back!

SCP-049 Plague Doctor walked up to the Heavenly Principle Will. Looking at the writhing mass of flesh, he said in a raspy voice tinged with disappointment:

"I thought I'd finally identified the source of the pestilence."

"But you, too, are a carrier of the pestilence!"

"Alas!"

At that, SCP-049 Plague Doctor's voice suddenly grew excited. He stared straight at the mass of flesh and the Heavenly Principle Will. "You are all carriers of the pestilence."

"I must stop it from spreading!"

"That is my duty!"

"You must accept my treatment!"

"You must!"

As he spoke, SCP-049 Plague Doctor reached out his right hand from his sleeve toward SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates (Heavenly Principle variant), before the watching audience.

Everyone in the livestream held their breath.

They wanted to see whether SCP-049 Plague Doctor could kill Containment Object SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates (Heavenly Principle variant), for good. They had seen SCP-049 Plague Doctor before...

And they knew the power of his conceptual erasure ability.

But this time, his target was no ordinary person. It was another Containment Object.

Two Containment Objects were going head-to-head!

There was no telling which would prevail!

Under the viewers' unblinking gaze, SCP-049 Plague Doctor gently pressed his right index finger against the writhing SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates (Heavenly Principle variant)!

But this time was completely different!

Not only was SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates (Heavenly Principle variant), not erased immediately, it fought back fiercely. Great masses of flesh surged up SCP-049 Plague Doctor's right hand...

And spread rapidly across his body.

In the blink of an eye, they had swallowed SCP-049 Plague Doctor, forming a revolting mass of flesh over two meters tall.

Its surface writhed constantly. Grotesque, twisted human faces appeared across it from time to time, letting out piercing wails...

Those wails sounded strangely similar to the cries of SCP-096 Shy Guy!

Listen closely, though, and beneath the shrill weeping came SCP-049 Plague Doctor's raspy voice, growing more agitated by the moment:

"Damn it!"

"I'm treating you! Why won't you accept the treatment quietly?"

"I'm a doctor!"

"You must listen!"

"Accept the treatment!"

The wails from the mass formed by SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates (Heavenly Principle variant), mingled with SCP-049 Plague Doctor's angry shouts from inside it...

Their voices echoed through the strange space.

Everyone thought the two would remain locked together, neither able to overcome the other, until the struggle ended in a draw!

Then the mass formed by SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates (Heavenly Principle variant), shuddered violently.

Before the stunned eyes of the livestream viewers, it rapidly withered into ash that drifted to the ground! SCP-049 Plague Doctor reappeared before them, his voice ringing out with unmistakable excitement!

"I told you you were a carrier of the pestilence!"

"You should have accepted treatment quietly!"

"But you insisted on resisting!"

"I was only trying to help you!"

At that, the excitement in SCP-049 Plague Doctor's voice dwindled and finally vanished, replaced by deep regret:

"My medical skills were lacking, too!"