Everyone knew the answer.
Uta, who had been lying in Shanks's arms, suddenly became completely quiet at that moment. The pain vanished from her face in an instant, and the gloom between her brows was swept away.
It was as if she had broken free from the shackles that had always tormented her heart. Everyone could feel her relief.
Everyone quietly let out a sigh of relief. Then they all raised their heads, waiting for the boy's return.
A short while earlier.
The end of the Uta World.
The boy shrouded in Red Mist raised his head. His Azure Eyes were filled with coldness.
He ignored the Red Mist silently closing in from all around. Instead, he raised his blade, gathering the powers of time and space along its edge before slashing viciously behind the girl.
Crack—!
The sound of the world shattering rang out.
A pitch-black abyss slowly surfaced behind the girl, stretching across the entire world.
As if some connection had been severed, the distortion on the girl's face was instantly erased. Her pretty features returned to their usual beauty, the lashes over her round eyes stopped trembling, and her hands, which had been wrapped around her knees, relaxed. Then she lay completely flat and fell into a deep sleep.
At that same moment, the Demon King outside shattered, and its power reversed course.
Roar~
The roar of the true Demon King crossed the dark abyss and came from another world that Kuta did not understand.
The sound was like gasoline thrown into a fire. After the Red Mist that had always surrounded Kuta, along with the Black Tide, gathered the power from outside, they became boiling water, churning violently.
They drowned the girl, drowned the boy, and sought to devour them completely.
Yet no matter how violently