A door belonging to the Time Variance Authority opened.
Dawnlight stood there with his arms spread and smiled. "Welcome."
The members of the John Council smiled one after another.
They were leaving this John's Upside-Down City.
John had never lacked ambition.
"Did you find him?" Silver Mask asked beside Dawnlight.
Dawnlight's smile gradually faded. "No."
"What right do a bunch of people who can't even tell they've caught the wrong person have to rule over other people's fates?"
Dawnlight raised an eyebrow. "Still, something else caught my interest."
"Perhaps we can challenge a new opponent."
"Oh, and they're a council too. Looks like plenty of people have the same idea as us."
"Unfortunately for them," Dawnlight said with a curling smile, "we're stronger."
Silver Mask smiled too.
"Might makes right."
The John Council walked into the Time Variance Authority.
John of the Potions Department had also reached his final destination.
It was a place encircled by a golden snake.
The Ouroboros revolved, symbolizing eternal, unceasing time.
John's arrival brought the Ouroboros to a halt.
The great snake biting its own tail slowly released it.
Time fractured.
A gem nurtured by the magic power of potions radiated an intoxicatingly beautiful light.
John reached out and took it.
Magic power had trapped him in Time Flash, and now it was time for that to end.
Suddenly, the sound of a greatsword dragging along the ground rang out.
Puzzled, Johanna turned around.
In that instant, a sword had already swept across her neck.
Johanna touched her neck, uncertain and alarmed.
"I feel..."
"You've already died once."
The voice rang out as the Lionheart Emperor turned the greatsword in his hand.
John calmly set down the gem and looked at the newcomer.
"Now that's a familiar face." Dusk, the Lionheart Emperor, clicked his