As those lightly spoken words fell, the golden light dimmed completely.
Si Chen's vast phantom crumbled inch by inch, becoming golden fireflies dancing across the sky.
Taichu's face was hidden in shadow.
"Boom!!!"
An indescribably immense surge of black energy erupted from Taichu's body!
That undisguised fury finally sent Filth completely out of control!
The entire world-or rather, this "old universe" that was already utterly empty-began to crumble beneath Taichu's rage.
"You think you saved them!?"
"You think I can't find them just because you hid them in a new world!?"
"I'll tear that shoddy world apart! Those ants you care about-I'll grind every last one of them to pieces!!!"
Countless streams of black energy thrashed wildly behind Taichu, seemingly ready to tear open the plane the next instant and utterly devour the new world that had drifted away.
"Why are you shouting so loudly?"
A voice tinged with helplessness sounded behind Taichu.
"..."
Taichu shuddered and whipped around toward the voice.
At the center of the golden fragments dancing through the sky, Si Chen had not vanished completely.
His body had become translucent, as though a gust of wind could scatter him, but an unhurried smile still lingered at the corners of his mouth.
He rubbed his ears. "It's already the very end. Can't you keep it down?"
Taichu was almost on the verge of going berserk. "You won... but I have nothing left!"
Looking at Taichu's face, filled with viciousness, Si Chen sighed softly. "Walk with me for this little time I have left?"
Taichu said nothing, merely staring coldly at him.
Yet the savage black energy around them actually began to settle slowly.
Si Chen smiled, turned, and walked ahead.
After a moment's silence, Taichu ultimately followed him. A few paces apart, the two walked through nothingness,