Time stood still as a wormhole-like passage opened. Mother Night strode out with her head held high, her black gown flowing with an unusual radiance beneath the starlight.
This was a space completely filled with Chaos. There was no distinction between heaven and earth, only dense blackness.
Unlike mere darkness, the blackness here was the black of utter emptiness, carrying a hollow sensation that made one's heart tremble with unease.
Not far ahead of the two of them was a swirling nebula-like mass, somewhat like a whirlpool in water, drawing countless points of light into the black hole at its center, where they vanished.
This was one manifestation of All Things Return to Nothingness—naturally, only the part that humans could see and comprehend on a conceptual level.
In reality, this was Pralaya.
"My sister."
An operatic drawn-out note rang out from within the vortex. It flipped over from its flat plane, and a beautiful gray-skinned woman abruptly appeared before them, facing Mother Night from a distance. She smiled and nodded at the blue-skinned plump woman.
"So, you changed your mind?"
Though they were said to be biological sisters, they looked nothing alike. Pralaya's entire body was a bluish gray that seemed lifeless, yet she possessed astonishing beauty.
Not only did her face perfectly suit human standards of beauty, but her figure was also exceptionally voluptuous. She was curvaceous and completely naked, even wearing lovely large wavy curls.
Her smile was even more moving, filled with a motherly gentleness, her gaze brimming with love. She looked nothing like the evil face of a great villain one might have expected.
In fact, if someone who knew nothing of the situation saw her, they might think she looked even more like a loving mother than Virgin Mary.
But all of that was merely