Misaki City, suspended in midair, stopped rising and stood in the center of the sky. Because of the terrifying disturbance, lights could already be seen coming on in house after house throughout the city, accompanied by the clamor of a crowd on the verge of boiling over, like the prelude to a stage curtain rising.
"Even if I denied that now, you wouldn't believe me, would you? So keep waiting, and keep hoping."
Roland answered Aoko casually, but never stopped moving, flying toward an even higher point.
His attention was now entirely focused on observing the timeline, and the virtually inexhaustible magical energy within him poured out at an astonishing rate. Had this body not long since become a different kind of perpetual motion machine, it would probably have buckled under the burden. Even so, for the first time in ages, Roland felt a stabbing pain as though the blood in his body were burning.
In the world of JoJo, he would only have needed to observe gravity's point of equilibrium at a particular place and time. That would have saved him a great deal of trouble.
If C-Moon had come directly from the Key of All Spirits, a power obtained through a Contract Spirit's Contract, he could have used it directly. But the current C-Moon had been molded by Roland's own hands, which inevitably made things more troublesome.
He had to fulfill the necessary conditions through the First Magic and Fifth Magic, which could only be obtained at the Root.
The First Magic's mystification of newly born things would allow this miracle of accelerated time to spread throughout the entire Type-Moon cosmology. The Fifth Magic's consumption of the timeline as a whole would let Roland witness the universe's end and final demise, thereby achieving the utmost acceleration.
But performing