Chương 89: Chapter 56:"Dawn of the Decisive Battle"

Wake-up time came before dawn. In the end, I couldn't sleep at all since then. I just closed my eyes to relieve my fatigue. Alice and Milia also got up, and we went to eat together. Since there are no tables, we sit on the ground and eat. We end up crushing the Kissa grass growing all over the meadow, but it can't be helped. Since the camp is close to the town, we had no trouble with food. The servers brought cooking equipment and prepared soup overnight. So we didn't have to eat bad soldier rations.

Naturally, people who get along well gathered together, forming groups of several people here and there. Some were eating silently alone, though. Near the three of us, Argus, Karla-senpai, Ketty-senpai, and slightly later Inea-sensei and Dreet-san came. The usual members plus Dreet-san were gathered. When the meal settled down, I decided to tell only them about the true crisis of the world. I limited it because I didn't know what the reaction would be if I told everyone here.

This time, panic might really break out. Honestly, I feel like it's a problem on a level that won't change even if I talk about it, and everything seems to go dark before my eyes... Still, thinking it would be better than holding it alone, I broached the subject.

"I finally found out the true identity of the dangerous factor Will left behind."

"What!?" Sensei, who knows his terror best, reacted first. Alice and Milia next to me, and Argus sitting opposite me also tightened their faces.

"Who is this Will?" Karla-senpai tilted her head. Ketty-senpai also had a face saying she didn't understand. That's right. Only the seniors hadn't been told about him. As for Dreet-san, perhaps he had been told about him by Inea-sensei. He wasn't particularly surprised. I turned to the two seniors and decided to briefly explain him first.

"It's the name of the guy who dropped [Megil]. In this world, he is called the Incarnation of God or something. Though he's actually not such a guy at all." Both of them made faces of disbelief.

"Yu, you're acquainted with that Incarnation of God!?"

"Isn't that a legendary existence!? He really existed!?" Remembering the worst first meeting with him again, I nodded while feeling bad.

"Rather than an acquaintance, I just met him once in my hometown and had terrible things done to me. He is the person who created the opportunity for me to come to this world."

"What is that way of speaking? It sounds as if you came from a different world or something. Don't tell me—" To Karla-senpai who gasped, I nodded again and answered.

"Yes. Like Will, I am a traveler from another world with special powers. It's called a FabL."

"Haaah!? Then your outrageous abilities and mysterious background were because of that!?" While surprised overly, Karla-senpai seemed somewhat convinced, perhaps because she had researched me well. Ketty-senpai still seemed unable to keep up with the conversation. She tried to say something to me, but when Karla-senpai whispered something, she backed down for the time being. Karla-senpai looked me up and down curiously again. I feel like something similar was done when I told Alice and others before...

"Your hair is black, and I thought you were a mysterious child in various ways... somehow it clicked easily. If it weren't Yu, I definitely wouldn't believe it." In the end, Karla-senpai seemed to completely believe me. It's the same with other people, but I wonder why they believe me so easily when I say I came from another world. I don't know. Maybe I've been standing out quite a bit without knowing it. Certainly, I never saw anyone with the same black hair as me in this world.

I probably exposed various faults where I didn't know. There seems to be a fairy tale widely spread in this world about a messenger from another world. Faith in other worlds seems relatively common, but still. Anyway. That's not something I should think deeply about now. Stolen story; please report. I continued talking to convey what I had to convey.

"As I said yesterday, Edel, which should have been destroyed by [Megil], had sunk deep underground in its original form. The situation this time is that it has been revived." Adding one more important background fact to the common understanding.

"The executor is Tor Guief, but Will drew all the pictures up to here. The dangerous factor he left behind that could destroy the world—the key to activate it was Edel."

"Isn't Edel itself that factor?" To Milia's question who noticed my nuance, I shook my head.

"No, Milia. Certainly, Edel is a threat. But that won't destroy the world. Maybe it can destroy humanity, though. The answer is simpler and more helpless..." Imagining it again before saying it, I choke on my words. The end of the world that might happen in the near future. All the places where everyone is living like this now will disappear without a trace. Swallowed by unimaginable heat waves and a sea of lava covering the entire surface—"Are you okay?"

When I noticed, Alice was looking into my face worriedly from the side. —Was my hand trembling this much? I decided to honestly accept help.

"Can you hold my hand for a moment?"

"Sure." Alice's right hand tightly gripped my left hand. I feel Alice's warmth. I feel Alice's strength. You are still here. If I look forward, everyone is here too. There is still time. Not gone yet. Everyone is properly here. Receiving courage from her, I managed to spin words.

"Why didn't he destroy the world at once, possessing overwhelming power that could easily drop even a meteorite? Why did he do such a roundabout thing?" Will's method. His malice.

"It's because he wanted the trigger for world destruction to be pulled by the hands of greedy humans themselves." Everyone frowns at that viciousness. But they are waiting for the continuation with bated breath. I finally tell the true identity of the mechanism.

"The midnight shelling was exactly that trigger. Taking that as an opportunity, he had set up a mechanism to give a certain directionality to the enormous active Magic Element emitted from Edel. And using that enormous magic power—" Taking a breath, I announce the decisive word. I knew even my voice was trembling." He is trying to drop the Moon." Everyone who expressed astonishment at the shocking statement immediately turned their eyes to the direction of the blue moon.

It, which is already sinking ahead of dawn, had become big enough for anyone to understand now if told and noticed. But in such an emergency, no one bothers to look at the moon carefully. That's why most people didn't notice. Besides, no one would seriously think that the moon would fall. Even if they feel it's a little bigger, they should dismiss it as a misunderstanding. Anyway, when the moon appears next, it will probably be approaching the surface obviously enough at a glance.

"Oi oi... What is that..." Argus has a face written "You're lying". I feel the same way. I wanted to think it was a dream. This isn't a story on the level of a natural disaster. Is it this much? The true power hidden in a FabL. The power to overturn the logic of this world is used for such a terrifying thing. Trying to return all living things on this star to nothingness. Are we helpless even against the playful half of just one man...!? It was unbearably frustrating. Not just me.

That this world itself is being treated like a toy by him. That I can't do anything about it. If I am a FabL like him. If my power is truly something amazing. I don't mind becoming a monster. If I can save everyone, I don't mind dying. I want to change this fate. I want to overturn this absurdity. But I... don't know what to do. No matter how many times I think. No matter how many times I ask my heart. A way to stop that directly doesn't come out. Doesn't float. Can't grasp.

Moving my eyes to Edel, it was emitting Magic Element upward as usual. Enormous amount of Magic Element penetrates the atmosphere and continues to supply magic power to the moon. Receiving that, the moon is gradually approaching this star.

"Probably, the moon will reach the gravitational sphere in a day or two and collide with this star. If that happens, the world is over." Literally, the world will be destroyed. What remains after the collision is a scorching star where almost no life can live. To everyone who lost their words, I stated the only hopeful possibility I could think of.

"If active Magic Element is dropping the moon. If we stop that, maybe the moon will stop too."

"I see. That makes sense." Nodding back to Inea-sensei who tries to be calm, I continue.

"To stop the supply of Magic Element, we have no choice but to stop Edel's activity and drag it down to the ground. If even that doesn't work, then..." Once the moon starts moving, it might not stop no matter what we do. When such anxiety tried to make my heart tremble again. Alice, who kept holding my hand firmly. Called out as if encouraging everyone, especially me. There was no darkness in that voice anywhere.

"What. Isn't it simple? What we do and the situation hardly change." Strength is put into the hand gripping me. Alice dared to smile brightly. What a strong-hearted person.

"If we can't capture Edel, we lose. If we can capture it, the rest depends on luck. If we lose here, everyone dies anyway. It just means the fate of the world is also at stake incidentally." It was an eye-opening thought. Certainly so. If we can't manage here, the fact that everyone dies doesn't change. For us, whether the world is destroyed or we lose here, it's the same thing. Sensei and others also agree with Alice.

"That is certainly true. No matter how others are, the world that decides our fate now is here, Sacris."

"No doubt. Let's do what we can, and if it doesn't work, let's think it was bad luck and give up. You don't need to feel responsible. Yu."

"I am a human who might have died once. If I can fight with you guys, it's my long-cherished desire. Let's overturn the fate of destruction."

"Even if this becomes the end, Master—no! I'll pay back that Tor guy with a punch! So I can go meet Eike with my chest high!"

"You'll probably dogeza (prostrate) even if you go to the afterlife as is. Your sins are too heavy. But I'm in on the plan to punch that Tor!" Karla-senpai and Ketty-senpai high-five vigorously. Finally. Dreet-san, who had been listening silently until here, concluded with a quiet but powerful tone.

"This life with little time left. Even if this becomes the end, I have no regrets. For the sake of the future, shall I bloom one last flower here?" Alice placed her remaining left hand on my left hand and smiled gently at me.

"The world might be destroyed. It's really a big deal. But, you know. Don't take it too seriously just because of that."

"Alice..."

"Thinking too seriously about everything is Yu's bad habit. Yu is not alone. You don't need to carry something big like the world all by yourself. Right?"

"Yeah..." That's right. My bad habit came out again. Even though worrying won't help. Because the opponent is too big, only despair and anxiety were getting ahead of themselves. Thinking was proceeding in a bad direction more and more. Everyone is here. Let's join forces and do what we can one by one. If it still doesn't work, then that's that. I'll struggle. To the end. Light began to shine in the sky. Finally, the morning sun was about to rise. A day that divides the fate of the world begins.

Even if the world is at stake, what we do doesn't change. Protect Sacris. Defeat Clam and Tor, and stop Edel.