Chapter 581: First Spirit
Princess had high expectations, hoping that Yuki would choose a fitting name for her, a name that would belong solely to her.
"Tohka... Tohka Yatogami..."
Without hesitation, Yuki said the name. Princess, now called Tohka, was in a trance for a few seconds, murmuring her new name and smiling after committing it to memory.
"Yes! Tohka... My name is Tohka!"
"...."
Kotori, who was watching everything through the cameras, remained silent. She could understand Tohka's feelings; humans had been relentlessly hunting her, but the spatial quakes were also a factor.
"That mark..."
The strange mark on Tohka's stomach made Kotori frown. Although it didn't resemble the mark on her own chest, there was a strange similarity. After all, there were five points around the clock that blocked her Reiryoku. Suspicions began to arise in her heart, and her vigilance towards Yuki increased.
"What happened, Danna-sama? Is it from the future?"
"Yes, as always, you're very perceptive about these things."
After leaving Tohka for her medical examination and capturing all her data, Yuki and Kurumi walked side by side. Yuki's strange behavior a few minutes ago worried Kurumi, and being sensitive to time, she could deduce that it was crucial information from the future.
"Hihihi, of course, Danna-sama. Zafkiel detects Reiyoku and time waves."
"That's true. I won't lie to you. The information I received is about a timeline different from ours..."
"A parallel timeline?"
"No, it's an anomaly in space-time, like the conception of an alternate timeline."
When it came to timelines and paradoxes, both Yuki and Kurumi found it headache-inducing to try to understand the sequence of events. The information was laborious to process.
"So? What's it about?"
"The first spirit attacked us the moment we entered this world. She's very strong..."
Yuki had a flashback of everything that had happened, leaving him both confused and shocked.
The timeline they were in was approximately the second one. Yuki didn't know if there were other 'Yukis' from the future, past, or present at this moment around the world.
The danger posed by the first spirit was so high that Yuki had to resort to time travel to fix the timeline.
In the first timeline, the 'Yuki' of that timeline was ambushed by the first spirit.
The moment the space-time coordinates were established by the Chat Room, the first spirit altered them and created new coordinates for Yuki and Kurumi to appear on one of Mars' moons.
For the Yuki of that timeline, it was a great shock. He didn't even know how the first spirit managed to interfere with the chat room coordinates, which were protected by a system that even an Overlord couldn't alter. Yet the first spirit could do it...
When Yuki and Kurumi opened their eyes, the first thing they saw was a large tower decorated with flowers and branches similar to a tree. Standing in front of them was the first spirit, whose body was covered in mosaic-like static, making it impossible to see her true appearance...
They had fallen into a trap. The moon of Mars was covered by the 'Territory' of this strange tower, and reality was altered.
The worst part was that everything was disappearing. Nothing could exist in this 'Territory,' and they were being erased at the level of existence. Yuki quickly sensed the crisis and deployed his crown...
The world of Date a Live is vast, equivalent to an entire solar system, so the moon of Mars was considered a small part of a sub-world. It was easy for Yuki's incomplete Crown to protect, but it was a mistake.
When the Crown came into contact with Ain Soph, it didn't counteract the erasure effect. Instead, it fused with it and created an 'Incomplete-Domain.'
The Crown resonated with Ain Soph, not considering it harmful. Instead, it seemed like an extension of its master...
Everything happened so quickly that when Yuki wanted to react, he was covered by this domain. Fortunately, nothing happened to him. After all, the Crown was considered part of him, making it incapable of harming him. But it was very different for Kurumi. When the domain covered her, the partner mark lit up in an attempt to rescue her, but it was useless. Everything was covered by the energy of Order, and all existence was crushed.
"Danna... Sama..."
Yuki opened his eyes in shock as he saw Kurumi vanish from existence. The partner mark could only protect part of her soul, but her fate and body were annihilated.
His woman was killed in front of his eyes by his own crown...
*BOOM*
It was a devastating blow. The crown that protected the world began to glow and rotate, the force of the clash between two high-ranking existences in the food chain...
"WHY?!"
*Bam*
Est collided with one of Anaph's branches, and the shockwave made the moon of Mars tremble. But Yuki didn't care. Using his maximum speed, he pursued the first spirit...
"WHY THE HELL CAN YOU USE MY CROWN?!"
Yuki couldn't understand. The Crowns of Champions were pure sources of Order. For living beings and even gods, it was impossible to use a crown. The mere act of directly contacting a Champion's Crown meant certain death. An example of this was Deus Ex Machina, who, even after the absolute champion's crown collapsed and he carried it, was unable to use it. Instead, he was slowly consumed. This demonstrates that even a dead champion's crown is dangerously absurd. The Crowns protect worlds, are the light in infinite darkness, the only shield against Chaos, which even other Champions can't use.
But the first spirit was different. Not only could she control the crown, but she could also change the Domain...
*Bam*
Anaph's branches became increasingly dense, even too much for Est...
"Ahhhhh!!"
Suddenly, the crown glowed, and Est let out a scream. The Crown began to erase her existence...
"ZAFKIEL!!"
[Incomplete Domain, World Time]
*Tick, tock*
But before it succeeded, a golden clock materialized, and the crown stopped rotating. Yuki had changed the Incomplete Domain, and time froze. Yuki denied the first spirit's domain and attacked.
"Henet"
However, the frozen time was ignored by the first spirit, and she changed the domain again. The crown glowed, and flowers began to fall from the sky...
(This isn't good!)
Yuki's eyes widened in shock. He quickly sent Est to the spirit world, and his Mangekyou Sharingan spun...
[Boundary between Life and Death]
The flowers glowed, shedding light particles across the moon. Yuki used the Dojutsu of boundaries to deny the existential erasure effect...
"What?!"
But it was useless. The Dojutsu of boundaries couldn't stop the erasure. Light particles fell on Yuki's body, and the effect activated...
"Disappear... Impostor..."
The first spirit's soft voice was heard for the first time.
*Bam*
But just as Ain Soph couldn't harm Yuki, Henet couldn't either because it was connected to the crown. From the lights, a black giant rose. The first spirit was depressed for not being able to eliminate her enemy, but she didn't stop...
[Susanoo]
Yuki didn't stop either. He materialized his swords and attacked forcefully...
"Yah!"
But before he could succeed, the first spirit's astral dress glowed. Her static and mosaic body grew to match Susanoo's size, and a branch-shaped sword also grew.
*Bam*
The clash with Anaph was immense, and in that collision, Yuki was sent flying. Susanoo's armor shattered, and Yuki was forced to cough up blood...
------------
TN: Oh no not the alternate timeline bs I hate them to core