[Found You]

"That was close..." Kouro said in a cold sweat, he was touching the Herrscher of the End's hand that was full of reddish lines.

Kouro had previously barely been able to stop the Herrscher of the End from detonating her core, if not for the fact that Herrscher also wanted to detonate his core together with hers, the Herrscher of the End would have managed to detonate herself.

He did not know how much intensity the Herrscher of the End's core explosion would cause, as Kouro remembered that the Herrscher of Reason's core explosion was equivalent to a supernova explosion.

Of course even if it was a Big Bang explosion, Kouro with his current strength felt like a small explosion to him.

He stopped the Herrscher of the End from blowing herself up because if she did then Herrscher's core would be damaged.

Kouro still remembered that he had a [Hidden Quest] that required him to collect 4 fragments of the Herrscher of the End's core.

He wondered what would happen if he had the full Herrscher of the End core from this world.

The Herrscher of the End gritted her teeth before saying angrily, "You broke your promise!"

Kouro glanced at her before releasing her hand and saying calmly, "I wouldn't have stopped you from your attack if not for the fact that it could harm yourself."

The Herrscher of the End rubbed her wrist with a sullen expression, Kouro was indeed not wrong, because of 'emotion' she made impulsive actions, this really couldn't be allowed!

'I must kill this 'emotion'!'

Although she thought like that, she felt unwilling because this was the first time she had feelings, unlike before.

The Herrscher of the End did not know that her 'will' had actually been influenced by the Herrscher of Human: Ego's Core when it was sealed for 50,000+ years.

Like a drop of water that could perforate a rock, Elysia's will quietly but surely gave 'Ego' to the Herrscher of the End's consciousness.

But the Herrscher of the End's 'Ego' was pure like a clean blank paper so later on when she managed to take over Sirin's body, she slightly absorbed Sirin's 'Ego' making her slightly possess Sirin's personality.

If the Herrscher of the End slightly absorbed Elysia's personality how strange would she become?

"Even so, you still broke your promise!" the Herrscher shouted.

Kouro turned to look at her, subconsciously he was reminded of Kiana, the Herrscher of the End in front of him had almost the same childish nature as Kiana.

Seeing how the Herrscher of the End was actually protesting against him, he could only sigh helplessly before saying.

"Alright, alright, I understand. I will increase your chance to attack me 3 more times, I will not retaliate and dodge, then I will only use my one hand when fighting you."

The Herrscher of the End pouted and wanted to say something only to suddenly feel a gripping pressure making her unable to move from Kouro.

"But you should... You wouldn't use that suicide technique." Kouro said coldly pointing at her, his eyes shining like stars and he unconsciously activated the [Bloodlust] ability.

With just his pressure, the space they were in rumbled, countless stars began to disappear as if swallowed by darkness.

The Herrscher of the End had cold sweat and trembling pupils understood for the first time.

This Kouro before her was a horrible creature that could kill her easily.

He was just playing with her and she could not resist, not under Kouro's absolute power. She was just an ant.

(E/D: 

"I... Understood..." said Herrscher of the End in a stammering voice.

"Good! Since you understand, now please attack me with all your strength!" said Kouro with a happy smile.

The flying Herrscher of the End gritted her teeth before retreating a few meters away from him.

'Even if he has enough power to kill me in one blow, as long as his attack doesn't hit me like before, I still have a chance.'

The Herrscher of the End calmed herself then took a deep breath before exhaling.

She opened her eyes revealing her cold glowing eyes, the Herrscher of the End stared at Kouro for a moment before attacking him while snorting.

"Hmph!"

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"Is it just me or is Kouro playing with the Herrscher of the End?" Theresa asked, staring at the screen interface.

"It's not just your feelings, Kouro is indeed toying with her. " Ashborn replied with his arms folded.

"Well... It seems like he really has a grudge against the Herrscher of the End." muttered Welt recalling the killing intent Kouro had once issued when he saw the Herrscher of the End kill Higokumaru.

"By the way, aren't we fixing this right away?" asked Sirin carefully pointing at the chaos around them due to the Herrscher of the End.

"Just leave it to me." Griseo said softly, she was holding a new brush created by Sirin.

Griseo was seen closing her eyes and breathing rhythmically before moving her brush gently, each movement of her brush creating a warm, colorful light.

The disappearing continent of Europe was within the speed of an eye, appeared following Griseo's brush movements, she was currently transforming her fictional image into a reality that could be touched, felt, and seen.

"Woah..." Sirin and the others were amazed by Griseo's ability.

"Hmm... Griseo-chan's ability is indeed more efficient than using the 4th Divine Key." Mobius muttered.

The 4th Divine Key was a large space satellite that had the ability to change the terrain thanks to the Herrscher core of the Herrscher of the Wind from the Previous Era.

For example, a place where Honkai erupted and Honkai radiation still remained in that place could be cleared using the 4th Divine Key.

Honkai energy was toxic to soil, plants and animals.

The soil would become barren and have Honkai radiation, plants would wither and die, and animals would sometimes turn into Honkai Beasts.

For some reason, World Serpent relinquished their ownership of the Divine Key leaving it without an owner before Schicksal took it.

"You two, can you tell Otto to use the 4th Divine Key?" Mobius asked Cecilia and Theresa.

"Alright. I will contact my grandfather." Theresa said before opening the screen interface to contact Otto.

Mobius stared at the screen interface back at the Herrscher of the End who was attacking Kouro with all her might, but always to no avail.

She then subconsciously glanced at Aponia who was currently staring at the Herrscher of the End with an unknown expression.

'The future... Has she seen anything?'

Aponia's withered-looking eyes stared at the interface screen unblinkingly, her eyes momentarily seeming to glow.

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"Hahh!!!"

The Herrscher of the End punched Kouro's chest breathlessly.

The impact of her fist created a turbulent impact that could push the planet off its axis.

The attacked Kouro did not seem to suffer any damage and he never even moved from his position.

"That was your last chance. As promised, I will only use one hand." Kouro said with a calm expression raising his left hand.

The Herrscher of the End wore a wary expression with a slight frown, although she had tried other means except the technique of exploding her Herrscher core, she was completely unable to scratch Kouro's body in the slightest.

The Herrscher of the End's fighting style could be summarized into three words, Fast and Sharp.

She always attacked quickly and killed the opponent with a single strike. But alas she had met Kouro.

Once enhanced, Kouro could withstand the impact of moving at the speed of pure light using his body.

If he wished, Kouro could swim in the core of a sun which felt like a hot spring to him.

Too bad this enhancement he had was only temporary, after he defeated the Herrscher of the End and repaired the damage to the earth, the power he had would definitely disappear.

"Hmph! Even if I don't manage to deal you any damage, it's the same for you!" said the Herrscher of the End with a confident smile.

The only thing she could think of to deal damage to Kouro was to use the power of [Space] and make Kouro hit himself.

Although the possibility was very slim since Kouro could keep up with her speed, as long as there was a chance, it was definitely possible!

As she was thinking this, she then heard Kouro's voice which gave her goosebumps instantly..

"Really?" said Kouro quietly, his body exuding an aura that was many times more terrifying than before.

'No way! He's been suppressing his power to an extreme level?!' thought the Herrscher of the End in a cold sweat, her eyes then glaring at Kouro afraid of losing track of him if she blinked.

Kouro then suddenly disappeared and appeared in front of the Herrscher of the End with his fist already inches from the Herrscher's face.

Her pupils shrank to the size of needles at the sight of Kouro's fist being so close, under the pressure of death, the Herrscher of the End squeezed out every ounce of her potential and sped up her timing before dodging behind Kouro.

*SWOOSH!*

Kouro's single blow swept away countless stars.

"As I expected in terms of speed I really can't surpass you." Kouro said as he slowly corrected his pose and turned to look at her.

"Hmph! Of course because I am the ruler of [Time]-"

Her arrogant words were then interrupted by Kouro.

"But. I wonder, how fast would it be… if I use the [Sprint] ability to increase my speed?"

Yes, Kouro had not used the [Sprint] ability since his running speed alone could be equivalent to the speed of light, let alone if he used [Sprint]...

'[Sprint!]'

Kouro who ran for just a moment had his vision turned white, his speed that almost surpassed light made his perception turn strange.

He didn't know how to explain it, but at that point he knew, for this moment that was less than 0 seconds, he almost broke through the dimension barrier and entered the border of a [Higher Being].

For a mortal to be able to enter that dimension was the highest honor a mortal could achieve.

Kouro, whose perception had changed to be almost cut off from the outside world, did not notice that a pair of brightly glowing violet eyes had opened and were staring at him from behind.

["Found you."]

The voice of the pair of eyes sounded strange, it sounded like a combination of male, female, and a child's voice.

Then the black shadow tried to touch Kouro, but Kouro had disappeared from the dimensional border.

Seeing this, the pair of eyes narrowed.

... 

"Do you see it?" Einstein asked with her eyes wide open to Tesla beside her.

"Yes! Yes! Yes! I saw it so let me go!" Tesla tried to release Einstein's grip on her wrist.

Once released, Tesla rubbed her wrist and stared at the screen in front of them with a dreamy expression.

They saw Kouro suddenly vanish and a moment later faster than the blink of an eye, Kouro suddenly reappeared and was holding the Herrscher of the End around her neck with a blank expression.

"Kouro.... He has surpassed the speed of light!" said Tesla with a surprised expression. But just as she said that, Einstein immediately denied it.

"No, no. He only almost exceeded the speed of light for a moment." he said confidently.

Tesla then turned to look at her only to realize that at this time Einstein was writing something in a book with a serious expression while muttering something unclear.

It seemed Einstein got inspiration and created a new formula after seeing Kouro whose speed almost exceeded the speed of light.

...

Kouro who had activated [Sprint] only blinked before realizing that he had caught the Herrscher of the End and was holding her neck tightly.

He blinked a few times as if not understanding what had just happened.

Then he looked back with a puzzled expression.

"That was... What?"

Although he felt nothing and even remembered nothing after activating [Sprint], his intuition told him that he had passed through something very dangerous.

But his thoughts were then interrupted by the snort of the Herrscher of the End in his hand.

"Urgh!!!"

The Herrscher of the End tried to break free but was unsuccessful as Kouro had disabled her authority.

This was one of Herrscher of Salvation's abilities, [Judgment of authority].

This ability allows the user to disable the opponent's authority by touching them, this ability was completely specialized against a Herrscher.

Although it sounded impressive, Kouro could only disable one authority at a time, this ability was not very useful against a Fusion Herrscher such as the Herrscher of Void and the Herrscher of Flamescion.

Kouro stared at the Herrscher of the End that he was choking with a calm expression.

Right now with just his mind alone, Kouro could kill the Herrscher of the End. He thought that when he accomplished this, he would feel a sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, pleasure or any other feeling.

But now... He didn't feel any feelings, he just felt calm.

'Ignorance.'

Kouro thought before his hand glowed silver-black and then inserted his hand into the chest of the Herrscher of the End slowly.

"You! What are you doing!?" Herrscher of the End shouted frantically, she was completely familiar with Kouro's actions because KOURO also did the same thing!

Kouro did not answer her screams, he then grasped the Herrscher's core before removing it from her chest.

"ARGH!!!! "

The Herrscher of the End felt a pain that could not be described in words as if her soul was being ripped apart.

Kouro stared at the Herrscher of the End's core in his blackish-gold hand. 

The system notification did not appear after he held the Herrscher of the End core, whether it was because it could not use the Herrscher Core from another dimension or for some other reason, Kouro did not know.

He also did not use the [Conversion] ability to gain the authority of the Herrscher of the End because the timing now was not right.

The first thing he had to do now was to secure this Herrscher core.

The Herrscher core for a Herrscher is their soul, they can still live for a while in a body but still when taken forcibly by others it is the same as damaging their soul.

The damage will get worse until it causes the Herrscher's death, well ... Not completely dead just their physical bodies.

"ARGH!!! I WILL CURSE YOU KOURO! I CURSE YOU TO DIE MISERABLY AND SINGLE!"

Kouro's eyebrows twitched at the Herrscher of the End's shout, he said nothing and just threw her away roughly.

Letting the Herrscher of the End be tormented slowly, just take her swearing as an afterthought.

Kouro stared at her for a moment listening to her increasingly bizarre curses, such as "I curse you that you are impotent forever" and so on.

Hearing each of the Herrscher of the End's curses, he subconsciously thought.

'Is it possible... [Unknown]'s ability was created to counteract curses?'

Kouro immediately shook his head before turning around to ignore Herrscher of the End.

He had gotten what he wanted, he had also avenged Higokumaru and the innocent people that turned into zombies.

But right after that-

["Found you."]

Kouro's pupils instantly shrank to the size of needles, a boundless shadow engulfed his [Imaginary Space], a terrifying pressure that made him break out in a cold sweat and goosebumps.

He could not move, his heart was beating really fast signaling how panicked Kouro was.

Although this was his first time feeling such pressure, he was instinctively familiar with this pressure.

'The Herrscher of Shadows!'