Crystal Palace from Infinite Anime

Looking into Lin Zhiyu's eyes, Bayonetta instantly felt as if she was being sucked in from the inside out by Lin Zhiyu's gaze.

In a moment of trance, the world became extremely blurry.

But when Bayonetta suddenly regained consciousness, she discovered that everything she saw had changed.

Even her perspective became that of God.

……

A bustling metropolis, a sunny day.

On the side of the spacious road, a beautiful woman wearing a crimson one-piece latex suit and with waist-length white hair sat on a black motorcycle. Her beautiful eyes looked towards a clothing store on the street, as if she was waiting for someone.

Bayonetta, who was in a God's perspective, had no body but felt that she could move freely within a certain range to adjust her vision, was surprised when she saw the woman in red clothes and white hair.

She remembered that in her own world, not long ago, she had encountered some strange things.

First, she was watching TV when she was captivated by a business tycoon named Balder on the news. She felt as if she knew him. And during the interview, Balder seemed to see her through the screen! He called out to her, beckoning her to meet him in the city of Vigrit.

Bayonetta knew full well that she had forgotten many things. She had amnesia, not dementia. Her mind was completely blank about her past. Isn't that what amnesia is?

Therefore, both reason and intuition told Bayonetta that she must go to the city called Vigrit and meet the mysterious man named Balder.

Then maybe she can get her past memories back!

But on the way to Vigrit, Bayonetta, who was riding the train, was attacked by a woman in red clothes and white hair!

The two sides fought from the roof of the train to the peak beside the tracks. After a fierce battle with no clear winner, the white-haired woman chose to flee. Bayonetta chose not to pursue her because during the battle, a series of images flashed through her mind, and the image of the white-haired woman suddenly appeared in it. Bayonetta realized that the other party seemed to know her and had no ill intentions towards her. In addition, her weapon was severely damaged at the time, so she did not pursue her.

After that, Bayonetta never saw the white-haired woman again... until now!

However, compared with the previous battle, the white-haired woman's hairstyle has changed from short hair tied up in a bun to smooth long hair.

"Joan of Arc..." Bayonetta, looking at the white-haired woman waiting on the roadside on her motorcycle, somehow knew her name. They had clearly fought before, but now, as the name Jeanne came to her mind, she felt a sense of familiarity.

What surprised Bayonetta even more was that at the place where Jeanne was looking, a short-haired woman wearing a gray-white long skirt and a mink coat suddenly walked out of the clothing store on the street.

The woman has neat short hair, wears black glasses, and has a signature beauty mole at the corner of her lips.

Bayonetta recognized the other person at a glance.

Because that was clearly herself with a different hairstyle!

"What is going on? The multiverse? Is that another me? Am I watching a certain life experience of another me?" Bayonetta thought quickly and made an analysis.

Continue to observe from a bystander's perspective.

Soon, she saw "herself" approaching the roadside, chatting with Jeanne, who was sitting on a motorcycle. Then, "angels," whose armor only made them look sacred, essentially no different from monsters, appeared nearby. Bayonetta saw "herself" unhesitatingly draw her weapons and engage in battle with them...

"Hmph, it seems like the other me isn't that bad~"

Bayonetta had been constantly being sought out by angels, leading to battles. Initially, she'd been puzzled by the constant attacks. But as time went on, she grew accustomed to the situation, no longer dwelling on the cause, and even began to enjoy the battles.

Hunting angels and the like, it feels good too~

Now, looking at the other self who was calm and composed and seemed to be accustomed to fighting with angels, four words suddenly popped up in Bayonetta's mind - worthy of being me!

But soon, an accident happened.

Bayonetta saw another version of herself and summoned demons from Hell to aid in the battle.

Unexpectedly, the demon that was supposed to be on her side suddenly attacked her!

At the critical moment, a red figure flashed by and blocked the fatal blow for her.

"Joan of Arc!!!"

Although she was only a bystander, Bayonetta felt as if she were experiencing it firsthand. The sight of Jeanne blocking the demon's fatal blow for her horrified her, and then filled with immense anger.

Then, just when she was about to face attacks from both angels and demons.

"Boom——!"

A fire meteor fell from the sky, destroying all the angels and demons.

And she herself was clearly within the range of the flame shock wave caused by the falling fireball.

But the flames, as if possessing a sense of their own, deliberately bypassed her. The flames, intensely hot enough to incinerate angels and demons alike, passed by her, bringing not scorching heat but only warmth.

And in the crater created by the fireball, Bayonetta saw a person.

A fire man without a face or body, made purely of flames.

From then on, this fire man would always appear by her side at critical moments.

Joan of Arc blocked the devil's fatal blow for her, and her soul left her body and fell into hell. In order to bring Joan of Arc's soul back to the world, she had to go to hell.

But on the way, she met a little boy named Roche and a masked man who called himself "Lumen Sage" who was chasing Roche.

Chased by the masked man Lumen Sage, Bayonetta and Roche arrive at the gates of Hell.

At this time, Luminous Sage caught up with the two again.

A mysterious figure, also masked and claiming to be a prophet, arrives shortly after, threatening to obtain Bayonetta's "Left Eye of Darkness." A chaotic fight ensues, and Roche, the weakest, sees the situation dire and opens the Hell Gate, sucking him and the others into Hell.

"It was such a chaotic process... Fortunately, the goal was achieved and I still successfully entered hell!" Bayonetta thought from the perspective of an observer.

Once in Hell, her first goal is of course to find Joan of Arc's soul.

She found out that Joan of Arc's soul was taken away by the demon "Madame Rose" who was contracted by Joan of Arc as a witch. Coincidentally, she met a demon merchant named Rodin who also wanted to deal with Madam Rose, so the two began to cooperate and attack Madam Rose.

But Lady Rose is exceptionally powerful.

At the critical moment, another meteor fell from the sky. The fire man, who had helped Bayonetta once, once again resolved the crisis for Bayonetta and then disappeared.

"Why did that fire man appear when I was in a life-threatening crisis? Who is he?" Bayonetta, from a bystander's perspective, was extremely confused. She also had a strange feeling that this fire man was not real.

She would not have this feeling when she saw another self, Joan of Arc, Rodin, Roche, or the Sage of Lumen. In other words, she assumed that these people were real.

But when she looked at the fire man, she felt that he didn't really exist, in this other world. Everything he did to help her wasn't real, but an illusion, an illusion with symbolic meaning.

What confused her the most was that

She still didn't understand what the flame symbolized.

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Author's words: There will be another update later, before 12 o'clock (make up)

Chapter 9 walkthrough complete! Bayonetta!

After Bayonetta saved Jeanne d'Arc.

On the other side, Roche, who was separated from Bayonetta, was caught up by the Lumen Sage again.

Fortunately, Bayonetta arrived in time and Roche was not killed by the Lumen Sage.

The Lumen Sage, who had been wearing a mask, finally took it off and revealed his true face - a face that Bayonetta felt extremely familiar with!

"Balder? No, he looks much younger than Balder! And unlike that man named Balder, who gives off a gloomy vibe just on TV, this man who looks like Balder but is much younger has an open and honest temperament..."

From a bystander's perspective, Bayonetta became increasingly confused as she watched another version of herself confronting a young man who looked very similar to Balder, her thoughts becoming a mess.

Then, a mysterious power burst out from Roche's body, bringing Bayonetta and Balder to the settlement of the witch clan hundreds of years ago!

Angels and demons are jointly attacking the witch clan with the goal of seizing the "Left Eye of Darkness" controlled by the witch clan so that a certain adult can fully recover his power and unify the three realms of heaven, earth and hell with unstoppable momentum!

In the chaos, a young man who looks like Balder finds Rosa, the leader of the witch clan, and wants to help Rosa fight against angels and demons. Because the young man doesn't actually look like Balder, it should be said that he is Balder in his youth!

And Rosa is Balder's lover.

The two of them have a daughter.

The daughter's name is Bayonetta!

"Mom, Dad..." Bayonetta, who was a bystander, naturally realized all this, and immediately felt sad in her heart and had an ominous premonition.

Then, she saw another self who seemed to have also realized who Balder and Rosa were, and joined Balder on the front line to fight against angels and demons.

And when the two returned to Rosa.

Rosa had already fallen to the ground, seriously injured, and the murderer was a little boy who looked exactly like Roche, but had a more gloomy temperament.

"Is this why Dad is hunting down Roche?" Bayonetta suddenly realized.

However, the murderer who killed Rosa was not Lochi, but "Loput".

Long, long ago, the great god, Aishir, divided his power into two and bestowed them upon mankind: the Right Eye of Light and the Left Eye of Darkness. However, this act also split Aishir into "Lochi" and "Loput," representing good and evil.

It was Loput who killed Rosa, and even used the fact that he looked the same as Roche to mislead Balder, making Balder think that Roche was the murderer of Rosa!

However, after experiencing the same thing again, Balde finally discovered something wrong and knew who the real murderer was.

Before Rosa died, she told Balder to protect her daughter Bayonetta. So Balder followed Bayonetta into the time and space gate that Loput created to return to the present.

When the two found Loput, Rochi had already been captured by Loput.

Bayonetta and Balder, father and daughter, teamed up to attack Loput, but Loput was, after all, an incarnation of God, and his divine power increased greatly as the evil thoughts of mankind accumulated and expanded over thousands of years.

So Bayonetta and Balder were quickly defeated, and Lupto took away the left eye of darkness and the right eye of light that the father and daughter possessed respectively.

Lopt, who merged his eyes into the "Eye of the World", gained unparalleled power, and the battle here seemed to be no longer suspenseful.

But Bayonetta, who was watching from the outside, felt a little bit of anticipation at this moment.

"Will he show up again?"

With this in mind, Bayonetta, who was watching from the sidelines, adjusted her perspective and looked towards the sky.

At that moment, a fireball fell from the sky and hit Loput at a high speed!

"Yeah~!"

The arrival of the fireball again made Bayonetta, who was watching from the sidelines, cheer for joy - she swore that even if it was a fire man, she would be happy to rush up and give him a big hug if she could.

Anyway, her intuition told her that the flames would not hurt her.

It was clearly filled with destructive flames.

But it is hope for her.

However, Lopt, who possessed the Eye of the World, was indeed very powerful. Even the meteor that fell from the sky and the fire man that once again brought hope to Bayonetta could not defeat Lopt for a while.

However, while Loput was entangled, Roche took action.

Only Roche knows that his original self, "Aishir", has the true power of "nothingness".

The power called the Annihilated One is used to destroy the world.

But besides destroying the world, it can also be used to destroy the Eye of the World!

After all, Asher was a great god who willingly divided his power for the sake of humanity. When he found himself uncontrollably divided between good and evil, he still tried his best to tilt the balance of his "legacy" towards good.

That’s why Luo Qi knew about the Annihilation and was able to activate the Annihilation!

Loput thought that he had everything by owning the Eye of the World. Little did he know that it was precisely the Eye of the World that led to his inevitable failure!

Finally, Roche used the trump card of Destruction.

When the Eye of the World was destroyed, Loput suddenly suffered a great loss of power.

Bayonetta and Balder seized the opportunity and launched a joint attack, successfully defeating Loput.

When the defeated Loput tried to escape through the gate of time and space, Balder used his body to stop Loput and sealed Loput in his own body.

Even so, Lopt, who controls the power of time and space, is still inside Balder's body, constantly initiating connections with the time-space gate. Before being forced to go back to the past through the time-space gate, Balder can only ask Bayonetta to promise him that if he is corrupted by evil in the future, she must kill him!

When the door of time and space closed.

After Balder disappeared.

Bayonetta fell to her knees in despair.

Bayonetta, from a bystander's perspective, also felt extremely sad.

Mom is dead in the past.

Dad was also forced to return to the past by the evil hostage, destined to lose himself and be replaced by Loput.

Such an ending is heartbreaking for any Bayonetta.

Having lost her parents, she has been a poor, lonely child who is no longer loved by anyone.

Why did she have to go through such a thing?

It was at this moment when both Bayonettas felt extremely sad.