My youth story cannot be a knight war

People's eyes passed through the suspended golden book and saw the pitch-black sky and the inverted scenes of each city. At this time, the surface of these visions produced a slight vibration, like the surface of a lake with stones constantly thrown into it, and the ripples became more and more fierce and rapid.

A powerful force was transmitted into this world through the strange phenomenon in the sky. It was a strange connection close to quantum entanglement. Under the resonance of this force, the ring of fire in the distant space began to float slightly again from its original stillness. The edge of the ring of fire rotated and emitted an evil light, and the ink-like darkness in the center squirmed and tried to squeeze out.

However, this time the change was finally stopped by a burst of golden light. However, this powerful force still had an impact on the now crumbling world, and the connection between the "Ultimate Darkness" and this world was deepened once again.

At the same time, the black fog and the reflection of the city in the sky were wiped out by the ripples, and a completely new scene emerged, so everyone saw and heard it.

I heard the violent roar and saw the figure twisted in the roar.

"That is……!!!"

Kousaka Yoshino covered her mouth with her hands. She looked at the scene in the sky. Her extremely contracted pupils showed her inner shock, and at the same time, tears began to well up at the edges of her eyes.

The veins on the palm holding the car door handle popped out due to the huge force, and the handle made a mournful cry under the heavy burden. However, Daisuke Takasaka, who usually cherished his car like his life, didn't even look at it.

His eyes were fixed on the figure in the illusion in the sky, his throat moved, and in the end he could only make a hoarse call.

"... Kyousuke."

……

White light illuminated the darkness, and blazing energy burst out. Under this energy, the indestructible blade was like a cream cake encountering fire, melting into glowing hot oil and flowing down from between the broken palms and fingers.

"...!"

For the first time since the start of the battle, Baruba's face displayed a cautious expression. The flapping of her two wings woven from vines stirred up a strong wind pressure, and her figure retreated rapidly like a flower petal caught in the wind.

In the white light, golden electric currents bloomed like dense flowers. Wherever the electric current passed, a layer of the ground was shaved off. The hideous scars were spread all over the radius of fifteen meters centered on Kyosuke Kousaka, and his body, which was kneeling on the ground, was shaking violently.

The screen on the G1 belt suddenly lit up red, and red electric current and smoke rose from the entire belt, indicating that the body was overloaded. That was the self-destruct program that Ebina had pre-set in the belt. After monitoring that the erosion rate of Kousaka's body reached %, this program was also activated in response to the stress.

But it turned out that both Ebina and Kosaka himself were too naive in their original thinking.

Because when the erosion rate of the body reaches its limit, it actually doesn't matter whether the G1 system still exists. The real subject of erosion from the beginning is Kyosuke Kousaka himself.

The controlled demon had already escaped from its prison through erosion and transferred into the host's body, leaving behind only an empty shell.

The entire belt shattered into pieces in a tiny explosion, and all the fragments were burned into blue smoke by the high-voltage energy current before they touched the ground, but an even more terrifying phenomenon occurred afterwards.

A pure golden belt, as if woven with vines and full of primitive beauty, slowly emerged from Kyosuke Kousaka's waist. A golden carving in the shape of an evil spirit was attached to the center of his waist and abdomen, and the shape was slowly becoming clearer and more real.

“——!!!!!!”

Just as the belt appeared, Kousaka Kyosuke suddenly raised his head and let out a howl that shook the entire sky. His eyes shot out pillars of scarlet light, and the armor on his body shattered.

But after the armor shattered, what was revealed was no longer the original human body, but a white body that was very similar to the one that appeared in front of Zaimokuza Yoshiki. Golden lines spread out to every inch of the body with the belt as the center. Fierce arm blades protruded from the wrists of the limbs, and long strips of bone chain structure spread out from the belt to the bottom of the body, forming a chain-shaped skirt.

At this moment, except for his head, which still retained its human form, the rest of Kyosuke Kousaka's body had been assimilated into Gurongi's body structure. Moreover, the white tissue was constantly assimilating the skin on his neck and continuing to invade upwards. It was conceivable that in the end, he would be completely eroded into a Gurongi.

N-Daguber-Zeba·Ultimate Form·Intermediate State

The roar and the electric current slowly subsided. The severe injuries to Kousaka's hands and body in the previous battle had long been repaired. He slowly lowered his raised head, and his scarlet eyes focused on Baruba.

The terrifying atmosphere that was enough to freeze the soul spread violently. There was no reason or intellect in those eyes anymore, only the extreme desire for destruction and the impulse to destroy. Kousaka Kyosuke, who was once a human being, had disappeared, and his heart was swallowed by the boundless darkness.

Unlike before, when she was stared at by those eyes, a strong sense of crisis exploded in Baruba's heart. She immediately sensed the coming attack and planned to dodge immediately.

"...!"

But at this moment, her gaze accidentally fell to the side and back, and her pupils shrank slightly because of the two reflected figures.

Two boys with dull expressions were standing at the side of the house, one with white hair and the other with black hair. It was obvious that they had lost the ability to think because of this scene.

That is--

A brief moment of thought and hesitation made Baruba lose the best opportunity to dodge.

Speed ​​and time lost their meaning at this moment. In the brief gap when even the thinking process was interrupted, the ferocious punch wrapped in lightning hit the closed vine wings.

--boom!!!!!!

The physical energy flow, like the reverse flow of the ocean waves, covered the location of Baruba and the entire harbor area behind her. All the surrounding buildings were easily uprooted by this shock wave, dismembered in the air, and thrown towards the distant sea level.

"——!!!"

Zaimokuza Yoshiteru and Kousaka Kyosuke, who had just arrived here, were swept up by this energy flow. Faced with the terrifying current that enveloped them, they could only open their eyes wide before being swallowed up.

In an instant, both of them lost consciousness due to the oncoming energy and flew towards the sea nearby, sinking into the surging sea with two splashes of water.

And this was only the aftermath of the attack. More than 97% of the force was borne by Baruba, the target of the attack. Otherwise, the harbor would have been completely sunk into the sea along with its foundation.

As the price of withstanding this attack, the strange pair of vine wings were broken at every branch and all the petals were torn into pieces. Baruba used the impact force to fly away towards the sea behind him, his eyes still fixed on the thick fog that had not yet dissipated.

"!"

A fierce growl came from behind, and Baruba felt as if the skin on his back was pierced by silver needles, and a terrifying cold feeling spread throughout his body.

Two hands grabbed the few remaining branches of the wings behind Baruba, and visible sound waves gushed out from the open mouth of the white beast, hitting Baruba who was close at hand.

As the branches broke, the slender figure was wrapped in blood mist and fell towards the sea below. Before Baruba fell into the water, a hand grabbed her neck, and the two bodies fell into the sea closely together.

The next moment, countless sea water rushed into the sky, and all the sea water within a radius of thirty meters centered on the point where the two people fell was flying in a straight line towards the sky under a huge counterforce. Because the force was too concentrated and huge, the trajectory of the flying sea water was a straight line, not a circular splashing shape.

The seawater in this entire area was completely empty. Looking directly from above, a huge hole appeared on the sea surface. The moist seabed was exposed to the dark sky and falling snow. Schools of fish hovered in the air for a long time without landing, and flew away towards the sky along with the seawater.

And in the center of this circular seabed, two figures of the same white color stood there, or rather, one of them was holding the other's neck and lifting it up.

Fierce hot air spewed out from both sides of Kyosuke Kousaka's open mouth. More than half of the white tissue had eroded the sides of his face, and the lips on his chin had even transformed into two pairs of golden upright fangs.

At the same time, countless faint white particles began to float disorderly from all parts of his body surface. That was the fact that his body was collapsing. Now Kousaka Kyosuke was getting stronger rapidly, but also weakening rapidly.

This weakening trend is completely irreversible, because it is a destruction that starts from the level of atoms and even quarks that constitute the body. His body has long been completely overdrawn of all life potential by the G1 system and is simply unable to support the current overly rapid evolution method.

So what Ebina said was right. When Kyosuke Kousaka completely became Gurongi, it was also the moment when he was completely destroyed.

Fate was so cruel. When he first chose to wear the belt for the purpose of fighting, all his ways of survival were blocked, and the only remaining path was doomed to destruction.

Fighting means death, and not fighting is also death. There is no third way.

In fact, he can now be regarded as dead.

He raised his left hand tightly holding Baruba, and the five fingers of his right hand began to clench into fists one by one. Violent electric light burst out on the tip of Kousaka Kyosuke's fist.

The fierce white light tore the sea apart, and the seawater that was about to fill back was pushed away again by this punch. A waterless channel with a length of about a thousand meters started in front of the harbor in Jiangdong District and extended rapidly into the distance.

Light footsteps fell from the sky, followed by blood that flowed down like water, staining the ground red.

Baruba knelt on the ground, holding her left shoulder with her right hand. The left half of her body was completely evaporated by the energy contained in the punch just now, and even the bloody wound was burned by the high temperature.

"..."

A black shadow covered the ground in front of her. Even though she had suffered such a severe blow, she raised her head and looked up at the white figure in front of her who was clenching his fist and was about to strike again.

Quietly gazing at the pair of completely crimson eyes and the face that was more than half alienated, Baruba said calmly:

"Let's do it."

The surging lightning burst out again, passing by Baruba's side, and at the same time vaporizing most of the seaport - but it did not hurt her.

"...?"

For the first time, Baruba was stunned. She looked up at Kyosuke Kousaka who was staggering backward in front of her, her eyes filled with a rare look of astonishment.

"you--"

“——Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!”

Scarlet tears flowed from his eyes, and Kousaka Kyosuke raised his head and roared again. Powerful energy condensed from his fist and shot out as a solid beam of light.

With every punch, a part of the harbor was cut away. The foundation let out a desperate wail under the violence and slowly sank with the incoming seawater.

He repeated the same action frantically, and the power of the ultimate life form was unscrupulously exerted on the world. The physical laws of reality were so vulnerable in the face of this power.

The earth and the ocean erupted in turmoil at Kousaka Kyosuke's attack. A tsunami, over sixty meters high, was swept up and about to engulf the coast when it was dispersed by a single punch. Countless energy pillars shot into the sky, and the pitch-black sky sometimes lit up with a light comparable to daylight, and sometimes was swallowed by the black fog...

Only the land beneath his feet had not been attacked by Kosaka Daisuke at all. It was obvious that even a single punch from him could bury the entire Tokyo in the sea.

This was not a coincidence, but Kyosuke Kousaka's final struggle, an instinctive resistance.

This was unbelievable. Even though his rationality and soul had been swallowed by the violent desire for destruction and darkness, his remaining instincts were still resisting and he was unwilling to surrender. He would rather give up killing Baruba, who was his enemy, than accidentally destroy the city in battle.

Because even though he has always appeared rational and cold, and believed that he could make sacrifices for the final victory...but for Kousaka Kyosuke, in the deepest part of his heart, perhaps the desire to protect people has always been more important than killing the enemy.

Kyosuke Kousaka is now madly bursting out his power, so the speed of erosion is getting faster and faster. Most of his face has been alienated, and now only one eye still retains his human form, but it will be completely eroded soon.

And there is no doubt that by doing this he is accelerating the process of suicide.

Because he instinctively foresaw that he would completely lose control of his power in the near future, and at that time, with his current strength, he would be an extremely huge threat to the entire Tokyo, the entire Japan, and even the entire world. Destroying the world might be something he could accomplish in just a moment.

But he was unwilling to do so, so he could only choose to accelerate the process of self-destruction when he could barely control it now.

Kyosuke Kousaka has always been good at judging people, but he misjudged himself. The boy from the past has not disappeared and still lives in the deepest part of his soul.

In this struggle between reason, which kills the enemy, and emotion, which protects people, between the present and the past, it is the boy from the past who triumphs in this moment.

Baruba stared blankly at the man in front of him who was roaring in despair and whose body was completely covered by floating white particles. His lips moved, but he found that he could not utter a single word.

But Baruba didn't say anything, someone else answered for her.

"!"

As Baruba watched in astonishment, a pair of scarred arms suddenly reached out from behind and hugged Kousaka Kyosuke's waist tightly.

The energy flow on the surface of his body, which was comparable to high voltage electricity, instantly burned his hands. At the same time, the dispersion phenomenon of his body also infected his hands, and the same weak particles immediately began to float on the surface of his arms.

The pain was so severe that it instantly caused the arms to spasm violently, but the man still held on tightly without letting go.

What kind of willpower could endure such pain? This is a physical breakdown at the microscopic level, beyond the limits of the human pain system. Even so, the brain perceives a pain comparable to that of terminal cancer, a pain powerful enough to cause a mental breakdown.

But the arms still did not loosen, and even the person hugging Kyosuke Kousaka was able to speak.

"Wake up quickly——"

It was a very immature voice, but one could hear a timbre similar to that of Kyosuke Kousaka. The only difference was that one had grown up with the passage of time, while the other had not yet begun to change.

Because that was indeed him, Kyosuke Kosaka, but also "Kyosuke Kosaka".

One belongs to the past, the other to the future.

And now, the past Kyosuke Kousaka hugged the future Kyosuke Kousaka tightly and screamed.

"——Wake up! My future self!!!!"

14. Blooming Life (7k)

"Ahem...Have you always been holding a lot of resentment towards my original decision?"

Daisuke Kousaka coughed violently, then slowly sat back in his chair while holding his abdomen. He turned to look at his son sitting next to him and spoke softly.

"It's not just because of your original choice, Dad, but also because of your previous actions."

After releasing years of pent-up anger and resentment with this single punch, Kousaka Kyosuke let out a long, drawn-out breath. He slumped over the bench, his arms draped over the sides, his head tilted upwards to gaze at the pitch-black night sky, his eyes as calm as his tone.

"When you were still around, I always felt that you always seemed to prioritize work over family. You always harbored an inexplicable arrogance in your heart, as if we couldn't understand you... You just kept doing your own things, but never said a single word to your closest family."

Kyosuke Kousaka's tone remained calm, but his hands had unconsciously clenched, and the iron-blue meridians on the pale skin on the back of his hands jumped out like winding little snakes.

"Even when you died, the last words you said to me while holding my hand weren't 'I love you', but 'I'll leave it to you from now on, Kyosuke'... But that's what a hero should say to his comrades before sacrificing his life on the battlefield, not what a father should say to his son."

"Just like from childhood to adulthood, your attitude towards me has always been so harsh. No matter how well I did, you never gave me even a smile or encouragement."

"...Is this what you're really angry about?"

Listening to these words that had turned into what Kyosuke Kousaka had been thinking for many years, Kousaka Daisuke couldn't help but fall silent for a moment, and a rare hint of gloom flashed in his eyes that were as tough as steel.

Unusually, Kousaka Daisuke showed some hesitation. He lowered his head and spoke in a low voice.

"So Kyousuke... have you hated me all these years?"

"Hate it! How could a normal child not hate being treated like this? And I'm the same way, I even have more reasons to hate you."

Kousaka Kyosuke spoke in a calm tone, but the cigarette in his mouth suddenly burned a long part, and the anger he should have had turned into smoke and exhaled from his mouth.

"Family, school, work, travel, toys, dreams... There are so many things and aspects of you I can hate, so naturally I hate you."

"..."

Daisuke Kousaka listened silently to his son's accusations without saying anything. He just took out another cigarette from the inner pocket of his windbreaker.

Both the father and son of the Kosaka family smoke, but they have a characteristic when they smoke, that is, they only smoke when they feel extremely depressed, and basically will not touch cigarettes at other times.