At some point,
I was ejected from somewhere.
Clench-.
I covered my ears and shook my head.
But something began to force my vision.
The moment my head was lifted on its own.
The whole world was covered in darkness.
No, this isn’t the world.
It was some kind of space beyond comprehension.
As I was about to be able to see the darkness within the darkness,
I could perceive it because a darkness even deeper than the darkness was looking down at me.
And the moment my vision became clear,
My shoulders and eyes began to tremble uncontrollably with fear.
Abyss.
It was looking down at me gently, pushing away the darkness.
ˇˇ …………………… ˇˇ
It didn’t make any move as it looked at me.
It simply spoke to me through darkness, without moving.
Why is it?
The abyss looked sad somehow.
It also looked faint and apologetic, and it seemed to show me some affection.
Then I barely let out a sigh, close to a death rattle.
“…Ah.”
The emotion the abyss was feeling reached my skin through the darkness.
It was anger.
The abyss was angry at me.
Why is it angry? I’ve only just become aware of the abyss.
The moment the abyss revealed its darkness and was about to rage.
Thump-.
Thump-.
Thump-.
Thump-.
Something unknown bound the abyss's body like chains.
The darkness of the Abyss began to shatter under the unknown force.
However, the abyss tried to recover its darkness once more.
At that very moment.
Woom-.
A murky darkness began to flow from my wrist.
It was neither the darkness that existed in this space nor the darkness of the abyss.
The three-pronged stroke that the Demon God gave me directly in the territory of Bares.
One of them disappeared and began to cling to the abyss.
Then, the abyss, enveloped in the darkness of the stroke and the unknown chains, stared at me.
This time, the emotion that appeared was not sadness or anger.
"……………………"
This was a kind of resignation.
An incomprehensible emotion was being sent towards me by the Abyss.
"……"
I also stared at the abyss without a word.
At that moment, when I faced the darkness.
Crash-.
In an instant, all the darkness was drawn back, and I was thrown out of that space.
Then, when I opened my tightly shut eyes.
I returned to Kyle's secret base without any changes to my body.
I blinked my eyes, lost in absurdity.
"What the."
What the hell happened?
I glanced down at the stroke on my wrist.
As if to prove that it was not a dream, one of the three strokes had disappeared.
Why was the stroke suddenly used?
'……If you use the stroke, you can temporarily borrow the Demon God's power.'
I had never used it before.
There had been many times when I needed strong power.
There was only one reason why I hadn't used the stroke even though I had considered it every time.
The penalty for the power was too great.
If I were to use the Demon God's stroke, my body would be possessed.
Being possessed by a god meant the enslavement of one's soul.
In a word, it would be no different from being a zombie that only followed the Demon God's words.
I didn't want that, so I hadn't used it before.
But.
'It was used without my permission, and no penalty was imposed.'
What did this mean?
Did it mean that the way I knew how to use the stroke was wrong?
My head started to hurt more and more.
And what was it that I had just seen?
'Abyss.'
I don't know what that is.
It's a setting that never appeared in the original work I wrote.
I couldn't even understand why I had defined that darkness as the 'Abyss'.
I just felt like I had to call it the Abyss.
Because my body's instincts were telling me to.
I pondered for a long time before I finally realized something and began to tremble.
Why?
Why did I think that the characters with settings I didn't know about were limited to the six families, when I'm the Creator?
Even Adel ignored causality and came to my house in reality.
'...He must also have settings that I don't know about.'
Something that goes against the flow of the original story.
Adel had it.
And I saw one of them today.
What is the Abyss, and what are the chains that bind it?
What role did 'Chaos' play in all of this?
I don't know.
I don't know, no matter how much I think about it.
I roughly wiped my face and exhaled deeply.
For now...
'I need to organize these thoughts in my head.'
The moment I saw the Abyss.
The secret method of Bares and Adel's unique secret method was combined.
So, I started to organize the thoughts that were popping up in my head in a jumbled mess.
...Until darkness broke.
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