Some opened his eyes in a no man's land. It was an empty world, darkness and shadows lurking all around there. It's Raizel who was trying to open his eyes as he seems to be fallen down in that land. His body seems to be healed as his soul returned to it's actual form, even though his magic power and soul itself returned to his body, there was no trace of his presence around there. As if, his presence was hidden under an unknown beneath. Raizel slowly stood up from his position and opened his eyes toward the land.
The land was vast but totally empty, there wasn't any presence of living beings around there. The gloomy and dark presence was consistently lurking around as they were whispering like a ghost.
"This world is… really similar but…" Raizel spoke up to himself, his voice was wondering something as he wasn't able to finish his sentence with a bit of confusion layered in his tone.
"Why are you hiding?" Raizel threw a question toward someone unknown. Some shadow mists began to gather in front of Raizel. He narrowly glared toward the shadow and smiled.
A voice appeared to be heard from the shadow, the source of the voice was the shadow that gathered in front of Raizel but, it was only projecting the voice of an unknown entity. His voice was deep and effective but very sincere and gentle.
"It does absolutely make me happy to see you again, Mister Raizel." The stranger entity said."I don't really want to talk about your identity. But more importantly, why did you bring me here?" Raizel yelled.
The person behind the shadow smiled a bit. "Don't you want to go back to your root world? The world you once were part of?" The shadow entity said.
Raizel lifted up his gaze toward the shadow and glared with suspicious eyes.
"I don't know what you are talking about. I just want to go back to my comrades." Raizel replied, He was straightforward, as he didn't think it over even once while speaking.
"Are you really interested to be there now? Is this going to be the choice you want to make?" The shadow entity asked, took a long breath afterward.
"Can you really show the appearance of yours in front of your comrades?" He added.
Raizel didn't reply back as he put down his gaze a bit. The shadow entity didn't reply back either for some seconds, and then he's the one to break the silence.
"Your question was about why I brought you here, right? You already know the answer for yourself even before I brought you here. After all, it's you who planned the things that happened." The shadow entity said, he sounded to be much more calm and deep this time.
"You know what I will do next. And you know what I need right now, I need the capability to overcome the disaster that's existing in front of my next step." Raizel replied as he lifted up his gaze and glared toward the shadow.
"The story is vast, mortals can reach as high as they want. The vastness of the mortals' desire is endless, but their will is limited. They can't be what they want to be because they're afraid, they can't transcend, they're bounded." The shadow entity said as he spoke casually.
"However, your will is beyond your desire. It's your will and lack of fear that will be the reason for your ascension, your belief will be the key to your success." The shadow entity added.
The shadow that was projecting the voice began to scatter as the scattered shadow mists covered Raizel and instantly became one with Raizel's body and soul.
While the shadow was disappearing, a voice was heard at last, "I'm not a great sovereign but, I know who you are, and that's why, I will always believe in you and will always be proud to be a part of your journey, Edward Raizel."
The stranger's voice disappeared along with the shadow that was absorbed in Raizel's soul. Something began to shatter out and fall on the ground from Raizel's face, it was almost like a layer of flames detached from his face. And then, a shadow covered his face from the view. From there, we couldn't see his face as he disappeared from there right afterward.
The land became completely silent out of the lack of living beings' presence. The whispers of the shadows and gloomy presence kept existing around the world, becoming the only trace of existence there.
Several days passed since we witnessed Raizel's death. After Maria and the others finally managed to return, we gathered in the garden that resides a bit away from Raizel's home. While most of them were mentally broken out of Raizel's sudden death, I tried my best to help them get back their mental strength again.
In Raizel's absence, I ended up becoming the leader of them. The garden that we gathered in wasn't really a much expensive one but was something that was excellent out of ordinary appearance. The four of us sat in the flower-scattered ground.
"I don't want you guys to fall behind just because of his sudden absence. I'm pretty sure Raizel himself will never want you guys to fall behind like this and so, please listen to me and stand up." I yelled, there was a trace of commanding tone in my voice.
"I wish when Raizel returns, he will see you guys as the strongest entities around, he will find you guys as a worthy comrade that can stand equal with him. If you guys want to help him in his next journey, then do what you're supposed to do now." I added then.
"Raizel died, it doesn't contradict his ideas and will. If we keep falling behind like this then it will be us who will hurt him and his ideas." Maria whispered.
"And so, I want to go ahead without a fail, I will go ahead unstoppably." Maria added a bit loudly.
Marco smiled widely and stood up from there.
"If you guys want to go ahead then why will I stand back? I don't care about that bastard who couldn't keep his promise to survive, I will survive and go ahead myself, no matter what." Marco said loudly.
Elesia smiled a bit and gently lifted up her gaze toward Marco. She stood up as well from her sitting spot.
"I don't want to fall behind too, take me with you guys." Elesia said with smile.
I smiled and stood up along with Maria from there and lifted up my right hand ahead of the others.
"Then let's go and keep ascending, like the way Raizel wanted." I said with a wide smile.
The other three smiled and nodded as they appeared to be cheerful like they always used to be.
In the 1st supreme realm of the 6th layer, the realm that belongs to Raizel. Calm and gloomy appearance turned out to be this realm's casual appearance, today wasn't any exception. It was totally calm and empty as it's only Muzan and the guards that exist in the realm. The absence of living beings seemed to be reduced out of the presence of a huge amount of birds that were scattered all around the realm and singing songs.
Someone appeared there from the inside of a magic portal. He slowly set his foot on the ground and smiled. His appearance was genuinely effective without a question. A tall person with dark hair and an innocent face. There was a casual smile on his face. He was wearing a long dark red cape. His glowing red eyes seems to be piercing yet beautiful to look at. As for his dress-up, he was wearing a long dark red coat that covered him completely. He gently put his gaze upon a fragment and smiled widely.
"It seems like I'm here a bit earlier than I should. But my early appearance might actually give me something that I didn't expect to witness." he said while keeping his smile. His voice was gentle and a bit young compared to his appearance.
"I, Rayan Akiya, will definitely wait for the perfect moment, for the moment when things will perfectly run like the way I planned." Rayan added, smiling much more widely afterward.
A shadow appeared on the ground that covered Rayan completely and within a few seconds, the shadow vanished from there along with Rayan. The supreme realm was left empty and gloomy, like the way it always was.