Chapter 77 — The World Beyond Flesh
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Location: Sanctum Perimeter — Outer Eroscore
The city is complete.
Desire flows like blood in a god's veins.
Moans echo like church bells.
But something's wrong.
In the east—
> A street has gone silent.
No pulse.
No heat.
Not even shadows.
Just a figure in a black cloak.
Eyes glowing silver void.
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NAMELESS
No gender.
No scent.
No desire.
Its presence bends light.
People around it feel numb.
Like they've been unwritten.
Yuuto, Aika, and Rei stand before it.
Rei grits her teeth.
> "Why can't I feel it?"
"No fear, no thrill—nothing."
Aika's cursed marks tremble.
> "It's beyond what we've known."
"This is absence made flesh."
Yuuto steps forward.
> "Then I'll give it what it's never had."
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First Contact
Yuuto walks until he's only a breath away.
No one's ever touched it.
No one's ever wanted to.
But Yuuto?
He reaches out.
And presses a hand on its chest.
> "You're empty," he whispers.
"But I've been empty too."
The cloaked being trembles.
> "I've drowned in desire," Yuuto continues.
"But nothing is worse than feeling nothing."
He kisses it.
Not erotic.
Human.
And the world shivers.
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The Reaction
Suddenly—
The being's cloak tears.
Light and dark spill from its body.
Screams—not from pain—but from birth.
It falls into Yuuto's arms.
A voice emerges, broken:
> "What... am I?"
Yuuto smiles.
> "You're new."
> "And now... you get to choose."
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Rebirth
They bring the void-being into the Sanctum.
Not to dominate.
But to welcome.
Rei teaches it sensation.
Aika teaches it comfort.
Yuuto teaches it want.
And for the first time…
> It touches.
It moans.
It cries.
Not from lust.
But from finally being real.
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