Chapter 105: The Moment of Godhood! The Ultimate End! Setting the Myriad Worlds Ablaze! THE DOCTOR WINS!!
『 "How many seconds in eternity—"
The rotting, deformed hand touched the Doctor's cheek, like a scorching sun, like the abyss of death, like the root of all suffering. In an instant, the Doctor felt immense pain and the stinging agony of impending death.
He let out a whimper and howl of anguish!
The nightmare descended as the Doctor gradually died. Everything here would reset. The Doctor's body also began to collapse; his cells screamed in sorrow, his body tearing apart. What that monster granted was not just death, but torturous suffering.
The Doctor did not die immediately. His consciousness returned once more to his Mind Palace. He lowered his head in silence, muttering to himself.
"People always know very little about Time Lords."
"We take a very, very long time to die completely. Even if we are too heavily injured to regenerate, every cell in our body stubbornly struggles to survive until the very end."
"It can take several days. This is why we hope to be among our own kind when we die; they know not to bury us too early."
Fortunately, this painful dying process would last a day and a half, and climbing to the top of the tower also required a day and a half.
The Doctor exerted all his strength to crawl toward the top of the tower.
The Doctor was covered in blood, crawling forward on his stomach. Exposed, pale bones with clinging flesh rubbed against the ground, making a tooth-aching sound.
Fresh blood had almost dyed the entire castle floor red. Every step the Doctor took was filled with such agony.
But he continued to crawl toward that place. It was the only way out; he had to persist!
Because he already knew everything… but the Doctor wished he didn't know any of it. 』
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〜Myriad Worlds livestream Chat〜
[ Aqua (KonoSuba): "Huh? What exactly does he know? Don't be a riddler!" ]
[ Tony Tony Chopper (One Piece): "How can this be? If the Doctor really dies, won't his secrets vanish with him? What is the enemy thinking? Why would they let the Doctor die?" ]
[ Tohsaka Rin (Type-Moon): "What's even more puzzling is what exactly the Doctor found out? Why, after seeing that Azbantium wall, did the Doctor reveal an expression even more fearful than death?" ]
[ Ichigo Kurosaki Ichigo (Bleach): "What did the Doctor realize? And why, at the very end of his life, is he crawling somewhere else? Could it be he has some unfinished business? Or is there something hidden there that can save his life?" ]
[ Kenjaku (Jujutsu Kaisen): "It is useless to speculate. The answers will be revealed soon enough. However, the truth will likely exceed everyone's imagination." ]
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『 Viewers of Myriad Worlds 』
Everyone watched the blood-soaked Doctor with confusion.
That kind of injury… just looking at it, one could feel how painful it was. So, what exactly was the Doctor crawling elsewhere for, even on the brink of death?
Everyone was in confusion, but soon, they understood…
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『 The portrait of Clara, the monster from his nightmares—this was a prison tailored specifically for him, an interrogation cage. Those skeletons in the water…
The answer was already abundantly clear. In his personal hell, how could there be other prisoners?
Those… were all him!
There had never been any other prisoners. The positions of those stars… from beginning to end, they were never wrong. He had never engaged in any time travel.
He had simply stayed here for a long time… a very, very long time.
He had already been here for seven thousand years. Before reaching the Azbantium wall, he didn't know how many times he had already faced death.
But… he wouldn't remember. He would always face the fear of death directly. Only after more than a hundred thousand deaths would he earn one chance to face the Azbantium wall.
Too long…
In the Mind Palace, the Doctor's consciousness felt as if it had been struck by lightning. He breathed with difficulty, nearly collapsing under the blow of this fact.
But the Doctor's body continued to crawl incessantly toward the starting room.
Every step was so difficult, but no matter the pain, no matter the breakdown, the Doctor kept moving forward because he had a goal in his heart that allowed him to persist!
—Clara!
To save Clara!
The Doctor, covered in blood, crawled into the initial room. He laughed hoarsely and mockingly.
"Every room reverts to its initial state. That means a reset. Logically, it can be deduced that the teleporter also resets. Teleporter… what a ridiculous word."
"It's like a 3D printer, except a teleporter would scatter biological matter and information. To transmit that out requires an injection of energy."
That's right, it wasn't a teleporter at all, but a printer!
And the thing being printed was the Doctor himself!
"The room has been reset, restored to the state when I first arrived here. This means there is a copy of me still existing on the hard drive. Me, completely me!"
"The me who just arrived here. All I need to do is inject energy, some fuel…"
Trembling, the Doctor pressed the converter against his head, then pressed the switch without hesitation!
He was going to burn himself to let this cycle begin again!
Terrifying electric currents surged through his body. The energy combustion instrument activated, and the Doctor let out a howl of ultimate agony!
This terrifying pain threatened to burn even the last shred of the Doctor's soul to ash!
As the energy was injected, a brand-new Doctor was about to be born. Meanwhile, the dying Doctor lay on the sand, using his last ounce of strength to write that single word.
BIRD.
How long can he keep doing this… No, it's unclear…
How long must he stay in this endless cycle… No, that is also unclear…
THE ONLY THING HE CAN DO IS… BURN THE SELF TO CREATE A NEW SELF—!!!
The lights in the Mind Palace were completely extinguished. The Doctor's figure was burned to nothingness. The castle reset once more, and a new Doctor was born again.
His figure ran through the castle, NEVER STOPPING!!! 』
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〜Myriad Worlds livestream Chat〜
[ Kamado Tanjiro (Demon Slayer): "Infinite reset… that means the Doctor's memory is wiped every time, and every time he faces death, it is the initial, most painful moment?! This is… the truth?!!" ]
[ Gabriel (Gabriel DropOut): "Hehe, I don't know how evil one has to be to develop such a disgusting thing. It seems that no matter which world, all creatures are equally nauseating!" ]
[ Sengoku (One Piece): "This is a true hellish prison… compared to this, Impel Down is like a joke." ]
[ Loki Odinson (Earth-616): "No… this hell is terrifying, yes, but it is the Doctor who resolutely walks on within this hell! Every time, he makes the same choice! A Time Lord?! No wonder he can become a hegemon of the universe! Hahahahahaha!" ]
[ Rick Sanchez (Rick And Morty): "Hahahahahaha! Now that's what I'm talking about! Hurry up and smash that damn wall, find the son of a bitch behind the scenes, and shove a fist right up his ass so he can feel the pain too!" ]
( Translator-kun: Now that I think about it, Rick Sanchez is quite similar to The Doctor. )
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『 Viewers of Myriad Worlds 』
Everyone trembled as they watched this scene. So… so this was the truth?!!
All the skeletons were the Doctor alone!
The Doctor truly hadn't time-traveled, and the changes in the stars' positions were not wrong at all!
It was just that… every time the Doctor died, all his memories were completely reset. He remembered nothing of this place; every time was a new beginning.
Every time, he had to face the same fear. In this infinite cycle, he couldn't even become numb to it. Every moment of despair and suffocation was experienced for the first time…
It was resetting the Doctor's senses, making the Doctor suffer incomparable pain again and again.
Everyone shuddered, goosebumps erupting all over their bodies. Here, the Doctor could see no hope. He couldn't bring any information to his future self. All he could do was cycle infinitely, thereby attempting to find a way out!
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〜A Certain Magical Index World〜
Academy City—
"This is the most evil hell,"
Kamijou Touma watched the scene, shaken.
Immense anger and sorrow rose in his heart!
Who was it? Who set such a hellish trap for the Doctor!
How long… exactly how long must the Doctor face this despair? How long until he can shatter that Azbantium wall, which is 400 times harder than diamond!
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〜Whoniverse, ????〜
"The Confession Dial… to think they gave me such a grand gift."
The Doctor already understood everything. He sneered, his expression utterly cold.
Rassilon, since you want to know the secret of the Hybrid so badly, let me tell you!
The secret of the Hybrid is…
The Hybrid will destroy Gallifrey! AND THE HYBRID IS HIM!!!
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『 "—!" The Doctor emerged from the replicator again, gasping for breath. He rubbed his leather shoes against the floor, feeling the reality. He gripped the sand, feeling the reality of it slipping through his fingertips.
He issued his angry declaration again. He encountered death again, broke the window again, jumped into the sea again, and found the dry clothes again. Everything proceeded exactly as set.
The only change was when he looked at the stars; the time changed with each viewing. And that Azbantium wall standing coldly in the deepest depths.
Gradually, the Doctor understood everything. Every time, he would experience death. Every hundred thousand times, he would find that Azbantium wall and touch that terrifying truth.
And in endless despair, he would swing a heavy fist to smash against the Azbantium wall, followed by the death that arrived as expected—
Blood soaked the castle again and again. The soul was burned to ash again and again. Burning the self, creating the me.
Finally returning again—
Unknown how many times he smashed the glass, unknown how many times he fell into the sea, how many times he tasted death as if savoring a delicacy. Every death brought him one step closer. Every time, he realized the truth.
The Doctor began to crave death every time!
His will did not go numb. His fear of death did not diminish in the slightest. He still broke down in despair. BUT HIS LOVE FOR CLARA… NEVER CHANGED!!!
For Clara, HE COULD FACE DESPAIR AND DEATH EVEN AFTER REALIZING THE TRUTH!!!
How many seconds in eternity, and then the shepherd boy says…
The Doctor swung his fist with force—the hand of death loomed once more.
One million years into the future—
"If I weren't sure I hadn't time-traveled, I would think I had arrived one million years later."
Ten million years into the future—
"How many seconds in eternity, shepherd boy?"
Twenty million years into the future—
"The shepherd boy says."
One hundred million years into the future—
"If I wasn't sure I hadn't time-traveled, I would think I had arrived one hundred million years later—"
Running, hiding, fear, despair, pain, facing it all!
Countless figures cycled through the castle. The Doctor's figure never changed. The skeletons in the sea of death accumulated more and more.
Hideous, hollow, pitch-black eye sockets stared at the Doctor's figure from the deep sea!
One billion years into the future—
"There is a mountain made of diamonds. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it." The hand of death loomed once more!
Two billion years into the future—
"Every hundred years, a little bird comes to sharpen its beak on the diamond mountain—", the hand of death loomed!
Three billion years into the future—
"AND WHEN THE ENTIRE MOUNTAIN IS CHISELED AWAY!!! THE FIRST SECOND OF ETERNITY WILL HAVE JUST PASSED!!!"
The Doctor's figure continued to advance!
Every hundred thousand years, he would advance that microscopic distance!
3.5 billion years—
"You must think that's a hell of a long time!"
4.49 billion years into the future—
"Honestly, I THINK THAT REALLY IS—!!!"
Cycle, endless cycle, countless times of equal despair, countless times of equal pain. Those bones filled the entire seabed!
Just a little more, just a little more, and they would break the surface of the sea!
4.5 billion years into the future—
"AH!!!", the Doctor's expression was ferocious. He swung his final fist with all his might, and the Azbantium wall shattered with a boom!
The death behind him turned to dust and dissipated. The Doctor stood amidst the boundless light. His eyes flashed with a depth and fury never seen before. He spoke coldly and proudly, "Personally, I think that's a hell of a bird." 』
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〜Whoniverse, ????〜
Clara was already weeping uncontrollably. Her chest heaved rapidly, tears falling silently down her beautiful cheeks.
Doctor…!
Shocking…
WHAT UNSPEAKABLE SHOCK!!!
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『 Viewers of Myriad Worlds 』
Countless viewers felt their scalps tingle, their pupils contracting to pinpoints. They watched this scene in disbelief. The Doctor really did it?!!!
Without a doubt, THIS WAS THE TRUTH!!!
In countless times of equal despair, he made the same choice countless times, burned himself countless times, and faced despair countless times!
HE SPENT 4.5 BILLION YEARS AND FINALLY REACHED THE END!!!
He… escaped from this most evil, infernal hell. THE DOCTOR WON!!!
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