"Logically speaking, those people are merely images produced by the Ley Line anomaly, and talking to them is meaningless. Could it be… because he was sacrificed to the Thunderbird, that he is more special than other illusions?"
Kama quickly accepted this premise, after all, A-Liu was different; he was the cause of everything that happened.
The clues obtained from Kama ended here. Although he was the sole surviving descendant of Tsurumi Island, he didn't know much about the situation.
"What do we do now? This Maushiro is fake; it will disappear once we leave Tsurumi Island. Does this mean our commission has failed?"
Their commission was to bring the Maushiro to Sumida, but the Maushiro was merely an illusion caused by the Ley Line anomaly; it didn't exist. How could they complete the mission?
However, compared to the mission, they now had another matter they wanted to deal with. Durandal was the most impatient, and after realizing Kama had no further clues, she turned and walked back towards the fog.
"Wait… wait a minute, Durandal. What do you intend to do?"
"The elements that complete the cycle are the repetition of what happened during that last Rite. Because we repaired the perch, The Rite was able to proceed to the end. But… if a step in it goes wrong, if something happens that didn't occur that day, the cycle can be broken."
With her back to Lumine and her group, Durandal said in a low voice: "If that's the case, then let's destroy the important perch. That way, The Rite cannot continue."
After speaking, without waiting for Lumine to catch up, she slowly walked into the fog, her figure gradually enveloped by the mist, slowly disappearing from everyone's sight.
Lumine and the others quickly followed. As they passed through the 'gate,' Durandal stood not far from it. Her shadow beneath her feet was particularly strange, constantly stretching outwards, devouring the surrounding things.
Soon, four Black Plague clones slowly crawled out of the shadow and came to Durandal's side, their crimson eyes watching her, growling.
"Find those perches and destroy them all, leaving none behind, understand?"
Dividing up to act was too slow; this was the fastest method, letting the clones help deal with those unsightly perches. When the perches were destroyed and the cycle broken, Tsurumi Island would surely undergo other changes.
At the same time, Durandal also had to stay here. Only by staying here would there be a chance to meet A-Liu, to meet this boy who had been trapped in the cycle.
Receiving the order, the clones flew towards the perches at an extremely fast speed. Durandal stood where A-Liu had appeared before, waiting for the perches to be destroyed by the clones.
After all the perches were destroyed, the surroundings indeed changed. Terrifying lightning continuously struck down from the sky, a thunderstorm formed, carrying the power to destroy everything, annihilating everything around it.
"Is this... Kapatcir's wrath?"
Besides the lightning strikes, the sky was also dyed red. This should be the scene where Kanna Kapatikir destroyed Tsurumi Island.
"I... can understand your feelings. Even I find those people ignorant and beyond saving."
"I can also understand your desire to punish those people, to make them pay for their foolishness for all eternity. But... your actions have also put that child in distress. He... is innocent."
Through countless cycles of reincarnation, he constantly tried to complete that final The Rite/Sacrifice, believing that by completing it, everything would return to normal, and his past life would come back.
He is a victim, yet because of the ignorance of those people, he has endured countless reincarnations and remembers all those things.
This is too unfair to him, too cruel to him.
"Although I also want those guys to be punished forever, for his sake, this cycle of reincarnation should end."
With that, Durandal clasped her hands together forcefully, and a compelling power emanated outwards from her. Even Kama, who was waiting for them outside, felt an invisible impact rush towards him.
Under the influence of this power, everything around them began to change. The red sky gradually returned to normal, and the stormy weather slowly disappeared, as if returning to its original state.
But... none of this disappeared; this was merely the beginning of a new cycle of reincarnation.
And the beginning of the cycle also meant A-Liu returning to the place where they first met. He stood there, watching Durandal and her group, his eyes complex.
"Big sister, why..."
"It's time for it to end, A-Liu."
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