—The Herta's POV—
I could only stare at the scene before me and carve it into memory. Once, I had asked the droid head a single question: What is divinity? It had remained silent. And yet now—perhaps now—I finally understood.
Flames radiated from her body, brilliant and absolute, eroding not just matter, but reality itself. The laws I relied upon bent, thinned, and peeled away under their presence. So this…
This is what divinity looks like.
—Vireth's POV—
"Ugh…" I pressed a hand to my bleeding forehead and forced myself to look skyward. What I saw was unreal—unpredictable. Flames that did not simply burn, but consumed existence.
And standing at their center was someone I never expected to see again. An old friend. One who had sworn to sever herself from the world. And yet—there she was. In the flesh.
"Hmph. Who do you think you are, mere lifeform?" Nirras sneered, her voice echoing through Kotone's stolen body
—Nirras's POV—
"Hmph. Who do you think you are, mere lifeform?" Shock and fascination tangled within me. Long white hair tied into a ponytail, streaked with deep crimson. Blue eyes—cold, resolute—staring straight through flesh and blood alike.
Hoh… What unique flames. To burn this vessel—to scorch something even I inhabit—how powerful must they be? Yet the girl said nothing. Her eyes held only one thing. Purpose.
SWISH—! BOOM—!!!
The greatsword came down. The slash tore space apart, an explosion blooming in its wake, fire devouring everything in its path. A rift screamed open where the blade had passed.
I was unfazed. I merely began healing the vessel. …Or so I thought.
"Hmm?!" It didn't heal. No—it couldn't. The wound burned endlessly, refusing regeneration, the flames gnawing eternally at flesh and soul alike.
"Who—?" My words fell flat. She only stared.
—Vireth's POV—
"…What?" That was all I could manage. We had burned her flesh before—countless times. It always regenerated instantly. Yet now, she was the one burning. And it wasn't healing.
"Hmm~?" Dorothy murmured, eyes alight with curiosity. "Is such a thing even possible?"
"To accelerate atoms until flames are born…" Herta's gaze sharpened. "…Is that even scientifically feasible?" Even in a world governed by fractured rules, this shouldn't exist. And yet—
"The authority of flame accelerates atoms, destabilizing matter at a fundamental level." Bronya watched Kiana in silence. "That is the authority of flame." So familiar. And yet—so painfully different.
[Baka Kiana…] [Why do you look so empty?]
This wasn't the girl Bronya remembered. The one who laughed, who burned with hope, who stood beside Mei without hesitation. Once, Bronya herself had been the Herrscher of Truth
capable of constructing anything humanity could conceive. And still, even she stood no chance before an eldritch god.
"Perhaps…" "…compatibility is the deciding factor after all." Bronya muttered
Her flames burned brighter still. They destroyed flesh even Phainon—vessel of Destruction itself—could not erase. Why? Even with the concept of destruction, Phainon failed.
And yet she—armed only with flame—succeeded. —Crack—Squelch— The ground split open. Flesh erupted, writhing, shielding Nirras as she retreated—trying to escape the inferno consuming her.
"HAH!" Nirras roared. "IT'S USELESS! IF YOU CAN'T CATCH ME, I'LL ESCAPE AND RETURN FOR YOU LATER, LIFEFORM!"
"This is bad," I muttered. "Is there anything we can do to help her?" I asked.
"It's fine," Dorothy said. "It's fine," Herta echoed. From different worlds, yet bound by the same gift—probability. And the outcome they saw was absolute. Nirras dies.
—Clink—
Space warped. Distorted. And then—Kiana appeared behind Nirras. Her greatsword cleaved straight through the vessel. Flames erupted, engulfing everything, matter unraveling as space itself fractured.
—FWOOSHHHH—
"To control space…" Bronya said quietly. "…The authority of Void." "Can I assume Herrschers are Gods in your world?" Herta asked.
"In a sense," Bronya replied.
"Huh." Herta murmured.
—Nirras's POV—
I was severed—Not wounded—Not defeated—Severed. My connection to that world was cleanly cut, my presence rejected as if reality itself had spat me out. The battlefield vanished.
Replacing it the familiar stillness of my own domain—a place beyond flesh, beyond distance, beyond time as lesser beings understood it. Silence. Then—Ah? Space split open.
A portal bloomed within my domain, its edges burning—not with flame, but with inevitability. "…Hoh?" From it, she stepped through. Those same flames—That same gaze.
Kiana. I sneered, contempt returning like instinct. "Coming to my domain?" I said, laughter echoing across the void. "Are you trying to kill yourself, little lifeform?" She did not answer.
She merely looked at me. And then—Her flames receded , Not extinguished. Withdrawn. The heat vanished, replaced by something far worse. Her form changed. White and purple unfolded like a silent verdict.
Space no longer distorted around her—it submitted. Even my domain, crafted beyond conventional causality, trembled as if recognizing a superior rule. I knew this form—No. I've felt this.
I recognize this feeling. Something beyond that. The world darkened. Not metaphorically. Light ceased to have meaning. Sound followed. My domain—my laws, my authority.
My existence—began to collapse inward, not violently, but correctly. As if an equation had finally reached its conclusion.
[No—] I tried to assert myself. To overwrite. To persist. To exist. Yet it was useless. What it was doing was simple. It ended. Cycles. Possibilities. What-ifs. Even Gods. My thoughts slowed. Not frozen—concluded.
I could feel my timeline unravel, rewound past choices, past divergences, past the moment I had ever been relevant. Kiana stood before me, eyes empty of hatred. Empty of intent.
She was not here to kill me. She was here because— This was where my story ended. Darkness closed in. And there was nothing left for me to resist as my consciousness itself stopped
Kiana reappeared before their eyes. Not as the Flamescion—but in the form of Finality. The space around her felt… settled. Not frozen, not crushed concluded.
as if the world itself had already accepted the outcome before she arrived.
Her long white-and-purple hair drifted without wind, the crown above her head gleaming faintly. Her gaze passed over them. Then she spoke, calm and certain.
"She's gone." No echo followed the words. No aftershocks. Nirras did not vanish—she had already ended. Kiana's eyes shifted. To Dorothy, and then Herta— there was a quiet admiration there.
The kind reserved for beings who had carved meaning into existence rather than demanded it. When her gaze met Bronya's, it softened. Just a little.
"Please… don't worry about me."
The words carried no farewell weight, no sorrow. They weren't a request—they were reassurance. Finally, her eyes turned to Vireth. There, her expression changed—not reverence, not distance, but recognition.
As if looking upon someone she had once walked beside at the edge of the same ending. An old friend. Kiana smiled—faint, almost imperceptible. "See you." She raised her hand and space folded inward
forming a clean fracture—not violent, not unstable, but precise. A hole in space opened before her, its edges gleaming with controlled distortion. Without hesitation, Kiana stepped forward.
The rift closed behind her.
—Herta's POV—
Interesting. That was Herta's first thought, and also the most honest one. The space where she had stood was still warm—not thermally, but conceptually. Like a theorem that had already been proven.
Erased from the blackboard, and yet somehow still constrained everything written afterward. Finality. Not a collapse. Not destruction. An ending that had already accounted for all variables.
Herta adjusted her posture, fingers idly tapping against her arm. No readings. No residual authority signatures she could meaningfully isolate. Of course there weren't any.
Trying to measure Finality after the fact was like trying to calculate a function whose domain had already been removed from reality. How inelegant. And yet—She glanced at the others.
Bronya was silent. Too silent. That alone was data. Dorothy looked… unsettled, though she tried to mask it. As expected. Even Gods tended to react poorly to the confirmation that existence itself could be dismissed without malice.
Vireth, however—Herta's gaze lingered there longer than necessary. Recognition. Mutual. That had not been imagination
"The Aeon of Finality , Terminus? Fascinating." Herta muttered, more to herself than anyone else. She replayed the moment in her mind, frame by frame.
The way Kiana's eyes had passed over her—not with judgment, not even curiosity . But with something resembling approval—admiration perhaps…