Inside Hakugyokurou, Yukari Yakumo and Yuyuko Saigyouji stared at Izumi with rather strange expressions.
"So?" Yukari asked curiously while folding her fan. "What are you planning to do next?"
"Everything in your world has basically stabilized by now, hasn't it?"
"You don't have anything left to handle?"
Ever since Izumi had integrated the Authority related to the Sun Sovereignty, the entire dimensional world had entered a state of accelerated fusion.
One world after another continuously merged into his domain.
Countless systems of power, laws, and concepts were blending together without pause.
Naturally, Yukari was extremely curious about what Izumi intended to do afterward.
Hearing her question, Izumi raised an eyebrow.
After thinking for a moment, he slowly replied,
"Next…"
"I wait."
"I'll wait until every world completely merges together."
"Then I'll integrate the entire dimensional world itself… and use it to push beyond my current limits."
As he spoke, a faint light flashed through his eyes.
At present, Izumi's strength had already reached the absolute peak.
If he wanted to continue advancing any further, there was only one path remaining.
He had to completely fuse every world into one unified existence.
Then—
Using the power of the entire dimensional structure itself, he would attempt a breakthrough into a higher realm.
If he failed…
He would end up just like Azathoth.
He would fall from the realm of the single digits and vanish completely.
Of course, Izumi did not necessarily need to take that risk.
If he chose not to, he could simply remain as he was forever—just like the other single-digit beings.
An existence standing at the summit, unable to move either forward or backward.
But unlike them…
Izumi still possessed a path ahead.
A path no one else could walk.
By integrating the entire dimensional world into himself, he could shatter the current boundary limiting his existence.
And that was the only route available to him.
After all, the world itself had already become completely bound to Izumi.
If he were destroyed, then this world would collapse alongside him.
In fact, the destruction would likely spread across the entire dimensional structure itself.
Because every fused world had already become part of Izumi's existence.
That was also why the other single-digit beings had never attempted to interfere with him.
Some might think—
"If that's the case, why not simply steal his world?"
But those higher beings understood the truth.
This world belonged solely to Izumi.
No matter what methods they employed, it was impossible to wrest control of it away from him.
In other words—
Izumi's eventual transcendence beyond the single digits was practically inevitable.
No one could stop it.
After hearing all that, Yukari immediately looked speechless.
"So basically…" she muttered, "you've got nothing to do now?"
Izumi nodded honestly.
"Pretty much."
"Though I could always find something to entertain myself with."
"For example, I could send Algol to Little Garden and let her cause some chaos."
"But lately she's been amusing enough already."
The moment he mentioned Algol, Izumi's expression turned rather strange.
Recently, that woman had become completely obsessed with admiring her own beauty.
Worse still, several of the younger girls around Izumi had started picking up her habits as well.
Every last one of them had become absurdly narcissistic.
Izumi had witnessed the entire disaster unfold with his own eyes.
Hearing him casually bring up another woman, Yukari narrowed her eyes.
"Algol?"
"The newcomer?"
As she spoke, Yukari casually opened a gap, clearly intending to secretly peek at her.
However—
The very next second, a terrifying attack blasted directly toward the gap.
Boom!!
Had the world's laws not suppressed the impact, Yukari might have suffered serious injuries on the spot.
The sudden assault left her utterly dumbfounded.
"She's that aggressive?!"
Yukari was shocked.
She had never encountered someone so unreasonable before.
She had barely started peeking and already got attacked immediately.
Beside her, Yuyuko burst into laughter after witnessing the scene.
Even Izumi could not help sighing before offering a warning.
"You really shouldn't casually provoke her."
"She's not easy to get along with."
"She's incredibly narcissistic… and extremely sensitive to the power of boundaries."
"After all, her greatest enemy also uses similar powers."
"So from her perspective, you basically showed up at her doorstep looking for a fight."
Hearing that explanation, Yukari immediately fell silent.
She could already guess exactly who Izumi was referring to.
Although she felt somewhat irritated, there was nothing she could really say in response.
A violent, narcissistic, overwhelmingly powerful woman…
Just imagining it gave Yukari a headache.
Rather than dwell on the matter any further, she decisively changed targets.
Without hesitation, Yukari climbed directly onto Izumi.
As the saying went:
"There was Hongjun before the heavens, but Yukari was already seventeen before creation itself."
The amount of time Yukari had endured alone was unimaginably long.
Now that Izumi was finally here, her true nature had completely surfaced.
Especially with Yuyuko still right beside them.
Wasn't this kind of situation far too exciting?
Naturally, Izumi had no intention of being polite toward Yukari's advances.
After all…
Yukari still owed him quite a lot from before.
As a result—
The gap youkai ended up suffering greatly for the next several days.