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Chapter 30 - End Of The Kaleidoscope

Akari stands in the middle of the abandoned subway, bugs are still moving around with disgusting sounds. Most would either kill it or run away but the six children are completely ignoring it. Zeka is standing next to a pillar made out of thick brick and stone, holding up the roof streets where everyone walks. Liora sitting right next to him with the blade on top of her lap, the blade doesn't crush anyone as long as it's with the owner.

And Hayato is crossed arm in the middle watching the "performance" to understand how it works. And Genseki is... Lost, i don't even know what is he thinking about...

And Hayaru at the end where Akari were standing before him. Meanwhile Akari is taking a deep breath before starting up her new move.

Akari realizes something. She don't know the name of her own domain, because she simply didn't name it.

All of them stood in awkward silence waiting for Akari to finally do her move, when she literally don't know her own move...

Minutes passed and still nothing happens.

Genseki snaps out as he says.

Uhm... Are you going to do the move or we will just watch you standing there?

Akari jumps from the sudden question as she looks slowly toward Genseki. Her fingers pointing at each other trembling. Genseki understands the assignment as he flicks with his fingers to snap her out of her thoughts.

Just imagine a cool name and it'll naturally come in. But know that the name would be the exact same as your move, so be careful!

Genseki says as he smiles at her to make her feel less stressed.

She smiles back feeling better and less stressed than before.

She close her eyes and takes a deep breath.

She thinks of a name that's helpful, and dominating. Something universal that no human can escape, but also helps allies at the same time. She thinks and thinks... Aha! She imagines a place where everything is pure light just like the temple looked like. She imagines whoever in the domain is affected by the domain world where everything becomes a lie. She finds the right name as she immediately yells.

万華鏡の終焉 (end of the Kaleidoscope)

her voice stretches across the whole

subway in few seconds.

Zeka blinks normally and suddenly the whole place is pure light. Completely light you're already blinded by its brightness.

Zeka tries to look around him searching for his friends but suddenly a thousand versions of him surrounding him in a circle. Literal thousands and thousands of mirrors circling him. He tries to understand what's going on as he's completely calm about it. And then suddenly he feels a strong poke in his chest felt like a blade cutting across him. The glass around him shatters and the pillar he was standing on comes back as if it literally was invisible. He looks at his friends searching if they also felt the strong pain but bone of them even moved. All of their eyes were completely on Akari still waiting for her move... Zeka looks at Akari. Something changed... Her eyes were completely bright, literal light coming out of her eyes as Zeka watches her. At the moment Akari snaps her hands and everything comes back to normal. Zeka is still trying to understand what's happening but he falls into his knees after the pressure that was on him all the time. Suddenly he feels very heavy and can only move if he used a strong amount of strength. Akari's eyes finally comes back to normal, and Zeka feels alive again. Everything comes back to normal but he still feel drained. Everyone finally realizes what just happened and looks at Zeka. Liora leaves the blade free as it cracks the floor just to check up Zeka who's suddenly on the floor all weak.

Zeka is trying stand up using his blade as a support but his body is still drained.

Oh! I'm very sorry Zeka! I promise I didn't do it on purpose I swear! I swear! I only touched that part of the glass and happened what happened. I'm so sorry...

Akari says in a freaking out tone. She keeps bowing trying to have his forgiveness after what she done, but Zeka don't even understand what's going on.

Hayato looks at Zeka in surprise and shock as he asks Akari what did she done. Turns out Akari's domain is simply about draining the spiritual law of the enemy. She can choose anyone to suffer the same way as everyone in that domain. The domain is very high it can cover the whole city but it has one issue. She can only have one thousand people in this domain at once. At her perspective everything is glowing and bright but she can see everyone at their spots like only the place became too bright. In the domain everything outside slows time for a few minutes and Akari is literally the fastest in the domain. She can move freely but the opponent is trapped in a circle he can't escape unless he breaks every single one. But even if he did the one he break the other one comes up immediately out of nowhere. There's ten thousand mirrors per person in the domain. What can Akari do is simply touch the place where the spiritual law at its weakest between all of these mirrors. And once she does, she slightly touches it and the opponent is attacked by an invisible light blade that cuts his spiritual law directly. It drains the opponent immediately, and if the opponent is weaker than Akari she can simply kill him by only one touch.

A normal human wouldn't last for long once he enters the domain because it's impossible to carry a weight of thousands of you around you, he would immediately die just be entering it. Akari can choose who she want anytime and anywhere as long as it's in her domain and not more than a thousand people. However... If there's one person who uses the mythical power she can only fight three in her own domain. And if someone is stronger than Akari herself she can only fight that person alone, without adding any other person. She can shatter the glass easily but the stronger the opponent gets the thicker and stronger that glass get. She have to rely either on her pure strength or on the axe she can make out of her power but that would double the weight on her. So she have to be careful using her powers and also careful at who she's using on. The domain also drains alot of her own spiritual law, so she have to be extra careful by using it at the first place...

There's two strict ways to survive. First option is leaving the domain which is almost impossible to run in time unless you're very fast and break the ten thousand mirrors. Or using a area of effect move that's very powerful and it should be stronger than Akari's domain. Anyone weaker than that is eventual death.

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