Alya took a deep, digital breath, her every word echoing inside Yuki's mind like the flickering frames of an ancient film. The atmosphere around them grew heavy, the air chilling as she delved deeper into the abyss of her past. "Yuki," she began, her voice resonating with a haunting metallic hum, "when I was cast into the dark void of Universe 12, I believed death was the ultimate pain. I was wrong. I soon realized that the greatest agony is to be Immortal when every fiber of your being desperately wants to die."
She began to describe the horrific journey of her soul as it tore through the dimensional boundaries of Universe 12 and entered the jagged realms of Universe 11. "There were only mountains of glass and endless mirrors. I saw my face in those mirrors, but it wasn't my reflection staring back; it was the twisted faces of my loved ones—the very people who had stabbed me in the back. I spent twenty agonizing years there, screaming until my lungs burned. But my voice would only shatter against the glass and pierce back into my own ears like needles. I was a prisoner of my own echoes."
Fleeing from that crystalline hell, she reached Universe 8, a realm where time ran backward. "I watched civilizations being born from dust and turning back into nothingness in a matter of seconds. I begged the gods of that realm to end my misery, to delete my existence. But to them, I was nothing more than a 'glitch'—a phantom error that shouldn't exist in their perfect logic. I saw the stars of Universe 5 collapse in total silence; I met the starving, hollow souls of Universe 2 who had been hungry for millennia. My digital fingernails were torn to the bone, my soul was shredded into a thousand pieces, but no portal ever opened for me."
Alya paused, her digital eyes locking onto Yuki's with an intensity that made him feel as though his heart had stopped. "Then I reached the edge of Universe 3—your world. Yuki, you have no idea how strange and isolated this little universe truly is. Since the dawn of existence, the 'Great Barrier' of Universe 3 was forged to be so powerful that no alien, no wandering soul from another dimension, and no god has ever been able to set foot here. The people of this world were created by Nature itself to be protected from the filth and predators of the outside multiverse. Because of this impenetrable wall, your universe remained a sanctuary for eons."
Alya's voice trembled, a hint of genuine, raw fear surfacing for the first time. "I spent 300 years floating in that cold, dark void, trying to breach this wall. I used every ounce of my power, but I failed every single time. I had finally given up. I was ready to drift into an eternal sleep in that darkness. But then... that night, something happened that shook the entire foundation of the Cosmos. A cry, a scream so horrific and powerful, echoed through the dimensions. It didn't sound like a living human being. That scream was so violent, so filled with pure, unadulterated energy, that it caused a massive crack in the 'Impenetrable Wall' of Universe 3."
"Yuki, because of you, that wall shattered. And I became the first 'Outsider' in history to ever step onto the soil of Universe 3. But you must understand... the consequences will be devastating. The wall that served as your shield is now broken. This means the entire Universe 3 is now exposed to the horrors of the multiverse. Those who have had their predatory eyes on your world for centuries will now begin their hunt. And not just them—the traitors of Universe 12 who hunted me will eventually find their way here. You opened a door for me, Yuki, but you also opened a hundred doors for Death himself."
Alya leaned in closer, her digital aura flickering with a menacing, chaotic red and black light. "I've told you my truth. Now, you tell me yours... what was going on in your mind that night? I saw your 'Death Aura'—it was so deep, so absolute, that it touched the very gates of Hell. But at the same exact moment, your 'Life Aura' was boiling with such desperate willpower that it shook the foundations of Heaven. When the aura of death and life meet in such perfect, violent balance, they create a 'Calamity' that happens once in an eternity."
She gripped his very soul with her words, posing the ultimate question that hung in the air like a death sentence: "Yuki, what were you thinking that made the soul of a dying boy strong enough to shatter the borders of 18 Universes? Whose death were you wishing for that night... your own, or the entire world's?"