Chapter 1 The Opening of the True Ending
“True ending initiated, the story enters its final volume.”
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Human Civilization…
Has it perished?
Then what are we…? Demons?
No, it’s not that simple.
The girls exchanged glances.
And Risi Ai, the Trickster Demon?
She released many images in front of everyone.
And the content within…
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“Wh-what is this?”
“Waaah, this is…”
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In the pictures, it was a vast universe.
But the moon, familiar to the girls, had been utterly pierced by a beam of light.
And on the other side?
It was a planet where the atmosphere had vanished, leaving it completely barren.
The surface of this planet was entirely gray, devoid of any life. Even the remnants of buildings had completely disappeared, terrifyingly desolate.
However, through the outline of the continents, the girls could faintly discern…
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“Th-this is Earth?”
“Correct.”
The little blonde loli sighed and walked to Lonis and Elus’s side:
“In the World Guardian Battle a thousand years ago, although we ultimately repelled two civilizations, all humans died protecting their homeland. The seeds of all civilizations were turned to ash by the erosion of high-level knowledge. Humanity perished completely, and only I survived.”
“Th-then, that means…”
Lonis gasped, as if understanding something, “Your Highness Alice, you mean… our existence isn’t real, but simulated data within a system, just like the Land of Eternity once was.”
“No, your existence is undoubtedly real. However, the current situation is somewhat similar to the Land of Eternity.”
“Wh-what does that mean…”
“After all humans had died, I also gained unprecedented power. My strength completely surpassed the limit of Rank 7, reaching the true level of Rank 10. That is, the level of four-dimensional space.”
“Ah…?”
“In other words, I can reverse causality and invert time-space. I can use my full power to construct a parallel world where humanity was not destroyed but barely survived.”
“!!!”
Lonis was completely stunned.
Because she knew that Rainbow Abyss indeed possessed such power, but she hadn’t expected Alice’s power to be so absolute.
Then, what the Trickster Demon said…
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“Indeed, but merely constructing such a world is meaningless. Because my power comes from the destruction of humanity, I cannot change my own causality. Therefore, the destruction of humanity has become an established reality… this is something that even causality cannot reverse.”
“Ah… ah?”
Lonis’s cognitive capacity couldn’t comprehend it anymore, while Elus…
With a complex expression, she sighed and explained to her companions, “Sigh, to put it simply, it’s like if you, little idiot, went back to the past and could rewrite many things, but you couldn’t kill your father—because if you did, you wouldn’t have been born.”
“Oh, oh! I get it, mostly!”
“Therefore, I can only rely on the power of humanity, or rather, the power of heroes…”
The blonde loli Alice’s expression was somewhat solemn, while the black-haired loli Siri Ai jumped up and said with feigned cheerfulness, “Does this mean that everything you’ve experienced on your journey so far has been my torment and trials, all with the purpose of making you stronger?”
“What?”
“Pain gives people the drive forward, so I destroyed the Snow Kingdom. As for why I made you stronger? That’s naturally because…”
“Is it because… you want us to go back a thousand years and save the human world at that time?”
“Elus?!”
“The future of humanity needs to be saved by humanity itself. For that purpose, whether it’s Rainbow Abyss, the Demon Race, or technology, it has evolved for a thousand years… and the goal is to send us back to that fateful crossroads, so that everyone can survive!”
Elus said decisively, waving her arms.
What exactly happened?
Later, with Alice’s explanation, everyone finally understood the logic of the situation.
It turned out…
Although the concept of a ‘parallel world’ could explain where we live, even among so many parallel worlds, there still exists a concept called the ‘main world.’
For example, in a three-dimensional world, you can see many two-dimensional planes.
A sheet of paper, a tabletop, can form a two-dimensional plane, but only the vast ground and the sea surface are the primary planes.
It’s the same in the real world.
Although with the help of Sun Loli Goddess Alice, the girls successfully entered a world where ‘the world was not destroyed and the sparks of civilization continued to exist.’
However…
Alice’s power also had limits.
Or rather, she could at most control the world to deviate from the main world’s course for a thousand years. After that, she wouldn’t have enough computational power.
Therefore, humanity must find ways to increase their strength within these thousand years.
For this purpose, mere peace is completely insufficient.
Although Alice is not a warmonger, it is undeniable that war greatly promotes the progress of human technology. For example, in the previous epoch…
It was precisely because of the US-Soviet Cold War that humanity achieved artificial lunar landings. Later, as the world leaned towards peace, no one has successfully landed on the moon in 50 years, making lunar landings seem like ‘lost technology.’
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So, a chaotic and threatening world is necessary.
And a source of chaos is also necessary.
For this purpose, Alice extracted her negative emotions and fused them with the knowledge she contained in four-dimensional space to form an existence called ‘Trickster Demon.’
She would stir up all sorts of disturbances in this world, creating various contradictions and conflicts, with the aim of creating a chaotic era that would give heroes a chance to appear.
And on the other hand?
Absolute chaos is also not acceptable. Children need to grow up in peaceful places, and Alice, as the Loli Goddess, must protect the beauty that should be remembered in the world.
Therefore,
She united human nations and spread her influence as the Sun Loli Goddess throughout the world—for example, the Kingdom Ming, C. Academy, and various human nations still maintained order.
Her sole objective was to gather sufficiently powerful heroes.
And the criterion for evaluation was to defeat General Castor, who had gained the power of the Trickster Demon.
So, this means…
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“Well, although I don’t know if you can accept it, to save our world, could you please treat Castor and Siri Ai as comrades?”
Alice sighed and said so.
