Chapter: 35. Another Strongest Protagonist
The Box of Kaurala opened its door wide for Nagi again.
She felt a long-lost sensation of falling, as if she would endlessly plummet into dark nothingness.
Until a brilliant galaxy caught her body, wrapping it gently like a soft feather—
This was the Box of Kaurala unique to the female protagonist “Hoshimiya Nagi,” unlike the pure white space of the male protagonist “Tsukimi Kanade.”
This space resembled a deep and limitless universe, with black as the dominant hue.
Countless shining and dazzling stars orbited around Nagi.
At the very center of the endless universe floated a pure white star, corresponding to the black flame in Kanade’s Box of Kaurala; it throbbed like a living heart, its white light illuminating the shattered starry sky within Nagi’s eyes.
Below was a series of concentric star-ring graphs, each depicting countless possible worldlines.
The singular black lightning did not strike Nagi.
Thus, her Box of Kaurala was not sealed; she could still peek into or trace back to the worldlines through these lines of possibility—
However, the opportunity was evidently only once.
As the only “Kanade,” he could naturally retain memories during the worldline retracing.
Moreover, being the true master of the Box of Kaurala, he would immediately realize his current worldline was being retraced, and the next descent would only happen faster.
This would not buy time for herself and this world.
It would only waste the one and only opportunity.
Therefore, Nagi needed to ensure that after the singularity was retraced, it could not temporarily find this worldline, or—
Make it temporarily unaware that it had been retraced.
Could such a thing really be done?
The other party was the “singularity,” whose rank and power far exceeded her own.
Unless, not as “Nagi,” but as—
Nagi walked slowly towards the white star before her.
Her eyes, with the shattered starry sky, pieced together a complex soul—both Nagi and Light.
And the latter, if truly as End said.
Then her identity bore a deeper origin for this world—
Light was not only the former master of End and Garuda; for them, she was also—
my esteemed creator.
The creator.
She must reclaim the power belonging to “the creator.”
Although this power had scattered into fragments of End due to the shattering of her soul.
But if it was the Box of Kaurala, using the ability known as “retrace”—
She could temporarily regain the powers she once had.
【Do you want to retrace?】
“Retrace.”
Nagi softly spoke to the white star.
The starry sky in her eyes erupted with dazzling light, while Nagi felt a pain like her soul was being torn apart.
But correspondingly, the abilities that once belonged to the “Elemental Sovereign,” that power awakened by herself, was being re-manifested through the Box of Kaurala’s “retrace” ability—
After reincarnating as “Hoshimiya Nagi,” Nagi had lost all memory of this ability; she even thought she had never awakened it and had always fought using her contracted beasts’ powers. Even when she learned that her past self had awakened, she could not recollect what powers she had.
Clearly, if she had just tried to recall the abilities of the original protagonist from “Star Pull 1,” she could figure out what she had awakened.
Yet she had never thought of doing that and believed it was— “normal.”
“So it was…” Nagi finally realized this through the reemerging ability from the Box of Kaurala.
The “incongruity” that should have existed had finally been felt by her.
Making everything seem “reasonable,” she had always thought was the power of the star’s authority; it was an ability belonging to End.
But if she pondered a little, she would realize why the stars representing souls had such an effect?
That was not End’s power.
It was the effect produced after the combination of End and her soul fragments.
That’s right.
This was once her ability.
Her power awakened during the time when she was “Light.”
Its effect was so powerful that she had never noticed it.
Even though she had activated and used it, she still failed to realize.
“Angel’s… domain…”
This was the acting praised by critics and industry insiders during her time as a child star genius.
A talent that made everything seem “existence is reasonable,” and could even draw others into that domain.
And this power was the residue of Nagi’s past abilities—Radiance-fed Truth.
The “truth” forged by “Light.”
All things illuminated by brilliance would be viewed as “truth.”
She had been using it all along.
Yet she felt nothing unusual.
At this moment.
This ability was directly manifested through the Box of Kaurala.
Nagi endured the agony of her soul being torn apart, grasping onto this brilliant radiance—
“Box of Kaurala! Again——!!!”☆
【Do you want to try again?】
The Box of Kaurala responded to Nagi’s cry.
“One more time!”☆
Tick-tock—Tick-tock—
The sound of a swinging pendulum echoed in the endless universe.
If the strength of the second-generation protagonist could not break the predetermined strongest “singularity” of “Star Pull 2.”
Then.
If it were the strength of the first-generation protagonist—
“——Retrace the worldline!”☆
The star rings surrounding the white star erupted with dazzling white light, and countless possibilities from other worldlines sped past Nagi.
And her starry eyes precisely locked onto the possibility she wanted to retrace.
“Return to before the singularity locked this worldline!”☆
【Warning】
“I command you in the name of ‘Light’——”☆
If the singularity—Tsukimi Kanade, was the strongest form of the male protagonist “Tsukimi Kanade” in “Star Pull 2.”
Then the strongest form of the female protagonist “Hoshimiya Nagi” in “Star Pull 2” would be—
