I Will Protect My Brother - Chapter 76

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Chapter 9. The Me I Never Knew
Beyond the heavens lies an endless expanse of boundless space.
Countless planets and stars, infinite dimensions layered upon one another—this vast tapestry is what we call the Cosmos.
Within the Cosmos dwelled countless gods from countless worlds.
Worshipped as “gods” on certain planets, known as “Stars” in other dimensions, revered as religions or history itself in yet other realms—the Cosmos encompasses all such beings across all existence.
Yet even that boundless Cosmos has something that transcends it.
A place reachable by passing through “The Wall” that divides the material and immaterial realms.
A place where time holds no meaning, space lacks definition, and significance becomes worthless—pure nothingness, or what some call the absolute abyss.
This realm beyond the Cosmos is called the “Outer Universe.”
Gods exist even in the Outer Universe. They are the Absolute Gods who govern the Cosmos itself.
On the planet Rahnar, these beings were known as the “Guardian Star.”
The Creator of Beginning and End—who brings worlds into existence.
The Prophetic Pupil—who reads the world’s fate.
The Formless Messenger—who shapes the world.
The Omniscient Word Sorcerer—who moves the world.
The Judge of Darkness and Chaos—who judges the world.
Now there were five, but in the distant past, a sixth existed among them.
The End.
A being who destroys worlds, true to its name.
Whenever the five Absolute Gods birthed a world and meticulously shaped it into beautiful form to set it in motion, The End would creep near and burst it asunder.
This cycle repeated for hundreds of millions of years until the Judge of Darkness and Chaos finally raised his hammer against it.
By Rahnar’s reckoning, five hundred years had passed; on other planets, it amounted to tens of thousands of years; by the Absolute Gods’ measure, merely an hour or two had elapsed.
In other words, the Absolute Gods’ irritation and fury toward The End still burned at their peak.
Yet the Abyss remained eternally silent.
They communicated not through language but through will. Between themselves, their exchanges were extraordinarily complex and turbulent.
【Found it. Caught it!】
The Omniscient Word Sorcerer cried out with delight.
A gossamer thread extended downward through The Wall into the Cosmos below. Too fine to see completely, but its end surely connected to a certain planet called Rahnar.
【Lozietti Kirges. I’ve found that girl’s Planetarium again. Honestly, what tedious work this is.】
For the Absolute Gods to locate a specific human was as difficult as threading a needle through a grain of sand.
They were incomprehensibly vast, while humans were absurdly small by comparison.
The Omniscient Word Sorcerer playfully plucked the silver thread. Vibrations rippled along its length.
At that precise moment, a crimson beam flashed across Lozietti Kirges’s Planetarium.
The Formless Messenger grumbled from a distance.
【I don’t understand why we’re going through all this troublesome effort. Why not simply speak to her directly?】
【Last time that fool tried that, he nearly burst the girl to pieces. Utterly brainless.】
The Omniscient Word Sorcerer cast a look of contempt toward the Judge of Darkness and Chaos.
【And just before, he rampaged recklessly and ended up creating favorable circumstances for the Avatar of Lost Soul. There’s no doubt he lacks intelligence.】
【How troublesome.】
【So we must find another way. But where have the Prophetic Pupil and the Creator of Beginning and End gone?】
【Those two are always so busy. The Prophetic Pupil spends all day reading the future and sleeping, while the Creator of Beginning and End is constantly preoccupied making new dimensions. They don’t even answer when called.】
【Hmph, all they do is create and read. And we’re stuck doing all the grunt work? Not a chance. Go wake up that eye bastard. We need to get a look at Rahnar.】
Soon, the Prophetic Pupil appeared, shuffling lazily into view.
【Troublesome creatures. Must you treat me like a magnifying glass?】
【What else can we do? No matter how hard I look, everything’s so tiny I can’t tell what’s what.】
A moment later, an enormous eye shrouded in delicate mist began scanning across the cosmos.
The Prophetic Pupil meticulously searched through the web-like network of the universe, corner by corner, until Rahnar came into focus.
【Zoom in a bit.】
【….】
【Ah, there it is!】
At last, humans began to appear, swarming across the land like ants.
The eye swept across Delpiam, Nemada, and Heiron in succession before finally illuminating the Abuye Kingdom.
A woman appeared, her lustrous crimson hair cascading in waves down to her waist.
The Stars trembled with jubilation.
Found her—Rosien!
【Have you tried sending a detour signal to the Young Girl?】
【Wait, I’m doing it now.】
The Omniscient Word Sorcerer strained, pouring intention into the silver thread.
What exactly were they attempting to accomplish?
They were devising a way to convey the Stars’ will without killing the human in the process.
The Omniscient Word Sorcerer, who could read all knowledge in the world, attempted a plausible method.
【What about Morse code? Like this, touching the thread….】
Tap-tap-tap-tap, tap, tap tap-tap tap-tap, tap tap-tap tap-tap, tap-tap tap-tap tap….
【But does Rahnar even have Morse code?】
【I don’t know. Just send something random. If they understand, they’ll respond. Otherwise, we’ll find another way.】
【…They don’t seem to be getting it. Hey, stop making weird codes and just send it in human language.】
【I can’t send it in Rahnar’s language. What if I send language infused with the Stars’ will and burst their organs again? Ah, humans are truly so fragile!】
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At that same moment, in Rahnar, Rosien had blown apart Walcack Castle.
“What in the world is wrong with this thing lately?!”
Her Planetarium had been acting up for the past few days.
Red light suddenly burst out like fireworks, and it trembled violently on its own, spitting out bizarre characters erratically.
It was the same now. Strange letters appeared in smudged writing on the flat disc.
H E
L L O
♥︎
~?
“What is this, anyway!”
“What’s wrong, Rosy?”
“I don’t know. It’s been acting strange lately. Maybe it’s broken.”
Rosien was irritated. Kalien, who had been watching her with meaningful interest, spoke up bluntly.
“If it bothers you, why not just turn it off? Or swap it out for something else while you’re at it.”
“I can’t swap it. All my sorcery is stored in there… You’re right, I should just turn it off. Besides, I won’t need to use sorcery for a while anyway.”
Rosien irritably closed the Planetarium’s lid.
The overloaded Planetarium had been radiating so much heat that she’d undone the necklace chain entirely. It was far too hot to keep around her neck.
Only then did her attention shift to Kalien.
“Did you pack everything, brother?”
“Yeah. Rosy, should I put this in a bag?”
“Oh, sure. Put it in my bag.”
While Rosien deposited the entire aquarium containing Kiri, their companion turtle, into a subspace pocket, Kalien picked up her Planetarium.
He hesitated for a moment.
‘It seems like the Stars are trying to convey their will to Rosy through this thing…’
It would be better to eliminate the defect, but this object was as precious as Rosien’s life itself.
If he tampered with it carelessly and she found out, he’d be done for that very day.
Meanwhile, the Planetarium continued to flicker with distorted letters. Red light flashed menacingly.
I
LL KI LL
Y
OU
!
‘Anyway, I can’t even tell what it’s saying.’
Kalien dropped it into Rosien’s small satchel. Then he unceremoniously closed the bag.

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