For You This World I'll Destroy

Meaningless Ambition

— 22 —

Strange, I never thought I would see the night sky in the Underworld. The scattered stars remind me of the butterflies that appeared when Khanza defeated a Malice. My mind is still trapped by the beauty of that moment, but leaves a bitter taste in my heart.

What exactly is a butterfly?

“Oh, ramen Khanza is ready?” khanza asked as she stroked her long hair violently. With a witty smile she approached my cooking pot and enjoyed the aroma,

“W-Whoa, Chrysant, you are indeed yes, secretly have great cooking talent,” praise Khanza who sat on the plastic bench we found in the hangar.

“Lebay, this is just instant ramen I bought at the supermarket. If you want to praise, praise the factory dong, not Chrysant,” reply me while stirring noodles.

While all the expedition teams were tired and asleep, Khanza and I decided to stay up late, waiting for the helicopter team to pick us up. Besides, I still have so many questions for the Witch to pick up the chopsticks and pluck the ramen.

“Hey! Still hot know, later if your tongue burns how? Besides the noodles are not yet cooked, where good to eat so,” scold me.

Slurping noodles with pleasure, Khanza also laughed amusedly, “Jit precisely when it was hot and a bit hard, instant noodles were the most delicious to know,” he said who continued to pluck the instant ramen, “Uuuhhhhhh, he said, khanza has not felt micin for a long time. Ah, it feels like coming back to life, hihihi,”.

Haaah.

In one day we were fighting life and death, overnight we were suspicious of each other, but at this time, strangely enough, we were sitting together and sharing food from the same pot. Destiny is hard to guess. But. ever since I saw the witch's memory, there was an unfamiliar nostalgia I felt in my heart.

“Hey, Khanza. Have we met before?” my many.

With a bego face, Khanza replied, “Whut? Sure oes. We will have met, when you resigned in front of Judgment.”

“Tidaaaakk, I mean, uh... in the past... uhhh,” I said scratching my hair awkwardly, “Perhaps, when Chrysant was a kid?”

“Hahahaha, if yes, then why?” tanya Khanza who poured coffee in her flask into the cup, “Nothing changed. Time has passed and will not return. Glass that has broken and can never be perfect again. Free to drown in a futile past.

After all, given our body composition, it might just not be your memory but another Homunculus.”

… Khanza dodged my question. And from that smile, she knew I was aware of it. It seemed like the witch was hiding something from me, but also, it was luring me to find out the truth.

“Then.. Of all the memories that have entered my head, there is one name that always consistently appears. Khanza, who is Lady Luciel?” tanyaku seriously.

Khanza inserts his coffee, “The really real magician is very terribly rotten.”

W-Wow, looks like Khanza really hates that witch.

“Without that witch, you and I will not see a star-filled night sky like this,” said Khanza paying attention to the night sky, “Luciel Diamandia, he said, he was the Homunculus created by the Goddess directly to guard the world he saved. But just like everything in the world, the doll was eroded by time. His memory was tainted by the bitter reality that he had to swallow until finally, he came to a completely wrong conclusion.

Lady Luciel wants to achieve Ideal White.”

“Ideal White? If it's not wrong.. Wasn't she the perfect magic the White Order sought to grant any request? Why would he look for such powerful magic?” my many.

Khanza stroked her chin, “Yah, because Lady Luciel is the leader of the White Order! But if the exact purpose. Khanza did not understand. But perhaps, his wish has to do with the Time Dysplasia we felt in Junon,” said the witch who took a flower from her pocket.

From my dream, I recognized him immediately. It. Chrysanthemum Flower. But from its fresh leaves and color, the flower was not a magic manipulation. He is a real plant.

“Khanza found it on a bench in Junon. It's. like a miracle. Bringing something extinct here is incredible magic. It was as if a touch from the Goddess herself….

When only with the Moon Quartz, Lady Luciel was able to distort time and bring this flower back to the world. What can he want to bring to the world with the absolute power of Ideal White?”” khanza said that froze the flower in his hand,

“... The answer is, I don’t know.”

So it wasn't The Reaper that caused Time Dysplasia, but Lady Luciel's magic that was amplified by the Moon Quartz. Noticing the beauty of the flower, irony rules my heart. Doesn't..the motivation of Lady Luciel is in line with Princess Emilia, who has the heart to make the children of her creation, become Malice in order to bring her biological child back in this world?

… Isn't that motivation in line with Khanza's words, “You won't regret following your heart,”.

“... But the moment at the intersection between choosing your loved ones and the right thing. Kmau will not regret choosing love,” continued Khanza sipped his coffee and closed his eyes,

“... Now, that sentence sounds more like a curse,” said I who poured coffee in my glass, “... The ego of a person who does not think about what the person he loves thinks, when he chooses to hurt others for the sake of that person,”.

Khanza smiled faintly but did not reply. He simply enjoyed the breath of fresh air that accompanied us that night, with the wishful thinking holding the frozen flower tightly and not wanting to let it go with the wind.

— + —

THE PSSTT!

The water curtain rained down on my body with its piercing cold all the way to the skin. After that, ruthlessly, the doctors behind the corridor breathed dry winds from all sides, drying my body instantly. But, my suffering is not finished, after this they will commit the gravest crime for humanity.

They'll measure my height!

“Uughh... I hated the health check after the expedition,” my grumbling closed my eyes as Seraphina pulled the stadiometer right on my head.

“Yeah, come home already grumbling. You know, Underworld has a lot of bad bacteria or viruses. If there is no medical examination, they can attack seven space fortresses,” explained Seraphina who squinted her eyes,

“Hmm, 148.2? No way ah, my Chrysant period can grow in just three days anyway?” canda Seraphina who wants to repeat her hunt.

“J-don't, just use that number. 0.2 Cepus is so meaningful to me,” said I immediately grabbed the Seraphina board and wrote that number on my medical record, “Uwaaaah, 0.2 centii! Chrysant is still growing as it turns out, yey!” my mummy jumped around happily.

Suddenly Seraphina hugged me tightly, “Welcome home, Chrysant,” whispered.

Holding Seraphina's hand, I was shocked and replied, “Um, I’m Home.”

But, suddenly, the emrah-haired woman sniffed my body and immediately jumped in shock, “This smell. How dare he touch you! You're all right, right? Khanza didn't do anything weird to Chrysant, did he?” said Seraphina who patted my body and examined it.

“I-Iiih, what the hell. No, Khanza just... uhh, beat me up a little?”

“What?! K-K-Kidakar, let Brother teach him a lesson. Want Pathfinder kek, primordial witch kek, no one should touch my sister!” yelled Serpahina rolled up her arms, ready to beat Khanza for me.

I also laughed curled up, “That's so! I'm also very sebeeeelll same person.”

TSSSS, suddenly heard the sound of the machine door opening. Surprised, I immediately hid behind Seraphina, hoping that someone would not see me naked there. Ugh, who is so brazen, that you can go into the examination room of a Pathfinder?

Uh. It turns out that guy's the Prince!

“E-Ehem, it looks like I got in at a bad time. I'll go, you guys please continue the examination,“ said the blushing Prince.

“N-N-Nonono, uhh, aahh... Cepet told me what your business is, Liam,” I said weave a simple one piece of magic and cover my body.

Prince Liam bent his brows and gestured at me, are you serious? In front of the Seraphina? said.

I'm nodding.

Prince Liam sighed and opened a box there. Surprised Seraphina saw him, especially after Prince Liam then said,

“As a tribute to the outstanding achievements of Ruin Hunter, we, the Noctis Family will grant her request. Starting today, Seraphina, we nominate you back to be a Pathfinder.”

Smiling myself looking at the beautiful Sister Ignition. Unlike me who is white, Igniton Seraphina is like a diamond that holds a golden flame inside. It's called The Morning Star.

“So..this is why you went to the expedition,” said Seraphina who also took Ignition and brought it closer to her heart.

“Prince Liam and Chrysant. Sorry, but I had to turn it down,” he said putting the Igniton back in his box.

“H-Ha? W-Why? De-with Igniton, you can make magic again, brother. Your life will be more comfortable!”

Seraphina also laughed amusedly and ruffled my hair furiously, “Because Sera has found things more precious than magic!”

E-eeeeehhhhh, my struggle for all this time?!