Chapter 1033 - 14: I Thought You Were a Friend..._2

Chapter 1033: Chapter 14: I Thought You Were a Friend..._2

"You...!!"

In comparison, Alice was truly physically weak, and with a scream, she was unceremoniously pulled into the gap.

In the next instant—

The pitch-black rift quickly closed, like a space where the zipper was pulled being pulled back together again.

Only the apocalypse remained, an exceedingly intense apocalypse, proceeding quietly yet noisily by itself, as if it were a pre-determined performance to go on regardless of witnesses... Quiet yet noisy, clamorous yet silent, because aside from the deafening roar, no other sound existed.

People and all life on the ground vanished.

Colossal waves, thousands of meters high, roared as they swept up mountain-like masses of a trillion tons of seawater, countless land fragments of varying sizes ascended skyward, cutting through the starless night... With sunlight gone, the atmosphere lost its constraints, dispersing into outer space.

Light vanished, everything was engulfed by darkness and chaos.

Also in such a scene of apocalyptic darkness and chaos, the entire planet seemed like a piece of artwork, or like it was forcibly unfolded into one.

As if the planet itself were being dismembered...

Mighty gravitational forces tore the surface apart bit by bit...

Like invisible sharp blades cutting deep into its depths, eventually exposing the fiery planetary core...

——In the end, under the terrifying gravity created by the massive weight, everything on the ground even began to fall skyward. Including land, mountains, rivers, cities, the ocean, clouds, the atmosphere, and all else.

The biosphere’s surface, built upon contemporary physical laws, peeled away, followed by the crust and mantle being ripped apart, the entire rocky planet gradually torn asunder, ultimately all falling skyward, toward the source of gravity that replaced the Sun.

The Eye of God watched silently.

No mercy.

No sigh.

...

...

"Yakumo Zi, what are you doing?"

In the dim and mysterious gap, under countless staring dark red eyes, Alice spoke angrily, unhappily freeing herself from Yakumo Zi’s grasp.

"Naturally, it’s to take you away, this world is beyond saving, staying offers no meaning, you can’t stop anything..." The Demon Sage remained indifferent, speaking meaningfully, while she looked over the blond maiden across from her with a very peculiar gaze.

"You... What are you looking at?!"

Alice felt unnaturally uncomfortable being watched by this gaze, inexplicably angered and ashamed.

If this were in the past, being sized up by this Demon Sage with such a gaze, she would have instinctively retreated; it was the reputation of the Demon Sage causing this, no one wanted to be targeted by such a crafty Great Demon... But now, the maiden only felt suddenly very angry.

Once the inexplicable irritation arose, nothing else followed.

"Nothing much, I just feel as though Alice seems colder towards me now, the relationship has grown distant enough for you to call me by my name now... when before you always called me Zi."

The Great Demon with golden hair casually withdrew her gaze, seemingly shaking her head with some helplessness.

Alice’s expression suddenly stiffened.

She and Yakumo Zi weren’t particularly close, yet not unfamiliar either, especially after getting closer to Marisa, which included becoming familiar with Ling Meng, often visiting the Boli Shrine, and over time, naturally mingling with this Demon Sage quite a bit.

Simply put, it wasn’t just her, everyone else in Fantasy Land was the same.

Not mentioning anything else, just those occasional incidents, and the gatherings afterward, which often roped everyone in, eyes meeting frequently, becoming familiar was truly quite unavoidable.

Alice was naturally the same, but now...

Relations became awkwardly tense.

"..."

"..."

The silence didn’t last long before it was broken.

"Is it because of your father?" Yakumo Zi calmly asked, covering the lower half of her face with a folding fan.

"No... It’s just you also call me by my name, so I call you that as well, is there any problem?"

Seeing how the other party seemed entirely unfazed, even boldly bringing up such a sensitive topic, the maiden gritted her teeth, answered with irritation, her tone cold.

She refused to acknowledge this possibility, making a forceful argument to find an excuse.

Cold attitude... Distant relationship... Isn’t it naturally so?! Alice thought her reaction was entirely normal, who could face such a situation and still calmly accept it!

"So that’s how it is... Now I understand."

Yakumo Zi chuckled, with crafty light reflecting in her eyes.

"By the way, how long have you been here?" She considerately changed the subject, waving the fan calmly, opening the gap: "Did you just arrive?"

"...That’s right..."

Alice was silent for a while, reluctantly nodding, while she looked down at her hands, murmuring to herself.

"It’s just like a dream, it’s truly so strange..."

"Celestial projection, borrowing cavities to visit the altar, or extending thoughts in dreams, these are all similar means after all..."

The Demon Sage spoke casually, "Situations like this also resemble the Summoning of Heroic Spirits as I understand, our current existence form is forged from our own data, probably after all this is over, these experiences and memories will return to us in reality..."