Chapter 495: 495: The Looming Battle

Chapter 495: 495: The Looming Battle

Chapter 495: The Looming Battle

"So according to my prediction," Contessa Fate said as she pushed her back further into his arms. Birds sang outside, the large windows showing a greenery scene outside, with white curtains covering the walls and a gentle wind filling the room. "He should find out about his daughter's true culprit about now. If we go by his past actions and personality, he should be rushing to Cube to find you now."

"I see."

"Yeah," she brought a cigarette close to her lips and let out a puff of smoke. An odd and complicated sense of dread was clouding her heart.

Just a few decades ago, she'd have been delighted. She'd have wanted Primordial to come and slay this arrogant man behind her, who was holding her with his strong arms and breathing down on her neck. But now she didn't know. She felt scared of what would happen to him when the fight would actually happen.

It's not as if Prima wasn't strong. He was. He was one of the strongest to have ever lived in the history of the Cube Omniverse. But, going by the record the Primordial was the strongest in both worlds. There was no argument or narrative around it, the Primordial God was the strongest.

He has zero history with defeat in the eons he's been alive for.

No matter how strong his opponent was, the answer was singular.

The Primordial God cannot lose. He has never, and he will never. He's unbeatable.

"Hey," Contessa Fate threw the cigarette away and turned her head to look at him. "Can't we just leave in isolation and avoid confronting him? What is the point of this fight anyway? Even if you win" she said to persuade him, "the Omniverses will be driven to chaos, trying to fill the power gap, and our lives won't be as fun. Can't you reconsider?"

"It's impossible," he whispered to her ears with a sigh. "If this is where I meet my end, then be so. There are things that you don't know, things I can't tell you even if you ask me to, otherwise you'd have understood. I'm sorry."

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"I've been planning this for a long time," he admitted. "This is the final act. Even if I win or lose, my next state it'd be the same."

"What does that mean?"

"You'll see." He turned her face and kissed her on the lips, "Sorry you I got you tangled in this emotional turmoil. This would have been easier if you still hated me."

She groaned but said nothing. She pulled his face and kissed him again, as the two of them lost themselves in lovemaking once more.

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"The Primordial God was seen in the Western cosmos," Kimi yawned as she reported to everyone who sat in the living room, calmly enjoying tea except for Ra. "He clashed with the Frontline General who was positioned there, and naturally, he won the battle and was seen advancing further inside."

"That's what I've been telling him!" Before Neji could reply, Contessa Fate shot up from her seat and shouted. "He should reconsider! He keeps saying there is a reason he can't, but he never tells us what the reasons are! What is the meaning of this, why are we entangled by his choices?! Why does he refuse to understand the difference in power level?!"

Everyone looked at her, and Kimi frowned deeply.

"Kimi, don't-" Neji shouted to stop Kimi, but the witch shot up and walked over to Fate, grabbing her collar and slapping her across the face. Once, twice, thrice, and finally fourth.

Contessa Fate fell to the floor and Kimi glared down at her, "If you don't like that you are being entangled in this, then get out of here. Your use has long since ended anyway." she snapped her finger, and the shackles around Fate shattered and burst into dust. "If you are so scared that you're being pulled into this, return back to your safe little home and cry in a corner. The Abstract will easily accept you back since they think you were kidnapped. You fucking coward."

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"Kimi." Neji frowned and walked up to her, he looked into her eyes with jaws clenched. "Don't be like this, she didn't mean it in that sense."

"I don't care." She blurted back. "She should have worded it better, she's not a child. If she doesn't love you enough to take a leap of danger, she shouldn't be here. Does she think she's the only one who's taking a risk? What a stupid bitch."

"Still-" he tried to say, but a red light glowed beside him, and he turned to find Contessa Fate teleporting away. Her body vanished from the Fortress, away from here.

A silence fell into the room, and everyone looked away from each other. Nobody spoke for minutes until Ra stood up. His huge 9-feet-tall body towered even Neji, as he walked over and declared.

"There is nothing to worry about, victory will be yours," he said, "and it does not then I will protect Father. That is a promise."

Neji let out a heavy breath and smiled. He reached out a hand and ruffled Ra's wooden hair, "You already did." This time, he wouldn't need it.

This time, Neji will be the one to protect everyone.

All this time, there was a slight seed of doubt; doubt that if this was worth it, if he should continue training for a few hundred years, uncaring about the timeline, therefore making this the true one, forgetting everyone in the other part of his life. But no, that wouldn't be victory even if he won against the Primordial. To make things work he'll have to follow the plan.

Neji will face the Primordial God head-on.

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