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Chapter 480 New World

Guss was startled and looked in the direction of the piercing cry.

Delicia knelt beside a mutilated corpse—her father's remains.

However, unlike the monster's body before, the city lord is now gradually returning to his original human form.

Before his spirits completely died down, the city lord gazed at his daughter one last time.

There was no longer greed or madness in their eyes.
Only one emotion remained... a complex, indescribable feeling.

Perhaps it was the remaining paternal love that overcame the desire for power, or perhaps it was utter despair in the face of Guts's unreasonable power.

In his final moments, the city lord ultimately did not choose to sacrifice his daughter in order to prolong his life.

"Daddy...Daddy...why...why did this happen..."

Delicia lay on the ground crying and screaming, but no one answered her anymore.

She didn't understand, and she couldn't accept it.

The father who once protected her, the monster who had just wanted to sacrifice her... in the end...

This complex and contradictory reality caused her more pain and confusion than the truth revealed by Ubik.

“Delicia…”

The little fairy Buck flew over, wanting to comfort the girl.

"Get away!!"

Delicia swung her hand sharply, swatting Buck away like she was shooing away a fly!

"Ugh!"

Buck cried out in pain.

"Get out of here! All of you get out of here!!"

Delicia curled up on the ground, her hands tightly covering her ears, as if that would shut her out the cruelty.

"It's fake...it's all fake...waaaaah...Daddy...Mommy..."

She let out a desperate, beast-like wail, tears streaming down her face, her voice hoarse and filled with despair.

Reality is too heavy, heavy enough to crush a naive young girl.

Gus walked over step by step, his heavy footsteps echoing in the empty ruins.

He stood before the girl, his tall figure casting a heavy shadow that completely enveloped her.

Then, in that hoarse, cold, and emotionless voice, he uttered a few words.

"Then go die!"

"..."

Delicia's crying stopped abruptly.

She slowly raised her head, her eyes blurred with tears, and looked at the towering black swordsman before her, her face filled with bewilderment.

"Gus! What nonsense are you talking about! She's already pitiful enough!"

Buck struggled to fly up and yelled angrily at Gus.

He thought Guss was simply incomprehensible; how could he say such a thing at a time like this!

Gus completely ignored the little goblin's protests.

He simply looked down at the girl who lay limp on the ground.

Clang.

He casually tossed a small dagger in front of Delicia.

"If you feel that death is a relief."

If you believe that death will allow you to see your 'gentle and loving' mother and your 'protective' father...

"Then let's get started."

Gus's voice was completely flat.
In this shitty world, weakness is the original sin.

Without the will to tear through despair and grasp at a glimmer of hope, one simply cannot survive.

For this girl, utterly devastated by the truth, perhaps death is truly a mercy, a... best ending.

At least, she no longer has to face this cruel reality, no longer has to bear the heavy shackles of her father being a monster and her mother being a traitor.

Delicia stared blankly at the dagger on the ground, its sharp edge gleaming coldly in the dim light.

die……

relief……

Seeing Mom and Dad...

Her eyes were vacant, as if she were seriously considering this possibility.

"Delicia! No! Don't listen to him!"

Buck was stunned, and almost cried with anxiety. He desperately tried to fly over and stop him.

He knew that the girl was kind at heart and had not done anything wrong.

One should not end their life in this way.

However, in the very next moment!
Delicia's eyes changed without warning!
The emptiness and confusion vanished instantly, replaced by a... almost insane ruthlessness!

She suddenly grabbed the dagger from the ground, not at herself, but stabbed Gus hard!

"It's you!!!"

puff!

The sound of the sharp blade entering the flesh can be clearly heard.

Buck was stunned, his little mouth agape, completely unable to believe what he was seeing!

Delicia's dagger...actually pierced Guts' body!
Although the dagger was like a toothpick to Guts' massive body, it did indeed pierce through!
Gus glanced down at the dagger embedded in his side, without even flinching. He felt almost no pain; this minor injury was nothing compared to what he had been through.

Then, he grabbed Delicia's wrist and yanked it away forcefully!
"Ugh!"

Delicia was thrown away by the immense force and fell to the ground in a disheveled state once again.

"With that little strength, you can't kill anyone."

Gus drew the dagger from his waist and said calmly.

Delicia struggled to lift her head, her eyes filled with deep-seated hatred as she looked at Gus!
The hatred was so intense that it even overwhelmed her previous despair and sorrow!

"Monster! You monster!!"

"If it weren't for you! If it weren't for you showing up!"

Nothing will ever turn out like this! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!!!

Upon hearing this, Delicia let out a hoarse roar.

That voice held a deep-seated hatred...

"This……"

The little imp Buck was somewhat bewildered; he couldn't believe that the gentle and kind girl from before would do such a thing.

And... this wasn't Guts's fault...

"Okay."

Upon hearing this, Gus's lips curled into an ugly grin, which looked like a smile, or perhaps a mockery.

"If you can do it, then come on..."

After saying that, he stopped looking at the girl lying on the ground, growling like a wounded wild animal.

He simply turned around, dragging his heavy Dragon Slayer Sword, and walked step by step towards the castle without looking back.

If hatred for him can become the motivation to live, then it might not be a bad thing.

In this hellish world, survival is more important than anything else.

"Hey! Guts! Wait a minute!"

Buck watched Gus's departing figure, then looked at Delicia, who was still crying on the ground.

After hesitating for a moment, it finally flapped its wings and chased after them.

He wanted to question Gus, to rebuke him for his cold-heartedness.

But when he flew to Guts' side and saw Guts' scarred profile, the words he had prepared got stuck in his throat.

Gus's expression...

That wasn't indifference, nor was it mockery.

Rather, it was a kind of... indescribable, profound sorrow.

That was something he couldn't understand...

……

Meanwhile, within Zhang Qi's space

The suspended screen had just finished playing footage of Guts' fierce battle with the Hand of God, as well as his final conversation with Delicia.

"Hey, I'm saying... why don't you just take action directly?"

Why not just obliterate that damned Hand of God and that so-called God of the Abyss into dust?

With your power, you should be able to easily uproot even the collective will of humanity from that world, right?
Digital Zhang Qi asked Hai Hu Zhang Qi.

"Because it would be pointless to do that."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Qi from the Three-Body Problem replied.

"Huh? What do you mean by meaningless?"

Zhang Qi scratched his head, somewhat puzzled.

"The God of the Abyss has been removed, and then what?"

If the result is not achieved through struggle based on one's own will, then the final outcome will simply be the replacement of the God of the Abyss with the God of Magnetic Fields.

For that world itself, nothing has fundamentally changed.

Zhang Qi of the Three-Body Problem countered with a question that was not difficult to understand.

With his power in the Sea Tiger World, he could also distort the will of the humans in that world.

But that's meaningless; doing so would simply replace the god of the abyss with the god of magnetic fields...

"Just like the saying that circulates in our world: Ultraman only appears when people are fighting desperately and need hope."

We cannot fight for them, but we can give them the strength and courage to stand up.

Zhang Qi from the Ultraman world nodded in agreement. The meaning of Ultraman's existence is not to directly solve problems for humans, but to give them hope when they need it.

In the world of Sea Tiger, what he, or rather what they aspired to, was definitely not to become a lofty "god"...

"That's right! That world is now in the hands of the people of that world..."

We have other things to do…

Haihu Zhang Qi nodded. This was precisely his purpose in spreading magnetic field power: to give the weak the power to resist.

In this process, he can also deepen his understanding of magnetic field power, which can be described as a win-win situation.

After all, the infinite world needs this power...

After saying that, he looked away from the screen and turned his gaze to the image on another screen.

It was a city with flashing neon lights, towering buildings, and extremely advanced technology, yet it also exuded decay and chaos.

Huge corporate logos blotted out the sky, the streets and alleys were filled with cyborgs and gang members, and the air was thick with despair and restlessness...

(End of this chapter)