Super God Academy: Kabuto

Night quietly descended upon the Winter Cherry Blossom World, the lake reflecting the stars and a crescent moon, as tranquil as ever. However, the lingering effects of the daytime commotion brought by the red demon god seemed to still leave a subtle, restless frequency in the air.

Inside the lakeside cabin, the light was soft. He Xi wasn't still engrossed in her weapon design drawings; instead, she leaned back on the soft couch, her hand gently resting on her lower abdomen, her gaze somewhat unfocused. Keisha brought over a cup of calming herbal tea and sat down beside her.

"Still thinking about that 'Otherworldly God' from earlier today?" Keisha's voice broke the silence.

He Xi snapped out of her reverie, nodded slightly, then shook her head: "Not entirely. I just feel... that A Yu seems to know a lot of things we don't understand at all. 'Den-O,' 'Knight,' 'Time Train'... Sometimes, I feel like he's very close to us, so close that we can almost touch him; other times, I feel like he's standing very far away, looking at a timeline that we can't see."

Keisha took a sip of tea, a complex emotion flickering in her silver eyes. "He is our lover, the father of our unborn child, that's beyond question. But he does indeed... carry a 'possibility' beyond our comprehension. Trusting him, supporting him, and doing what we should do—that's our choice, and our responsibility." She set down her teacup, looking at He Xi's lower abdomen, her tone unusually gentle. "Besides, we also have new 'possibilities,' don't we?"

He Xi felt the pulse of life beneath her palm, and a warm smile finally returned to her face: "Yes, this little guy is the 'future' we've all been waiting for."

Mangdang Mountain, late at night. Most areas have entered low-power hibernation mode, with only the patrolling mechanical sentries emitting regular, soft beeps. In Qi Lin's independent cabin, however, she is wide awake, sitting on the edge of the bed, her fingertips unconsciously stroking a uniquely shaped pendant with magenta patterns that Kadoya Tsukasa had given her before.

That day, her brother suddenly called Xiaoming away. When he returned, although Xiaoming complained that he was "being bothered by an idiot," she could sense a hint of seriousness in his eyes, and... an indescribable excitement, as if he were about to enter a larger game. And that strange red man who suddenly appeared and then suddenly disappeared... everything was telling her that peaceful days might really be numbered.

A soft beep sounded as the hatch opened silently. Tsukasa Kadoya appeared in the doorway, a hint of weariness on his face, but his eyes immediately filled with a gentle light when he saw she was still awake.

"Why aren't you asleep yet?" He walked in and sat down next to her naturally.

"I'll wait for you." Qi Lin leaned closer and rested her head on his shoulder. "That day...did something serious happen? My brother rarely pulls you away like that."

Tsukasa Kadoya paused for a moment, then put his arm around her shoulder and told her, in as calm a tone as possible, what he had learned that day—the anomalies of the Triangle, the truth about the ruins of the Divine River, and the potential threat from the Void. He was vague about Momotaros and the possibility of contact with other Riders, only saying that there might be some "helpers from other places."

Qi Lin listened quietly without interrupting. Only after he finished speaking did she ask softly, "So...we're going to fight again, right? A war that might be more terrible than all the previous battles combined."

"Hmm." Tsukasa Kadoya didn't deny it, tightening his arms around her. "But this time, it's not just your Earth, not just the Super Soldier Corps, and not just angels or demons. This time, it could be many worlds, swept up in the same storm." He lowered his head and kissed her hair. "Don't be afraid, I'll be here. Your brother, your sisters-in-law, and those 'weirdos' who might come... we're all here."

Qi Lin nodded in his arms, uttering no grand words, but simply hugged him tighter. As a sniper, she had long since learned to gather strength in silence and steady her heartbeat before the storm.

In the void world, at the forbidden altar of the Void Sea Clan's royal family, the pulsation of the strange crystal was more stable and powerful than before. The energy waves it emitted seemed to have established a deeper resonance with a distant and obscure entity on the other side of the rift.

Kunxu stood before the altar, his withered fingers tracing the surface of the crystal, sensing the "aura" emanating from it—an aura belonging to the opposite universe, a mixture of chaos and opportunity.

"The fuse of chaos has been lit, and 'transformation' is spreading in the deep sea..." he muttered to himself, ghostly flames flickering in his turbid eyes. "We are just waiting for the 'door' to open wide, for an attack from within and without... and then the path for our race to return to the glory of the living universe will be paved."

He looked up toward the crack. There, his people and allies were still tirelessly eroding the ever-thinning membrane of light.

Deeper still within the rift, in the endless darkness that could freeze even consciousness, something unimaginably vast seemed to awaken a tiny wisp of "attention" from its deepest slumber, seemingly due to the increasingly frequent energy "friction" and "leakage" between the two worlds. This wisp of attention, like an unconscious breath of a deep-sea behemoth, swept across the edge of the rift, causing all the void creatures eroding it to tremble involuntarily for a moment, before working even more frantically.

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