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Kireina refused to relent, pursuing the fleeing Sun God with the two mechs close behind her.
"Come back here, bastard!"
Yet the faster he flew, the more impossible it became to catch him.
He began shattering entire universes, letting their contents spill outward and weaponizing the chaos to blast his pursuers back.
"What a monster!" Zehe cried. "He's annihilating whole universes just to stop us!"
"Don't give up! Keep chasing!" Brontes roared.
"Yeah! We're almost… there!" Nesiphae shouted.
Ryo's colossal fists materialized as he drew on the universal energies swirling around him.
He sat cross-legged in the heart of the Outerverse. The power of a Constellation from beyond the boundaries of the cosmos answered his plea.
"Buddha-sama! Please, lend me your strength! I will become your vessel!"
"Very well."
Buddha himself—the same being Kireina had once battled and wounded—descended upon her son.
