> "This realm feeds on despair.
Also apparently leather capes, gravel voices, and poetic guilt."
— MC, while sharpening a metaphor
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[Location: World-666 – Genre Classification: Dark Fantasy (Now Terminally Brooding)]
They arrived in a realm smothered in grayscale.
The sky bled ash.
The ground whispered betrayals.
Every villager wore black and gave meaningful stares like their backstory depended on it.
Kazuma (shivering):
> "I stepped on a flower and it apologized to me."
Deadpool (whispers):
> "My katana started monologuing about loss.
I think I'm in love."
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[Scene: Entry Checkpoint – The Edgelord Gatekeeper]
A cloaked figure greeted them.
Eyes glowing.
Scar over one eye.
Too many belts.
> "To enter, you must recite your greatest failure… and cry."
Batman (growling):
> "I don't cry."
MC (stepping forward):
> "I am failure made quiet. I do not cry.
I let the world cry around me."
Gatekeeper (visibly shaken):
> "…Proceed."
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[Scene: The Kingdom of Neverlight]
They entered the capital.
Everything was:
Gothic
Bleeding shadows
Lined with statues labeled "Here Lies Hope"
Every citizen carried a sword made of guilt.
And poetry was punishable by execution unless it rhymed with "pain."
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[Scene: Mirror-Sona Rules This Realm]
Cold.
Logical.
Surrounded by silent knights made of broken dreams and perfect GPAs.
> "Emotion is error. Compassion is flaw.
Only control brings peace."
She wore a crown of shattered contracts.
Her voice could freeze character arcs.
Tsubaki (bound, whispering):
> "She turned the Student Council into a spreadsheet."
MC (stepping into the throne room):
> "So this is what happens when control is left unbalanced."
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[Boss Fight Begins – MC vs. Mirror-Sona]
She launched logic spears.
He dodged with unstructured improvisation.
She summoned a mathematical dragon.
He summoned... a metaphor.
> "You know what doesn't fit in your formulas, Sona?
Free will. And sarcasm."
He shattered her crown with a joke so dry it evaporated the tension.
She paused.
And wept.
Just once.
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[Meanwhile: The Others Fight Their Own Inner Demons]
Kazuma faces a literal embodiment of his inferiority complex (which keeps calling him "Plan C").
Rimuru talks a blood-soaked village out of ritual despair using snacks.
Deadpool stabs a moody bard mid-monologue and yells, "Be funny or die!"
Batman sits in silence… and the silence loses.
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[System Notification]
> Mission Phase 3 Complete: Dark Fantasy World Calmed
Next Destination: Isekai Power Fantasy Gone Wrong – Where the Chosen Ones Became Tyrants
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End of Chapter 59: Edge Defeated, Balance Restored