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Chapter 50 - The weapon awarding ceremony: part 9: part 2

Sounds of metal clanking are destroying his ear drums, the swarm of white lights that just had fallen on him, they are racing him in all directions, the prime king of the moon is not able to move a muscle in this great swarm, he is reaching his limit of holding on and surviving this swarm, he cannot believe that, his alter-images are swarming his to death and then suddenly, the image of a pair of eyes came to the prime king of the moon's mind, and a deep faint memory passed inside his mind, it was when the princess Kaguya was little and learning how to walk, the king loved her daughter very much that he even thought the land of moon is too hard for his daughter to even step on it, so he taught his daughter how to walk on his heart, and when he is in the middle of this swarm of himself, and when the thought of giving up to his mind, his throbbed with pain and which is unimaginable.

And the prime king of the moon decided not to give up and he forced all his strength in to his legs and lunged into air with great force that his old self's went flying away at his speed of flight, and now he is floating in the air of pitch blackness, he is having a hard of catching his breath and he looked down, the white lights he is seeing, they are coming from the hearts of each one, and they are very faint, the prime one watched his old self's jump up and down like they are trying to fly just like him, but no one couldn't do it, the lights at their hearts, they are becoming more fainter as the time passes.

And one by one, the variants of Tsukuyomi are falling to ground once their lights at their hearts are gone, and when all the lights are gone, the place again went pitch black and the only source of light in that place again is the prime Tsukuyomi himself, and when he thought everything was back to normal and he moved his head left to right and to confirm there are no more lights, he slowly zoomed down and he is now standing on the pitch black ground, and the power of moon is inside him and the power of moon is give light when it is dark, so he extended his right hand forward and opened his palm straight, and light zoomed out of this hand and filled that pitch black room, and now he can see his variants on the ground, they are having really bad time breathing, they are very weak and they cannot move again, just like when he first came to this place, and he knew exactly what all the old his old self's want.

"if i give.." started to speak the prime Tsukuyomi, "what you all are wanting, you all promise to not again, you all will jump on me?" and these words he shouted so that they all can hear, and one of his old self had nodded his head in agreement to his word for now he is very much worn than any old man would be, and then the prime Tsukuyomi, his lifted his extend hand to upwards and from his right hand the huge circles of white light went out and they all fall on the old self's of him and they all are lifting their heads up so that they can catch the light that their prime self is releasing now.

The white circular lights are like one of the circles around planet Saturn, and they are falling on his old self's and all are resurrecting from the ground like someone had just dug open their skeletons, after a while, he retracted his hand downwards and looked at his old selves, now they are no longer called old selves but, after the light had fallen on them, they are just like the prime one.

Not a single mark or cell is distinctive from the prime one to all his variants, and everyone of his variants are murmuring to themselves and they are completely neglecting the prime one, so the prime king of the moon wanted all their attention on him, so the double edged long sword he is clutching in his hand, now turned in to a single edged sword with a long red pole, gold was poured on the red pole like a spring in a circular motion, and he lifted the pole and clanked it hard on the ground, the sound of it is vibrated in the entire black space and all his variants turned their heads towards their new member.

"i gave you.." started the prime king of the moon to speak, "what you all wanted, and without me.." now a tone of 'demanding some answers' was evident in his voice, "you all are still lied on the ground like an old man..." and now a tone 'you all are beneath me' is coming, "who can't even fly".

When he completed to speak, the last words were not of a person who is demanding some answers but, he is ordering them to answers what this place is, and then, all his variants looked at him like, whatever they are seeing, they had seen this exact scene like a million times, and prime one was dumbfounded to not get answers even when he is demanding or ordering them and then he saw something in the crowd of himself, they all are seemed like making way for someone to come, and the prime one lifted his head high towards the way they creating right now and what he had seen was astonishing to himself.

"what..." stuttered the prime one, because the person who came from the way all his variants made was himself, but the appearance of him was different, he is still old, and just like how his variants are when he came to this place, but this particular variants was too old than others before they had fed on the white light the prime one had released for them.

"haha" laughed the old one with weakness of age if evident in it, and said "i know that face.." said he, "the face of astonishment when one of ourselves just luminated the lights upon us and still one of us is looking old?" asked the old one, and to this, the prime one just nodded in confirmation, the old one is still holding his double edged sword with his right hand and he placed his left hand backwards, and it seemed like he was supporting his back with his left hand.

"please sit down" pointed the old one to the pitch black ground they are standing on, and with the help his own variants, the old one sat down with so much difficultly and when sat on the ground, he again gestured to the prime one to sit down, and he did. "i clearly remember the day when i came here.." once the prime one sat down, all his other variants who gone back to a younger self of king of the moon, too sat down, and when old one spoken, all nodded in unison to agree with him, the whole scene in the black space, now what the prime one is observing is looked his eyes like, the old one is chief of this place and all others are various people in various regions and when they nodded to the old one to agree with him, it seemed like they forgot that they are nodded to themselves.

"i flew out from the mansion on the moon when i heard that, the carriage of Kaguya was approaching, and i alone wanted to be the first person to see my beloved daughter than the people of the moon, so i flew out and floating on the surface of moon, the carriage is in my line of sight and i can see a figure sitting in the back seat of the moon carriage, and just when it was completely in my line of the sight where i can see her with my own two eyes..." the old one had paused to continue, and it is clearly very disturbing for him to continue the rest of the story, because it was clearly written on his face, but he continued, "it went completely blank for a second and the next minute, i was here, in this endless dark space" completed the old one with a big cough.

"and i believe it was the same for you too?" asked the old one to the prime one, and to that too, he nodded, and then he was about to speak but one of his younger variant had spoken first, "it was the same for me too" said he, and another one of his variant nodded to that.

"i know you have a lot of questions, and you should know that none of us can answer to the questions you are holding right now, because we all hold the same questions in our mind" said the old one and continued, "but, since i am the first one to arrive here, let me know what kind of questions do you hold, i don't guarantee to answer them but i will try" he said with wry smile at last.

And upon learning the story of this place and all his variants, the prime one thought for a second to ask the questions and then he asked, "you said you all came here at the same time same when the carriage of kaguya came to your view completely in a second and you all arrived here?" said he and to that, the old one and all other variants had nodded, and he continued "and just before the carriage reached the space, the moon, our home, had been hit by a giant stone boulder, that happened to you?".

When the prime had asked this question, the whole community of his variants and even the old one, raise their heads and widened their eyes, and with great weakness in his voice he said "what did you just say?", and a great murmur broke in that black space, and clearly, the prime one observed that there is something wrong when he asked this question and then the old one stood up with and except his just arrived variant the old one had called out everyone and he distanced himself with the prime one and they are discussing something within themselves.

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