Immortal Soul of Steel

"Eh?"

"Wait, what's going on!?"

"Am I... dead? What happened?"

Hibiki Yuta, who had just finished shouting his transformation lines, was extremely panicked at the moment.

Because, he found that he couldn't feel anything or touch anything now.

The whole person seemed to be dead, and there was only panic and nothingness.

However, at this moment, a female voice that made Hibiki Yuta feel familiar, nostalgic, but also a little strange suddenly sounded in his ears.

"You're not dead yet."

A ray of light suddenly shone on Hibiki Yuta.

Hibiki Yuta looked up and found a hole in the dark world.

Opposite the hole is a human eye.

At the same time, the female voice from before sounded again.

"You are only conscious now, so please accompany me on a long detour."

"Who are you?"

Hibiki Yuta was filled with doubts. He didn't know who this female voice that suddenly sounded was.

But deep down in his heart, he vaguely felt that this was a person he could trust, but he couldn't remember who he was.

"It doesn't matter who I am. Compared to this, look..."

"Can you see it? The shape of the universe has changed into Gurlitt!"

Looking at the universe that had transformed into the shape of Gurlitt in front of him, Yuta Hibiki had a clear understanding of the so-called Gurlitt Universe for the first time.

"That's... Gurlitt Universe?"

"Although it's barely holding on, it's almost about to collapse."

"Making that form is the SOS signal sent by Gurlitt, telling others that he is here."

"It's all because I turned into this shape specifically to let us, no, let you find her."

"As long as I have your powerful thoughts, I should be able to let Gullit, who is on the verge of collapse, regain his body again."

"After you merge, leave the task of liberating Gurlit to me."

"Although it makes me a little uncomfortable to be told this passively."

"But I will work hard for Hibiki-kun and Rikka. So, it should be no problem."

Listening to this female voice, a name suddenly appeared in Hibiki Yuta's mind.

Because this person is the only one he doesn't remember now, but will choose to help him and Rikka, and is also the one who has the ability to help him.

That person is the creator god of this world...

"Thank you, Akane Shinjo."

The Gurlitt universe in the cave has returned to the eyes of a girl.

"But why are you helping us?"

"Because you are a god?"

Akane Shinjo: "No, I just want to help my friends, including you."

"Besides, this is also helping me..."

Akane Shinjo's voice became smaller and smaller, and the hole in front of Yuta Hibiki gradually closed and disappeared.

At this moment, Hibiki Yuta's body turned back uncontrollably and floated.

In front of him, a Gurlitt-shaped object made up of countless stacked pictures gradually approached and magnified...

The fierce wind blew on Hibiki Yuta's cheeks, causing his cheeks to hurt.

But Yuta Hibiki didn't make any sound. Instead, he gritted his teeth and rushed towards Gurlitt, which was made up of countless pictures.

Rushing into the endless pictures, Hibiki Yuta looked at many pictures.

Those are worlds created and existed by Gurlit...

The images that flashed by were all real and existing electronic virtual worlds.

However, Hibiki Yuta had no time to care about this at this moment.

While he gritted his teeth, he kept searching.

‘Where…where are you…Gullit! ! ! ’

I don’t know how long I flew, and I don’t know how many parallel worlds I passed through. A transparent bead gradually appeared in front of Hibiki Yuta’s eyes.

With almost no time to think, Hibiki Yuta subconsciously grabbed the transparent bead and held it in his hand.

In an instant, a familiar voice sounded in Hibiki Yuta's ears.

"Yuta!"

When Hibiki Yuta came to his senses, he found that he had arrived at an ancient and magnificent golden building.

In the very center of this building, in front of his eyes, Gurlit, who was about the same size as himself, stood in front of him.

Looking at the familiar Gurlitt, Hibiki Yuta got up from the ground.

"Gullit!?"

Gullit looked at Yuta Hibiki and said with complicated emotions.

"Yuta, you're here."

Hibiki Yuta nodded heavily: "Yes, I'm here."

Looking at Hibiki Yuta with a firm expression, Gurlit was the first to lower his head.

"I... want to apologize to you."

"Um?"

With Hibiki Yuta's puzzled look on his face, Gurlitt explained in a guilt-filled tone.

"Although there was no other way at that time."

"But in order to repair my body, I had to rely on the power of Akane Shinjo and Alexis to constantly reset the world. Only by repeatedly merging myself with myself who constantly created parallel worlds could I offset the erosion from the law of cause and effect. .”

"In order to save me, Yuta, you keep repeating the endless reincarnation..."

"Shinjo Akane is also in the endless reincarnation, forgetting the cause of everything."

"In order to allow reincarnation to continue, Alexis deliberately interfered, preventing everything from developing in a direction that Shinjo Akane was satisfied with, and thus continued to reset the world."

"Everything that went wrong between you and Rikka, Yuta, was all because of Alexis' interference... No, it was because of me."

"I took away your most important time and youth..."

"After losing that battle, I watched you in countless parallel worlds being tortured by reincarnation because of me."

"Because of my guilt towards you, I seem to be possessed by something unknown."

"That's what caused this incident."

"I'm sorry, Yuta."

Looking at Gullit who lowered his head to him, Hibiki Yuta smiled in relief and pushed Gullit's forehead with his hand to make him raise his head again. .

"You don't have to apologize."

"I don't care about that."

"Although it's a bit uncomfortable that I can't confess my love to Rikka smoothly, I actually agreed to it at the beginning, right?"

Gullit was stunned: "This... is true."

Hibiki Yuta smiled.

"If that's the case, doesn't it matter?"

"It's all my choice."

"Although I don't remember what happened before, and I don't know why I did it in the first place."

"But if it were to save Gullit, I would still choose this way even now."

"Rather, I want to thank you, Gullit."

"Because it was you who protected our world in the beginning, right."

"Now, it's just us protecting you Gurlitt."

"After all, we are partners who have always fought together, right?"

"Although I don't have memories of the past year, nor do I have memories of the beginning."

"But the one who chose me so that I can fight to protect the world and save Shinjo Akane and Rikka is you, Gurlitt."

"So, it's me who really should say thank you."

"I'm really grateful to you for choosing me to fight with you."

"As partners, it's up to us to save you this time, Gurlitt!"