Chapter 212: Kai's Decision (Truth Arc End)

"You should remember all of this by now." Kosma said out loud as Kai slowly nodded.

"Everything is coming back to me." He replied as his original memories returned to him. He now knew why his harem had died and what had actually happened.

But even after knowing this, he didn't felt at peace as he realized what was in front of him.

"If I finally unlock Time's powers, then that means that I will have to battle the Darkness with the other, right?" He asked as Kosma nodded.

"Then I should forget about peace." Kai sighed as Kosma patted his head.

He blinked his eyes in confusion as he looked at the loli patting his head. Even though it made him feel like a child, Kai still liked her patting him.

"So what am I supposed to do now? Spend centuries trying to figure out how to unlock Time's powers? But before that, why did the Darkness stop?" He asked as Kosma shook her head.

"It didn't stop. Rather, it was forced to stop sine you gave Time and Space an opening to strike down when you used the harem wish and freed your harem from the Darkness's clutches. Time and Space somehow dealt a blow that will somehow stop the Darkness from advancing for two millenniums. But it came at a price.

Because of the attack, Space and Time were

forced to go into a slumber since they used their primordial powers. Though they can do things such as destroying the upper realms with a flick of their fingers, stunning the Darkness takes a huge toll on their body." Kosma explained as Kai nodded.

"Then why did you stop me from manipulating memories?" He asked another question that had been bothering him for quite a while now as Kosma sighed.

"It's because even though you got fully cleansed newborn-like soul, the Darkness still managed to invade it. And every time you manipulate your memories, a small 0.0001 perfect of the Darkness's powers corrupt you." She replied as Kai was stunned.

"This means that at least one or two percent of me is already corrupted by it." He muttered as she nodded.

"That is why I had to stop you from using it." She added as Kai nodded.

"As for how you can use Time's powers, I don't know. But I can give you a clue. Hellbringer and Excalibur are two swords that can somehow give you an enlightenment on how you can use Time's powers. As you know, Hellbringer contains the soul of Lillith, the first demon. 

Investigate about her past and you might find a clue. Other than that, Excalibur contains a part of the Scribe of Heaven's soul. And here is your clue about her. This has been published a month ago." Kosma said in a hurry as she handed Kai a book.

"Why do you sound so urgent?" He asked as she looked around with a tense expression.

"My time with you is short since the Darkness might come here and moment. So for now, this is our goodbye. I wish you the best of luck." Kosma said and was about to snap her fingers as Kai suddenly stopped her.

"Before I go, can you please make me appear on the demon realm?" He asked as she shook her head.

"The demon and the angel realm are under a huge chaos right now and your arrival will worse things. Though I will send you somewhere else which might turn out to be more helpful." She replied and snapped her fingers as Kai vanished.

***

"This place..." Kai muttered as he suddenly appeared in a new place.

A nostalgic smell entered his nose as he turned towards the right direction and saw billboards around a formation-bound city.

"Nyander. Why did she send me to the Half beast realm?" Kai wondered out loud as he gazed at the familiar sites of the city.

"Now that I am here, I might as well go and see Inari." Kai muttered with a smile as he remembered the picky fox merchant from whom he used to buy stuff.

He teleported directly to what he remembered to be her shop but instead appeared in front of a police headquarters.

He quickly shrouded himself as a dog-tailed male police officer just went by with a stern expression.

'What happened here?' Kai wondered as he stared up and read the billboards.

"Taizan's government. City under lockdown after the evening ends. No person should be out on the streets. Any brothel found in the area will be destroyed and the owners and the workers will be publicly killed." Kai muttered as he read the of the billboards and his eyes widened.

'Looks like a lot of things have happened since my last visit here. Maybe this Taizan guy is a member of the organization Lana had mentioned. But how does he have so much information about me and the others?' Kai wondered as a ripple of people suddenly went around the entire place.

Kai frowned deeply when he sensed the ripple of power to be at the divine soul realm and he immediately teleported away.

"Hey Kosma, why the hell do these people have cultivation above the world limit?!" Kai shouted at the sky as he had been encountering people with above the limit cultivation. 

"It's because I am spending all of my power on hiding you. These people also have certain hidden powers that are reducing my powers effect on them and since I am not using my powers to properly regulate everything, such things will keep on happening." Kosma's voice entered his head as he was confused.

"You maintain these things?! Who exactly are you?" Kai asked as Kosma's chuckle resounded inside his head.

"I am Space and Time's daughter and I am more commonly known as the World which maintains the realms." Kosma replied inside his head as Kai was left stunned.

It looked as though there were still many things he didn't know yet.