The darkness did not linger for long. The light had returned at where the pillar previously was. The ground began to shake as an enormous Shinjin began to sprout from the light source in the ground. To describe it, I would use words like, epic, king, and mother-of-all.
"W-what is this?" Asakura mutter looking up at awe at the towering figure.
The Shinjin did not move. It simply stood upright many times taller than any of the buildings in the entire space. The Core of the Shinjin glowed bright red in contrast to its pale blue hue. It raised its leg back, preparing for a kick and swung its foot down taking out everything in its path. The ground shook as its kick plowed into the ground below it.
"It's destroying the reality." Asakura said.
"What does that mean?" I asked.
"It's destroying the reality…" Asakura said.
"The reality?"
"Yes, if we don't find a way out of here, we'll be destroyed with it." She replied.
"Is there a way out?"
Asakura didn't answer. I looked to Nagato but she did not say a word. She shook her head slowly. Was it game over or not?
The Shinjin raised its enormous arms lifting its fists into the air. The wind blew as the enormous monster kept itself in motion. It brought it down with the force of a meteor, and it was only a matter of time that it hit us. Unfortunately that time was right now.
Asakura screamed as gigantic fist was just seconds from crashing down on us. My arm suddenly moved on its own, hand open wide. It was like a needle of a compass, my palm was attracted to the Shinjin's fist. It was no good to try and move it. I looked up to find out why it was acting on its own.
The fist didn't hit us, but it stopped right above us with a dull crashing sound. It had hit something hard. Was it another shield? Cause it certainly looked like it. I checked if Asakura was casting another shield, but she was huddled on the ground. Nagato was attached to my leg so that was impossible. It was….
"It's me!" I yelled. "Holy crap! How am I doing that?"
Nagato looked on in amazement and clapped. Asakura however stared curiously at me. Even I admit I was getting a little over excited.
The shield began give off a familiar shade of red and electricity as my expression turned sour.
"Ha!" Asakura gloated.
"Koizumi?" I said trying to unstick my arm from its current position. "Where the hell are you?"
The Shinjin raised its fist in the air once more to strike again.
"I do not know." Koizumi's voice echoed in the small dome of esper aura as if he was talking to us through a cheap walkie talkie. Asakura's laughter reminded me how stupid I was looking right now. My actions were officially 'against my will'.
"Go back to being dead!" I yelled.
The shield's electricity became wilder as the Shinjin pounded down on the barrier again. It was enough to believe that this shield would hold even if the moon fell on top of it. Even so, no matter how sturdy the barrier, I did not enjoy being inside a snow globe as a giant blue monster attempted to destroy it.
"That would be impossible considering that I would have to die first and reincarnate myself to do so." Koizumi replied.
"So you didn't die?" I asked.
My arm was getting sore. The Shinjin didn't let up either; its mind was as set as my arm.
"I had originally intended to be the sacrifice." Koizumi replied.
"What's the point of suicide if you can't do that right either?" I said sarcastically.
"Actually there was a point Kyon," Koizumi said. "Fujiwara has been disconnected from Suzumiya's powers. My last attack was to do just that. I had succeeded in creating a large enough shock to do so. Through some miracle Suzumiya has wished for you to make a safe return, and in order to do so I must keep from, as you say, kicking the bucket?"
"Safe return?" I said.
"Yes Kyon, Suzumiya currently exists in the old world now." Koizumi said. "The reality is close to an end."
"But if we don't get out we'll die before we can get to it!" I said. "Where's the exit anyway?"
"The way you came in." Koizumi said. "Through the Shinjin's core."
"What?"
"Yes, the doorway to the old world is through there." Koizumi said. "You'll have to pass through it."
"What about you guys?" I asked remembering Asahina and Tsuruya who were probably off somewhere very far away watching this gargantuan Shinjin loose on the city.
"Kyon, you were the first one in the reality." Koizumi said. "The rest of us were simply forced to tag along, so evidently if you leave through the core, we will follow naturally."
"And how do we do that?" I asked. "Look at that core! It's waaay up there!"
"We'll have to fly of course." Koizumi said.
"You're nuts!"
I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned around to see Koizumi. He had a red tinge to him as though he wasn't completely solid. He had one hand on my shoulder and the other in the air supporting the shield. My hand was free once more.
"So what happened to Fujiwara?" Asakura asked.
"He is disconnected from Suzumiya and he also exists in the old world." Koizumi said. "He is of course, powerless. Regardless, we will have to face him on the other side when we get through."
"If we get through." I said rubbing my sore arm.
"We will." Koizumi replied.
"Considering how you've made a sudden jump in power, I don't doubt it." I said.
"Jump in power?" Koizumi laughed. "Goodness, no. it is taking me all I have in order to keep this shield up."
"Then how in the world do you expect to fly?" I said.
"A jump in power is indeed possible." Koizumi smirked.
He turned to Asakura.
"Do you remember that time I fought all those Shinjins during that vacation I went on?" Koizumi asked.
"What?" Asakura asked. "What about it?"
"If you wish, we can continue where we left off in the bar."
Asakura's mouth opened while blushing as if she had understood what Koizumi was getting to. I didn't
"What? What is this?" I asked looking back and forth at both of them.
Koizumi turned back to me.
"Kyon!" Koizumi said.
"Yes?" I replied.
"Do you believe in the power of connections?"
"I do!"
"Do you understand that our work is finished?"
"It is? Hell yeah!"
"Do you know what you will say to Suzumiya when we return?"
"Hell no!"
"Look at that core Kyon! This is it! That is your destiny!"
Koizumi had me pretty pumped up. My eyes were fixed on that core through the red barrier we were inside. If I hadn't been so fixed on it, I would have witnessed what Koizumi did while I was distracted.
A sudden rush of energy ran through me. The shape of Koizumi was no more and instead my body was giving off his red esper aura. The shield had dropped.
"Fly Kyon! Fly!" Asakura shouted, pink in the face.
Without thinking I jumped as hard as I could. From there it was as if the aura was controlling me, telling my body what to do and where to go. The Shinjin took shots as trying to smack me out of the air, but I was too fast and it was too slow.
I was ascending at amazing speed a straight shot right into the core, like a bullet. The ball of red was getting ever so closer… I could see the entire area from up here. I was too close to the Shinjin to be able to see its entire body completely.
I saw the red core floating eerily at the center of its chest the surface shifted making it look like a rotating planet. It was big enough that my house would have fit inside it with much room to spare. It was in there pretty deep though. I couldn't tell how much of that blue stuff I'd have to fight through to get to it. What exactly are Shinjins made out of anyway? It can destroy entire buildings with a single swipe and melt the metal of cars simply by contact. I guess I was going to find out.
I passed through the membrane of the Shinjin expecting to feel an immediate sensation of pain; instead I felt nothing at all. It still felt like regular air except it was slightly bluer. In a matter of seconds I had reached the core, all the way finding it harder and harder to approach it. My flight speed became slower and slower and just as my hands were about to touch the surface there was something strange.
Something emerging from the core. A pair of hands broke the surface and locked onto both my own. I was pushing to force it back inside, but it was resisting. Instead it was pushing me back. A head emerged from the surface followed by a chest and torso of a Fujiwara.
"Why do you persist?" He snarled inches away from my face…
"Why do you persist?" I copied, still continuing to pressure myself into the core.
But this was not a fight of strength. No matter how hard I pushed. Force wasn't going to solve anything.
"Wars, deaths, suffering, massacre!" Fujiwara roared. "I must end it!"
"Don't tell me your problems!"
This whole thing is your fault!
Nobody likes you! Do you think these three over here joined this stupid club to play with you? NO! You'd still be alone and bored out of your mind if you weren't a…
A Key to Auto evolution? A Time Warp? A God? These things… do they even come close to describe what Suzumiya Haruhi is to me? Are they even of value? No… only my values of her are valid.
I screamed at the top of my lungs. Fujiwara was slowly being pushed back. There was a look of fear on his face. If he lost here, he was going to lose everything. And he was losing.
"You are the biggest asshole I have ever met in my life! Powers, powers, powers! Is that all everyone freaking cares about?" I continued. "You've probably never seen Haruhi in a ponytail, have you? Well understand this!"
"SUZUMIYA IS A TOOL! SHE IS NOTHING!" Fujiwara interrupted.
"Suzumiya Haruhi... IS EVERYTHING!"
My esper aura exploded and burst forth. I could feel the pressure I was putting on Fujiwara on my arms and wrists. He was nothing to me now. His hands seemed to melt in my fingers. I forced him completely into the core. My arms followed Fujiwara in and soon my whole body. That giant Shijin had the reality all to itself and it was to destroy everything there. The reality was now officially over. And according to Koizumi, I was now on my way into the old world.
Everything was… you get the idea…
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