Chapter 43: To Lobotomize A Snake

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Limitless and infinite, a repeating number of uselessness that replayed and multiplied itself over and over in their head.

It was maddening, scraping his brain and rattling their head, filling it with so much information that it felt like it would inflate like a balloon...

Of course, a balloon when overfilled would eventually pop from the expanding pressure, but one refined and conditioned to withstand such conditions would be able to fight against such an effect more efficiently than a normal person.

But for The Deathless Black Snake, the effects did not relief itself in the slightest. Despite the mental fortitude they had developed over centuries of living.

It would've been nice if the information given to them wasn't so... Utterly useless, but right now, the snake could do nothing against the vastness of the void itself.

It's ironic how it's called a void where nothing exists, but at the same time, it worked to flood the mind and sense with as much information as possible.

'Gojo Satoru...' The Deathless Black Snake could do nothing but curse that name.

How long would it take to recover from this? How much longer would it last?

Amongst the boundless abyss of littered stars in The Honored One's worldscape, Kashchey was left alone to contemplate nothing but endless numbers.

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"Wow..." Amiya was entranced, the sight presented before her was... Rapturously beautiful, a sight she had never seen before.

'Is this... What space would look like?' Due to the skies of Terra possessing some sort of force, theorized to be high concentrations of Originium, space travel had been halted and seen as a near impossibility.

Telescopes could hardly pierce through the veil that was placed upon the sky... But some places, eventually, one could take a view of the endless beauty that space could provide; endless stars that spanned across the majesty of the universe itself

There looked to be splattered white paint across the horizons. Blue, purple, and white stars of various colors dotted the place as far as the eye can see. Illuminating the blackness of the void, was a singular black hole-like eye which stood at the focal point...

The bending light around it was circular, spanning a tealish blue incandescent light, the most attention grabbing feature of this place.

Amiya found it beautiful, yet alien. Majestic, yet fierce.

The emptiness of this place, though... 'Why? Why does it feel so lonely here?'

Despite its greatness, despite its beauty, Amiya couldn't shake the empty feeling it gave off; like a forced isolation one imposes on themselves.

'Mr. Gojo...' She wondered why he placed such a barrier, a domain-like structure over the Control Tower after squatting in front of Kashchey.

It was the same feeling Amiya felt when they were running to where the Yetis were, to save them as quickly as possible.

But that feeling from before only lasted what she assumed to be milliseconds, this one however...

She shivered, the isolation and confinement of the strongest...

Seeing through the facade in which he holds gave her a better understanding of the man.

But the he Cautus girl still couldn't understand, how could one be so lonely despite being around so many people? Was every part joyous personality all just an act? Or were there some genuine feelings within it?

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