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Chapter 107

At the farthest land: the underground layer.

Ruins of an ancient civilization.

In a space once called the Tokyo Dome, twenty men and women stood.

「Well then, we’ll be returning to the past now, Moses.」

「Chairman of the World Federation, His Excellency Cayenne. Well, here, it might be better to call you Yuichi Fujishima. Well, there have been various things with you guys—」

Behind Moses were five men and women.

And behind the elderly man facing Moses stood fifteen men and women.

In a literal sense, they are those who want to return and those who want to remain.

「I feel bad for restraining you all this time.」

「Yes. Because you guys didn’t get involved with the locals… the world is in chaos.」

「The population has grown too much. If there’s intervention from external gods, humanity’s extinction is inevitable. If that’s the case, then I now think your proposal for an artificial great disaster is also… unavoidable.」

「Well, we’ll do as we please. From population control to everything else about humanity.」

「In the end, we only postponed the problem. I didn’t have the decisiveness like you did.」

「Thanks to that, those who are left behind will suffer.」

「Haha. That’s right. But Moses, you should be careful.」

「And why do you say that?」

「The Dragon King, the Hermit, and the Forbidden Spell Users of the Demon Realm. These three are dangerous even to us reincarnators.」

「They have dangerous ideologies, knowing the principles of the world… and yet… they still accept things as they are.」

「No, they accept the system and entrust the future of humanity to humanity itself. I’ve been postponing problems just going with the flow, but they have a clear intention—to accept things as they are.」

「The best example of that is Lute Mclane. Because of him, the disaster caused by the system this time has been denied.」

「It became clear that even if a disaster occurs, humanity cannot control population adjustments, so the system gave up on population adjustments by its own hand…」

「Yes, they chose the extermination of humanity by the nightmare biological weapon—the external god that once destroyed the world.」

「I’m truly sorry, Moses.」

「The current population is between 4.9 to 5 million… If it reaches 5 million, the intervention of the external gods will begin. Well, before that, we’ll adjust the population ourselves. I don’t want to die as collateral damage either.」

「It’s troublesome, but from now on, you can do as you please.」

「Yes. Thank you for leaving the world unattended until the very brink of danger under the guise of humanitarian consideration, Your Excellency.」

「Haha, you’re really harsh until the end.」

「In a state close to being too late, they just toss everything aside and say they want to return to their original world. It’s enough to make one want to say something sarcastic.」

「I truly feel sorry for what I’ve done.」

「Well then.」

With that, Moses and the others, five in total, took a seat in the VIP seats behind the batter’s box of the Tokyo Dome.

The remaining fifteen gathered in the exact center of the dome.

Then, a pentagram magic circle spread across the stadium.

「So, is this good for you, Moses?」

The holy knight girl, Zero, grinned.

「Yes, this is quite alright. Thank you, Zero-san.」

A rainbow-colored light burst from the magic circle, accompanied by a ridiculous amount of magical energy that caused the ground to rumble with flashes of light.

「Are you sure this is really okay?」

「Yes, this is truly, truly fine.」

The fifteen were enveloped in light, their bodies transformed into particles of light and released into the sky.

In just a few minutes, all fifteen bodies had been converted into particles of light and dissolved into the air.

「It’s over. But, are you really sure this was okay?」

At that, Moses laughed grotesquely.

「Yes, this… was just a… suicide—down to the molecular level.」

「Anyway, a time machine… was never possible, right?」

「It was quite a hassle. I had to gather and slowly alter 3,000 pieces of ancient documents. Making a flashy suicide spell look like a time machine…」

「Gathering the altered pieces and researching them can stage a century’s great discovery.」

「Yes, we struggled to provide hints, even for the alchemists among them.」

「I’m truly impressed by your petty obsession.」

「Well, thanks to that, they believed in the existence of the time machine and handed over full authority to us.」

「But still, saying ‘We’re leaving, so do whatever you want’ after keeping us in check for so long is quite cruel.」

「Well, the nuisances are gone now.」

With that, Moses stood up and clapped his hands.

Suddenly, countless armed soldiers rushed into the dome.

They swiftly and orderly aligned themselves inside the dome.

「The artificial great disaster is just the opening act. We’ve created… 10,000 hero mass-production models (Overs) equivalent to S to SS rank, with artificial human evolution.」

Next, four men and women, including Zero, knelt before Moses.

「And us… the four reincarnators.」

Moses grinned grotesquely and nodded in satisfaction.

「Preparations are complete. Shall we begin the end?」