I Became The Villain The Hero Is Obsessed With

Chapter 417

417 – The moment that everything went wrong

The battle between gods.

The war where Stardust, the representative of the star god, confronted the sun god ended in Stardust’s victory.

In the midst of battle, Stardust, who had awakened three times, finally defeated the sun god with the power of the stars, and the sun god, who had exhausted all his strength, disappeared.

And so the battle ended, and the world should have ended.

…Surely, that was what was supposed to happen.

“Why should I do that?”

“….!”

On the plains,

In the deep crater created by the sun god in a place destroyed by the fierce battle, the sun god with silver hair kneeling,

Surely, he said that.

The battle I thought was surely over.

After the god fell as Egoistic said, Stardust, who thought everything was over as she was about to flee, was relieved.

… Even though she had awakened the divine stature, her body was not unharmed.

Finally, I can rest. That’s what she thought.

…Until she instinctively felt danger in his following words.

And at that moment.

Grrr-

“Uh…”

The trembling earth.

In such a situation, while Stardust was taken aback.

Wobble. Wobble.

Unbeknownst to them, the clearly fallen sun god Helios began rising again into the sky.

Surrounded by a white smoke.

… And a newly emerging sticky, black smoke.

Rising amongst the black and white smoke.

Bowing his head, Helios began to murmur in a low voice.

“…Yes, if we keep fighting like this, my body will be ruined. No, it will definitely lead to the extinction of my existence.”

“But, what about it?”

“…Then, as a god. Despite suffering such humiliation from your own creation… Are you telling me to run away like this?”

“No, it’s not that.”

Wooooooooo-

The setting sun, glowing amidst the twilight orange sky.

The rising sun god beneath was now covered in a mix of black and white clouds of smoke, glancing down at Stardust with golden eyes.

And… whilst looking at Stardust, who appeared to be in disbelief.

Following a fierce smile, he stiffened his face, turned his eyes, lifted his head and, waved his hand, saying.

…with a look that seemed to stare off into a faraway place directly in front of him.

“And.”

“You children of the stars…”

All my plans.

All my sacred relics.

“My daughter, my manifestation, even the saintess you’ve seized and destroyed… Absolutely, absolutely. I can’t forgive you.”

Vrrr-

Boommm-

With those words.

Upon witnessing the explosive light emitted by the sun god, coupled with a roar.

Stardust gritted his teeth, buckling against the gust of wind.

Consequently, the sun god was back in white, floating in the crimson sky.

… Behind him.

[…………]

A gloomy silver and sticky black color commingled, a gray figure of a giant god standing tall in the sky, like a resurrection from death.

Even the sun god himself was bleeding black blood, delivering an unfamiliar, threatening intimidation, like a god who had abandoned everything and transcended the mundane.

Now more than ever, he looked closer to death.

“Here, to humans, I declare.”

The sun god, in a way that could be heard by all people across the world.

With an unusually clear, unnerving divine tone.

He clearly told everyone.

“Even if my existence is extinguished.”

“Today, here…”

“I will… kill you all.”

With those words, a giant night sky-like black scythe created by the silver and black intertwined giant god emerged.

Staking his divine existence, the sun god steps forward with a single determination to kill humans.

Soon, he looked down at the Stardust before him.

He spoke in a quiet voice, audible only to her.

“…And you, child of the stars. Stardust, your turn.”

“I’ll be the first to tear you apart and kill you.”

Feeling the intense hatred of a god towards her…

Stardust clenches her fist with a stern face as she bears his murderous intent.

Realizing instinctively, a certain fact.

‘…With my current strength,’

She can’t possibly beat the god who has staked his all.

***

A sunset, an orange sky in twilight.

Under the pure scenery that seemed to be ending the world…

On the plain stretching beyond the horizon, it felt like a death’s symphony was playing.

A hero was confronting living death.

[Roar!]

Clink! – Crash! – Bam! – Thud!

“Urgh…”

Bang – Crash! – Thud!

The sacred form of the sun god in a grayish hue who had instantly closed the distance and sent thousands of hits like cutting through space, leaving Stardust’s place in an instant.

In the sky above that place, a massive scar like a cut-through galaxy remained as if the sky had been sliced.

However, the ordeal was not over even though Stardust had dodged.

Clink – Crash – Thud

Where she had relocated, the pure power of the sun continued to batter without rest.

…Meanwhile, Stardust could only barely avoid the onslaught while defending with her star-powered attacks as she tossed her blonde hair back.

The gap in strength (power) was overwhelming.

Despite having gained almost world-breaking power by staking his existence, the sun god was pouring all his power into a narrow space to definitively finish off Stardust alone, who possesses star power.

Relentlessly attacked by the enraged sun god,

Stardust, although not much time had passed, was battered and rolling around in the sky.

“……”

Thrum – Crash – Thud

The power of the gray-hued sun brushes past her again.

Summoning a golden giant with her divinity, she’s leading the giant, whose glow is considerably dim from exhaustion.

Stardust tastes blood in her mouth and watches the sun god enveloped in grayish light with blurry eyes.

‘…What went wrong?’

In reality, there was nothing wrong as such.

Nobody could have anticipated the sun god to act that way, and her power was just weak.

Even so, the directives from Egoistic’s control tower, transmitted through her ears, came to a halt.

“There’s been a catastrophe!!! There’s now a grey-colored rain all over the world… Ahhhhh!”

After what seemed like someone’s last cry from behind Egoistic, no other transmissions were received.

It felt like a surreal situation.

To have things go so terribly wrong, it was far beyond her imagination.

All Stardust could do was…fly through the sky, dragging her wounded body while losing blood.

Even so, there were attempts to attack with starlight in any given opportunity.

“hahahaha. Did you really think that was possible?”

A flippant gesture from the Sun deity resulted in a disappointing block.

…Of course, the state of the Sun deity didn’t look particularly good either. His silver hair had faded to grey, and his golden eyes had been eroded by darkness.

However, it was undoubtedly a better situation than that of Stardust, who had already been pushed to her limits.

She felt as if her insides were all entwined.

Or, that might actually be the case.

“Cough.”

Her mouth leaked red blood from an attack she hadn’t fully dodged.

Under the twilight sky, the attacks of Helios, the Sun deity, who was now shining with a greyscale silver radiance, didn’t cease. Unrelenting attacks targeted towards killing just one star child.

And as a result…

“Urgh.”

Finally.

All of the giant divine figure of Stardust’s strength had been completely shattered and disappeared.

Her fall resulted in her lying on the ground.

She clutched her arm, which seemingly might be broken, as she sputtered blood, standing unsteadily on her feet.

“Now, it’s over, child of the stars.”

The Sun deity expressionlessly gathered solar energy in his hand, preparing to finish it all.

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Seeing this, she pondered…

‘…Is this the end?’

Stardust, drawing ragged breaths with blurred eyes, thought…

…It’s okay if she falls.

But if she were to die like this…

What would happen to this world, to the people of the association, to everyone?

She couldn’t afford to fall.

There were too many people she had to protect.

Like this…

“…No.”

Stardust, without realizing it, strenuously stretched out her hand.

Summoning the last of her remaining strength in her hand, she uttered a silent prayer.

‘Please, God…’

The final miracle.

“Go away, child of the stars.”

And just before the Sun God’s attack came flying.

She released the power in her hand.

That moment.

Wooooooooosh –

With an enormous light spreading out from her hand.

A moment.

Krung –

Accompanied by the feeling that her body had stopped.

…….

Everything, stopped.

Including the Sun God, who seemed ready to launch an attack at any moment.

The wind that had been blowing, too.

All the dust that had been scattering. Everything.

“Huh…?”

In the gray-tinted time that had thus transformed,

Stardust voiced her question with an exhausted voice, alone.

And… she was able to recognize.

“…Has time, stopped?”

That’s right.

Stardust, who had directly confronted Him in the face of the Sun God,

Opened the power of the stars completely.

She had stopped time.

“What is this…”

She was briefly startled by the situation that she could not understand immediately.

Soon, however, Stardust was able to quickly grasp the situation.

‘The Ex Machina of the United States, who controlled time, he also had the authority of the Star God…’

She recalled the information that Egotistic had once told her.

The Star God rules time, the Moon God space, and the Sun God existence.

Then, it also explained why she suddenly stopped time.

So, if that’s the case…

‘Now is, the chance.’

She instinctually realized that.

This was the first and final chance to strike the Sun God.

She didn’t exactly know how long she could stop time, but somehow, she could intuitively feel it.

In a few minutes, this power will reach its limit.

So, before that.

“aaah!!”

With that yell, she put power into her hand which she had raised towards the sky.

aaah!

The starlight in her fist shone brighter than ever before.

With such concentration that it seemed as if blood would pour from her eyes, clenched her teeth till her lips turned white, and imbued her strength into the starlight until her own limits.

This one time, enough to bring down the sun god in one strike.

‘Wait for me, Helios.’

It was then that she gritted her teeth, concentrating all her strength into her fist, focusing her wrath on Helios.

…..

“…huh?”

Suddenly.

It seemed the eyes of the sun god, paused while looking down from the sky, moved.

And in the very next moment.

A twitch.

His fingers seemed to stir.

Before she could do anything,

“aaarghhhhh!!!!!”

Craaash

The sun god roared for a moment.

And in the next instant, the frozen time, like a sheet of glass, shattered into a million pieces.

And in the next instant, before Stardust could even brace herself.

Fwoooosh

“Ughhh…!”

Energy spheres brimming with the greyish power of the sun hurtled towards her.

Caught off guard, Stardust was thrown backwards and hit square-on by it.

Within the flowing time that had somehow returned, the sun god, wiping his mouth, muttered under his breath.

“Overcoming her own potential five times, even awakens the ability to control time. …Indeed, she must be her daughter. Well, it matters not.”

With those words,

As calm as ever but with a look full of nothing but hatred,

Helios, summoning a scythe of greyish light in his hand, looked at Stardust, who couldn’t topple from the aftershocks, and murmured quietly.

“Now, return to your mother’s arms.”

Along with these words, a tremendous energy sphere of greyish light burst towards her.

Swoooosh-

Watching this, Stardust, lacking even the strength to move a finger, lay sprawled out, staring blankly at the giant beam rushing towards her.

…Ah, this is it.

Here, everything ends.

Actually, she had lived her life without regrets, even when facing death. She had done her best.

However, thinking about it… her worries remain. What will happen to those who remain after she’s gone? That was her only concern. No, not just a concern. Terror, anxiety, confusion, guilt, sadness, despair. All of these things weighed heavily on her. Therefore, she could only pray until the moment she left. Please. The sun god’s energy might be more exhausted by now because of her… Please. Let the rest of them be able to take him down. More desperately than she valued her own life.

‘hahahaha…’

And so.

Thinking of these things, facing death,

It wasn’t the first time she found herself in a situation of apparent despair, where all hope seemed lost.

It’s always been that way.

And at such a time.

The one who always stepped up to rescue her from that situation.

It was Egoistic, of course.

…hahahaha. I wonder if he will come this time too.

With a bitter smile, she thought about that until the very end.

Just before closing her eyes at the sight of the beam of destruction heading straight towards her.

Suddenly, she unwittingly opened her eyes wide.