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"I have to help. I can't hesitate..."
Frank stepped forward after seeing everyone struggling on so many fronts. He rushed ahead without another thought.
Izanami poured out of the gate to the Netherworld like an endless sea of shadows and miasma.
Amaterasu's light bathed her, burning away at the darkness.
But the sheer volume of curses and shadows overwhelmed even her radiance. The darkness surged beyond what Amaterasu's light could consume.
The difference in power between Amaterasu and the monstrous goddess of creation—who died giving birth and was never retrieved by her husband—became painfully clear.
"YOUUUU! DAUGHTER OF THAT MAN...! BRING HIM TO ME! BRING ME MY HUSBAND! BRING ME IZANAGI!"
Izanami screamed in a monstrous voice, her form twisting into a colossal mass of countless souls, curses, and yokai that rose into the Heavenly Domain.
Her darkness weakened Amaterasu's divinity, spreading like a cancer through the light.
