While heading to the Helios Organization, Lars was suddenly engulfed by a mysterious, unidentified hemisphere.
Swallowed into the hemisphere, Lars closed his eyes briefly. When he opened them, what he saw was...
A sky where day and night had reversed... or more precisely, the space inside the sphere had twisted, changing the sky. In the distance, the screams of people could be heard, and following those sounds, unidentified monsters were heading in that direction. And at that moment, a monster appeared behind Lars and attacked him, but...
- Too slow... You're full of openings....
As if his combat sense and skills from surviving in the Promun world hadn't gone anywhere, he lightly evaded the monster's attack, clenched his fist tightly, and threw an uppercut at the monster. The monster, perhaps thinking it could take a hit from a mere human,
attempted a counterattack against Lars, but
- KANG~~!
The moment the monster struck Lars's body, a sound like hitting steel resonated, and while the monster felt the hardness of Lars's flesh, Lars put a bit more power into his uppercut, landing it squarely on what he assumed was the core area near the jaw...
- KWAKACHANG!!!!
He effortlessly shattered the monster's core with his bare hands, killing it instantly. Afterwards, the fallen monster disintegrated into particles and vanished. The other creatures that had been about to attack Lars,
terrified by the fierce, dragon-like aura emanating from him,
tried to flee elsewhere, but....
- Dalggeurak....
One of the monsters, trying to sneak away quietly, accidentally kicked a stone, and at that moment...
- Found you!!!! You damn monster!!!
Lars instantly appeared before it and swung his fist. The monster, seeing the fist flying towards its face, had the core in its head area shattered,
killed in a single blow.
Every monster present met their end, their final memory being the fist flying towards them, all annihilated on the spot....
Afterwards, he decided to head towards the source of the screams. There, many survivors of this disaster were gathered in one place, putting up a feeble resistance against the monsters.
Watching this, Lars pondered whether to save them or not, eventually concluding it was for his own satisfaction and deciding to save them.
Since Lars ultimately desired an ordinary life,
to hide his identity, he used his Self-Blooming Ego ( Mad Evil Hound-Dragon.{ 狂悪犬龍 } ), enveloping his entire body in armor and concealing his appearance before descending before the citizens. The citizens, seeing the man wearing
a helmet resembling a black fierce hound and full-body armor covered in dragon scale-like spikes, wondered who he was and worried if he might be another monster...
- Is everyone alright??
Hearing the human voice shortly after, they felt relieved that the being before them was human. But then, the monsters that had been threatening them until moments ago began to move,
attempting to kill the armored man, causing worry again....
- Thwup...
The armored man grabbed a monster's head with one hand....
- Ugeudeuk...Bbagagakeugeudeuk!!! Ujikkeudeuk!!!
With his other hand, he began compressing all the monster's limbs around the core in its head, as if molding a ball... Gradually, the monster became a perfectly smooth sphere. Shortly after, Lars took a stance as if to throw the sphere....
- Hey!! Your friends!!! Catch this!!!!
He shouted, and threw the monster-turned-sphere like a cannonball towards the other monsters, sweeping them away as easily as bowling a strike, clearing all the monsters in front of him effortlessly.
The survivors witnessing this scene somehow felt pity for the monsters, but that thought soon vanished as other monsters appeared, surrounding them.
- Could you cover your ears, please???
At Lars's single request, they covered their ears, and in that moment...
- KRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
Even with their ears covered, a deafening roar, akin to a sonic boom, pierced through as if stabbing their eardrums. Lars continued to unleash his Lion's Roar repeatedly.
The monsters soon had their cores shattered by the Lion's Roar, dying instantly on the spot.
The survivors, who had lived by covering their ears as Lars instructed, began to look at Lars as a monster even worse than the ones from before,
but no one dared to utter a word, to mention that Lars seemed more monstrous...
They too had a will to live and common sense, so they didn't let such rude remarks pass their lips.
And Lars, to escape this place and get outside,
mobilized all his senses, feeling everything between the twisted buildings with a single sense. Noticing something like a fissure somewhere, Lars
told the people to follow him if they wanted to escape, then called for his personal weapon, 'All-Slayer'.
- [ All-Slayer ] Answer my call.....
In response to Lars's call, 'All-Slayer' instantly flew towards Lars from outside the cavity into the cavity at a speed invisible to ordinary eyes.
Lars caught the 'All-Slayer' flying at supersonic speed from afar with one hand, and with a single swing of the sword, 'WHOOSH',
likely due to controlled force, only the immediate surroundings were swept away. The citizens, seeing the fierce wind generated by a mere swing of the sword strong enough to blow away the vicinity, felt greatly relieved that this being was on their side...
And Lars, having located the fissure through his senses alone, led the people and dashed towards the fissure that could lead them out of this disaster.
Shortly after, Lars and the citizens, with his help, managed to get outside the cavity. Lars intended to exit with them,
but it was obvious his identity would be exposed if he left like this. Deciding to save others still inside as well, he didn't leave with them and began rescuing people still inside the cavity. Meanwhile, outside.....
A broadcast helicopter was filming the dark sphere, live-reporting the situation in real-time.
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About 30 minutes after the disaster involving the dark sphere occurred,
the people outside, filled with fear, curiosity, terror, and wonder, were watching from a distance as instructed by the Public Safety Bureau's evacuation orders.
Shortly after, they witnessed people emerging from the sphere.
The broadcasters announced that people had survived and returned from inside the sphere, asking those who came out how they managed to escape. Everyone unanimously said they were helped by someone wearing black armor,
someone who reminded them of a Black Mad Dog. When the reporter asked, 'Then where is that person?', they looked back,
but the figure in black armor was nowhere to be found. Soon, a few more people began emerging from the sphere, and numerous citizens who had disappeared into the sphere started coming out.
The death toll in the dark sphere disaster that humanity first encountered that day, 'The First Cavity, Zero Cavity', should originally have been 98%, but thanks to Lars, it was reduced to 58%.
Lars, who had now saved countless people, was still inside the Zero Cavity, which was gradually growing and changing.....
And Lars was currently inside the Zero Cavity, making a motion as if grabbing empty air.
- Hmm..... I did it like this back then....
Lars was racking his memory of when the city was twisted, trying to recreate the technique he used that day to cut through spacetime.
During the recreation, he first became able to use Shin (心). The moment Lars first used Shin (心), the number of webs that appeared was five.
But Lars paid no attention to the webs coiling around his arm, focusing on recreating the act of tearing spacetime he had performed back then... Eventually...
- Chichijitjijik!!!
He finally managed to tear the space, even if just a little. Grabbing the torn gap, Lars began to rip the space open.
Having opened the space not with a sword but with his bare hands, Lars exited through the spatial fissure he himself created.
Emerging from a place unseen by anyone, Lars hurriedly returned home. Unbeknownst to him, someone had been secretly watching him tear through space and exit the cavity.....
The one watching Lars was Siren, with her fox ears, and she was smiling as if she had seen something very amusing.....
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Lars, having escaped the dark spherical space, was watching the news, which was reporting on today's events as a breaking news story.
Meanwhile, Areis was happily feeding her husband Lars side dishes, enjoying a peaceful life, and Lars too felt happiness in his life with Areis.
Amidst this, a knock was heard at the door, followed by the doorbell ringing. Areis went to open the door to see who it was.
Until now, Lars thought this newlywed-like life with Areis would continue, but it was brought to an end by a certain family.
The family that ended the peaceful daily life of Lars and Areis was.....
the Hoshimi Family, and the head of the Hoshimi Family wanted to see Lars....
The people who suddenly entered the house tried to take Lars by subduing Areis in a rather forceful manner and using her as a hostage,
but Areis was a Grade 1 Resolver in the city, someone capable of reaching the Seat of Special Characteristics, so she ended up subduing those who tried to subdue her instead....
- KWANG!!!
Those who were instead subdued by Areis had their heads bashed with a blood-red, brick-shaped ingot—made using X Corp's metal refining technology, something that had made all her enemies pay during her city life—
struck down just hard enough not to destroy their brains, and then healed with K Corp's serum, slowly making them confess why they had come.
Upon hearing the full story of the incident, the couple voluntarily set off for the Hoshimi Family manor.