The world went still.
The black dome DU created was collapsing—runes crumbling, seals snapping, cracks racing across the entire structure like fractures in a dying star.But in the center, just for a heartbeat, everything froze.
Null lifted his head.
The white lines beneath his skin pulsed… then dimmed.
The Entity's limb twitched.
Hyung tightened his hold.
DU exhaled shakily.
Aizeno stared wide-eyed.
Something had changed.
NULL VS THE ENTITY — FIRST CLASH
Null opened his eyes fully.
Left eye spiraled black.Right eye burning his natural color.
But both were his.
Not overwritten.Not borrowed.Not controlled.
The Entity realized it instantly.
"Unacceptable.Host integrity rising.Override rejected."
Null raised a single hand and pressed it against the limb holding him.
His voice was low.Raw.Shaking.
But his.
"Get. Off."
A pulse erupted from his palm—
BOOOOOOM—
The limb blasted backward.
The Entity recoiled for the first time, its massive frame absorbing the shockwave like a mountain struck by lightning.
DU's jaw dropped.
"…bro actually said 'unhand me' to a cosmic spaghetti demon and it WORKED?"
Hyung stared, speechless.
Null floated down, landing carefully.His legs trembled.His breathing was uneven.
But he stood.
The Entity rose again, unfurling its limbs like expanding wings.
"HOST RESISTANCE DETECTED.INITIATING FORCEFUL ABSORPTION."
Null wiped blood from his nose.
"I'm done being absorbed."
He crouched—
And vanished.
Hyung blinked.
"…Null??"
Null reappeared above the Entity's head, fist drawn back.
The air warped around him from sheer velocity.
CRACK—
His punch collided with one of the Entity's horns.
A jagged fracture spread across it.
The Entity froze.
Everyone froze.
The first wound ever inflicted on it—
by anyone—
in any cycle—
had just appeared.
Hyung grinned, exhausted but proud.
DU whispered:
"Yooo… he actually… damaged it."
But Null's body flickered, the backlash hitting him late.
He dropped from the air, landing unsteadily.
The Entity's voice trembled—not in fear, but irritation.
"You were not designed to harm me.Yet you deviate."
Null spat blood.
"Yeah. Get used to it."
AIZENO'S BETRAYAL REVEALED
The Entity's limbs began rearranging.
A new shape forming.
Aizeno suddenly stepped forward, panic on his face.
"Stop! STOP! You're provoking it into its third protocol!"
Hyung turned, confused.
"Third protocol? What is—"
Aizeno didn't answer Hyung.
His eyes locked on Null.
"Null. Listen carefully. Do NOT attack again. If it enters third protocol, it will—"
Null glared.
"Why do you care all of a sudden?"
Aizeno flinched.
DU narrowed his eyes.
"Yeah, big bro scientist man—why DO you care? You've been hiding stuff since chapter 42."
Aizeno froze.
Hyung stepped forward.
"Aizeno. What aren't you telling us?"
Silence.
The Entity's limbs rose higher.
Rumbling… humming… awakening.
Aizeno finally spoke.
"…I didn't just split Null's core."
Null's eyes widened.
Aizeno continued, voice breaking.
"I used your cores.Both of you.Hyung's stability.Null's potential."
Hyung blinked.
"…you used our lives to create him?"
Aizeno shook his head violently.
"No—no—listen. I did it because if I didn't—Null wouldn't survive his birth. The Entity would have claimed him instantly. I had to hide him. I had to disguise him as human—"
Null stepped forward, aura darkening.
"So you lied to both of us."
Aizeno swallowed.
"I saved you."
Null's voice turned cold.
"And doomed me at the same time."
Before anyone could respond—
The Entity completed its shift.
Eight limbs.Four eyes.Two cores pulsing inside its chest.
Aizeno paled.
"…Protocol Three. Impossible…"
Hyung looked at Aizeno.
"Aizeno… what does third protocol do?"
Aizeno whispered:
"It erases the host and everyone connected to him…from existence."
DU blinked.
"…connected to him?"
Aizeno nodded.
"…you. Hyung. Even me.Your souls were used to build him."
Hyung and DU froze.
Null's blood went cold.
The Entity spoke:
"Rewriting worldline."
Null's existence—
their existence—
the entire reality around them—
began shaking at the edges.
D U'S HEART STOPS
DU suddenly staggered.
He clutched his chest.
Hyung grabbed him.
"DU—HEY—what's wrong?!"
DU's eyes widened, panic replacing his usual calm.
"My—my seals—they're feeding back—It's rewriting—It's trying to delete—ME—"
Null turned instantly.
"DU!"
The black dome around them shattered.The backlash flowed directly into DU.
DU screamed—a sound none of them had ever heard from him.
The symbols across his body glowed white-hot—then turned pitch black.
His heartbeat spiked—then stopped.
THUD—
DU's body went limp in Hyung's arms.
Hyung's voice cracked:
"DU—HEY—OPEN YOUR EYES—DU—HEY—WAKE UP—"
Null froze.
Aizeno's face went completely white.
"No…No no no—This shouldn't—Protocol Three is reacting to the chained seals—He wasn't supposed to—"
Null trembled.
The Entity's voice echoed like a funeral bell.
"One connection terminated.Two remain."
Null snapped.
His aura roared upward—ten times stronger—unstable—burning—howling with rage, grief, and fear.
Hyung screamed:
"NULL—STOP—YOUR MIND CAN'T TAKE—"
But Null was already gone.
He ascended into the sky, energy tearing the clouds apart.
His second awakening—
fully unlocked.
His voice tore through reality:
"IF YOU TOUCH HYUNG—I WILL ERASE YOU FIRST."
The battlefield broke under the pressure of his rising power.
Even the Entity recoiled.
And the chapter ended the