Chapter 100

1.

Right after Silk arrived at Trinity.

Chaos naturally erupted within the community.

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[Hey you bastards… “Post it up”]

(Silk landing like a superhero.gif)

This time, it’s Trinity.

The hero has arrived to subjugate those snake-like angel girls.

Raise the beacon immediately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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= [Comments]=

[wth when did she get that far lol]

[I’m pretty sure she was at D.U until yesterday???]

[This chick just works really hard]

[Damn… I spotted her again. I must worship…]

[Is that you again, GOAT?]

[Hit like first ㅇㅇ…]

└ [What the hell did you just say, you little…]

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Is Silk, who had been active mainly in D.U, Millennium, Gehenna, and Abidos up until now.

However, today, she suddenly appeared in Trinity, causing the community, which had gradually cooled off since the Binah incident, to heat up in an instant.

Given that Silk was already quite popular under normal circumstances, her Trinity debut became a major topic of conversation.

In fact, some of the sights she showed there even shocked many people.

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[Is… Is this something a human can do?]

Shit, am I seeing things?? (Silk using ‘Ki’ to walk on air.mp4)

(Silk stopping a rapidly moving car with one hand.mp4)

Is this a human or a gorilla?

=[Comments]=

[Crazy bitch, even a gorilla can’t walk on air lol]

[Isn’t this just superpowers???]

[That’s not just a regular car but a dump truck and she stopped it with one hand?? wth ㅅㅂ]

└ [And it looks like it’s going at least 80km/h…]

[Fact: Silk is getting healthier]

└ [She’s healthy enough already…]

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Many people were astonished at the clearly improved abilities compared to what she had shown before.

Although there was a big stir when Silk was involved in defeating Binah, the steel snake, the impact of today’s display was enough to create a similar level of shock.

This was because Silk had started revealing ‘Ki’ she had been holding back until now since her arrival at Trinity.

Not only that, but while there was this level of commotion in the general community, Silk’s fan community was bound to react even more fiercely.

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[Silk vs Tsurugi]

Who really wins?

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One of the main topics of debate in Silk’s fan community was so common it could almost be considered an annual event now.

However, until now, the general consensus about Silk’s strength was “She’s strong, but not the strongest.”

This was partly because the steel snake incident was an exceptional case and Silk didn’t handle it alone. Also, in her usual activities, there was often so much chaos that she mostly focused on quick neutralization and de-escalation.

As a result, many in the Kyiburatos Realm believed Silk would likely fall short in a direct one-on-one fight.

But,

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[Shut up, all you bastards who were trashing Silk lol]

(Silk firing ‘Ki’ to incapacitate a criminal from a distance.mp4)

“Silk is just tearing through space with her fists lol”

Fuck? Lack of power? Gear bashing??

Still not strong enough for the academy’s top students???

(Black-and-white background with a collage of Silk swinging her fists)

Ignorant kids, Silk has been tolerating what you call the ^strongest^ so far lol

From now on, behave yourselves ㅇㅇ

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[Sorry, will show you my forehead and bow…]

[Damn, spotted Silk again…]

[I must worship…]

[Neru’s speed is too fast, she’ll just catch Silk]

└ [You didn’t see her fists tearing through space? If that hits Neru, it’s just N/E/R/U ;]

└ [No matter how fast Neru’s attacks are, they’re still slower than spider silk. Just keep firing the silk and Neru’s lunch ;]

[Tsurugi has too short of a reach and will lose;]

└ [But she can use psychic powers on your face]

└ [Ahem]

[Hina can fly, so I thought she’d just shoot… but wth, Silk flew too. Is she even human?]

└ [Might as well give up on being human already lol]

[I want to rest in Silk’s generous bosom…]

└ [Sir.]

└ [I’m also very interested in Teacher’s preferences]

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With the revelation of Silk’s true power now,

The community and public opinion were gradually shifting.

Silk is an existence equal to or stronger than the strongest from each academy.

Of course, not everyone believed it.

[Is this even real? Is this photoshopped?]

└ [What’s ‘fist photoshop’?]

└ [Bro]

└ [?? what?]

└ [Ah]

[If this is fake, the whole world is a lie]

[This is a game, the reality is fake]

└ [Wtf]

Sometimes conspiracy theorists would pop up, claiming these were all fakes, but they were quickly suppressed.

There were already too many pieces of evidence out there.

Seeing Silk display powers that could as well be considered superhuman without any intention to hide them, countless people were no longer just a few individuals.

As a result, in the minds of many, the “what if” question began to arise.

“…Damn. What is that?”

“Whoa… Is that really not superpowers? Walking in the air-”

“Hmph. She’s causing another huge scene…”

“…”

And those who harbored these questions weren’t just ordinary people. The so-called strongest among them were no different.

Each for their own reasons, they took great interest in Silk, reacting differently while feeling their own forms of shock and awe at Silk’s true capabilities.

The hero who everyone had secretly considered to be a bit below them had revealed the sword she had been keeping hidden, climbing to their level almost instantly.

This reality gave them a certain amount of stimulation.

For some, it was a catalyst that awakened their competitive spirit,

for others, it became an unsettling factor that raised caution,

and for others still, she was a figure of admiration.

And for a certain tyrant,

“…Just what are you.”

She became a figure of fear whose perception transcended their limits.

2.

The Mystery of Precognition.

Literally, the ability to know future events.

According to records, this ability, passed down through each academy, was what I considered to be the most mysterious power of all.

Having extraordinary ‘supersensory’ abilities, and occasionally encountering a higher perspective, I could confidently say so.

The power of precognition. The force to glimpse the future.

This ability was not simply just one that ‘reveals the future’ though.

Precognition is a perspective.

Just as I faced a higher perspective through my supersense in the distant realm of Seongchun, precognition is similarly the power to gain a perspective looking down from ‘above’.

To put it precisely, it is the third-person view of looking inward from the outside.

Observing reality as another perspective.

This is the ‘essence’ of precognition.

In this sense, precognition is part of determinism.

Some believe the universe’s fate is decided from the beginning to the end. From the Big Bang, all events from the start to the end were predetermined.

Looking further back, it wouldn’t be incorrect to say it was the fate set from the moment of divine creation!

‘Precognition’ is power born from such an interpretation.

The future is decided, and fate is immutable.

Therefore, if there were Laplace’s Demon knowing all the universe’s knowledge, it would be able to perfectly perceive a single future.

Hence the one with the mystery could, through the ‘precognition’ lens, observe a certain point on the extended line named ‘destiny’.

This fact itself is evidence that precognition is a power based on determinism.

Still, as seen in the original work, the mystery of precognition in ‘Blue Archive’ wasn’t an omnipotent force.

Ultimately, it had its limits and was a flawed ability that could vary depending on its user.

Nevertheless, in the original work, Seiya knew about Teacher’s existence early and began conversing with Teacher in her dreams, showcasing her precognitive abilities.

Why did Seiya approach Teacher?

Why did she specifically single out Teacher to have conversations?

It’s simple.

It was simply because it was decided that way.

We were destined to meet and converse at some point from the very beginning.

Seiya’s precognition was telling that.

Past, present, and future. The owner of the power of precognition gains innumerable ‘time-frames’ in the truest sense.

Seiya, having the condition where precognition is only possible in dreams, often gets caught in illusions where time seems to have twisted due to the many time frames.

Just like the time she met Teacher in the dream was different from when they met in reality.

This was a plight shared by all prophets.

As I am conversing now, the foreseer in the past already knew they would meet me in the future.

And since the past foreseer witnessed a future where they would converse with me, it was decided that we’d converse now.

Then, in which of the past, present, or future is this conversation taking place?

We can’t know.

It’s simply ‘decided.’

The moment the act of conversing became decided, their ‘meeting’ was already determined in the strange rift of time.

Decided events will always come to pass when the present arrives.

That’s how Teacher met and conversed with Seiya.

However, the real Seiya in the present could not know about it.

Only the Seiya from the future, or perhaps the past, knew this fact.

Hence, the mystery of precognition was a power fundamentally difficult for the human brain to accept.

Because distinguishing between the present, past, and future was hard.

I understood this characteristic today.

Therefore…

“…Did you know I would come?”

“Roughly.”

“What do you mean…?”

Today, I gained so much insight and realization through supersensitivity.

Ah. Tonight, Seiya might appear in my dreams, I thought.

When, where, and how we would meet was irrelevant.

I couldn’t go to her.

Then, I should use the opposite, right?

It wasn’t exactly ‘using’ but rather ‘realizing.’

“My memory isn’t perfect,”

“…”

How on Earth did I figure that out?

There’s no way I could’ve imagined that Seiya would already be attacked and gone missing.

I thought it would happen some time this year…

It seems quite a bit of time has passed since then.

And just as I was thinking about that, Seiya’s somewhat anxious gaze reached me.

“You must have a lot to say.”

“Indeed. But… so do you.”

“Yeah. There’s a lot I wanted to talk about with you, Seiya.”

We gazed at each other.

We probed each other’s impulses and desires from within our eyes.

For someone, this moment was the beginning and the end of a long wait, and for another, it was finding new answers to the darkness within their heart.

However,

“Isn’t it difficult…?”

“Are you okay?”

Ironically, what came out of our mouths was concern for each other.

At which we glanced at each other with widened eyes and chuckled.

“Yeah. Let’s not keep the mood heavy and just chat casually.”

“…Alright. That would be easier for me too.”

What did we realize from looking into each other’s eyes?

A distant and ominous end of the world?

The pain of observing distant points in dreams?

….

Perhaps only the two of them would know that fact.

Choosing not to bring up the content unnecessarily, they agreed to have a relaxed conversation.

And so, in our own dream world, we began unraveling the infinite bundles of knowledge.

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