CHAPTER 47: The Forty-Seventh Fracture

The lecture hall shimmered with suspended glyphs and rotating sigil-cores, each one casting soft light across rows of sharp-eyed students. Future reality-shapers, magi-engineers, divine hybrids—each sat in reverent silence, watching as knowledge bent itself into form.

At the front, Professor Elos moved with all the boredom of a man who’d taught gods and was unimpressed by mortals. With a flick of his wrist, a star system ignited above his desk. Its planets spun, suns pulsed, black holes whispered along their elliptical death spirals.

Yuuka had her feet propped up on the desk beside me, chewing something stolen from the cafeteria. She wasn’t paying attention—but she never had to. Even bored, her presence was like an undetonated warhead.

Saaya sat on my other side, scribbling notes in her spiraling glyph-script—half arcane, half maddeningly scientific. She nudged me gently.

“You awake?”

“Barely,” I muttered, head propped against my fist. “Elos has been explaining magic incantations for twenty minutes without once explaining how I’m supposed to make it work with science. I’m a logic-bound scalar user. This crap doesn’t translate.”

“He’s doing that thing again,” Yuuka said, eyes half-lidded. “Where he dances around the answer and waits for someone to figure it out so he can say ‘Exactly.’”

Then… everything changed.

The lights didn’t flicker—they forgot how to shine.

The glyphs above us stopped spinning and froze mid-air like birds shot in flight. The air itself drew inward, as if the entire hall had inhaled sharply… and never exhaled again.

My head snapped up. So did Yuuka’s.

From the center of the lecture hall, where the fabric of space was not supposed to bend, reality tore open.

No sigil. No sound. No warning.

Just authority.

A rift carved itself into the air—vertical, blinding, shaped like an unblinking eye. It bled pure dimensional force, and from it, a hand—massive, clawed, divine—lunged out faster than thought and grabbed me by the chest.

My desk shattered. My chair disintegrated beneath me.

“What the hell—!?” My voice cracked as the hand yanked me forward, dragging me through the air.

I thrashed. “I CAN’T USE MY ABILITIES! THEY’RE—THEY’RE SCRAMBLING MY SCALAR EQUATIONS—SHIT!!”

The glyphs on my back fizzled, unreadable. My calculations refused to process.

“SAAYA!!”

She was already moving.

“NO!!” she screamed, lunging forward and grabbing my arm with both hands. “I’M NOT LETTING YOU GO!”

“YUUKA!! HELP ME!!” she cried out, tears already brimming.

Yuuka didn’t hesitate. She leapt over the desks and grabbed my other arm, feet skidding on the polished floor.

They both pulled.

I looked down at them—Saaya’s eyes wild with terror, Yuuka’s clenched teeth, her knuckles white. I couldn’t feel my legs anymore. My entire body was being pulled into the void. My aura flickered—corrupted, inert. Powerless.

I met Saaya’s gaze. Her lower lip was trembling.

“Don’t…” she whispered. “Don’t say goodbye…”

I forced a smile I didn’t feel. “Guess this is it… for now.”

“NO!” she screamed. “YOU PROMISED! YOU PROMISED TO STAY!”

My shoulders cracked as the force intensified. The pull was absolute—final.

“LET GO!” I roared. “WE DON’T KNOW WHERE THIS GOES! I WON’T LET YOU DIE TOO!”

Yuuka’s divine glyphs tried to activate—but her eyes widened.

Nothing.

Her divine self—asleep. Blocked. Sealed off from within.

“SHUT UP!!” she shouted. “YOU’RE NOT LEAVING US!!”

The other students just stared. Paralyzed. Terrified. No one moved. Not even Elos.

Saaya turned to Yuuka, suddenly calm through the storm.

“…Let go.”

“What?! No!!”

“Please. Trust me.”

Yuuka hesitated—then, slowly, released her grip.

And in the instant she did—Saaya surged forward. She threw her full weight into me, wrapped both arms around my body.

“No!” I gasped.

And together—we were pulled through.

The portal snapped shut behind us like a guillotine.

Silence crashed down over the classroom.

Yuuka stood frozen.

Then she turned and ran. Straight for Lyra’s office, divine glyphs sparking behind her in a chaotic wake.

My body slammed into broken stone.

I gasped—air heavy with dust, ash, blood. I could feel again. My back burned. My vision blurred. My skull pounded.

I blinked.

Saaya was on top of me. Breathing. Alive. Shaking.

But the sky above… it was wrong.

Black. Colorless. No stars. No sun. Just smoke and silence.

And the world around us—

Destruction.

Burned-out buildings. Scorched pavement. Charred skeletons of trees and people. Everything broken.

I look around with Saaya laying on top of me clenching me tightly .

And then I saw it.

A shattered neon sign hanging from a wrecked building. One I knew too well.

A Blue knight. A Golden sword. Labeled King Of Knights Frozen mid-shout in her famous pose.

Akihabara.

I was laying down, trying to catch my breath

“…This… This is…”

My voice cracked.

“This is Earth.”