One's Eden: Hanayuki Travel

Chapter 35: Motionless world

Noah slashes her sword to the side of my body. The Motionless world ability wore off and my body flew away on another thick pillar.

She used the edge of her blade. If it wasn’t for my lightning speed, magic covered my body. I wasn’t able to survive that attack.

Her speed… No, her ability is godly. How am I able to defeat someone who can stop time?

“I was sure I attempted to cut you in half... What’s going on here?”

Princess Noah asked.

“I’m not the type of person who will tell my ability.”

“Understandable… It doesn’t matter… If it's ability or magic, then all I have to do is beat you down until you meet your limit.”

She’s sharp.

My lightning speed magic consumes my magic continuously in exchange for speed and an invincible body. The same goes with her… Time-stopping ability must have lots of magic, considering how powerful it was.

After seeing her ability, I could tell her the motionless world has its time limit.

I’ll continue using Lightning's magic and find a way to defeat her.

“Lightning speed!”

“Useless.”

Her sword struck my body once again. I resisted the damage and remained my foothold. I swung my right arm toward her face.

“Huh?”

She disappeared.

The handle of her sword struck my head downward. Followed by a powerful kick to my stomach. She slaps my face…

“...”

I can’t catch up with her.

Behind, she appeared delivering another sword s***h. Tanking all her attacks, I nearly dropped to the ground. I was so focused on thinking I couldn’t do anything to respond.

I’m just making an excuse.

She is simply too fast. She is using her ability to skip through time. She can activate and activate her ability swiftly.

Princess Noah could use her ability as if she is using teleport.

“It is impossible for you to win if you could not see my movements.”

“Shut up! Don’t mess with me!”

“I’m simply telling the truth.”

The princess continued to teleport around me and continuously showered me with consecutive attacks.

“Cold blade!”

The last s***h made my body fly 10-meters away from her.

“Even with my magic or skill… I wasn’t able to cut you down. You have my compliment for lasting this long after witnessing my motionless world… You’re the second one to survive this ability.”

I’m the second one. That means somebody out there was able to survive this ability of hers.

Remembering her words earlier, I remember how angry she was when she said the name Yusael. Princess Yusael was the elder princess and said to be the one who would inherit the throne. She is respected by Eula and the most powerful princess.

What is it with Princess Yuseal? I have to remember every time Eula told me stories about her. I might be able to get some hints.

While wondering about my thoughts, Princess Noah’s attack got harsher.

“Severed Frozen space.”

“Ugg!”

After taking the hit, I leaped back three steps and had my hand touch my belly.

“II can’t cut you but you have still felt the pain from my attacks. This situation is similar to torture. How long are you going to last?”

“I can’t just give up… I won’t give up. Not until I see you crawling on the ground begging to stay alive. After what did you do to my friends? I can’t turn my eyes away and I can’t let you roam around in this world. You’ll pay for all your sin in hell.”

I kick the ground and charge my head forward like a rocket. Noah swiftly knocked my head with his sword and had me crash on the ground rolling, peeling the floor tiles.

Cake, Rasp, and Berry… Princess Eula… Chelsea and the kids.

If I didn’t succeed in killing this monster… Many lives would be wasted.

I have to do something. I have to find a way to defeat this monster.

There is something I still have to do… Something only I can do…

Kanae… Ren…

What? Who are those people? Whose names are those? Kanae? Ren?

… … …

“Mama is the cutest… amma is the cutest Idol in the world.”

“I’ll make sure to fulfill my promise to you, Kanna. No matter what world you reincarnate in. I’ll come to see you and tell you how much I love you.”

“I don’t care if you have another man… I don’t care if you’re not human. I don’t care if you’re insane. You’re the only one I loved the most.”

“I’ll give you independence… I’ll support you in things that will make you happy. Don’t think about me at all.”

“Mama and Papa thank you for everything.”

“Mama… Papa… Please meet me again. I’m tired of waiting. I want to hug both of you again.”

“Kanna.”

“Mama.”

… … …

My head is hurting so badly.

I put both my hands on my head.

“Are you affected by side effects? I heard some magic has effects when used. In your current state, you might not be able to fight. I advise you to deactivate your magic and let me have a clean cut on your head. I’ll make it as painless as possible.”

“Shut up! Shut up! I don’t know who you are…”

A little girl dressed like an idol. Dancing like I used to be… On the other hand, it was him. A black-haired guy holding a cup of coffee watching her… And I’m beside him capturing every moment with my camera.

There is no way you’ll forget about me… Mama…

A sweet voice was heard in my head… A sweet voice but at the same time very sad.

I could sense that she was crying. Tears were falling from her eyes down to my head.

Dropping continuously…

Afterward, the little girl and the man disappeared from my vision. A blonde-haired girl appeared. Like the other two, I could not see their faces. She had angelic wings. Walking toward my position, she held both my cheeks. Lifting my face, I could only see her bright smile.

“Who are you?”

“... … …”

“Cold blade!”

Another sword skill directly smashed my head. I was knocked away and fell to the ground.

Thanks to her attack, I snapped from reality.

“I hate wasting time… I waste enough on you. At my next strike, you’re going to die.”

I crouched started my body and prepared my body for a fast sprint.

I’ll give my everything here. On this final card, I’ll move as fast as I can.

Lightning speed: Accelerated.

The floor on my back was destroyed the moment I launched myself forward. At extreme velocity, I travel at the speed of light.

More! More! More! I need to be faster!

“Lightning Accelerate!”

“Motionless world!”

( At this moment, Hanayuki was stuck in the air closing Noah. It was 3 inches before her fist hit Noah’s face. Hanayuki’s speed was faster than before. It surprised Noah. If Noah had delayed a 0.01-second casting her ability. Hanayuki’s fist will reach her well.)

Noah was relieved.

0.1 second had passed, she noticed. Hanayuki’s hand is moving.

“It is the same as Yusael… This can’t be.

“Lightning punch!”

One second passed… Hanayuki’s fist connected toward Princess Noah’s face. Noah's body was bent sideways by the strength of Hanayuki’s punch.

Noah’s head turned black after being hit by Hanayuki’s fist. She flew down to the ground and had time standing up and recovering.

“How could you move in a motionless world?”

If we want to travel to some distant point in space, and we travel faster and faster, approaching the speed of light, our clocks slow down relative to an observer back on Earth. ... The closer you get to light speed, the less time you experience and the shorter a distance you experience. Perhaps one of the most famous effects of special relativity is that for a human moving near the speed of light, time slows down. In this scenario, a person moving at near light speed would age more slowly. This effect is called time dilation.

The Lorentz factor for a photon is infinite due to its velocity of 299:792 km/s. The fact that light propagates through the vacuum of space at this velocity is because electromagnetic radiation (which light is) propagates through the vacuum of space at this velocity. Light does not experience time.

Hence…

Light does not experience time.

In Hanayuki’s case… her speed is only taking the speed of light after channeling for a few seconds. That’s why she was caught by the world first before she can move.

This information was unknown to Hanayuki.

In her head, all she did was move later than before.

“I don’t know… But moving faster before you cast your ability is one thing I have in my mind.”

“You’re lying… You were caught in a motionless world at first. Meaning, you’re inside a motionless world before you move.”

“I don’t have any idea about what you’re talking about, but I can tell in your face how scared you are… You fear that I’m currently on the upper hand in this battle, aren’t you?”

“Disgraceful. Vocabulary is not in my vocabulary. I won’t fear anything to achieve my dream.”

Noah got up and charged directly at Hanayuki. Unlike before, her calm expression was ripped from her and rage could be seen.

The time froze once again.

Noah was attempting to cut Hanayuki’s head. Hanayuki’s fist moved again, but this time it passed through the sword and Hanayuki’s body disappeared.

Princess Noah was confused about what happened. She looked around. She turned her head in all possible directions using her magic senses to sense Hanayuki’s magical presence.

But the light brown-haired girl was nowhere to be found.

“Where did she go?”

Has time turned into its normal speed? No… It is dangerous to go back without being sure where she is… But… I have reached my limit.

Noah thought.

The moment she deactivated the Motionless World. Hanayuki finds herself crashing on the cathedral doors.

The two old doors collapsed on her head as a result.

Hanayuki got up and it was weird what happened.

“What the?!”

“Ah… I went too fast… Did I take too long?”

“When did you… How did you suddenly appear?”

“Am I approaching your speed? The table is turning to be prepared. I’m going to get you!”

Hanayuki disappeared even when the time had stopped. Then her speed let her disappear? If a body exceeds a certain speed, it disintegrates because it cannot withstand the impact at too high a speed and disintegrates. The body can disintegrate even to levels of particles that are invisible to the human eye.

The question is… How can a human who disintegrates return back to normal?

Hanayuki’s lightning speed made her body invincible… How come it disintegrated? Or maybe it didn’t disintegrate in the first place.

“That must be a fluke… You can’t even tell the reasoning behind your magic. I’ll kill you… Motionless World!”

Noah activated her motionless world again. Hanayuki wasn’t moving. She activated the moment Hanayuki stopped talking. Hanayuki could be caught on guard.

Noah ran toward HAnyuki and went for a killing blow.

Hanayuki’s body vibrates.

Her body glitches like a bug character in a game.

“?!”

“Lightning punch!”

Hanayuki’s fist strikes Princess Noah’s face for the second time.

“You have entered the world only I can control.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”