Rain poured over Tokyo Sector-5, a dense skyline swallowed by night. The battle with the kaiju was all over the networks, footage shaky, overexposed but unmistakable:

  

  A giant being bathed in blue light, standing over a dying monster.

  One swipe. One victory.

  Then, gone.

  No government could explain it. No AI could replicate the aura. No Ultra had been seen in decades... until now.

  Rai woke up cold.

  Back in his human form, curled in the ruins of a shattered greenhouse. The Azure Drive now rested quietly over his heart, semi-invisible to the naked eye. But it pulsed, once every few seconds, like a soft whisper.

  He remembered everything.

  The void.

  The transformation.

  The kaiju’s scream.

  And Azuren’s words:

  

  "Others will come."

  He got up, staggered, and stumbled onto the main road. Lights ahead. Maybe people. Maybe help.

  But as he walked, a flicker of red light danced through the clouds.

  And above the city… something fell.

  Buried deep beneath Mare Serenitatis, where no Earth technology could reach, something shifted.

  A sealed vault, unmarked by Ultra glyphs, shuddered. Pressure gauges broke. Locks began to melt from the inside.

  A figure stirred in the dark, waking from stasis. Its body was black glass, cracked with glowing crimson veins. No eyes. No mouth. Only a core at its center, pulsing like a dying star.

  

  “...Light… has returned…”

  “So shall we.”

  And the walls crumbled.

  Rai collapsed onto a bench at a closed bus stop, soaked to the bone. His hoodie clung to him like a second skin, dirtied and torn from the forest fight.

  He didn’t see the figure across the street, standing silently under a streetlight.

  A girl. Maybe his age. Umbrella in one hand, a silver pendant in the other. Her eyes shimmered dark violet.

  She stared directly at him.

  Rai blinked.

  She was gone.

  He shivered, not from cold.

  

  “She’s like me… isn’t she?”

  Azuren's true form stood atop the edge of an unknown star system, gazing into a rift slowly tearing reality open.

  He whispered, voice ancient and soft.

  

  “The Paradox has begun.”

  “And the godkiller stirs.”

  The city lights blurred under Rai’s half-lidded eyes as the monorail hummed along the track. He sat in silence, watching reflections ripple across the window. The Azure Drive still pulsed faintly on his chest, always present.

  But his thoughts weren’t on the power anymore.

  

  “Who was that girl…?”

  Her eyes haunted him.

  Sector 9. Restricted Zone.

  Buried under a fake recycling plant.

  A covert conference crackled with static and tension. Digital maps projected the Kaiju’s trajectory, the blast radius, and the single energy spike that wiped it from existence.

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  “That wasn't any standard Ultra signature,” muttered Dr. Ichiro Senn, tapping furiously on his tablet.

  

  “So… not from the Land of Light?”

  

  “No. This one's older. Deeper. It rewrote the laws of gravity for three seconds.”

  Then came silence.

  

  “And… there’s another signature. Similar pattern, but… inverted. Violet-class energy. It's in Tokyo right now.”

  A soft hum.

  Rain beading off a levitating umbrella.

  She stood quietly, watching the street below, where Rai had passed just minutes earlier. Her violet eyes didn’t blink. The pendant around her neck flickered gently, an inverted glyph, shaped like a crescent folding inward.

  

  “So... he's the Nova,” she whispered.

  “And I… the Void.”

  From behind her, a Kaiju emerged.

  No roar. No aggression. Just… waiting. Its form was sleek, serpent-like, and transparent as if woven from void and fog.

  She turned slightly toward it.

  

  “Stay hidden. We observe first.”

  “If he is still who I think he is… he won’t attack.”

  Rai returned home. The city felt different. Tighter. Like something massive was watching.

  He tossed his soaked hoodie onto the floor and collapsed into bed. But just before sleep could take him…

  

  knock knock knock

  He sat up instantly.

  Three slow knocks echoed through his apartment’s glass balcony door.

  

  “...What the-?”

  He opened the curtains.

  She was standing there.

  Violet eyes. No umbrella this time. Just rain rolling down her face like it didn’t matter.

  He slid open the door slowly. “Who… are you?”

  She stepped forward.

  

  “You’re not the only one who carries the Drive.”

  A flash of violet light pulsed from her chest.

  And the entire apartment flickered, lights exploding with arc energy.

  Far above them, in the orbit of Earth, something finally passed through the rift Azuren watched.

  A colossal silhouette. Towering. Featureless.

  It carried a spear formed from shattered suns. Its eyes, none.

  It moved with no emotion.

  No hate.

  Only one directive:

  

  “Eliminate the Paradox.”

  The apartment lights buzzed back to life, but the air remained static-charged.

  Rai stood face to face with her, the girl with violet eyes, now glowing faintly as if stars shimmered behind them. Her soaked uniform clung to her like a shadow. The Drive at her chest had the same faint glyph as Rai’s… but in reverse.

  A darker, colder energy.

  

  “I’m not here to hurt you,” she said.

  “My name is Selene. And I’m your opposite.”

  Across galaxies, Azuren’s true form remained still, gazing through the Paradox Rift.

  

  “Both have awakened…”

  From his fingers, a small orb of energy floated upward. Two halves spun in perfect balance, Azure and Violet.

  But the harmony faltered.

  The balance cracked.

  The Godkiller, an ancient sentience from the original collapse of Light and Void, descended from the cosmic edge. Formless, emotionless.

  It spoke not in voice, but in vibration:

  

  “PARADOX DETECTED. DEUNAMISTIC CONTRADICTION.”

  “INITIATE ERASE PROTOCOL.”

  Azuren stepped forward, unbothered.

  

  “Try.”

  Selene led Rai through empty streets, through an old train tunnel, into a forest that was half overgrown, half demolished. Rain continued to pour, but it avoided touching either of them now, diverted by the Drives they bore.

  They stopped at an ancient shrine, broken, but humming.

  Selene placed her hand on a rune-inscribed stone. Violet light etched out a symbol, like a sideways hourglass.

  

  “This is where I first heard him,” she said quietly.

  “Azuren. His voice doesn’t guide. It judges.”

  Rai clenched his fists. “Why me? Why you?”

  Selene turned to him, face blank.

  

  “Because the universe made a mistake.”

  Suddenly, the ground rumbled.

  A distortion in the sky twisted open.

  A Kaiju, colossal and draped in bone-like armor, descended from the tear. It landed with a thunderous quake. Its eyes glowed like molten magma.

  

  “You can’t transform here!” Selene snapped. “There’s no stable zone...”

  

  “Watch me,” Rai growled.

  He clutched the Azure Drive.

  

  “Azure Light, awaken!”

  A pulse of searing blue light exploded outward.

  Rai became Azure Nova.

  But the Kaiju wasn't alone.

  A second one landed, sleeker, darker, its form like ink. This one turned its gaze to Selene.

  She closed her eyes.

  

  “I never wanted this…”

  Her hand hovered over her Violet Drive.

  

  “But if Azuren gave me this power, I’ll use it to choose myself.”

  And with a whisper, the Drive activated.

  

  “Violet Eclipse… awaken.”

  The forest screamed.

  The sky cracked.

  A second Ultra appeared, slimmer than Nova, wrapped in violet flame. Her eyes glowed like moons in eclipse. Her armor curved with elegance and silence.

  For the first time in ages…

  

  Two Deunamists stood side by side.

  Not as enemies. Not as allies.

  As contradictions.

  From high orbit, the Godkiller observed them both.

  A blade of antimatter grew from its arm.

  

  “Dual Deunamist Present.”

  “Execute Null Directive.”

  [ To be continued… ]