Perfect Avatar-Chapter 308: The True Name

The purple wave of destruction mixed with a golden eruption, suffocating it, devouring it until taking all its existence and reaching Rhea.

The sky shone with the tone of sunset for seconds, then returned to its former state.

The concert of explosion ceased, plunging the world in a tense silence, at least, less loud than the drums of apocalypse.

Rhea landed on the surface of the planet, one knee on the ground, immobile, and further away, Dora landed in turn, with a few parts of his body covered with thin ice.

His arm and face were still broken, but he stood up with relief on his face.

His eyes on Rhea, he observed all her move, waiting for a single reaction, but staying immobile was already a confession, and he celebrated it with a smile.

"At last... candies for my eyes."

He sat directly on the ground, sighing with relief, in front of him, a single spark of light multiplied and took the shape of a blue colorful stone, the promise of his victory.

"Ah... finally... after so much problem... I was trying so hard to beat you that I didn’t realize you were using a normal skill, the very thing I was born to conquer."

The soul stone floated around him, a simple object, so manipulable for him, yet, used by Rhea, was able to rival is infinity of power.

This simple though was very amusing to him, especially considering that it was so easy to do.

"Anything to say? You... wanna have it back?"

He took the stone between two fingers and put it on the ground.

"Come on, it’s here... come take it... you are the heroine sis, if you don’t have your power, your brother will destroy the world."

He materialized a dagger and poked the stone, he was so relieved that he stopped considering his slow self destruction.

He had still power, and Rhea was his last obstacle. He could take 10 years if needed to destroy the world, the only thing that mattered was to see her dead.

His eye glowed green, and soon the color propagated on his cracks.

"Guh..."

Envy

- The will to have something someone else possess, the will to get the possession of an individual. Skill, love, knowledge, wish, anything linked to a will should be subject to Envy, and its opposite would be...

"Charity, the love for others, power, wealth, effort. Being the clapping hands for the people." Dora’s eyes glowed green.

In the real world, the cracks propagated on Dora’s body.

They glowed brightly, then waves of souls escaped from each fissure.

His smile faded.

"... That again... What the hell is that? She did nothing, so what....?"

Suddenly, as his eyes sparkled, his eyes and mind blurred.

The Titans rampaging slowed down, and one by one, completely froze.

All around the world, Players, Origin beasts and Disasters stopped their moves, petrified like literal statue.

For the first time since it begun, the apocalypse gave a moment of rest to the world.

Dora palpated the cracked surface of his face, he seemed deeply in shock, but for a different reason.

"... E... Eva..."

In an instant, he lost control of several parts of the world, but in exchange, he got the memories from the dream world.

Both Dora’s minds were connected.

"What the... WHAT THE HELL?!"

On the other side, half of Dora’s body had taken the fabric of space, with stars and galaxies shining the the black void.

"... He knows everything, he is here."

"Yes, but he can’t stop us anymore, let’s keep going!"

Pride

Dora stood up, his only eye shaking. The time spent on the dream world, Midgard, Elizabeth, the people he killed, the Players, in an instant, the memories of too many weeks he never lived flooded his mind.

"..."

Speechless, devastated, the purpose of his apocalypse finally took a visible form.

To destroy the world, to send everyone on this dreamy world, it was the confirmation he didn’t needed.

His heart almost filled in joy, until he remembered why he was in such a tough spot.

"... These... bastards... they’re trying to stop it... they’re trying to destroy my paradise... those... IDIOTS!!!"

His aura erupted, shaking the little planet and sending shock waves to the Earth, growing stronger than before.

"There’s a real paradise in this Hell, there’s a real way to reverse death, so why are they trying to destroy it?! Why are people so stupid?!"

"Because you know so little of the world, but you want to force your world on the others."

Rhea’s sword touched the ground. Dora’s energy diminished, he glared at the general rendered powerless, yet, her eyes showed no fading.

"Look at you, several lunatics in one mind, then a monster, then a poor amnesic and finally a blinded fool. Do you really think that you’re understanding of the world could be a reference?"

"... I don’t need to be wise, or a model. I’ve seen the truth, and You know it."

"Hm... Yeah, You can know the world, but You really know nothing about humans, and this is exactly why you understand how stupid we are."

Her aura spread gently around her like a covet embracing the atmosphere in a warm embrace.

Dora flinched a bit, Pride’s pressure unleashed in that moment a new feeling, it wasn’t the increasing power causing amazement to the owner, it, it was something more delicate.

"Have you ever met a genius, too intelligent for his world? I’m sure you’re very familiar with this concept, it’s not only famous, as a quote, but more as a lifestyle, it’s something everyone possess."

She raised her sword, her purple aura grew warmer and sparks with a new color began to appear.

"This is why humans aren’t made to understand each other, the one who can take a decision is always the one with power, no matter what kind it is. Anyone is a god for their world, and when these worlds clashes, they call each other idiots, but in the end, the idiot will be the one who will lose the battle. Talking is pointless, negotiating is pointless, you are yourself and you live in your own world, so don’t try to lead people, impose your own world to them!"

Her aura turned blue, and her body covered in blue particles shining. Dora’s jaw dropped, at the very last moment, he recognized the power covering him.

Lust

The power of being the ideal for someone, the power of being the most desired or the best nightmare, the power to be One to others.

The blue aura mixed with the purple, covering the sword in light.

"Now, brother, that’s the proof we are siblings: we share the same nemesis."

Rhea’s sword descended, and the ice covered the land.

Dora began to disintegrate in the light, his mind shared the wisdom is other half in the dream world was having.

Rhea was Pride and Lust and once, and this simple twist, the moment she unwillingly used Lust on him, she forced him to express the Truth of two Virtues at once.

- Humility, from Pride, he couldn’t process the full concept of Pride in this world, but this woman with this single title was the most terrifying ghost he could imagine.

Nothing worked against her, his Law stopped working on her when he used it, he couldn’t use her attack to create a shield as her next attack would blow his shield, he even stopped using his Personas, because at this point he acknowledged her as a wall bigger than anything he had achieved.

Five minutes ago, he would never consider her to that extent, but he was getting raid on two sides, he was losing his battle, and for the first time he saw a disastrous outcome for him.

Rhea was powerless for second, but he didn’t attack her right away, because he was deeply worrying that she still had something in reserve to fight back, his fear, worry, distress, turned into the acknowledgement of someone as a formidable being, and with that, his eyes glowed purple.

"..."

Chastity, the will to not fall for the desire, and in his world, the will to not be the subject of everyone’s desire by being yourself.

Ironically, being her own ideal, Rhea alone represented this.

The crack spread all over Dora’s body, shining, his eyes white.

In the other world, the hole in the sky was now a gigantic cyclone of purple and pink clouds, swirling and aspiring the world.

The Players, Elizabeth and Peters watched Dora’s body, completely covered by the universe and shining.

His head was first on the sky, then descended to his people.

He gave them a nod, holding hands with Midgard.

"Let’s do this."

"Yeah, to the final."

Greed

The dream world shone, all the souls populating it shone as a single person.

At this moment, everyone could feel each soul as a single person.

The Players standing, watching intensely to the sky, Elizabeth and Peters, those who were once among the students council, the nobles, the commoners, a little girl with a golden bracelet, a maid lost in a dream, animals, monsters, anything with a soul shone as one, and at the same time as an infinity.

All watched at the vortex above, as it spread, it wasn’t a vortex anymore, but someone or something, one and infinite.

- Generosity. The will to share everything with the world, the power of giving one’s world for everyone’s world. To be the Will of the World.

- In need, Dora must always fight

- To protect his world, Dora will fight

- When his world will show its color, Dora will appreciate it

- When his world won’t shine, Dora will stay Dora

- Dora will cherish his world and protect it

- Dora is not a God

- Dora will give his existence for his world

The infinity of stars crossed the world, swirling in a ocean of souls, flying together in an infinite ocean of light, all converging to a single point.

The culmination of the world, the gift of the infinity, the origin and the end of this world.

This single manifestation, whose disappearance was the origin of the spreading of the Sins around the world.

"... Pandora."