The scene begins with a shadow that is revealed little by little...

  Two black, empty eyes... and in the center, a red glow that emanated fury and despair.

  The universe stopped.

  Chapter 40: The monster destined to be

  The villain, staggering, with the arrogance still running through his veins, launched a burst of desperate attacks.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  Each impact exploded directly on Juan's body... but he didn't move.

  Not a step back.

  Not a blink of an eye.

  Not a gesture of discomfort.

  It was like hitting a mountain... or something worse.

  Villain (trembering): Why...? Why doesn't it affect you?

  Juan didn't answer. His eyes simply looked at him... empty, as if he didn't even recognize him as a living being.

  Villain (screaming, furious): What's the use of being so strong... if you couldn't protect them?!

  His words echoed.

  The Earth:

  His mother saw the transmission and covered her mouth with both hands.

  "T-that... that's not my child...

  Waru, observing from another world:

  "No... no... this is not right... this is not right...

  Elizabeth, barely aware:

  An icy chill ran down his spine.

  Charlotte, broken and bloody:

  He clenched his teeth in terror.

  Juan let his guard down...

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  The villain saw his opportunity.

  He threw himself.

  SPLAT!

  The villain's hand pierced Juan's chest. His entire arm sank into his torso.

  Villain (panting and victorious): HAHAHAHAHA! In the end... in the end you are as weak as anyone!

  But then... Juan raised his head.

  The villain saw his eyes...

  Blacks... and in the center, a burning red like an infernal bonfire.

  Juan (deep, cold, deadly voice): Is that... that all?

  The villain was paralyzed.

  Juan didn't flinch. There was no cry of pain, no despair... only empty.

  Terrified, the villain tried to remove his arm... but what he saw was impossible.

  Juan's body was rebuilt.

  The meat regenerated in front of his eyes. The muscle formed again. The skin closed as if time was rewinding. Not a single scar was left.

  The villain trembled.

  Valterion, seeing this from the healing camp, crawled desperately.

  "Juan!" Don't get carried away! -he shouted in despair, but the barrier didn't let him out.

  Juan closed his eyes for a moment...

  ...And when he opened them, there was no soul in them.

  Juan (cold, expressionless): Was everything you did today really... to die for?

  The villain tried to answer, but couldn't...

  His words simply died in his throat.

  Juan raised his fist.

  His arm shone like a black sun. The energy condensed into his knuckles, distorting the air, as if the universe itself was being crushed by his power.

  Valterion remembered Waru's words.

  "If Juan gets out of control... if his anger explodes... nothing will be left."

  "NOOOO!" "JUAN, STOP!" Valterion shouted, desperate.

  For a second...

  For a millisecond...

  Juan stopped.

  The villain, with sheer desperation, managed to dodge the blow.

  BOOOOOOOM!

  The earth split in two. A colossal crater opened, devouring everything around him. The floor broke like broken glass.

  But what followed was even worse...

  The Nothing.

  A black hole began to expand from where Juan had hit.

  It wasn't a shadow...

  It was an absolute void...

  The absence of existence...

  A wound in reality itself.

  Valterion (hispering with terror): Nothing...

  The Earth:

  His mother fell to her knees.

  "What's going on...?" What is happening to my son?

  On another planet, Waru put both hands to his face.

  "No, no, no!" This shouldn't have happened!

  Valterion tried to advance, but the barrier kept preventing him from leaving.

  "Juan, stop!" he shouted with all his might.

  But Juan... didn't listen.

  The monster inside him had woken up.

  Juan looked at where his friends were... their shattered bodies... their faces covered in blood.

  But he didn't feel anything.

  No emotion.

  No compassion.

  No sadness.

  Just... empty.

  And then, with a voice so cold that it froze to the villain's bones, he murmured:

  Juan: If you wanted me to be here so much...

  Juan took off his trench coat.

  An explosion of energy spread throughout the bi-universe. The planets trembled. The stars faltered in their orbits. The cosmos itself seemed to tremble.

  Juan (with a deeper and darker voice): ...So...

  He tore off his shirt.

  His muscles were covered with black marks that twisted like snakes. His body moved as if he was being consumed by the abyss itself.

  Juan (with a distorted, almost monstrous voice): ...Here I am.

  The villain stepped back...

  For the first time in the whole battle...

  He feared for his life.

  What was in front of him was no longer a man...

  It was a calamity.

  A monster that walked with the power of a god...

  ...And with the soul completely destroyed.

  End of chapter