Chapter 11 Episode 14: Call of the Great Darkness 2

Rather than pick up right away from before, the story decides to start up by talking about the person whose life was worn down after endless repeating cycles. And it starts with that by talking about the world of reincarnation that established itself through countless occurrences of destruction and rebirth from the beginning. In this world, They were given the role of the Omniscient who knows everything. They reigned above everything as they were given the position of the top of the hierarchy. In other words, they were given the role of the World Representative who maintains the order and operation of the world. They were the one to see for themselves the peoples' lives, laughs, laments, and loss of life from the world's beginning to its end.

 

Narration talks about how in meeting people and forming bonds, disputes will arise. To maintain the world, someone must judge what is good and evil. In order to have the greatest number of people survive, someone must make the choice that leads to the least amount of sacrifices. Someone will need a System that implements that Knows All That Lives in That World. If they don't love everyone, then they won't be able to make the choice that leads to the smallest sacrifice. Only those who think "I don't want to sacrifice anyone" can continue to make the smallest of sacrifices.

 

From time immemorial, to know someone is the beginnings of the idea of to love someone. If you understand the hidden emotions and meanings behind someone's actions, you can't help but love them. Under these ideas, the One Who Knows All is the one closest thing to being the one who loves all.

 

Plenty of worlds spin on until everything is destroyed and all falls to ruin. If someone has to keep watching everything being destroyed and reincarnating while knowing everything, how would they feel? And if they have to keep remembering all this, how would they feel about that? All anyone really knows is the fact that this person let go of the love they held in the end, then disappeared from the world.

 

Now let's talk about the world of devas, the world of reincarnation Deva Loka. Here the young ascetic Shiva trained hard in isolation, never getting close to anyone. But one day, an arrow of light pierced his chest. That was the bundle of the power to give love that Varuna-Kamadeva shot. Shiva knew why he shot him with that. It was because the other devas had Varuna-Kamadeva shoot it. This was to teach him love. Since he had grown close with no one, this was to make him love someone. In order to preserve the world, they taught Shiva love so that he would be concerned with the world they believed in. It is nothing less than a plan to give him the seat of the agent that represents the world's will. In the instant he understood this while shot by that arrow, Shiva shouted in rage.

 

Shiva roared in his displeasure. Why did the world decide that he had to love someone? He would have preferred to be alone. He wanted to have nothing to do with love. His third eye opened, which released the light of the power that could burn the universe down. When the light faded away Varuna-Kamadeva, who he tried to burn away was nowhere to be seen. But Shiva knew that even if his body was burned down, the power that he was given remained. So long as he had that, Varuna-Kamadeva lived.

 

The next instant after that, the light of infinite colors covered Shiva. And so he was summoned to Tokyo, seeking a true settlement of things with Varuna-Kamadeva. Since then, Shiva sealed his third eye as it was proof of his shame in having lost to passion. He sought the strength that could suppress the love that his body was awakened to. Shiva also knew that Tokyo is repeating its reincarnations just like Deva Loka was. It was a world where all is created and preserved, then destroyed.

 

When life is born, it will die with the world. It will then be reborn into a new life and lose all its memories. But this is something that only applies to those within the System of Reincarnation. Those who make the world revolve using reincarnation are not allowed to forget anything. After all, if no one is around after the world is destroyed, someone will have to watch the world be created. Someone must remember all the work that happened in the last yuga and start the next one. However, Varuna was someone who didn't know when they'd disappear from the world out world. Shiva understood that was why he was selected out of everyone else.

 

After coming to Tokyo, Shiva joined the guild with the others who sought battle and continued building upon his training. But now he thinks again about how he'd be better off alone. No one's help is needed. The position of World Representative was also unnecessary.

 

Shiva takes over narration here and talks about how that arrow of light made him remember that day. He remembered swearing about how he didn't need any bonds with people. He decided to destroy everything and everyone, refusing to stand for the continued existence of all things. And so Shiva started taking action to cut away all bonds. He continued on, even when in the back of his mind he noticed that someone may have set him up to do all this.

 

The story then picks back up in the present where Shiva is moving again, annihilating everything that stands on the battlefield at Ikebukuro. He truly looks like the destroyer of the world that the faith of Deva Loka believes in. That would be the destroyer who ruins all things without mercy, whether good or evil, enemy or ally.

 

In the course of Shiva's rampage, he punches out Koropokkur and Teda, the latter of which complains about his actions as he falls over. Shiva however makes no acknowledgment of this as even other World Representatives will not be spared. Up where Michael and Amaterasu are, Michael expresses some surprise at Shiva attacking his own allies and comments his rampage has gone to an extreme. He's never actually gone this far in previous loops before, and Michael suggests the substitute World Representative of Olympus caused this with his arrow as he asks what Amaterasu thinks.

 

Amaterasu agrees with Michael as she describes the arrow as the power to give tender love that supports the faith of Olympus like thunderfall. She did see the arrow hit Shiva, but she suggests it's not the direct cause of his rampage. If it did work right, Shiva should be chasing after Shinya then. Michael agrees with her on that and notes that at least as far as they can see, the power didn't actually go off.

 

Michael then starts talking about the reasons a power might not activate. The first possible reason is that a similar power is already in effect. If that is true, that would mean Shiva is under some sort of charm effect right now, but Michael trails off on that. He decides to drop the subject and asks Amaterasu if they ought to step in and take advantage of the situation, but Amaterasu decides against it because her long experience judges things to be dangerous. She brings up that their original goal was to come see the Warmongers' ultimate weapon for themselves. She suggests they go inside instead.

 

Michael agrees with the idea, then orders his flunkies to go pick Koropokkur up. His mobs move out to do so, and Amaterasu activates her aliased Ama-no-Iwato to hide their light. The episode ends as Amaterasu's artifact hides the Rule Makers in a place without light.