Legacy of Hero: Rise of Kairon

– The Final Reflector

"If all must be reduced to an end... let me be the beginning."

📍 [SCENE 1 – HAWKMOON DISTRICT – ZONE C RUINS]

The rain fell like the heavens themselves were mourning.Amidst the wreckage, three warriors lay broken in battle.

Kane was unconscious — blood dripping from his mouth, his Crimson Reflex shattered under Zen's overwhelming pressure.

Ryu staggered, his body poisoned by deep lacerations and searing fragments from the cursed dagger. Even wrapped in shadow, he could barely stand.

At the center stood Zen Kagetsune — breathing hard, eyes void of pupils, muscles burning and regenerating in monstrous cycles.Absolute Predator Mode.Fifth minute.He had already passed the limit… and still kept going.

Zen (laughing, coughing blood):"Two more... dead.Where's the last one?"

The answer came not with thunder… but with silence.

Then… footsteps.

Above the wreckage, Ryan Valeborn appeared.Floating.

The rain curved around him, refusing to touch his form.His eyes were closed. His aura? Unreadable.

But something was wrong.The world… stopped playing by the rules.

Zen narrowed his eyes.

Zen:"You again. The one with no aura. The freak."

Ryan opened his eyes — a glowing galaxy-blue.

Ryan:"I have no aura… because my existence doesn't need it."

The ground trembled.

Zen dashed forward — faster than sound. Faster than light.But when he struck—

The blade stopped. Mid-air.

Time around them fractured.Particles reversed.Zen… felt fear.

Ryan raised his hand.

💠 [ACTIVATION – FINAL REFLECTOR]

A cosmic narrator's voice echoed between the beats of existence:

"Intent registered. Logic disrupted. Response initiated."

Zen was hurled back — not by force… but by absolute correction.He fell to his knees.

Ryan walked forward. Calm. Untouched.

Ryan:"You've lost, Zen.Because you tried to kill what cannot die.You tried to end… what only begins again."

Zen screamed. He injected his last capsules.One final roar.

He lunged with a deathblow—

Ryan didn't flinch.

When the blade touched his skin… it dissolved into light.

Reversum didn't explode.It blossomed — not as an attack, but as a rebirth.

Zen collapsed.Absolute Predator Mode was forcibly unraveled.The spirit possessing him — a grotesque shadow-toothed creature — burst out of his chest.

Zen (barely whispering):"Fendros…"

Ryan lifted his hand.The Reversum pulsed like an inverted star.

The creature tried to flee.It was dissolved — purified into cosmic particles.

Zen gasped.His body began to glow.

And for the first time…his aura was born.

He fell. Alive.Pure.But defeated.

🌲 [FLASHBACK – ZEN AT AGE 9 – WILD FOREST]

Zen (shivering):"Dad… I'm hungry…"

Father (smiling faintly):"We'll find something today, son. I promise."

Barefoot.Cold.Torn clothes… but hopeful eyes.

That night—The village was attacked.

A creature of overwhelming aura — a Fendros — slaughtered his parents.

Zen survived… in exchange for his aura.The predator was born that night.

🌓 [PRESENT DAY]

Zen is bound in chains of light.Ryan stands before him, eyes still shining.

Zen (weakly):"You… saved me?"

Ryan nods.

Ryan:"Because deep down… you were like me.You just wanted to live."

Zen closes his eyes.And for the first time in years…He sleeps in peace.

🌌 [EPILOGUE – LORIEN'S VOICEOVER]

"Some heroes are born with light…Others find it after surviving the darkness."

"Reversum is not the power to destroy.""It is the power… to begin again."

[END OF CHAPTER 45]