The Regressor’s Younger Brother’s Insanity

Their conversation continued in that strange, star-lit void. Haruto shared everything he could. secrets, survival tactics, names, warnings. A lifetime of wisdom compressed into fleeting moments. But soon, Naoki started breathing heavily.

Haruto paused, his expression softening.

"…It seems our time is up," he said quietly. "I wish you nothing but the best."

"…"

"You'll arrive after my era ends. Oh...and in that world, I'm known as Julius von Legolant."

As their farewell drew near, Naoki's lips trembled. His voice cracked with emotion.

"I'm sorry, big brother… for being such a burden. You were all I had... or maybe I don't anymore. Sob… sob… After this, I'll be alone. Please… forgive this foolish brother."

Tears welled up in Haruto's eyes. He stepped forward and embraced Naoki one final time. A hug full of sorrow, brotherly love.

"I've seen the path you'll walk," Haruto said gazing into Naoki's eye. "I know how cruel it is. If I had the power to change fate… I would have.but..."

After a long silence, Haruto suddenly stepped back.

Then, without warning, he reached forward and thrust his hand into Naoki's chest.

THUMP!

Naoki looked down, dazed. His brother's hand halfway through his chest. as if it belonged there, like a key fitting into a long-forgotten lock.

Naoki gasped.

His ribs seemed to open gently. From inside him, a universe began to unfold.

Galaxies spiraled quietly. Nebulae floated like breath in the cold air. Colors shifted and moved in ways he couldn't understand. The space around him throbbed with an ancient rhythm.

Then his big brother pulled his hand out from Naoki's chest. Right after that, something appeared before Naoki's eyes.

"It's.."

It was a mirror like window. And words were floating

[ The Owner ]

Name: Naoki Tsukihana (13)

Martial Realm: Uninitiated

Titles:

• Incarnation of the Forgotten God

• Regressor's Younger Brother

Naoki blinked in surprise. He reached out, but his hand passed through the screen.

"What is this, brother?" he asked quietly.

His older brother looked at him and said,

"I call it Heavenly Authority. It's a system that guides you and grants access to many features.

As those words echoed in Naoki's ears, the ground beneath him gave way.

Crack!

The mirror-like surface beneath their feet shattered.

As Naoki lost his footing he began to fall while his big brother was still floating

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

His scream echoed into the dark as he fell through endless emptiness.

Above him, Haruto grew smaller and smaller, until he was just a glowing silhouette watching from afar.

"Goodbye, my younger brother....I don't want you to go to that world. But since you're destined to go, I've paved the path for you. I wish you happ…"

Silence swallowed the last word. Yet even as Naoki vanished within darkness, Haruto did not look away.

His gaze darkened, lips tightening as something stirred within him. A memory.

He remembered the enemy. The one Naoki would one day face.

That being who saw all possible futures. It wasn't just foresight. No, his power twisted fate itself.

Even if you resisted, even if you carved your own path, all you were doing was choosing one of the futures it had already seen.

There was no freedom.

Only the illusion of choice.

To fight it was to dance in a cage of infinite threads, no matter which way you turned, the ending was already waiting.

As the weight of this truth pressed down, Haruto's form began to waver.

"Wherever your path may lead, little brother…remember that I was only the sentinel standing at the edge, holding the line until you came."

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After what felt like an eternity of falling through the void, Naoki felt a sudden chill run down his spine.

Goosebumps spread across his skin like wildfire.

Then… he saw it.

A colossal swirl of darkness in the distance. vast, endless, and pulsing with a terrible force.

A black hole.

It loomed like a god of gravity, its center pitch-black, devouring light. Around it, a glowing accretion disk spun in gold and blue, twisting space itself. Stars bent unnaturally near its edge, as if reality was cracking.

Naoki expression froze. Fear, wonder, and awe filled him all at once.

Then it pulled him in. Invisible threads dragged him closer

Memories flickered like dying lanterns. Emotions echoed strangely.

No up. No down. Only the crushing pull.

"Aaaaaaah!"

Naoki's scream ripped through the cosmos as he spiraled into the heart of the black hole, his body spinning helplessly, caught in the gravitational pull. Then

Everything stopped !

In a single instant, the black hole froze.

The swirl of destruction around its edge, the glowing accretion disk, the bent starlight, suddenly shuddered.

Then, in a sudden shift, the black hole began to shrink. All of its power, all of its weight and force, turned inward.

Into Naoki.

The black hole didn't destroy him. it collapsed into a dense, spherical core, surrounding him like a shell of compressed gravity, as if the void itself had sealed him inside.

Energy, matter, space, and time...everything the black hole had consumed...rushed toward Naoki and vanished into him. It was as if the universe itself were being drawn into his body.

Like a dying god retreating into a newborn vessel.

His mouth still hung open from the scream, but no sound escaped anymore. The pressure should have crushed him. Time should have unraveled him. Instead, the universe buckled to make room for him.

Then...

BOOM!!!

A giant explosion burst from his body. It wasn't just loud. It was beyond sound.

A shockwave burst through the starfield like divine thunder, ripping across the cosmos and erasing everything in its path- stars, planets, dust, even the fabric of space itself.

Galaxies shuddered. Nebulae rippled like torn silk. Worlds simply vanished, swallowed in silence, like a final whisper erased from the memory of existence.

Gone.

A vast, empty sphere hung in space . a hollow carved out of the universe, where nothing remained. No stars, no gravity, no light. Just silence.

And at its center, Naoki appeared, unconscious ,drifting in the stillness.

He floated, arms spread wide like a crucified Celestial.

His body pulsed with a dark green light, strange patterns etched across his skin like ancient runes. Then

Crack!!

Space shattered like broken glass.

Ding!

[Absorption of Abyssal Energy: Successful]

Ding!

[Reincarnating to Eloria : in progress…]

Bzzzt...

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Just like that, Naoki was reincarnated in Eloria, into the body of the heir of one of the seven great families.

He lived as Aether Von Noctvain. When he came of age, he set out on a journey to fulfill his destiny. Along the way, he gained immense power and formed unbreakable bonds with many companions.

In time, he was hailed as one of the strongest knight in the world.

But after following the path his brother had carved, Naoki's heart shattered with a brutal truth.... Prophecy was a lie.

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To be continued....

Note: From chapter 2 to chapter 4 are just lore dump. After chapter 5 the story progresses in regular pacing.

The main journey of the protagonist starts at chapter 6. Thank you.