───「 GODZILLA POV 」───
In the void of the beginning or the end.
A consciousness awakened.
Where did it come from? And where will it go?
All of this is meaningless. In this spacetime, the only thing that holds meaning is [it] itself.
Scalar fields return to their pre-opened state.
Endless positive and negative matter merge once again from two unrelated timelines.
Time ceases here, and all things converge into the final one.
Perhaps some of the eerie stars have left this universe, but everything else has decayed over the long ages, ultimately consumed by this bare existence.
Space is being pulled down beyond the speed of light, falling into the final end of all matter and existence, into the ultimate culmination.
This universe is nearing its end.
Though [it] has no eyes, though [it] cannot perceive, at the moment of its existence here, it understands.
Where [it] truly resides.
No stars, no earth, no water, no air.
Only darkness, only chaos.
So this is it.
The final moment of the universe's demise.
Though [it] doesn't know its name, consciousness understands. Now, the world [it] inhabits is where the universe is about to reach its end, where all things are about to converge again into a singularity, where space and time reunite…
The Great Contraction, the Great End.
After eons of darkness, the gravity of dark matter prevents the universe from expanding, causing it to collapse again.
Space and time begin to contract, and the universe, having entered into heat death for countless trillions of years, collapses along with the last remaining black holes.
All things, begin to merge.
Just as countless aeons ago, when the universe was born from one, now countless things are to become one again.
I am here now.
Right here… at the final moment before the Great Contraction, before the Creator.
Though [it] cannot see, [it] can understand the immense presence that is about to arrive before [it].
That is the end and the beginning of the universe, the singularity of the Big Bang, the strange loop.
Now, all things are about to enter into it.
This also includes [it], who came from the future.
So [it] thinks, sinking into silence.
Time should be passing, shouldn't it?
Regardless, in [its] timeline, [it] seems to feel that there are some inexplicable things around [it].
Those things are all identical consciousnesses, companions from the past. They are here together, witnessing the end of all things.
Ah, they are those stars I once gazed upon.
Didn't they disappear? Weren't they consumed by ███?
Why do they still exist here?
The consciousness doesn't know, but it doesn't matter because it's just observing, quietly watching everything.
Observing, waiting, until the end of all things.
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"How could this be?"
After a silence that seemed endless, a "voice" appeared at the end of all things.
Although the consciousness couldn't see anything, for some reason, it could "hear" this "voice."
"We cannot accept this kind of ending!"
The voice carried anger.
"We will not accept it."
And then the voice disappeared.
Suddenly, [it] could see.
Why could [it] see?
Before [it] could think about this, the roar that surpassed the speed of light shook all of spacetime.
[It] saw it. Upon the strange loop representing the end, three golden dragon heads were coiling around it.
In the second inverted internal view, its wings pierced through history, flowing against the tide of time at a speed beyond time itself.
It was moving backward through the sequence of time.
It was devouring along the path of history.
It was coming, from the end of all things.
"The Devourer of Stars."
"The Devourer of Stars!"
"The Devourer of Stars…"
"The Devourer of Stars."
Countless voices echoed, the stars disappeared, leaving only one message.
It said so.
It is coming.
From Ω.
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…
Perhaps only for a moment, or perhaps after a cycle of the universe.
Godzilla woke up from a brief sleep at the end of evolution.
Why did I see such a thing?
Godzilla, waking up from the sudden dream, felt a bit unstable. It was as if it had just been through a fierce battle, and its whole body was exhausted.
It swayed its tail to support itself, memories of that chaos floated in its mind. Memories from the beginning of the starry sky to the end.
It had forgotten even who it was, only the sensation in that inexplicable moment remained.
Throughout the day of evolution, Godzilla had remained awake until the last moment of evolution, when the countdown reached zero.
Then, a mutation occurred.
It suddenly fell into a deep sleep, and during that sleep, it saw something.
Godzilla speculated that this must be the illusion brought by the extra "precognition" ability it gained after evolution.
In that instant when it gained this ability, it saw scenes from the future through this "precognition."
But the future it foresaw was too distant.
From the time when the stars were still there to the era after the universe's contraction, was this precognition accurate?
It must be noted that the universe is a chaotic system, and it's almost impossible to accurately predict the future of such a chaotic system.
Even burning down the entire Earth, the entire galaxy, wouldn't provide enough energy to calculate or predict the future on such a scale.
Especially a future so distant.
So, is it really just false?
Not necessarily.
However, even if that is really the future, the scene of the entire starry sky and everything after the silence of the end of the world, it has nothing to do with it.
After all, it is countless years away from its world, and it and this planet would have long been dead by then.
The strange stars, in the end, all disappeared. Their existence did not extinguish the stars, but made them shine brighter.
And from the scenes seen from it… they may not harm us.
They are entities responsible for cleaning up.
And the scenes of the great end are too distant, too unrealistic.
After a long time, the elements will all change into iron.
And after everything becomes pure iron, the possible decay of protons will make everything macroscopic disappear.
The decay of the mesons that follow will take away everything claimed to last forever.
By then, all baryonic matter will turn into leptons, captured by the remaining supermassive black holes.
And the supermassive black holes will also merge into the original one in fusion.
At that time, the entire universe will truly enter its end.
And the long time required for that is not something Godzilla or anything else can endure.
So the giant monster flying from the end of the universe should also have nothing to do with it.
…
Is it really like this?
The Devourer of Stars…
Although it is something Godzilla is not familiar with, its appearance is very similar to King Ghidorah, which Godzilla obtained from the New Nature Consciousness.
Regardless of how Godzilla denies the causality between the end and the present, the resemblance between the Devourer of Stars and King Ghidorah still makes it somewhat related to the end.
Did King Ghidorah evolve into it countless unmeasurable time later?
Or… is it that King Ghidorah, like Godzilla, glimpsed the scene of the end in a chance encounter and underwent convergent evolution with that entity?
These are not what Godzilla should care about now. It should focus and be happy about its Earth's panoramic radar and the hostile reactions in the Earth-Moon system.
Putting aside all the doubts in its mind for now, Godzilla begins to activate the new organ on its body.
Injecting energy into this unfamiliar organ, and then the next moment.
Godzilla "sees."
It sees the full view of the planet beneath its feet, and also sees where the oxygen destroyers are placed in the ocean.
Not by the power of electromagnetics scanning this planet, nor by using any other kind of particles for conventional radar and scanning.
Godzilla simply "saw" the full view of Earth when it activated its organ.
It simply "saw."
If it's in these locations…
It's a bit difficult.