Your Destiny is Annulled, ZE ENDO

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I was about to reply when I was suddenly bit by a radioactive muse and wrote the first chapter of the sequel in one day from scratch. Brain going into cooldown.

Will translate that in less than a week.

[Spica75]

I was about to reply when I was suddenly bit by a radioactive muse and wrote the first chapter of the sequel in one day from scratch. Brain going into cooldown.

Will translate that in less than a week.

Something like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVmTxYlvtSQ

[Cheb]

[brain rebooted] All right...

Something like this?

Kind of, except she wasn't big enough to use lampposts as toothpicks

or justify all the effort put in to get to that point

Their effort is *completely* wasted. It doesn't matter what they do, or if Usagi lives or dies. Setsuna alone would reset the continuity anyway.
All they got for their desperate effort was suffering. Becoming forever lost away from home.
Hmmm, maybe I got too addicted to downer endings?

But what could I do at this point to fix it? The sequel is *ITCHING*, each time I touch the keyboard I start writing it like crazy.

that didn't really tie the various storylines together

Would surgically removing the entire "Senshi in Siberia" shaggy dog substory help? I can later re-pack it as a side-story,a separate fanfic on FFnet.

Is this a pick your own adventure of a single narrative?

Well, *nominally* it's two-parts as 39 and 40 are in fact the same thing, a downer ending cut in half for publishing convenience. Should I *join* them?
41 is intended as a post-ending WAFF to discharge the grimdarkness.

Felt like another chapter with higher stakes to it rather than a conclusion/launching off point for a completely separate series.

Higher stakes? You are not talking about the 41, right? Because that chapter is designed to be light and WAFFy and optimistic... Or did I botch it ?:(

Will try tio fix the ending of Ch. 41 with dark humor. Ranma noting that their lives are quite expendable at this point, having deviated from their exact copies only in the last few days.

About that alt history fic:

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, letting the Russian civil war become a much shorter affair

I don't think that would affect the civil war in any meaningful way. AFAIK, the former Empire was so fractured that the regions far from the centre were de facto self-governed. I don't think invasions into them had any effect but local. The invasions themselves were made possible because Russia turned from a "country" into "territory".

and setting itself up for friendly access to Sibiria as well as good diplomatic terms...

That seems plausible, if depending on the rats in the new communist leaders' attics. The "free the entire world by spreading the revolution" was so big a thing through 20s and 30s that even Stalin had to dance around it. They could have signed for friendship only to start covertly spreading revolution in Japan as it was kapitalistic:evil:

, USSR can be nudged into being less extreme and stronger.

AFAIK, Stalin was doing his best to curb extremist tendencies as it was.
For getting stronger, again, everything humanly possible and impossible was being done, with the extremely low start being the main obstacle. Everyone with half a brain knew that a next war was coming, what with Western powers having no love lost towards them and Hitler having declared Russia as the Germany's next conquest as far back as 1922. The entire 30s went under "work harder, a storm is coming!" Even the sci-fi for children from that time gives off has a clear "gathering capitalist storm clouds" vibe.

Establishing trade of technologies in the early 1930s would be a much bigger help.

USSR is quite a bit stronger, but part of the reason for that is because it has maintained a more balanced military stance, so while its military is of higher quality, especially in hardware, the German army has been buffed way too much for them to handle soon.

AFAIK, our army was nominally about twice as stronger, but suffering from a *fatal* lack of qualified commanders and radio communications. Too much time goes into training a commander up, and there was not enough of it. Most commanders were way over their heads.

Pointing out the fatal mistake of getting rid of old regime officers, and helping USSR establish a radioelectronic industry would be two most effective means of making it stronger. That's what most people I read about getting into 1930s do.

P.S. Words "officer" and "soldier" were banned up until 1942 when Stalin overrode the dogmas forcing a semblance of old army to return. Up to that moment, they were "commanders" and "fighters" respectively, and shoulder loops were abolished. It's an easy way for a time displaced person to get killed as a spy, as this detail is hardly remembered now.

so while its military is of higher quality, especially in hardware,

Again the pain of building an industry from scratch, with horrible quality issues and workers who couldn't be trusted making anything more fine than a sledgehammer.
AFAIK, our aircraft engines were crap up until the end of war. Japanese aircraft engines, on the other hand...

with Italy safely fortressed behind the Gibraltar defenses,

Hmmm, I remember Britain able to inflict horrible punishment from the air. Would these defenses hold?

, seriously messing with UKs ability to send merchant traffic around Africa at all, there´s suddenly quite a powerful axis position.

This is somewhat dubious. Italian fleet being more dangerous than the German one with their wolf packs?

, seriously messing with UKs ability to send merchant traffic around Africa at all,

AFAIR, the merchant traffic switched to big convoys shepherded with quite toothy cruisers and destroyers. Going zig-zag at full speed so that any submerged submarine simply couldn't catch them.

[Cheb]

All right, here's what I am going to do to save the ending:

Ch. 41 is going to get the very end's tonality uplifted plus a couple dark humor jokes about the possible death being not that important.
Ch. 40 is going to remain mostly unchanged.
Ch. 39 is going to get a small but vital scene at its end where Ranma challenges doesn't accept the downer lying down. So Ahs-Asch devises the plain of their escape on the fly, impressed by their tenacity. Sort of a final boss standoff.

Come on, the anime in general is known with characters that can summon Azatoth himself, look him in the face, then bludgeon their enemies with him (cough Lina cough).

But while doing that, I won't be translating this further:

Your Destiny Is Annulled

Part five,
<TODO: think of a title>

A dry, deadly hot desert. The rocky plain is covered with scarce small bushes, their brownish branches almost devoid of foliage. Mountains could be seen rising over the horizon in every direction, bluish in the distance. There's a deep silence, not even insects could be heard.

Suddenly, a column of light flashes to life amidst this vast emptines, striking from the sky like silent lightnig. It is shortening quickly, growing thicker. Soon it begins falling apart to separate lumps. If there was someone to observe this phenomena, he'd see the light melting, flowing into four female figures surrounded by a big glowing bubble each. They float half a dozen meters above ground.

A couple seconds later the figures begin to dim, descending faster and faster as gravity takes a hold on them. As soon as the first bubble touches the ground, it bursts violently blowing sand and rocks aside. A limp body lands in the resulting crater with a dull thud.

Bom! Bom! Bom!

Then there is silence again. Four nude girls lie sprawled in four craters, their hair spread around, their limbs bent awkwardly. There are two short-haired brunettes, one redhead with long, wavy hair and one blonde with hair of unbelievable length, literally reaching her feet. Spread around, it covers her and the ground around her like a transparent starburst.

The sun is scorching them indifferently, making a heat stroke a very real risk.

A few minutes later, one brunette begins to stir. Then she sits up awkwardly, squinting against the bright light. “Ow, it's hot,” she mumbles in Japanese. “Guys, are you all right...? Guys...? Ranma?” She begins looking around in panic until she notices her three coimrades. She lets out a breath of relief: “I'm so glad. I was afraid we were scattered again!” Awkwardly standing up she hobbles to shake the others. The ground on the crater bottoms is not as hot as it is around, but the air is still that of an oven and the sun is mercilessly scorching. Not a good place to be lying around unconscious.

Chapter 1,
Meet Your New Homeworld

A quote from the crossover's franchise temporarily removed to not spoil the surprise for my pre-readers at fukufics.

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Suffer! Mwa-ha-ha-ha! Suffer!

[Spica75]

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I don't think that would affect the civil war in any meaningful way. AFAIK, the former Empire was so fractured that the regions far from the centre were de facto self-governed. I don't think invasions into them had any effect but local. The invasions themselves were made possible because Russia turned from a "country" into "territory".

I´m pretty sure that NOT having USA and Japan advancing across more than half of Sibiria as a definite advantage at the very least. And i KNOW that the Bolsheviks were forced to divert troops again and again to fight on that front to avoid letting them "liberate" various areas that would then support "white Russian" forces. It would also affect the willingness of UK to push it´s invasion into Russia(and the French, Poles and Greeks in the southwest).

So basically, trading the removal of >100000 hostile troops for the unstated but de facto support of a third party. And mostly removing a whole front because without outside support, the eastern whites are pretty much defanged.

Also, remember that the Japanase stopped by the Baikal lake for their own reasons, not because anything or anyone was preventing them from moving further, and the americans only stopped because they were suspicious of the Japanese.

There wont be a Transbaikalia and maybe no Priamur white government at all without the presence of outside militaries and support.

The single most problematic issue is if the Czechoslovak legion "event" happens again, but if that can be nudged even just a bit to avoid them having to almost fight their way from Europe all the way to Vladivostok, not only do you remove the 2nd largest fighting force(with Japan being the historically largest with 70000 troops involved ) at 50000 rifles(total numbers unknown(rifles ironically supplied by the Bolsheviks as it was meant to ensure their safe passage to the east)), but you also remove the excuse Churchill used to push for the UK invasion in northern Russia.

Hence my belief that Japan taking such actions should likely cut the Russian civil war back with at least 1-2 years.

That seems plausible, if depending on the rats in the new communist leaders' attics. The "free the entire world by spreading the revolution" was so big a thing through 20s and 30s that even Stalin had to dance around it. They could have signed for friendship only to start covertly spreading revolution in Japan as it was kapitalistic

Yup, but the Japanese throwbacks main form of visible interaction is by using a social-conservative party which just happens to "nearly always be right when it counts" as well as pandering to just about all political camps.
One of the things that seriously hurt Japan early on, late 19th and early 20th century was being too far towards chaotic and rampant capitalism, their economy was simply not mixed enough to work well, worker conditions were generally poor up until after WWI and industrial advances were slow and ineffective due to lack of largescale investment and overarching control.

(hence why Japan when WWII started relied so much on "cottageindustry", horribly inefficient and with far too low quality at the lower margin, and far too much "individualism" in how measurement standards were used( 1/3 of the work for a normal aircraft consisted of using heavy machining at airbases, because parts as delivered for assembly rarely fit together on arrival))

AFAIK, Stalin was doing his best to curb extremist tendencies as it was.

Maybe, but he was also damned paranoid, another reason why having 10+ nations invading the country on 5+ fronts was NOT of the good. Even halving those should do a fair amount to reduce his(and his colleagues) paranoia.

For getting stronger, again, everything humanly possible and impossible was being done, with the extremely low start being the main obstacle. Everyone with half a brain knew that a next war was coming, what with Western powers having no love lost towards them and Hitler having declared Russia as the Germany's next conquest as far back as 1922. The entire 30s went under "work harder, a storm is coming!" Even the sci-fi for children from that time gives off has a clear "gathering capitalist storm clouds" vibe.

Establishing trade of technologies in the early 1930s would be a much bigger help.

Better yet, Japan in this scenario would be trading with Russia and investing into "mutual projects" in Sibiria right from the early -20s.

AFAIK, our army was nominally about twice as stronger, but suffering from a *fatal* lack of qualified commanders and radio communications. Too much time goes into training a commander up, and there was not enough of it. Most commanders were way over their heads.

The radio communications is actually at least partly an easy fix, because that historically was on many occasions an issue stemming from vehicles, especially tanks, not having radios installed properly, because of silly needless design flaws that wouldn´t have been there IF anyone had bothered asking an electronics techie before just looking at the drawings and declaring that "here" the radio will be mounted. So radios were often mounted based on where it was convenient, which was often in places where there was terrible interference from engine or the antenna became the wrong length or had to be mounted in shapes that was "a BAD idea".

The commanders thing, well if Stalin can be made a BIT less paranoid, while avoiding German intelligence messing around, there might not be any major purges(or potentially any purges). And Tuchachevsky might even still be alive, which would mean no huge reorganisation at the worst possible time as well as one of the best military minds of the time sticking around as a commander.

Anyway, the size of the Soviet army in the late 1930s? It´s absurd. USSR has something around 25-30 THOUSAND tanks, and most of them are NOT good. Shrink that to 6-9 thousand that are all at least the quality of the T-28, by the time the German attack comes, and even with German improvements, that´s going to hurt a lot more despite a smaller army to start the war with.

It´s also a problem how the USSR army was so much too big, that it repeatedly had to curtail training and exercise and instead send conscripts off in sometimes even divisionsized units, to assist in harvests or industrial projects.

Resulting in the overall quite decent Soviet army training to become spotty and uneven for far too many of its soldiers. So, getting them to effectively halve the size, but make sure that those who serve in the army all get to complete their training(and spend most of their time as conscripts training rather than being bored ), it´s going to be a much more effective military.

Pointing out the fatal mistake of getting rid of old regime officers, and helping USSR establish a radioelectronic industry would be two most effective means of making it stronger. That's what most people I read about getting into 1930s do.

This is done by interfering early, the Japanese throwbacks are not going to run over and have a chat, but this is one of the reasons they interfere with the civil war as a "friendly neutral" instead, as it allows them to settle credentials to be able to exert influence later.

Also, Soviet electronics industry wasn´t really bad at all, problem was that the massproduction facilities were in the west, and were in the middle of starting up in 1941.
Did you for example know that USSR had experimental radar running by 1939? Then the German invasion ruined the main facilities and it took over half a decade to make up for the loss.

Again the pain of building an industry from scratch, with horrible quality issues and workers who couldn't be trusted making anything more fine than a sledgehammer.

Ah, but here, they also have access to trade with a Japan that have spent the last 2-3 decades doing exactly the same thing themselves, and being quite successful doing it. I also have them setting themselves up as a major manufacturer of machinetools, which means USSR has one very easy point of purchase for such, something which historically it lacked BADLY. That was one of the reasons Stalin bargained so heavily with Germany despite all of Hitler´s hate-rethorics(and why it was such a big coup to get a set of tools for a complete factory from Ford ), Germany was THE best supplier of industrial machinetools, while nazi-Germany OTOH made sure that THOSE deliveries were the ones delayed the most, with much of what was delivered, captured early on during Barbarossa.

Also, with Japan favouring exploiting natural resources closer to where they want them, Soviet industrial expansion isn´t going to be anywhere nearly so heavily focused in western Russia/Ukraine/Belarus.

AFAIK, our aircraft engines were crap up until the end of war. Japanese aircraft engines, on the other hand...

The biggest problem were that USSR didn´t have the tools to make BIG engines all that easy(USSRs smaller engines wasn´t too shabby), combined with a strong tendency towards strategic air warfare, like UK and USA, with the best USSR fighters early in WWII, being at their best at high altitudes, where few fights happened.

And yeah, once i started researching for real, i was quite surprised to find out just how damned good engines Japan had access to as early as 1938! Even the famous Zero fighter was originally designed to have an almost 50% more powerful engine from the start, and it was rejected only because "it would use too much fuel"...

Even starting in late 30s, Japan could have a fighter with a 1800hp engine by end of 1939, that´s seriously amazing. Sure, they sucked badly when it came to inline engines, but they had such good radials that the tradeoff didn´t matter all that much.

Hmmm, I remember Britain able to inflict horrible punishment from the air. Would these defenses hold?

Very likely yes(or at least for a LONG time). Japan has spent 2 decades making sure Italy is buffed up just enough in the right places to be able to do it.
So, they have early radar, they are NOT in the middle of trying to reach the next generation of aircraft engines, they (probably) have aircraft carriers instead of battleships(not 100% decided yet)...

Overall, Gibraltar is not an easy target once it´s prepared for action, and once the campaign start against France, Italy will hold BOTH sides of the Gibraltar strait, with airbases on both, with Spain not allowing anyone else easy access(which is part of how the Italians take Gibraltar, bribing the Spanish to look the other way for a few days near the border), the fortresses are relatively small, hard to hit and hard to damage, and with it being such an important place, the first thing the Italians do is to pour a sizeable amount of AA into the place, about as much as they CAN put there...

The Italians essentially have a division of quality troops defending, and several divisions worth of AA, a BIG chunk of their airforce located there or across the strait, and navy submarines being a nuisance to anything daring to get too close(and even historically, Italian subs were nasty, in this scenario they are closer to something like the German Type XXIs).

So again, yes, once taken and held forcefully, Gibraltar is freaky hard to retake or even neutralise. Which was why they actually declared war on UK before UK was at war with anyone else, they needed total strategic surprise to get away with the attack without too much risk of failure for the whole thing to be too risky to go through with.

This is somewhat dubious. Italian fleet being more dangerous than the German one with their wolf packs?

Why would they use their FLEET? With bases in just northwest Africa, naval strike aircraft can reach easily over halfway across to South America.

And if they manage to also occupy the Canaries, the Azores and the Cape Verde islands(which is likely because it´s hard to counter them when the British are VERY busy up north in Norway), their airforce is going to be VERY nasty for anyone trying to pass from northern to southern Atlantic.

And then, Italian subs were historically much better at the start of the war, then the German subs were. Only the Japanese had better submarine tech at that point. And with "frontline" bases for subs in NW Africa, Italy may not be totally able to shut down British trade, but it is going to be like the historical northern route to USSR, where heavy escorts was a must (and heavy losses almost normal). As failures like PQ-17 and the like showed blatantly.

AFAIR, the merchant traffic switched to big convoys shepherded with quite toothy cruisers and destroyers. Going zig-zag at full speed so that any submerged submarine simply couldn't catch them.

Historically, the "southern" convoys were the least guarded, and there was even single merchant ship traffic there because of the lack of threats. Italy was boxed in inside the mediterranean, German bases were too far away for their subs or aircraft to be much use in the south Atlantic and onwards, and Japan didn´t really conduct warfare against merchant shipping.

Remember, the Japanase throwbacks here simply wants to make it impossible for UK to fight effectively in the far east/Pacific regions, and by making it drastically harder for UK to ship things the shorter way, that is accomplished(they have to go via Panama and through the Pacific to get a safer voyage(and that still requires getting across the north Atlantic, facing German subs).

At the same time, the British throwback have achieved some early buildups in Australia, Canada, South Africa and India(which historically didn´t happen just for political (or outright stupid ) reasons), so to a small degree, that effect is countered.

Anyway, thank you for the comments, you already reminded me of a few things i hadn´t thought about enough or needed another look.

[Cheb]

39

The chapter renamed from "Downer Finale" to "Futility?"

The redhead fell to her knees growling and hitting the ground so hard it made her knuckles bleed.

“Logically speaking,” Ami injected trying to console her, “our lives are expendable now. As the reality is going to split leaving our originals at home alive, dying here and now would only mean losing a few days, not our entire lives.”

“You are talking bullshit!” the redhead snapped back angrily. “Whatever copies are out there, your life is your one and only!”

The new ending:

And just like that, it was over. The world was saved, the loved ones safe.

But the victory tasted like ashes.

Ranma was the first to break the mournful silence. “So let me get this straight," she said. "It was Setsuna alone who saved the world, right? She did it regardless of us, rught? All our efforts resulted only in saving a copy of Usagi who is now condemned forever to being stuck in this hellhole of a multiverse, just as we are. And who doesn't even want to live. Right?"

"Correct," Ahs-Asch replied. "With time, you will learn to accept futility, young one. For example, I'd like to let you out of Ahs into some external universe. But any attempt to do that would only result in a disjointed chunk of that universe becoming a part of Ahs. It's like the legend of king Midas, everything I touch turns into more Ahs. And don't you try getting out on your own. You are sharing the same curse now."

"I am not going to resign myself to futility!" Ranma shouted angrily, glaring at him with her fists clenched. "When everything possible is done, do the impossible!"

Ami was consoling Usagi. Akane was watching her husband, transfixed. It was exactly like back the, when he stood face to face with Sailor Galaxia. The golden Senshi was preaching about futility as well. And she too seemed invincible at the time.

Something alien to this world blossomed in Akane's soul. It was hope.

"I told you," Ahs-Asch was droning stubbornly. "Knowing my own mind and its limits I know... precisely..." He fell silent, his head tilted. "Isaac Azimov, Escape?"

"What running away?" Ranma asked with confusion: the last word have been said in English.

"Oh! When translated to Japanese, the title of that story means 'a way out of a situation'. But no matter! Let me check one impossible idea..."

Saying that, he went busy, the speed of his accelerated gestures making the air buzz. Just like when he saved Usagi.

That easily? Ranma wanted to say. Then she checked herself: stop tempting the fate!

Ahs-Asch dropped his acceleration with a loud click. "It exists. There is a loophole. As expected, all these barriers are only impassable for the material objects... There's so much I have to study!"

"Perfect!" Ranma grinned predatorily. "There's a catch, of course?"

"Alas, there is." Ahs-Asch made a helplesss gesture. "You can go outside, but only as disembodied souls. Before meeting your colleague, who isn't with us anymore, I wouldn't even have tried this approach. But... As I realized that sometimes even the impossible is possible, I went further than the point where my calculations had ran into a dead end before. In short, your magic is the way to salvation as it is anchored to your souls rather than bodies. In certain conditions that would allow you... generate new bodies at the destination point. Of course there's a risk that you fail to do that, which equals death. That's the first catch. The second catch is that this would only work for one specific world I had ejected from the system by force, approximately a year ago.”

Wrapping her arm around Usagi's shoulder, Ami turned her head to look at them and started listening.

“That world was quite atypical,” Ahs-Ahch continued explaining. “There were no apocalyptic events, no devastating wars, no pestilence, no famine. A typical, standard Earth of age somewhere around the end of the World War Two. It's the point in the time where that world got merged with Ahs. As far as I can tell, it got merged accidentally, due to a random convergence... Yeah, sometimes it's that stupid. No portals had formed in the process, so when I finally found time for it in my busy schedule, almost a century had passed there...” He sighed shaking his head. “What a sorry sight it was. When I went there, it was the year 2055, the middle of the twenty-first century. And imagine this: they were still using vacuum-tube computers and had barely reached the Moon.”

“But how is that possible?” Ami was puzzled. “The progress—”

“You had seen your share of examples of what Ahs does to progress,” Ahs-Ahch replied venomously. “Why are you asking? Any progress ultimately leads to people understanding the system and defeating it. So the protective temporal circuit keep weeding out, mindlessly but thoroughly, all the branches of the future leading to such an outcome. A man who should have had invented the transistor suffers a heart attack or his thoughts wander. The physicists who should have had made a breakthrough have their budget cut down by an incongruous 'accident'. Or they die from leukemia caused by a 'sudden' but statistically plausible gamma-ray burst. There is really no hope for the progress... It's like a tree pressing against an invincible glass ceiling. It twists and bends, partially wilting. It grows to the sides. But it can never grow upwards as it should.”

“So what happened to that world?” Ranma returned him back to topic. “I suppose you had found a way to free it?”

“Of course! Seeing such injustice, I took action immediately,” Ahs-Asch explained. “It was a hard work, but I found a loophole that let me eject that world from the system. The past cannot be changed, but its future became free, undetermined. Considering the difference of the gradients, a century or two should have passed there by now. I harbor hope they have made up for the time lost and had reached stars by now. Unfortunately, I could never know what became of them,” he finished on a frustrated note.

“And how that relates to us?” Akane asked with poorly hidden hostility. Necessity she could understand, but him vaporizing Setsuna almost off-hand... “Why that world?”

“Why it?” Ahs-Asch said with a start, waking from his reverie. “Let's say, it left a... trail your magic can anchor to. It's bound to planets and the sun, right? So if you nudge it towards corresponding planets and sun of that world... After that, it's as simple as invoking the wish-fulfilment aspect of your magic. It's not what your magic is about, but my analysis points that you probably could control this aspect in a pinch. If not, and if you try that with any other world... then you die. Or, more precisely, fail to recreate your bodies.

"Excellent!" Ranma approved. "You see? You can, when you put effort into it!"

40

The first non-flashback scene was replaced with this:

"Pity you won't stay," Ahs-Ahsch said. "There are too few good, trustworthy operators... But getting stuck here as a reward for saving your world from a fate, I dare say, worse than death, would have been unfair. I'll get my new operators somehow. After all, Stalin and Hitler alone are worth a dozen... Here, I added the manufacturing function of creating anything you could think of to your medallion," Ahs-Asch said. "The interface is a bit unfinished, though, as usually only Level One users have access to this, but they control it with a mental link you simply do not have."

"Why such sudden generosity?" Ranma asked, raising one brow. "Aren't we leaving?"

"Well, I thought you just might want to take a walk before you depart," he replied. "The world I set aside for your departure is clean from most of usual post-apocalyptic dangers, its natural wilderness quite majestic. Well, as I'm nigh omnipotent, this is not generosity but a trifle. I don't give this function to everyone for the same reason you do not let five-year olds play with nukes. I believe you four are responsible enough."

"You love to help people, don't you?" Ranma asked.

"Quite. If only I could {i}really{/i} help. For instance, by just evicting everyone into external universes, leaving Ahs empty of sentient beings. But alas..."

"Yeah, yeah," Ranma replied. "Golden touch, I remember. More like a crappy touch, to me."

Ahs-Ahsch froze, emitting a strange sound. Was he snickering? "That's... That's a {i}very{/i} good description, thank you. Now excuse me, I have a multiverse to run." He vanished by collapsing into a dot.

41

“We have to leave our bodies,” Ami began explaining in a soft tone. “Consider it a tunnel effect for death... Well, a temporary state. Nothing could be done here, there's no other way. There are barriers in our path that nothing material can cross, only a soul could.”

n a ball of plasma, melting mountains and setting forests on fire for hundreds of kilometers around. When the light finally dimmed, an immense mushroom cloud started its unhurried ascent, heralding the departure of four unyielding souls.

Would they make it to the other side? Those remaining in the cursed multiverse of Ahs would never know the answer.

[Cheb]

Renaming Ch. 39 to "In Your Face, Downer Ending!" and publishing it.

[Cheb]

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q: why indeed ? aren't they still ahs users, especially in
the root world?
Context:
to stare at the screen in disbelief. “Access denied? But
<!!!>why<!!!>...” She tried different keys but the medallion
was

A nasty side-effect of bonuses from the tokens being recalled. This entire dragonball quest reeks of shoddy coding.

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sugg, which might be too convoluted due to trying to keep
faith with the original: The lack of their familiar ki felt
like a mountain, no a continent was suspended just
centimeters above their heads and threatening to crash down
on them.
Context:
to mortal level, all their training worse than useless.
<!!!>The familiar lack of ki felt like an immense slab the
size of sky hanging a centimeter above their heads<!!!>.“You
don't think it's a trap?” Akane asked just break the

There was that oppressive feeling they have been hoping to never experience again: like a mountain, no a continent was suspended just centimeters above their heads.

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Context:
the size of sky hanging a centimeter above their
heads.“<!!!>You don't think it's a trap<!!!>?” Akane asked
just break the dread-filled silence. They

[facepalm] While the original is simple "You-think, trap?" Sometimes I tangle myself in my attempts to achieve better results like Akane did in her ribbon during the rhythmic gymnastics training

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User comment: devil
Context:
not designed for such impossible conditions.“Why the
<!!!>demon<!!!> would they make such an convoluted trap?”
Ranma replied

Changed to "why the hell".
I am doing my best to avoid using any clearly Christian-related words in their speech (hell is a universal concept).

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q: some kind of copenhagen interpretation related
pseudo-threshold ?
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life raises the self-actualization density above the
<!!!>Khaske<!!!> threshold that separates really existing
universes from

Corrected to "Haske". Obviously the surname of a scientist who discovered that law of physics. it's like "Planck length" or "Newton laws".

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Context:
do. Using this loophole to stage untraceable abductions...
<!!!>He<!!!> was in such a good standing too... No, I'll
definitely

This is an example of Ahs-Asch abruptly changing the topic, which makes his speech hard to follow.
Corrected to:
What's most vexing, the slimy bastard was in good standing...

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User comment: those lowlifes
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ability to wander. “If she was simply abducted by <!!!>that
lowlife<!!!>.” Ahs-Ahsch shook his head. “Alas, it's not
that simple.

No. He's talking about one specific corrupt user.

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User comment:
q: so Setsunas Sould is connected to the gate-of-time, once
free from Ahs influence, she disconnects all their
world-lines from Ahs, by resetting time, allowing Ahs-Ash to
safely disconnects their world??
Context:
these trials would have never existed for us of our
world<!!!>.”<!!!>“So we can return?” Usagi exclaimed in
joy.“No,” Setsuna

Yes, it is.
It's not as much as resetting, as changing the timeline enough for the situation to diverge from that of the demon attack. For example, causing some minor disaster, so the street where he first was started capturing girls would be closed off by emergency services. Causing Happousai to be indisposed, or be out of town where he would have found the Beherit -- and so on. As the past of the demon attack is rigid, not malleable, it would have happened in a disjointed chunk of time, in fact leaving Ahs with a copy of Earth and everything around it in a four light days radius, while the main timeline would miss the contact with Ahs completely.
Ahs-Asch's part was to make sure it worked, then erase that copy of Earth with everyone on it. Otherwise Ahs would've rebuilt that entire universe around the chunk containing Earth.

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c: Congratulations, Ahs-Ahsch just solved the halting-state
problem
Context:
There is no solution, any further research is
meaningless.<!!!>”<!!!>“Indeed.” Setsuna sighed closing her
eyes. “Dawdling here

Well, he may have borrowed some third-party libraries from the Elder Things. Or from what was left in the system from the Anti-spirals.
It's the same as FTL. *We* know it's impossible, but... fat chance, yeah.

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User comment: c: actually, they only have his word for that.
Context:
now would only mean losing a few days, not our entire
lives<!!!>.”<!!!>“You are talking bullshit!” the redhead
snapped back

And Setsuna's trust in him.