Jayr POV - Earth, Teppelin - 1007 AFA-SW

  I'm watg the csh between Lazegann's Giga Drill and Lagann's Drill as their csh gees sparks akin to lightning that wrecks the surroundings.

  The csh between Lazengann and Lagann's drills tinues, and it is clear that Lazengann's enormous Giga Drill is not enough to stop Nia and Simon's fighting spirit from p the Lagann's drill so much that it breaks through the Lazengann's, making Lagann's drill pierto Lazengann's chest.

  Refusing to give up, Lenome yells, "Looks like this Gunmen fails me in the end!"

  Thes out of his cockpit and starts beating up the Lagann with his own bare fists.

  Nia gets thrown out of the Lagann's cockpit in the process, and she only watch as the Lehrows punch after punch at an already battered Simon who tries in vain to hit him back.

  During this, all of a sudden, I sense Kamina fring his Spiral Power in a peculiar manner, something I told him to do in case he feels that he and the others needed help or were in danger.

  Sensing that, I chuckle a little while thinking, 'Now he finally remembers to tact me... I already warned him that Lenome was strohan him by a lot, but he still uimated him and grew overfident in his neabilities. A little humbling is truly needed.'

  Meanwhile, Lenome holds Laganns's meical hands and they start to push each other to fight over domi the same time, I notice that Simon is now too exhausted and is uo gee enough Spiral Power to produce even a single drill.

  And Indeed, I soon hear him mutter, "Tch! I 't get the drill out anymore!" and Lenome who notices the same starts to mock him, "What's wrong? Your Spiral's run out, eh?"

  At the same time, Nia says, "Simon! If believing in you bees your strength, I will believe in you with all my heart! So, please win!" but despise her encement, Simon still 't seem to win against the "evil" Spiral King ahe Lagann's arms get broken off.

  But right at this moment, Kamina rushes toward Lenome yelling, "Take your hands off my Ototo you bald bastard!" and attacks him with his katana, whose bde is enveloped in a bright green glow, f Leo take a step back as he mutters in wonder as he notices the glowing spiral pattern in his eyes, "Ho... To think that you already have such mastery over your awakened Spiral Power is truly amusing!"

  Right after that, Kamina starts his assault on Leh a flurry of sshes, but despite my training with him, his fighting style is still way too immature and crude, and Leh his experience is easily able to predict his moves and dodge all his attacks.

  Not only that, but it is also clear that Lenome's speed and power are a lot higher than Kamina's because he is able to use his Spiral Power a lot better than Kamina who is still clearly a novice at it.

  And as expected, after a few more exges, Kamina is easily sent crashing into the downed Gurren by one of Lenome's kicks.

  Then Lenome once more steps in front of the downed Simon and with a grin, he says, "I haven't had this much fun in a long time, kid. Now, return back to the soil!"

  But as the tyrannical Spiral King picks him up to finish him off, Simon grabs his Core Drill from Lagann's dashboard and sms it into the Spiral King's chest making Lenome excim, "Urg... The Core Drill!?"

  Then as Simon's Spiral Pather on the Core Drill, he decres, "I am Simon. Dai-Gurren Brigade's leader, Simon the Digger! If you bee a wall blog my way... I'll drill a hole in you and blow you apart anytime! That is... my drill!"

  With that, Simon is about to turn his drill intenome's chest and create a rge explosion.

  But right at that moment, I teleport o him and putting a hand on his shoulder, I calmly say, "Okay, that's enough." and redirect Simoing Spiral Power and a bit of mine baon, of course, I carefully trol it, so that it simply replenish his energies and not harm him.

  Then I look at Lenome and with a smirk on my face I ask, "So... what do you think about your future son-in-w? He isn't so bad, isn't it?" making him simply chuckle and reply, "Heh... he is still rough around the edges but... not bad... even if still very rough his Spiral Power clearly surpasses mine."

  At the same time, I sehat Leops his Spiral Power from p the Gunmen piloted by the Beastmen causing them to stop as it is now nighttime and the Gunmen, which vert the energy produced by the sun iricity 't produough to sustain their activity anymore, rending the Beastmen, uo produce Spiral Power to power them, helpless against the Dai-Gurrem Brigade that quickly sweeps them over and starts capturing them.

  My sudden appearand questioo stun and shock Simon, who is uo momentarily prehend what is going on, and mutters in fusion, "E-Eh? J-Jayr-san!? W-Wait! What is...? Son-in-w?"

  At the same time, Kamina slowly gets up holding his ribs that are clearly broken from Lenome's previous kick, and angrily yells, "Jayr, you bastard! Don't tell me that you have beehe whole time!? And tell me why the hell did you save that damn baldy!? I clearly remember that you told us that the Spiral King has to be stopped no matter what!"

  With a mog smirk, I look at Kamina and reply, "Yes, I told you that the Spiral King had to be stopped... but I don't remember telling you that YOU guys HAD to stop him, or HOW he should be stopped."

  Hearing that, Simon finally seems to catething and says, "B-But when we asked if you could help us in dealing with the Spiral King you didn't agree!"

  I look at Simon and expin, "Well, I her firmed or denied, I simply told you guys that I had other things to do, it is you guys that jumped to the clusions."

  Seeing their eyes open wide in shock, I smile and add, "Anyway, in some way you say that I took care of the Spiral King, he did indeed die after I was doh him... only... in his pce, the man he was before, the Spiral Warrior, Lenome, came back to life ready to do anything in his power to open a path for a brighter tomorrow."

  After saying that, I take a quick look at my surroundings ahe wounded Kamina, Simon, Viral, and Lenome, moreover, I also take a quick look at the broken Lazengann, Lagann, Gurren, Enkidudu.

  Seeing all that, I quickly turn my Spiral o into Spiral Power, and with it, I cast a powerful Restoration Magic, geing a huge dome of light that covers the whole area and that maniputes time in such a way that the wounds on their body get healed, while the Gunmen are restored bato their pristine dition, shog Simon and Nia even more.

  At the same time, Lenome looks at his body and Lazengann with i and says, "Oh... Time Manipution... This is quite the unusual way of using Spiral Power." while Kamina the one most used snorts and ents, "Typical of you to e up with such bullshit powers... What is ? Bringing the dead back to life with a snap of his finger?", while he moves his body to check his own dition.

  Then he looks at Leh a frown on his fad asks, "So... If you already took care of the Spiral King... this means that everything we did was until now was useless all that people who fought with their lives on the line and died! All that for nothing!?"

  Hearing what Kamina just said, Simon and Nia, both look at me clearly unfortable with this issue, but before I could reply, Crater Gar nds behind me, and from the lion face's cockpit, Guame jumps down and with snorts, he says, "Who told you that this war was useless, kid?"

  Seeing him, both Nia and Simon shout in surprise, ""Guame!!"" meanwhile, Kamina quickly realizes what is going on and mutters, "Damn. Jayr pulled off another of his fake death tricks..."

  After that, he pins in a low tone, "'t he do something different for once?"

  At the same time, Guame ighe otion caused by his sudden appearance, calmly sits on the ground, takes a puff of vapor from his pipe, then exhale the white smoke and tio expin, "First, in this battle, for the first time in many, many years, the humans joiogether under one bao face the threat of a ore powerful and more numerous enemy. Something that will be fual if we want to face what is about to e."

  Without giving them any time to digest his words, Guame tinues, "Sed, in this battle, you took care aed the most belligerent, cruel, and deranged Beastmen that fought uhe Spiral King. The ohat enjoyed hunting and killing humans, and even eradig vilges that didn't break any rules only for their own amusement. At the same time, you got to experience how chaotid cruel the battlefield bee."

  At this point, Kamina, Simon, and Nia are all looking at Guame with a focused expressions, following eae of his words, "And most important, we pushed you all to your limits making sure that you all grew stronger uhe pressure of the Spiral King and his army."

  Hearing that, Nia frowns and asks, "Even if that is true, but... what about all the lives lost in this battle?"

  Lenome looks at his daughter and replies, "I'm pretty sure that the only ohat died are those that Jayr didn't want to save..."

  At this point, the gaze of everyone focuses on me, and with a sigh, I expin, "Yeah, most of the humans are still alive, some in grave dition, some barely, but they are all still alive... but the same 't be said about most of the Beastmen itlefield... I didn't judge them worth of saving or redemption."

  Nia then stares at me and asks, "And how could you know that? What right you have to judge them like that? You aren't a God-" but at this moment, Guame interrupts her and says, "Actually... he is... kinda? I still don't uand that very well..."

  Surprised by that, Kamina excims, "Eh? Really!? Since when?" and Simon looks at Kamina beside him and asks, "You believe them, Aniki?" and even Nia looks at him with a curious expression.

  Kamina looks at them with a smile and expins, "Well, yeah... I've spent a lot of time with Jayr while I was "dead" and he isn't the kind of guy that ht lies, besides, if I remember well, the world he es from is full of Gods. Being one doesn't seem so impossible to me."

  Then I reply to their question, "First, yes... I became a God not the omnipotent type with the capital "G", but a God heless, that gave me a few useful perks, the most important regarding the current situation is about the domains I rule, you see, in another world, I'm kinda worshipped as the God of Healing and Justice... this grants me a few useful perks, for the Healing Domain, I heal those that believe in me from anywhere even aultiple universes, I appear in their dream and heal, bless uide them, for the Justiain, I simply identify those that have done what I sider a crime, and know if they truly regretted their a and what to pay for their crimes, and those that are evil to the core, basically beyond saving and redemption. Well, in simple words I see the true nature of the people, if they are good, ral, or evil."

  After that, I expin, "And just to let you all know, there are a very few things that I truly sider a crime are, genocide, svery, sexual abuse, the harming of i, and children, and discrimination against other races... and once again, I don't habitually kill those that it those kinds of crimes, it depends on the individual iion, because for some, death is a release, a gift if you will, not a punishment."

  While saying that, I throw a gnce a Lenome's way, who stiffens a little under my gaze while thinking, 'The only reason he is still alive despite all the crimes he itted, is because he never enjoyed doing them, in fact, he did them under duress and it killed a part of him little by little until the only thing that was left, was the callous and cruel Spiral King. But now that he is once again Lenome, he truly wishes to atone for all the things he did and build a better future for everyo the cost of his life from the bottom of his heart.'

  Meanwhile, Nia falls silent for a few seds, thes out a sigh and then says, "Haa. Okay, I... maybe I accept that..."

  Then she looks at Lenome and says, "...But I still don't uand why Father created such a cruel world."

  And with that, Le out a sigh, thearts expining his part of the story, about the first Anti-Spiral War, his meeting with the entity known as Antispiral, learning the truth about the Spiral Power and the very real possibility of the event knoiral Nemesis happening to cause the destru of the whole universe, how he decided to surrender, betray his allies, and subjugate humanity, oppressing them and f them underground, so as to lower the ce of them awakening their Spiral Power all to eheir survival, and how despite all that, he left behind a little bit of hope for humanity in the form of the mini-type Gunmen burying underground a few of them that survived his rampage at random points, and how his hope died little by little the more time passed.

  During Lenome's story, nobody talked, everyoood in silence, listening to him as he narrated the events from his point of view, the only rea was a fes of surprise from Simon and Nia here and there.

  Then Learted to talk about his meeting with me, how I showed him a possible future, reigniting a small ember of hope in his old and weary heart, how that ember turned into a strong fme once I showed him a possible solution to the Spiral Nemesis, and how that fme exploded into a bzing inferno once I showed him that stopping the Spiral Nemesis was really possible.

  After that, he talked about the most ret events, and how we spent the rest of the time preparing and building the foundation for a better tomorrow.

  At the end of his story, Lenome looks a Nia with a regretful gaze and says, "Nia. I don't believe I have the right to act as your father after all the things I have do trust me when I say that I'm proud of you and that I'll do everything in my power to make sure that your future will be a bright and happy one."

  Hearing that, tears form in the er of Nia's eyes then she runs toward Lenome and hugs him then she says, "No, father. You don't have to shoulder everything yourself. We will build a better tomorrow together!"

  At the same time, Kamina yells, "Damn right! The Dai-Gurren Brigade won't back down from this challenge! We'll kitispiral's ass! Right, Simon?" Simon nods and says, "Yes, Aniki! I'll drill through anything in our path and open a way for everyoo be happy." followed by Viral who with a snort says, "Hmpf... You better don't fet about me. I'll make sure that not only the human but also the Beastmen will have a better future."

  As they all igheir resolve and fighting spirit, the sun starts to shis light on the nd once more as the dawn of a new day and hopefully, a new aer era greets the people living on this p.

  Soon after that, we leave the Dekabutsu and move toward the battlefield, where the Dai-Gurren Brigade just finished dealing with the aftermath of the Battle of Teppelin, or at least the most pressing issue like resg the wounded and making sure that the prisoners are safe and secure, u any more harm before they decide what to do with them, and are now waiting for Simon, Kamina, and Nia to triumphantly return.

  But to say that the Dai-Gurren Brigade members, were shocked to find the Gurren Lagaurn with awo unknown but simir Gunmen behind him is an uatement, even more, when they see Lenome, Guame, and Viral calmly standing with them.

  And ohey were told the full story behind the rise and fall of the Spiral King, and the real threat behind all this, they are all left speechless, shocked silly by the tinuous bombs thrower the other despise being somewhat already prepared for them, as I did give them a foreshadowing of such problems, and even so, it took them a while to recover from their shock.

  After that, I, Lenome, Guame, and the most important members of the Dai-Gurren Brigade, all gather together in the Dai-Gurren's teen to discuss what to do .

  I start with, "Well, first of all, I and Lenome already started to make a rough pn on how to deal with the Anti-Spiral, but the more heads think about possible solutions the better... So, let me first tell you a quick list of what are our most pressing matters. There are currently two big threats that loom over our heads... one of them literally as the current moon is, in fact, a huge Gunmen able to easily destroy this p..."

  At this point, Kittan excims out loud, "Wait! Wait! Wait! Are you shitting me!? You're tellihat glowing thing up in the sky, THE moon, is, in fact, a freaking huge Gunmen!!?"

  I g the shocked Kittan and dryly reply, "That's right." while Lenome adds, "To be more precise, that's Cathedral Terra, it was my fgship against the Anti-Spirals in the past until I turo the will of the enemy and was made King of Earth. It then assumed the form of the moon, ag as a sentry to report any Spiral activity oh and it will activate the Anti Spiral Factor ohe number of humans living on the surface reaches one million."

  While everyone is still in shock about this revetion, I tinue, "At that takes us to the sed problem..." Leeron is the quickest to catch what I'm about to say and asks, "The other problem is this Anti-Spiral Factor that Lenome spoke of, isn't it?"

  With a grave expression, I nod and expin, "Yes, the Anti-Spiral Factor. You think of it like some kind ram hidden in the genes of an individual, that, oivated, turns that person into a virtual being, an Anti-Spiral Messenger, which will then start the invasion of the Anti-Spiral forces and the eradication of all life on this p as it will also fun as a bea for the Anti-Spiral forces which will quickly teleport here."

  After I said that, a tense silence fall into the teen, broken only by the sound of Leeron quickly tapping on his pad, as he mutters, "This could be bad... This means that everyone among us could carry this Anti-Spiral Factor, turning into an enemy spy while giving the Anti-Spiral all kinds of information about us..."

  But just as the less smart people present finally uand the gravity of the situation and start to cmor, Lenome reassures them, "You don't o worry about that. The Anti-Spiral Factor isn't as random as it appears to be... first you have to know that it was first impnted into the popution about thousands of years ago and was carried by a virus that ied only a certain group of people, those with a strong aptitude for Spiral Power."

  Theakes a deep breath and adds, "Moreover, we already know someone who for sure currently carries the Anti-Spiral Factor..." and as he says this, his gaze lingers on Nia.

  At this point, everyone's gaze moves to a now uneasy Nia as they all realize the meaning behind Lenome's words and as and start to cmor while Simon looks at her in shock, at the same time, Kittan and Kamina excim, ""Damn it!!""

  Then Yoko looks at me and asks with a tone full of hope, "Jayr! you do something about this?" and hearing her question, silence falls once more and everyone's gaze moves from Nia to me.

  Feeling their hopeful stares, I don't py any game with them and reply, "Of course, and it is quite easy too. In fact, I'm pretty sure I remove the Anti-Spiral Factor and the virus carrying it from the whole p."

  Hearing that, Yoko lets out a sigh of relief, while a worried Simon asks, "W-what are you waiting for then?"

  Guame hears Simon's question and loudly snorts then he yells, "Are you stupid? If Jayr did that before we are ready for the very possible retaliation of the Anti-Spirals, it could cause a massive amount of casualties among all the people living on this p! What if as soon as Jayr starts eradig the virus Cathedral Terra activates aroys the Earth!? All our efforts and sacrifices would have been for nothing!!"

  Guame's words stuns Simon and the more rowdy bunch of the Dai-Gurren Brigade into sile the same time, Rossiu agrees, "That's right! We 't be careless, especially since a cure is possible! We have to be ready to face their retaliation."

  Leeron, who tio make some kind of calcution using his pad, then suggests, "The most reliable a would be to take trol of Cathedral Terra and purge Nia of the Anti-Spiral factor at exactly the same time, this way revent the worst oute possible to happen."

  Lenome nods and says, "That was also our pn. Jayr would remain oh to take care of Nia, the Anti-Spiral Factor, and the virus carrying it, while I would use the Dekabutsu to gain trol of Cathedral Terra... but we two alone 't safely aplish this because as soon as I start to take over Cathedral Terra, ialiation it will release all the forces residing within it ahem to earth to y waste of everything in their path."

  Hearing that, Rossiu who notices something asks, "How you be so sure of that? You are talking like you are certain of that oute." causing everyoo look at the duo.

  At this point, I i myself in the versation and say, "That's because we saw it..." then my Core Drill shines and the Crateris Cloth in its steltion Form appears beside me as I tio expin, "You see, if you pour some water in here and look at it, the water will reflect a random instance of a possible future ected to you... and we were lucky enough to see what will happen if we tried to do that alone. While this isn't the most reliable method as the future is stantly ging, it is enough to give us a hint of what to expect."

  And to prove that, I create some water with some basic Water Magid pour it into the Crateris Cloth allowing them to take a peek at some of their possible futures, more likely ones like Dayakka's marriage with Kiyoh, or funny ones like Kittaied by a girl with a knee is or even epies like an immy and Darry fighting some Godzil-like monster in their Grapeals, but before they could get lost in their possible futures, I quickly return the Crateris Cloth bato the Core Drill and resume our discussion that ends with the formation of the Teoppa Dai-Gurren Brigade, the united force of Human amen.

  After we are doh that, I return to my Soulbouory and prepare for my st battle in this universe, and most probably my hardest o.

  Odyin