SSS-Rank Extra: I Got a Chaos System-Chapter 37: Chaos Heir Ascends

The silence after the blast was deafening.

Ash drifted into the air, glowing embers crackling in the crater where Raksha lay.

Kazuki adjusted his collar, staggered upright, and gave his best "I totally planned all that" face to the two remaining elves.

The one with leaf-blades took a step back, hands trembling. The other fell to his knees, muttering something.

Kazuki wiped his lip with his thumb and pointed at the elder still cowering.

"Alright, Grandpa Treebeard," he said, voice hoarse. "You heard me. Treasure. Now."

Elders jaw quivered for a second. Then his face sharpened, turning into one of determination. "No, the sacred Leafs are the honor of our elves. We would not allow a demon to corrupt it."

Kazuki blinked. His brain buffering.

Then his face contorted—one eye squinting, the other wide, mouth twisted into loop side grimace.

"...Bro," he said flatly. "Who the hell wants your half-eaten salad?!"

Kazuki continued, dead serious. His mouth twisting into a maniacal smile.

"I want gold. Silver. Jewelry. The shiny stuff."

Then he threw his head back and laughed.

"BAHAHAHAHAHA! You think I blew up Captain Bark-Skull back there for lettuce?! I didn't almost get turned into tree paste for a bundle of glorified spinach!"

He crouched low, locking eyes with the elder, still grinning like a sleep-deprived raccoon on caffeine.

"Now listen here, Salad Gandalf—unless one of your 'sacred Leafs' grows into a gold bar, you better cough up some treasure before I summon another chicken."

The elves collectively tensed.

The elder paled, he turned his head sideway, hesitating.

"The thing is..."

Kazuki tilted his head, eyebrow twitching. "The thing is?"

The elder started fidgeting with his fingers. Twiddling his thumbs like a kid about to confess he broke the neighbor's window.

Kazuki's grin began to slide.

He stepped forward, shadows dancing across his face from the still-glowing crater behind him."Yo. Bark already. I don't have all day, and I'm one bad sentence away from turning this forest into a barbeque."

The elder gulped, sweat dripping down his face.

"We... don't have that kind of treasure."

Kazuki blinked. Then leaned in, slowly.

"You mean... to tell me..."

Kazuki staggered back like he'd been shot, clutching his right chest with one hand and dramatically extending the other to the heavens.

"No way... my heart... I can't take this..."

He fell to one knee, gasping. "I went through all that... just for leaves... its... a betrayal... the chicken empire..."

The elder hesitated, then let out a weak cough.

"...heart is usually on the left."

Kazuki froze mid-gasp, then shot up like nothing happened, eyes wide and crazed."No. Monkeys have on there right."

The elder blinked, caught off-guard. "...What?"

Kazuki didn't give him a chance to process.

He pointed both hands at the sky, fingers twitching, "That's it. I've had enough of your bs."

He spun, hair whipping, eyes glowing with something that definitely wasn't sanity.

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"You're all gone! The forest? The birds? The squirrels? Gone."

He stomped forward. "I'm burning this forest to the level. Below level. Subterranean. I'm turning your sacred woods into a parking lot for demons with motorcycles."

Leaf-Blade Elf whimpered.

The elder held up both hands. "W-Wait! Calm down—"

"NO!" Kazuki yelled.

On both his hands sat perfectly oval, pristine white-yellowish eggs—gleaming with ominous warmth.

A tiny crackle echoed.

[Skill: Egg Bomb (C) Activated]

Kazuki's grin widened, teeth glinting in the light of doom.

"Oh? What's this?" he said sweetly, voice dripping with madness. "Would you look at that. My hands seem to be... full of consequences."

The elves screamed and scattered like squirrels in a thunderstorm—fish bone guy screamed something incoherent attracting Kazuki attention.

Kazuki's grinned seeing his old friend. "Where are you going...Take a parting gift with you..."

He threw the two eggs—one by one toward the fish bone elf.

The air whistled, they spined lazily in an arc soaring through the sky.

Fish Bone Elf, looked up just in time to see his fate incoming.

He screamed.

"BHHHHHOOOO—"

BOOM!

BOOM!

A double explosion lit up the forest, twin mushroom clouds shaped vaguely like middle fingers.

Kazuki shielded his eyes and nodded with grave approval. "Now that's customer service."

The other elves had gone full panic mode—scrambling into bushes, hiding behind roots.

The fire caught the tress, it spread.

From the roots, it sizzled to the branches, turned barks into dark charcoal.

Kazuki threw his head back and laughed like a man who'd just discovered caffeine for the first time. His arms outstretched, T-posing like a final boss glitched into god mode.

"I'm the Chaos Heir!"

Three more eggs materialized in his hands.

"Catch!" he shouted, and launched them.

The Leaf-Blade Elves shrieked and scattered, sprinting into bushes, one of them screaming,

"KHHHHHOHHHH."

BOOM!

The first egg hit a tree, turning it into a flaming kebab.

BOOM!

The second skidded behind the bush with Leaf-blade elf. His fate unknown.

BOOOOM!

"This..." he said, eyes glowing with glee, "is for all the madness, I went through because of you guys..."

He looked back there sat the elder on the rock.

Kazuki's expression shifted—his wide, chaotic grin dimming just a bit as his gaze locked onto the elder, still sitting on the rock like a stunned NPC waiting for a dialogue prompt.

The flames danced around them. Ash spiraled in the air.

Kazuki stepped forward slowly, the ground cracking under his boots, smoke curling at his heels like a villain reveal scene.

The elder sat completely still, eyes hollow, shoulders slumped.

He looked up, defeated.

"There is nothing we could have done," he said blankly, in the same tone Napoleon Bonaparte must've used when he realized invading Russia was a bad idea.

Kazuki blinked.

"...Bro."

He stared at the elf like he'd just pulled a reverse Uno card on reality.

CRACK.

The trees began to shake.

Kazuki's smug expression twitched.

Leaves rustled in unison, wind howling through the branches, carrying smog with it.

Then—

WHOOSH!

A thick vine snapped out of the ground.

Kazuki's eyes widened. "—!"

He ducked, instinct kicking in just in time as the vine sliced past him, missing his head by a hair.

FWOMP!

The vine slammed into the ground beside the boulder where the elder sat.

Instead of fear and panic.

His reaction was totally different.

His resigned face gone.

The elder's eyes gleamed with fervent hope as the vine retreated into the earth with a low rumble.

He shot to his feet, arms raised to the sky.

"THE GUARDIAN OF THE FOREST HAS COME TO SAVE US!" he shouted, voice cracking from emotion.

Kazuki eyes followed the vines retreat and squinted.

His eyes widened and titled his head.

"...I'm sorry. What?"