Scene: The Collapsing Scrollscape – A Universe of Words
The Multiversal Scroll trembles.
The very ink of reality quivers under Damien Graves' presence. He floats above the scroll like a black comet, his coat billowing with stories devoured and rewritten in his twisted image.
Graves: "There were too many. Too messy.
I offer one story. One truth. Mine."
Beneath him, entire fanfics scream as they are ripped from existence:
Sasuke becomes a baker? Gone.
Peter Parker joins UA High? Gone.
Goku raised by pirates? Gone.
Their echoes are swallowed into the Ink Maw—Graves' monstrous rewrite engine.
Ben Arrives – The Dual-Soul Rewrite
He walks—not floats, not teleports—across the vanishing ink. His every step restores a line, a sentence, a possibility.
Amara follows, her celestial harp stabilizing the emotions of collapsing worlds.
Ryunosuke has become something new—a narrative anchor, holding fan-favorite AUs steady with sheer reader resonance.
Ben holds out the Multiversal Scroll, half-written, glowing with stories worth saving.
Ben: "You want to overwrite everything, Graves?
Then start with me."
Damien Graves: The Unread God
Graves raises the Quill of Finality, its point glowing like a dying sun.
Graves: "You think sentiment can challenge structure?
Emotion against efficiency?
Reader dreams are just clutter."
He strikes.
First Strike – Worlds Crack
The quill slashes through the scroll.
Whole arcs are instantly deleted:
The Naruto AU where Minato raises Naruto? Shattered.
The world where Spider-Man never lost Gwen? Gone.
The fanfic where All Might becomes a villain? Obliterated.
Ben reels—but stands.
He draws a weapon of his own:
The Pen of Purpose—forged from every comment ever left by a reader who whispered, "I needed this story today."
Second Strike – Purpose vs. Perfection
The pen meets the quill mid-air. The impact is cosmic.
Across the scroll, ripple effects ignite:
Gohan's future timeline flickers back into existence—darker, but full of hope.
Ace lives in one piece… but chooses exile, not piracy.
A redeemed Obito saves a young ninja named Hikari—a reader-insert turned canon by sheer belief.
A Battle of Authors
They fight not with blows but with genre shifts and emotional arcs:
Graves wields Cold Logic: "No plot holes. No emotions. Efficiency only."
Ben counters with Warm Chaos: "Messy, real, flawed characters that matter."
Each attack rewrites a version of the story.
And yet, readers—those watching across the multiverse—begin to choose.
They leave comments in real-time.
They cast votes.
And the Scroll listens.
Cliffhanger – The Pen Breaks
Graves lands a direct strike.
Ben's Pen of Purpose shatters.
The scroll beneath him rips open.
A new void emerges—The Last Rewrite, a zone where no memory, no reader, no idea can exist.
Graves descends.
Graves: "Time for your epilogue."
But Ben smiles—bloody, broken, but still holding something in his other hand.
A comment.
From a fan.
One he never met.
It reads:
"Your story made me feel seen. Please don't stop."
Ben's eyes ignite with new power.
"Then I won't."
[CHAPTER END | NEXT: Chapter 63 – The Story That Refused to Die]