The final pages show Cyan overextending his Erasure magic. He attempts to erase the concept of "color" from the world, turning the battle into a void of static. Riku, bleeding from his nose from mental exhaustion, whispers his ultimate move: "Tones & Screentones: Infinite Depth."
He doesn’t erase the void. He shades it. Using microscopic dots (screentones), Riku creates an illusion of depth so profound that the void collapses under its own weight. Cyan, not understanding the "2D logic of manga rendering," is crushed by the flatness of his own erased reality.
Final Panel: Cyan is defeated, but as he fades, he laughs. "The Vellum is already colored, boy. You cannot shade over a completed painting." A post-credits scene shows a massive, slumbering dragon whose scales are made of dried paint. Its eye opens. End of chapter.
The Erased Ones appear: shadowy, formless figures with torn manuscript edges for limbs. They screech in untranslatable fonts.
Aiko flicks his pen. A G-Pen Dragon bursts from the page—ink scales shimmering. It clashes with a mass of erased names. The final pages show Cyan overextending his Erasure magic
Aiko: “Layer 1: Sketching Speed – ACTIVATE.”
His hands blur. In three seconds, he draws a cage of screentones around five Erased Ones, trapping them in halftone dots.
Enemy Leader (a half-finished demon lord): “You think technique can defeat conceptual nothingness?”
Aiko: “No. But imagination can.”
He flips to a new page. No pencil roughs. No guides. Just a single, perfect stroke.
Aiko: “Final Art: Living Inking – The Unerased World Line.”
The ink erupts—not as an attack, but as a re-drawing of reality. The Erased Ones shimmer, regain outlines, then… become harmless background characters in a fantasy café.
A silent sea of black ink stretches to the horizon. The sky is a bleeding watercolor of crimson and violet. In the center, Aiko (MC) stands on a floating wooden bridge—his sketchbook glowing with unstable energy. He shades it
Aiko (thought): “This is the 47th layer of the Celestial Inkwell. The density of creative pressure here… it’s enough to crush an ordinary artist’s mind.”
Cyan was a refreshing antagonist. Unlike generic demon lords, he viewed Riku not as an enemy, but as a "sloppy illustrator." His defeat via screentones is poetic justice for an art snob who valued "purity" over technique.
Chapter 113 finally pays off the "Saikyou" (Strongest) part of the title. Until now, Riku was clever, using small sketches for traps and utility. Here, he becomes a creator god. The emotional weight of his past failures fuels his power. The chapter emphasizes that his true strength isn't technical skill—it’s perseverance. He has drawn thousands of pages; drawing one reality is no different.