Snap.
All it took was a snap of 'his' fingers to see the world around me shatter.
Cracks appeared in the black void, and the pieces slowly fell to the ground, revealing a white background behind them. It was like broken glass.
Gazing toward the breaking void, I turned to focus my attention on the other me that was standing not so far from where I was.
In particular, my gaze fell toward the chains that were binding his body. A complicated look flashed across my eyes.
'What do I do now?'
I found myself questioning myself.
With everything that I saw…I…really found it hard. Hard to find the drive to move forward.
Everything just felt so fake to me at the moment. As if everything that I knew before had now become something that was unfamiliar.
Be it the people that I knew, or reality itself.
'Wha..t do I do?'
…I really didn't know.
Cra..cracks.
Behind me, a muffled sound echoed. It was reminiscent of the sound of sand rubbing against a hard surface.
Without needing to look, I knew that it was the white orb cracking behind me.
Crack. Crack.
Accompanying the cracking sound, I felt an unfamiliar energy enter every fiber of my body. It was slowly seeping into my body, making my muscles tremble.
Feeling the power that was entering my body, my emotions numbed.
How could they not...
It felt as if a little part of me was fading with each crack in the core.
'...I don't think have long.'
With every crack, I could feel my existence start to disappear. No, rather, I felt it merge with something else.
It was most likely the other part of me.
I wasn't exactly sure about how long it would take, but I had a feeling that it wouldn't take more than a couple of years.
By then, would the current me still exist?
I wasn't sure.
'..I..I guess I've lived my purpose.'
I couldn't say that my life was the most fulfilling, but I was definitely happy with what I had. Added all together, I only existed for four years.
'Ha..ha..four years.'
The thought suddenly made me laugh.
It hurt.
The laugh hurt.
Grasping onto my chest, I raised my head and stared at the cracking void.
The cracks fell, and my eyes closed.
again, I found myself
at everyone around me, I came to realize that
and they had a look filled with
turned their heads to
Kevin, Jin, Smallsnake, and everyone else that was in the room…all
emotions flashed across their faces while they
turned my head to stare away from them before re-opening them. I couldn't bear
gazes were devoid
all I
eyes then landed
seems to have also been
moment, he was sitting on his knees, staring blankly at the ground. A blank
"I…impossible."
a
Tap.
the echo of my foot touching the ground rang
body was filled with a bitter
'…I can't blame them.'
Their reaction…
was outside of my expectations. With everything that they saw, they were probably extremely scared of the other version
that
"It's me."
'For now...'
for everyone to hear. I was letting them know that I was still
seemed to have alleviated some of the cautions in the eyes of the others
a deep breath, I continued to move toward
didn't take long for me to reach him. Pausing in front of him, I lowered my head and gazed at
same blank look on his face from before. Pausing in front of him, his whispers became
"I..it can't be…"
out my
***
Belief.
that something exists or is true, especially one without
was the
had their own beliefs. Some believed in things that others didn't, and the same
source of
of a superhuman controlling power,
that they worshipped and
was one such
was in the Demon
Jezebeth.
and the person he
an omniscient and omnipotent being. All were
was nothing that could
least that
to sink into Magnus's mind, and his
"I..it can't be..."
in a
can't have been defeated...it's
to echo throughout
sense of
bargaining,
that was what Magnus was currently going through at
for the fact that there was no fifth stage for
'Acceptance.'
this was
was impossible for Magnus to accept what
defeated by someone else felt as
he was currently feeling, was akin to having their own existence
proof that the god whom he had been worshipping was actually not
who was also going through a similar state. The only
they must be
Magnus could go through at the moment was
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