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.
myself standing in
look at everyone around me, I came to realize that all
rather pale, and they had a
their heads to gaze in my
Jin, Smallsnake, and everyone else that was in
myriad of different emotions flashed across their faces
turned my head to stare away from them
gazes were devoid of animosity and
all I
eyes then
seems to have also
the moment, he was sitting on his knees, staring blankly at the ground. A blank look covered
"I…impossible."
a
Tap.
that exact moment, pressing my foot against the ground, the echo of my foot touching the ground rang in the air, and I caught a glimpse of several people
was filled with a
'…I can't blame them.'
Their reaction…
that they saw, they were probably extremely scared of the other version of
one that they
"It's me."
'For now...'
to hear. I was letting them know that I was
my words seemed to have alleviated some of the cautions in the eyes of the
continued to
to reach him. Pausing in
same blank look on his face from before.
"I..it can't be…"
reached out my hand and grasped his
***
Belief.
that something exists or is
the definition
believed in things that others didn't, and the same went
of belief
a superhuman controlling power,
a god that they
one such
was in the
Jezebeth.
and the
was based on his belief that he was an omniscient and omnipotent
nothing that
least that
began to sink into Magnus's mind, and
"I..it can't be..."
whispered in a tone
can't have
to echo throughout
a sense of loss
anger, bargaining, depression,
stages of depression, and that was what Magnus was currently going
fact that there
'Acceptance.'
now, this
was impossible for Magnus to
own 'belief', 'god', being defeated by someone else felt as if the world was
currently feeling, was akin to having their
had been worshipping
through a similar state. The only difference, however, was the fact that Ren was able to accept reality, unlike
memories, they
only thing Magnus could go through at the moment
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