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.
eyes again, I found myself standing in the previous spot from
I came to realize that all of them
pale, and they had a look filled with incredulity
was until they slowly turned their
it Amanda, Kevin, Jin, Smallsnake, and everyone else that was in the room…all
different emotions flashed across their faces
to stare away from them before re-opening them.
only being brief, their gazes were devoid of
all
then landed on
to have also been
the ground. A blank look covered his face as his mouth trembled and
"I…impossible."
a
Tap.
echo of my foot touching the ground rang in the air, and I caught a glimpse of several people
was filled with a bitter
'…I can't blame them.'
Their reaction…
that was outside of my expectations. With everything that they
that they
"It's me."
'For now...'
for everyone to hear. I was letting them know that I was still me,
some of the cautions in the eyes of the others as
breath, I continued to move toward where
reach him. Pausing in front of him, I lowered
blank look on his face from before. Pausing in front of him, his whispers became
"I..it can't be…"
reached out my hand and grasped
***
Belief.
acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without
the definition
Some believed in things that
source of belief was
a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal
a god that they
one
belief was in the Demon
Jezebeth.
his god and the
he was an omniscient and omnipotent being. All were under his control,
that could defeat
least that
to sink into Magnus's
"I..it can't be..."
in a tone filled
can't have
continued to echo throughout
a sense of loss in Magnus's
bargaining, depression,
depression, and that was what Magnus was currently going through at the
fact that there was no fifth stage for
'Acceptance.'
this
Magnus
being defeated by someone else felt as if the world was
he was currently feeling, was akin to having their
like receiving proof that the god whom he had been worshipping was actually
also going through a similar state. The only difference, however, was the
memories, they must
thing Magnus could go through at the moment was
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