The flames that burned until dawn seemed to be dying down.
Is it kinship... friendship... love... or that unknown ending? I don't know... and I don't want to know.
This final, beautiful song seems to be coming to an end faster and faster.
As they got closer to me, everyone vanished...
A dilapidated world.
All three fell silent...
The person wearing the white mask took a step forward, and the whole world seemed to split into two white halves. Then, the person wearing the black mask also took a step forward.
In an instant, the other half was plunged into eternal darkness.
Li Chen's entire body was shrouded in two colors.
Who are you?
"Are they here to kill me too?"
The next moment, Li Chen's lifeless eyes looked at the two of them, and with a wave of his hand, the entire desolate land was flattened... leaving only the black rain that was still falling from the sky.
The two figures remained unmoved.
There wasn't even a tear on the hem of the clothes...
"Why?"
"You guys..." Just as Li Chen was feeling a bit confused.
The person wearing the white mask removed it... and a person with an exact identical face appeared before him.
"Who are you?"
He smiled and looked up at the sky. An illusory hand slowly reached out, and raindrops seeped into his body bit by bit. His tone seemed somewhat bitter.
"Have you forgotten?"
"Has the Forbidden truly devoured everything?"
The original sin lies with me...
"But... I can't make it up to you in any way... I've even extinguished your last hope... your last aspiration."
When Li Chen saw his face, a tearing pain shot through his brain, as if searching for memories of him. Who exactly was he?
Do I know him?
Who... is he?!
A person wearing a white mask walked up to Li Chen, patted Li Chen's shoulder with an illusory hand, and smiled, "You've become quite robust. You must have suffered a lot on this journey..."
"You must be very tired..."
"Shouldn't we stop now..."
"Li Chen, the freedom you desire is truly too distant... Even if this world is annihilated... there are still countless other worlds beyond it."
Is this the freedom you wanted?
At this moment, a person wearing a black mask walked up to the two of them and mocked, "It's really laughable... Li Chen, you actually came out... couldn't stand it anymore?"
"Didn't you make him do that?"
Have you forgotten what happened back then?
"Can you really forget everything?"
"Isn't what you want, what I want, what He wants, being done right now?"
"Just like the vow He once made."
"When the lamplight fades, his final curtain call will surely come."
Li Chen clutched the mask, a hint of melancholy in his eyes. His illusory hand trembled slightly as he touched Li Chen's pained expression, and he said bitterly, "But... I've gradually realized, it's too bitter... really too bitter... From the beginning of his life until now, neither you nor I have ever shared a single bit of sweetness with him."
This perfect work is breaking.
"I can sense deep down that Li Chen is drifting further and further into loneliness... This path of 'freedom' has completely reached a dead end."
The masked man beside him slapped Li Chen's hand away, his eyes blazing with fury. "No... this is what I want, Li Chen, don't you understand?"
"This is exactly what I wanted!!"
"Despair, fear, and death are spreading, but a new world is awakening!!"
That was the world back then!
"Li Chen, don't touch him anymore... We shouldn't awaken his memories... This is not what we should be doing."
Li Chen fell silent... then suddenly asked, "Taboo God... what exactly do you want?"