The Corridor was only a little over a hundred meters long. At one end lay the sea of fire, while at the other stood an iron gate.
Mu Mu had spent a full ninety years in this place. No one knew it better than she did.
Before long, Bai Zhi and Mu Mu reached the end of the passage together.
"...This is it."
Looking at the iron gate before them, a trace of complicated emotion appeared in Mu Mu's eyes.
"That woman left everything behind this door."
In the past, Mu Mu had wanted to open this iron gate countless times. Yet no matter what she did, she had never succeeded. Even now, with the world on the verge of falling apart, this place had remained largely unaffected.
—Only the "Key" kept by the Doctor could open this iron gate.
She did not know exactly what lay beyond the iron gate, but she could roughly guess. She had once been so desperate to open it, but now, she no longer seemed to have that desire.
Mu Mu's wish had always been simple.
...To leave this place and gain true freedom.
Becoming the Lord of Anomaly was not her goal, but merely a means for her to fulfill her own and Library's wishes.
But accordingly, what she wanted was not a world ravaged and destroyed by disease. What she wanted was something simple, something ordinary.
To be honest, Bai Zhi did not know much about beings like the Lord of Anomaly. The only one he was relatively familiar with was the [Lord of Flesh and Blood]... unfortunately, that one had fled far too quickly.
But there was no denying that their very existence was a disaster.
It was precisely because of this that she had fallen into unprecedented confusion in the