Upon hearing Sno's words, Klein's body stiffened slightly, but Sno gave him no time to think and instead said calmly:
"Before I transmigrated, I played a game. In it, there was an Omniscient and Omnipotent King who had acted as a king his entire life and never enjoyed life as a human. So, before an all-powerful wishing machine, he wished to become an ordinary person without talent. But as that wish came true, he saw the future of the world's destruction. Yet by then, he had already become an ordinary person without talent. What do you think was on his mind?"
"..." Klein did not answer immediately, but his thoughts boiled ceaselessly like water in a pressure cooker.
On one side was the Apocalypse that would arrive in this era in eighteen years. On the other was the past, destined to be destroyed for some unknown reason.
Even if he returned to the past, in that era without Beyonder powers, as an ordinary person, could he peacefully enjoy his final days while facing the inevitable end?
And Benson and Melissa, whom he had left behind here, his companions in The Tarot Club, and those ordinary people struggling desperately just to live like human beings—could he calmly watch them vanish beneath the Apocalypse?
Klein wanted to say, "The lives of those ordinary people have nothing to do with me." He wanted to say, "What does the destruction of the future have to do with me?" But honestly, he could not make such a selfish choice.
"Looks like we're pretty much the same." Sno revealed a somewhat strained smile, crossed his legs, and said in a deliberately relaxed tone, "Even when it has nothing to do with us, we can't stand by and watch a disaster about to happen before our eyes