Final Volume: The Tiny World in the Dust - I'm Here

"Beg me for mercy!"

"..."

"Wail! Weep! Let your misery entertain me!"

"Ugh..."

"You'll die, without a doubt! You'll die by my hand! You've played every last card, and even so, you have nothing left to fight me with!"

"Just... stop... Gaaaah!!!"

"Such a stubborn loser, Ye... What can you even do now? Devour time or space and run away? Pathetic! I can repair everything you've destroyed. You can only destroy, while I can both destroy and create! From the very beginning, I was destined to stand above you!"

The man had seized the advantage completely, sneering in a fury.

The woman was held fast in his grip, struggling through a death loop, drawing ever closer to her final death.

There was no suspense left in the outcome.

In the distance, Yusuo Zai lay on a shattered rock, his head resting on his arm as he watched this heartrending final act.

"So this is the end, Ye?"

Yusuo Zai's face held neither joy nor sorrow.

He was a merchant, a demon, a false transcendent.

But when all was said and done, he was only a spectator.

Watching one mad drama after another, watching people sink deeper the harder they struggled in the whirlpool of fate.

"Though Jili didn't achieve his ultimate goal either... in the end, he still got the better of you."

"Haah... haah... haah..."

My consciousness grew hazier and hazier.

At last, my body could no longer hold out.

What had driven me forward?

Love? Friendship? A sense of duty?

None of those.

"Ye"—that name alone was enough to become my reason to keep going.

"Xiao Ye... Xiao Ye..."

"Ugh... ah... ah..."

Ye's struggles grew weaker and weaker. She twitched and convulsed like a fish hauled ashore. Had even her spirit finally been crushed by the deaths repeating