"...Huh? No." Guo Yujie's voice was bright. After answering, she quickly caught on and asked anxiously, "What happened over there? Did something go wrong?"
"Yeah. You'll see it on the news soon." I answered gloomily. As usual, I reminded her to be careful and to contact me right away if she saw Han Yun.
Before Guo Yujie could say more, I hung up.
The tiny room fell silent.
I looked up and saw Chen Yihan staring at me.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Your attitude has changed from before," Chen Yihan said bluntly.
I smiled bitterly.
"Before, I was thinking too simply, too optimistically. Now..." I sighed. "Just one spirit has me this overwhelmed. I'm helpless. I don't even know what to do. There's no way... no way at all..."
I'd realized this wasn't just my problem.
The world couldn't be saved through individual heroism alone.
I kept thinking about what Ming Xite had said and the way Han Yun had cried. I'd even started to feel that this world wasn't worth saving at all.
I looked at my hands, not knowing what I could do.
I knew I was afraid of failure.
I was afraid I'd do everything I was supposed to, only to end up living in a similar world anyway.
No matter how many times we started over, the world would be the same. That was despairing.
The scene of Greenleaf's death appeared before my eyes.
I'd saved them, but they still died.
"You think this wasn't caused by any one person, but was inevitable as the whole world developed?" Chen Yihan got straight to the heart of it.
I stayed silent.
"If there's an enemy—an evil enemy—and you can solve every problem by defeating him, bring peace to the world, and make everyone happy, that gives