"I'm not a monster!"
"I'm a hunter!"
"My name is Ye Chen!"
"I am a Bloodsmith Hunter!"
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
"Why did I forget all of this—!?"
Ye Chen clutched his head and dropped to his knees, gritting his teeth as his entire body convulsed. Again and again, he interrogated himself, trying to reclaim the humanity that had once fallen into the depths of darkness!
As the young man's memories returned, his demonic body began to crack apart, shed, and collapse in great chunks, like parched earth!
Yet at the same time, another murky voice swiftly surfaced in his mind, forcibly halting the collapse of his demonic body.
"Idiot! Every change in your body is proof that you have fused deeply with the power of the Abyss!"
"You finally reached this point—why would you voluntarily give it all up now?!"
"Ye Chen, search your conscience. Ever since you tried to embrace the Abyss, when has my power ever let you down!"
"I broke your shackles!"
"I drove away all your pressure!"
"I let you torment that pack of scum to your heart's content!"
"I gave the vengeance you had suppressed for so long an unprecedented freedom to burst forth!"
"Isn't all that enough?"
"Why are you rejecting me again, even now?!"
"Could it be merely because I nearly made you mistakenly kill this family?"
"Don't make me laugh! How many times have they already died violent deaths before your eyes? Even if they were killed countless times, they could come back to life again!"
"If that's the case, why do you still care about such meaningless bullshit?!"
Ye Chen knew that the Abyss consciousness lurking in the depths of his mind was interfering, and he inwardly fired back in towering rage:
"The people I've always wanted to