The agony of his soul being torn apart was like countless red-hot steel needles piercing every corner of Link's consciousness.
Within that boiling Sea of Causality, his "self" was being dissolved little by little.
He seemed to glimpse his own end: sinking forever into this sea of suffering he had created with his own hands, becoming a living target bearing all the universe's negative causality, never to find release.
Was... this how it ended?
I hadn't even fucking painted the moon pink with Harley yet!
Why?
Why should I be shackled by their suffering when I saved them?
I gave them life. I gave them peace. They made a mess of their own lives, and that was my fault too? What kind of bullshit logic was that!
Make me pay for other people's suffering?
No!
In the instant before his soul was completely submerged, the most fundamental, essential trait Link had possessed since crossing into this world—that lawless, unreasonable "chaos" and "arrogance"—erupted like a volcano!
"Aaaaaaah!"
On the plane of consciousness, Link unleashed a furious roar that shook the entire Sea of Causality.
He no longer tried to endure it in vain, nor did he foolishly try to resolve it.
He chose a third path.
The most arrogant, most domineering path, one even the Living Tribunal had never foreseen!
"If the old causality makes me suffer, then I'll... sever it!"
Link abruptly raised his left hand.
On the Infinity Gauntlet, the green Stone representing time blazed with unprecedented brilliance!
Hummm!
Time Law, activate!
In that instant, the entire boiling, flowing Sea of Causality was forcibly frozen!
All the surging threads of light and roaring torrents of emotion froze in midair like a film placed on pause, forming a vast, uncanny, crystal-like sculpture.
But that was only the beginning!
In Link's