"Answer me!"
Beneath the ground, where flesh crisscrossed everywhere, countless tangled roots buried everything in darkness in an instant.
Only those eyes still stared stubbornly ahead, unyielding, as though driven by some immense obsession. At last, in that moment, she sent that heartbroken cry through the entire underground.
"Please, answer me..."
But there was no answer.
At the end of the long, deep underground passage, Lynn stopped for a moment.
He turned his head and glanced back.
He looked into the boundless darkness behind him.
Those echoes seemed to tell him of a stretch of time destined to end badly. Sometimes, you felt pain too, each wave stabbing at the heart you had thought so strong. But you could not turn back, because one lie needed countless others to cover it, and in the end, no one would come out unscathed.
But if you can kill me one day, I'll be glad for you, because he really is a demon who toys with people's hearts. He deserves it.
He gazed in that direction for a long time, but finally turned back.
He opened his eyes.
And that marked his final farewell to his other identity.
As for everything in the past...
Let's leave it to time.
When we meet again, I'll miss that brief time we spent together too. I'll remember that empty train. I'll be grateful that you once let me into your life.
He lifted his head and reached toward the twisted, crisscrossing tree trunk before him, covered in curses.
Hum-
In that instant.
The pulse of Curse Removal swept away the twisted black lesions before him, and he transmitted his signal into the enormous trunk.
"Mother Tree of Desire, do you welcome an old friend?"
Deep underground in the darkness.
None of her calls received an