The diary continued:
"What date was it again... I can't quite remember. The concept of time is slowly blurring. My daily routine has departed from its original course."
"According to the staff outside, the first leap succeeded. Sure enough, ours wasn't the only World Cluster destroyed. Damn it, many clusters have already been destroyed."
"But I don't feel that anxiety."
"Only now have I realized that my mindset has undergone a subtle change. I only care about myself now."
"For some reason, being confined in the Mirror Cage is making me increasingly irritable."
"I should have cooperated with the various experiments, but my patience is declining uncontrollably, and my temperament is becoming increasingly violent."
"I've begun to loathe light, because a Nether Domain has formed around my body..."
"I'm like a fish, and the Nether Domain is like water. In the water, I can move freely and teleport."
"Light, on the other hand, is like solid rock. My movements are severely restricted in the light, and I even feel as though I'm suffocating from a lack of oxygen."
"The researchers believe this is a normal physiological phenomenon. I haven't fully mastered this Strong Rule. Instead, the rule has taken control of me, which is why it's distorting my cognition."
"What we need to do now is gain complete control over this rule and learn to activate and withdraw it at will."
"Can we really do it? My cognition is slowly changing. Am I still who I used to be? I'm even becoming indifferent to what has happened to my people... I..."
The handwriting in the following entries grew noticeably sloppier.
"Another light exposure experiment was completed today. I was like an animal in a cage, howling in agony under the light!"
"I was exhausted. I asked the researchers what