``` [On the way back, your mind kept uncontrollably going over the details of "All-Japan Assimilation" and the "Culling Game."]
[You knew perfectly well that giving Kenjaku time to prepare that vast, bloody plan alone was, in a sense, also buying yourself a necessary period of psychological adjustment.]
[After all, although you had caused countless casualties for various reasons in those past failed simulation timelines, those had mostly been unintended collateral sacrifices resulting from your passive involvement.]
[This time, however, things were completely different.]
[Next, for the sake of that elusive position of "ultimate curse," you would actively and coldly plot, facilitate, and even personally slaughter tens of millions of lives.]
[The psychological pressure and guilt of "failing to save" and "killing with your own hands" were entirely incomparable.]
[Although, by the later stages of your previous simulation, your thoroughly tempered will had already ensured that you could bring yourself to act at the crucial moment, humans were ultimately flesh and blood. Absolutely perfect rationality could not exist.]
[As long as your humanity had not been completely stripped away, the compassion and resistance buried deep within your soul could become a fatal vulnerability at any moment.]
[To ensure that the world-overturning plan could be carried out without a hitch, you had to settle yourself completely and bring your body and mind into their ideal state-utterly cold and unruffled-to face the bloodshed ahead.]
[Slow was fast.]
[This was the truth you had realized while looking back on your experiences.]
[If a moment of impatience caused you to slip up at this most critical juncture and bring the entire plan crashing down, that would mean you had to begin another simulation.]
[And the cruel reality was that this was already your last available simulation opportunity.]
[If you failed, you would have to