The Sloth Body put down the bag of Potato Chips in his hand. A little girl with a bun hairstyle peeked over from the back door of the Blacksmith Shop, only to be pulled back by another woman.
The door shut tight.
Ye Qiyan leaned against the doorway, looking at him.
"Those people in the back are..."
"My wife, my daughter, and my parents, who are forging iron. My real parents, wife, and daughter. My original self shattered his own soul and merged it into this family's unborn baby, then was born from it.
Although my past-life memories only awakened when I turned sixteen, something still went wrong because of that overly bold decision."
"They're the family you intended to sacrifice, just like back in the City of Miranda?"
"Yes, they're my ultimate trump card. As long as I killed them myself and made them a necessary sacrifice for order, Order Heaven might have completed its descent long ago, and things wouldn't be so difficult now.
But..."
The Sloth Body sighed deeply.
"I went soft."
He seemed somewhat helpless, yet somewhat relieved.
"If it were the Revenge Body, he would definitely kill them without hesitation. But the one who grew up and lived here happened to be our genuine Origin Soul, the most special one among us, which carried our will.
That version of me had to kill my family and destroy this entire Small Town, built because of him, recording my past, my memories, and my happiness, with his own hands. Only then would it count as a sacrifice.
But I went soft."
The Sloth Body yawned.
"Humans are always like this, even though I'd already steeled myself when I chose to become this family's child.
Originally, I thought that no matter how happy a life I led, with