"You... what are you going to do?"
[Karma] felt panic.
Because she was [Karma], she had no way to resist those twelve Karmic Chains.
She did not know why she owed this human twelve such immense debts of karma. All she knew was that she could not resist anything this human did to her now.
"Wake you up, of course."
Ye Qiyan looked at Monrojina at his feet and calmly raised the gun in his hand.
"The fourth."
The fourth Karmic Chain turned into a bullet and slid into the chamber.
The bullet left the barrel and pierced straight through her lower abdomen.
[It hurts...]
An agonizing pain.
Yet this did not seem to be the first time she had encountered such pain.
Ye Qiyan held [True Name Rememberer] aloft in his left hand, while his right gripped the chains, now with four connected.
He looked toward the door named [Karma].
The fifth chain shot out, forcing the Doorway open wider and revealing a vacant-eyed phantom inside, wrapped in countless Karma Strings like a marionette.
It was Monrojina.
It was the past she had abandoned, and even more than that, the price of becoming [Karma].
Ye Qiyan dragged [Karma] toward the Doorway.
"Hey."
He called to the phantom inside.
"Still not enough?"
[True Name Rememberer (No Level)] [Remembering the Self]
Ye Qiyan pressed the True Name Rememberer in his hand against the top of Monrojina's head.
The version of her inside the door finally showed a trace of pain on her face.
"But it does work. Still... there's one last thing missing."
He bent down, looked at the pale-faced [Karma], and aimed Ebony's muzzle straight between her brows.
"I don't like being anyone's babysitter, not even yours, Monrojina. I've saved you more than once. Although they were all