"Can changing these words change reality?"
Lu Youqi was filled with doubt, but the memories that surfaced were incomparably real. For a moment, he stood there in a daze.
He relived this brand-new memory again and again. Though it had only just appeared, it was no different from an ordinary memory. It would fade with the passage of time, mingle with other hazy fragments of the past, and leave him unable to tell whether it was newly formed or had always been there.
The more carefully Lu Youqi recalled it, the more deeply this memory etched itself into him, blending with his previous memories. As happiness rushed to his head, a question also surfaced in his heart:
"Why did I come to the Abyss?"
For revenge?
But who was he taking revenge for?
His family was whole and happy. Why had he abandoned them and come to the Abyss?
Coming to the dangerous Abyss meant facing almost certain death. If he could not return, how much pain would his family suffer?
His beloved younger sister would surely be heartbroken, wouldn't she?
"I don't think I should be in the Abyss."
The moment that thought arose in his heart, the words began changing again. Although Lu Youqi was still pressing down on the Word-Worms, their crawling had already begun to slip beyond his control...
If his younger sister were still alive, he would not have come to the Abyss.
Though he was curious about the Abyss, bound by his family and stripped of the drive for revenge, he would never have entered it.
As he changed reality, reality changed him as well.
People were made of memories. A person's specific actions were choices made in the present by a consciousness shaped from memories, choices that aligned with their beliefs.
And the