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Chapter 173: Rupture (8)

Chapter 173: Rupture (8)

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It was a calm voice. It was so calm that it was hard to accept.

“I see? Is that all you have to say about this?”

“I didn’t have any other things to say.”

Didn’t have any other things to say? Yoonhwan tried to say something, but stopped. There was someone crying in the distance.

Soldiers were gathering prisoners. These were the Lost Ones who had abandoned their Gods. They were the ones who were shaking in fear of death. They were weak spirits with merely 50ish world power. Yoonhwan spoke as he glanced over.

“I have watched this for every single day during the past 3 months.”

“…”

“I believed that what I am doing what is right. Everything will be alright in the end. If I wait and wait… then the end that everyone can be proud of will come.”

“You did.”

“But this came to my mind one day.”

A prisoner was being trampled by a soldier. Two helpless hands shook. As he watched, Yoonhwan said, “That all of this, was the actual ‘end’.”

“…”

“And with all of this going on, there will never be an ‘ending’ that I wish to see.”

Yoonhwan maybe wished that Adel who was facing the outcome of Rupture losing humanity, might agree with him. But what was next was unexpected.

“No, sir. The ‘end’ has not come yet.”

“…It hasn’t come?”

“No, sir. If we defeat Big Brother, everything will be solved.”

Yoonhwan opened his mouth to speak, but stopped.

‘So, you were thinking of that also.’

He felt disappointed. Yoonhwan spoke again.

“But how? Can Big Brother bring back lives? Can people be healed from their wounds?”

Adel answered immediately, “Maybe so, sir. If we reach the [Beginning of the Nightmare] after defeating the Big Brother, we can control everything in this world, maybe even time.”

“Time?”

“Yes, sir. We might receive the power to turn back time. The Tree of Imagery could possibly do that.”

“…Turn back time?”

Yoonhwan became enraged. He recalled the memories of what happened at the Tower of Nightmares and shouted while gritting his teeth, “That doesn’t solve anything! Even if we can turn back time, and it really turns people back to normal as if they were never wounded, it doesn’t change the fact that they were wounded. Even if they don’t remember, that period of time really existed!”

“…”

“Do you know what I’m saying? I… that people…. Those times…”

Yoonhwan stopped talking. His emotions were getting in the way of making out what he was trying to say.

“I see. So, you think of it that way, sir.”

Why? Yoonhwan felt like Adel’s calmness seemed to be different from a while ago. Adel took out a cigarette and lit it as he spoke.

“Sir, if it’s okay, may I talk about my story from the old days?”

“…Go on.”

“When I first joined Rupture, I had similar thoughts as you, sir. We didn’t join the Rupture on our own will, but I thought Rupture was the only group that could change the system. Yes, I did think that back then.”