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"Wake up." A voice echoed through the vast nothingness. "It's time to free yourself. Amora. Wake up." It continued as I reached for my bruised and damaged neck. I remembered what Adrian's family had done to me. What they did to my family. My parents.

I walked toward the voice, looking for an escape from my own mind and thoughts, warped and damaged. I could see Shogeki tied up on the floor, just as I had left him.

"Are you ready to talk? Where. Is. Darkness?" I asked, holding my blade to his other eye.

"I-I already told you Amora, I'm here to help you, if I knew I'd have told you already! He's been gone for so long! You'd need to-" I put my blade against his mouth.

"Accept that he escaped to another timeline. I know. You've said it many times. Am I supposed to somehow believe you? Going to another timeline?" I said, wanting so desperately to kill him right here and now.

"It's possible! He did so believing he could stop your death! Chances are, he achieved it! And in a few weeks or months, these two timelines should re-align together! Ours may even be overwritten by the new one!" He continued onward, sounding insane, so I quickly knocked him out with the hilt of my blade.

"Shut the fuck up." I muttered, picking him up and going to his father's house. Inside was a ruin, his father long since dead and gone, I smiled, remembering he was dead because of me.

I looked around for anything, a note, or even some sign of Darkness.

As I searched, I finally found something of use. A letter from Darkness. I was about to read it, but instead found a sharp cold blade against my throat.

"Don't move Amora." The familiar voice of Adrian echoed across the walls. "I will kill you if I need to, I won't give you a chance to att-" He said as I turned and flipped his blade out of his hand in one, swift movement.

"Stay away from this Adrian. I won't hesitate to kill you as well if I need to. I have a mission currently, and I need to find Darkness, he caused this. The world is falling apart and according to Shogeki, our timeline and world itself will become erased in a few years." I said, turning my back to him and walking away. I moved past Adrian and looked over the note.

"Amora. I failed you and your parents. I thought everything would be fine... but because of my carelessness, you were killed. You were just a child... so innocent and yet..."

The note splits into another paragraph.

"It's my fault. All of it. I know you may never see this, but in the case you may somehow be brought back to life, please realize... there is no way to find me. I am going to fix my mistake and this time around, I won't allow him to kill you, even if it means I must take you. After a while of your alternate timeline self's life passes by, the timelines should merge, and your death should be overwritten completely, as will the existence of who you may be after your revival. Please, make the most of whatever time you have left, before it's all erased. I refuse to fail you and the Akermotas twice."

I held the note, my hand gently shaking.

"So Shogeki isn't crazy after all." I said, my voice catching with it's raspiness.

"No, he isn't. There really is no way for us to escape, or a way for us to change anything now." Adrian said, crossing his arms.

"So it'll be like we never even existed." I laughed, my voice was still broken, it'd had always been, even since I was younger. Ever since Adrian's father had strangled me to death.

"No, Amora. We won't cease to exist. We exist in that timeline. That is still us, like a version of you who never died! A version of me who never became your enemy... They probably lead happier lives, and once the universes merge, we'll merge with them, and we will become one with them, as they are one with us, and just as we believe we have always been ourselves, we'll believe we were always them, and not who we are now, nor what happened to us." Adrian spoke, sounding a little emotional. "If anything... Darkness freed us from this life... where we've all suffered, and gave us a timeline where things are different. Perhaps not much better... but at least you could have a normal childhood there."

"Wouldn't that be nice." I remark, dropping the note and sheathing my blade. "So, what? We spend our last days or even weeks here?"

"It's the most we can do." He replied. "If you're going to kill us... you can go ahead, as this version of us will cease to exist anyway, and I'm sure in the other timeline... perhaps we had that connection I've longed to have with you."

"Oh, you wish." I laugh, and he smiles back at me. Darkness saved me in another timeline, and soon... I'd be one with that version, as if I never died. One timeline. For once, the hatred I held for Darkness began to slip away.