Chapter 2: [Self-Existence]

Panting heavily [hah hah hah] what is this terrible pain! [Aaaaaaaah] They are tearing me apart wildly, why all this?! Why me?! Why?! Why?! Hah? I guess it doesn't matter, I'll just close my eyes.

Psycho closed his eyes amidst the insane pain after a while:

Aah, how long has it been since... an hour? A day? A year? A decade? A century? I don't even know! All I know is that I no longer feel anything.

Psycho didn't know at that time that his body's cells no longer recognized the concept of pain due to the long period of forced torture.

Psycho: Let's just stay silent and watch.

A year later:

We find Psycho in the same position, not moving an inch.

Suddenly...!!

A thick black circular portal appears, and Psycho turns his face towards it in a second.

Psycho: [What is this, a portal? Is someone coming? Gods? Warriors? Monsters? Or maybe a savior? No way. So what is coming?!]

A person dressed in black with an emotionless face and eyes resembling emptiness, no!! It's emptiness itself, emerges from the portal.

Psycho: [Who is this? I've never met him! Wait... why does he look like... impossible?! What madness is this, why does he look like me?!]

The person speaks:

[Yo, I never thought I would do this one day. I think you know who I am. I am your future self, Psycho.]

Psycho was stunned and questions flooded his mind, but the one feeling he had was that he had been saved despite everything.

Psycho: [You, my future self, hurry and help me so we can start our revenge.]

Future Psycho: [Huff, I didn't expect to say this to myself, but you have to die, my past self.]

Past Psycho was shocked.

Psycho: [What?! Why should I die? And can I even die?! Even though I tried myself.]

Future Psycho: [I will kill you to sever our bound fate.]

Psycho didn't understand at first what he meant, but it became clear after what happened next!

Future Psycho created a circle around present Psycho and began to activate it.

Psycho: [What!! The regenerative effect is fading, will I really die! Hahaha, I didn't think I was this crazy to reach the point of killing myself. So even I want to kill myself, what a joke. Hahaha. Huff.]

Psycho screams.

Psycho: [Did you think I would let you kill me?]

Psycho moves his head, looking for anything to use, finding a sharp bone from the monsters that had been devouring him, but he can't move due to the magic circle.

Psycho: [Come on, move! You useless body, haaaaaaa.]

Future Psycho: [Did you think you could move? Hehehe, I guess I was a little naive after all, hahaha.]

Psycho didn't know that with the beginning of the regeneration fading, and as a result of his cells no longer recognizing pain, he gained the skill to control pain!

Psycho: [Think, think, when did I move automatically? Right!! When I felt pain, if I create pain in the designated area by the determinant, it will move involuntarily due to the body's involuntary nervous system, but that comes with the risk of losing consciousness due to overloading the spinal cord. If I lose consciousness, everything will be over. Damn!! Let's risk everything.]

Psycho begins to create pain in specific areas to move automatically, but it's difficult for the body as it moves involuntarily due to the created pain.

Future Psycho: [What, how! This is beyond logic! Damn, it seems I underestimated my past self.]

Future Psycho can't stop him due to the circle's activation.

Future Psycho presses on the magic circle, slowing down past Psycho's movements, but he can grab the sharp bone and start directing it towards his heart.

Future Psycho: [Stop! You don't know what I'm risking here!!]

Psycho: [Hahaha, damn you, myself, and everything.]

Psycho stabs the bone into his heart.

Future Psycho: [Stoooooooop haaaaa....!]

Psycho's heart stops, and he falls to the ground, followed shortly by Future Psycho.

Saying: [It's all over.]

Both future and past Psycho died together, it seems to be the inevitable cause and effect, with the past's death, the future no longer existed.

Suddenly!!!

The entire magic circle formation glows black, and the two bodies start to merge into each other in a very strange state of black magic. Merged Psycho awakens!

Psycho: [What is this? Didn't I die? Didn't I kill myself? By asking myself these two questions, if... hahaha, hahaha, I was right! I am the past, the present, and the future at the same time, what madness, hehehe.]

Suddenly, several notification windows pop up in front of Psycho!!

Psycho: [What is this, what's written? I am now known as a question mark? Huh?]

[This means I have no bound fate or destiny, hahaha, now I understand why I wanted to kill myself at the beginning.]

[Hmm, it seems I got dark energy from my future self to this self, and with the best environment of the abyss! To absorb the darkness!]

[Let's stay silent and watch.]