Chapter 61: Ben Before the Void – The Human Rewrite

Scene: The Mirror of Origin – Edge of the Narrative Core

A place forbidden even to the Creators.

The Mirror of Origin floats in an empty cosmos, surrounded by shattered plot threads and undone characters.

It reflects not your face—but who you were, before fiction claimed you.

Ben approaches, his void energy flickering erratically.

Behind him, Ryunosuke and Amara wait, uncertain.

Ryunosuke: "If you go in, there's no guarantee you'll come out the same."

Ben: "I have to. Graves can destroy power, logic, canon…

But he can't destroy what makes us human—unless we forget it first."

Ben touches the mirror.

Flashback – A Life Forgotten

He is no longer the Void Prince.

He is Ben Carter, 17 years old.

High school senior.

Amateur writer.

Lonely, introverted, living on instant noodles and scribbled outlines.

"The world never read my stories," his past self says.

"They said I was cringe. A self-insert. Too emotional."

He watches as the memory unfolds:

A story rejected on a writing site.

A cruel comment: "This is just edgy garbage."

A notebook thrown in the trash.

Ben-Void whispers, "This is where I died, isn't it?"

"No," the human Ben says.

"This is where you gave up on being me."

A Choice Must Be Made

Void Ben kneels beside his younger self.

"I wanted to rewrite everything because I thought who I was… wasn't good enough."

"But Damien Graves is what happens when someone takes that too far."

The Mirror pulses.

"Choose: Keep the Power of the Void Prince…

Or Restore the Soul of Ben Carter."

Ben stands.

"Both. I won't abandon either.

The power makes me strong.

The boy… makes me real."

The mirror shatters.

Scene Shift – The Return of the Dual-Soul Prince

He steps out of the mirror glowing—his void energy laced with red string-like threads of human memory and emotion.

Amara gasps. Ryunosuke shields his eyes.

Ben's voice is deeper, fuller.

"I am no longer just the Void Prince.

I am the Rewrite.

Not of stories—

But of myself."

Meanwhile – Damien Graves Prepares the End

In the Unwritten Realm, Graves observes a dying world.

He rips entire series from existence, turning them into dust.

"They had their time. Now, only my narrative survives."

He forms the Quill of Finality, a weapon capable of erasing all imagined futures.

And then… he senses it.

"He's returned.

The part of him I couldn't read.

The boy."

Cliffhanger – The Last Chapter Begins

Ben looks into the sky, where the stars are vanishing.

"This is it.

The final arc."

The Multiversal Scroll appears in his hand—blank, glowing, waiting for the last chapters to be written.

"Let's write the story that Graves can't erase."

[CHAPTER END | NEXT: Chapter 62 – Pen vs. Quill: Prelude to the Final Rewrite]