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📘 Chapter 8 – End
I stood there, staring at the ruins of what was once called "home."
Nothing remained.
Only the broken memories of someone who once lived here.
I gripped the scythe tightly.
> "Open."
A portal tore through space at my command.
It led to the world I once knew—
But now… it was nothing but ash and ruin.
> "No… No, this can't be real!!"
I screamed, my voice echoing in the emptiness.
Anger. Grief. All of it erupted at once.
But then—
Two figures stood ahead of me, talking quietly.
I stepped closer, cloaked in silence.
They didn't see me.
> "Let's go back."
One of them slashed the air with a dagger, revealing a portal.
They walked through it… without hesitation.
And me?
I had nothing left.
No home.
No one.
Only a broken soul and a dying world.
So, without thinking—
I followed them into the portal.
Into the unknown.
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