Final Chapter: Several Years Later

(Can the Nameless One Still Exist?)

Many years later.

Exactly how many, no one could say.

Because at some point, the Flame Domain stopped enforcing a unified measure of time.

The world allowed different places to move a little slower—or a little faster.

The Flame Order still existed.

But it no longer claimed to be “absolute.”

In the system logs, a new long-term status appeared:

Mode:
Coexistence Trial Period (Indefinite)

The Pyrohunter units had become legend.

Occasionally mentioned in old records.

As a tool once rational, later negated.

Children could not understand what they had meant.

Only that—
the world had once feared difference.

The edges of the Flame Domain had grown into cities.

Not through control.

But because—
people chose to stay.

Non-Flame areas were no longer walled off.

They had simply become part of the city.

Nights had no flame lamps.

Yet there was other light.

As for the Nameless One.

There was no entry for him in the public record.

The Reform Faction erected no monument.
The Rift Flame faction wrote no history.

Because no one could say for certain—
had he “ended,” or not?

Some said he had disappeared.

The Reality Null Zone had long since stabilized into ordinary terrain.

No longer dangerous.
No longer special.

Like a wound slowly absorbed by the world.

Some said he still existed.

Only—
you could not tell which person he was.

There were rumors.

In certain places,

when the Flame Order was about to initiate forced correction,

the command would inexplicably delay.

Not a failure.

Just—
half a beat slower.

The Flame Order could not explain it.

It could only record in the logs:

Delay Reason: Unknown
Result: Stability increased

Could the Nameless One still exist?

The Flame Order could not answer.

Because—
it no longer measured existence by permission.

An old Flame Adept once said in a tavern in a Non-Flame district:

"If he still exists,"
"then he is probably no longer a single person."

One ordinary afternoon.

No warning.
No ceremony.

After a massive computation completed in the center of the Flame Domain,

the Flame Order generated a new rule.

Not mandatory.

Only recommended:

When anomalies appear
Prioritize understanding
Rather than correction

This rule did not point to any individual.

Yet it carried a familiar logic.

If the Nameless One still existed,

he probably would no longer bear all contradictions.

Because—
the world had learned to carry some of the weight itself.

In a small alley of a Non-Flame district,

someone saw a man.

He had no flame.
No trace of the void.

Just quietly sitting, watching children chase light and shadow.

Someone asked him:

"Who are you?"

He thought for a moment.

Then smiled and said:

"I’m not important."

That answer.

Was not recorded.

Yet it was—
accepted by the world.

So.

Can the Nameless One still exist?

The answer is:

As long as the world allows imperfection,
he no longer needs to exist as the Nameless One.

The world gave him no ending.

It only gave him—
a future where he no longer needs to sacrifice himself.