Volume 3 Chapter 1: Memories

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 On the floor lies a mangled heap of raw, quivering meat...

The actual dermal layers of his face that he flayed away to reveal the "white gleam of bone" and pulsing veins.

A man, who was shin, standing after the events he had to make so he can make outliimt his past self, who was young shin.....

Young shin disappeared shortly after witnessing the mirror's cruelty and then, whispering something to himself.

Suddenly, The air becomes heavy and thick with the "metallic tang of impending doom

Instead of a human presence, the space is filled with a low, guttural growl from Future Shin, sounding like a man being hollowed out from the inside

Shin said: (Now, the work i needed to do is done, i think i have to go home)

He Begin walking but then, stopped.....

Shin said: (Wait.....i dont have family

All of the loved one i love most forget me now i am a man who has not any one at home to welcome him..

In fact, i dont even have any home)

Echo: "A quadrillion lives... and you are still alone." The numbers stop being math and start being the sound of a hammer hitting his skull

A throbbing, violent pain began to claw through his skull.

.....And then, he begin begin thinking is he forgetting about something....

And then, shin begin whispering.....

Shin whispered: (I remember......I have all of them things i i have been through, all of it

But, still it feels like something is has been disappeared..

I have been died more than quadrillion time..

I killed my family to avoid giving them cruel deaths

I had -------three girls i like and i had.......... on---e wif---e

Maid--.

Elwin---

Yurina---

And------ And i was completely destroyed by the tree and mirrors than an-------ything

I was died as worst possible, i have been died more than trillion or rather even more than quadrillion..

More than quadrillion...)

Shen’s calm, mocking tone repeats the word trillion over and over, no longer as a number, but as a cruel joke....

The sounds of bones breaking,lies screamed, and prayers whispered from the Tree of Innocents, mirror's, memories are crashing against his skull.

" i----gu---ess" Shin said, with his head completely ache and blood which was because of his face blood..

Many memories begin wonder around inside his head..

He was having headache more harder than before...so bad that that it was feeling like it would explode

His legs buckled and gave way, a violent tremor seizing his entire frame.

He collapsed into the dirt, clutching his skull as if to keep it from splitting open.

One by one, memories began to hammer against the inside of his mind......cruel, jagged shards of a past

He knew, yet the ones that were gone... the ones that truly mattered... remained a hollow, aching void.

As his legs buckled and the trillion echoes of Shen’s mockery hammered against his skull, a grotesque, twisted smile carved its way across his raw, skinless lips....

Framed by deep, dark holes that looked like bruises from the abyss...creating the terrifying image of a man staring into his own grave while grinning through absolute, soul-crushing agony with a rudiculous smile meant for a man that no longer recognized his name.

And then, next moment all of the memories inside his head vanished.....

Shin whispered: (Uhhhhh...

Where am i?

And even who the hell am i?

I only remember i have some god------like powers

But how i got this it, i don't remember)..

His memories was vanished completely leaving only knowledge about his powers......

Shin whispered: (It is not a big issue that my memories are vanished...

And i don't even think i was someone special so it was for best i guess.....

What do i do now?)

Many idea's begin appearing in his mind......

And then, he decided something.....

Shin whispered: (I know what to do now, let's built a home for me..

But not here...

It would be in a place where i can rest freely without any problem....

And also want to know this world.....)

He flickered through the world like a glitch in reality, teleporting into different places one after another; he was teleporting to the places where humans go shortly in difficulty—those quiet, heavy corners of grief or crisis----watching them with a mind wiped clean of the fact what is he?

A human or what?

And with the fact that human sure exist like him

And after many hours.....

Shin whispered: (Why can't i find out some place which is better for me to live in......)

He didn't walk; he arrived to places which he didn't remember like what is forest? What is earth? What even is human?

It was almost like he is reborn with no memories how the world is....

One moment, he was standing in a forest where the trees were beginning to turn to skeletons of fire—a place where the air felt like it was breaking.

Before he could understand the heat.

He flickered again. Now, he stood on a high, frozen mountain pass where the wind was sharp enough to cut.

He looked at the snow and saw a set of deep footprints that stopped abruptly at the edge of a cliff.

Shin whispered; (What is this....

whatever, i don't need to pay attention to this....

Let's get to some peaceful place....)

He teleported himself again....

Suddenly, he was in the middle of a vast, salt-heavy ocean.

There were no humans which he was unware exist, only the violent memory of them

Suddenly, his eyes shifted...

And there was

A kid standing on a narrow, crumbling limestone ledge at the very top of a cliff. Below kid, the ocean isn't blue; it’s a churning, violent charcoal gray

kid wasn't just standing; he was leaning against the wind.

His hair is whipping across his face, and his feet are dangerously close to the breaking rock.

This is a place of finality.

Humans go there when they feel they have nowhere else to turn, or when they are testing their own survival against the elements.....

Since his memories was gone and he doesn't know humans exist, he doesn't see "a boy in trouble.

He sees a strange, fragile shape that doesn't belong to the rocks or the water.

He flickered again.

The heat of the desert was gone, replaced by a cold that bit into his skin.

He was on a high, jagged spine of stone.

A few feet away, a small, vertical shadow stood against the roaring gray of the moving water.

It was a shape he didn't recognize—soft where the rocks were hard, shivering where the stone was still.

He watched as the salt-spray soaked into the clothes kid wore.

Kid was around five years to six years...

Shin didn't know the word for 'human' or 'danger,' but he felt the heavy gravity of the place

Because Shin doesn't know the word ....Human

He looked at the boy like a scientist looks at a bug.

Shin stepped closer, his bare feet making no sound on the crumbling limestone.

He watched the child's small hand grip the rock until the knuckles turned white.

To Shin, it was just "changing color." He didn't realize it was the color of fear.

Since Shin is looking for a home, he wonder if this small, shivering creature knows where one is.

Shin whispered: (You... soft shape.

Do you have a place that is quiet?

Do you have a 'home'?)

The boy turned, his eyes widening at the sight of the man with the bruises from the abyss under his eyes and the raw, unhealed skin of his face.

The boy didn't answer; he screamed. And in that scream, the ledge gave way.

The boy fell toward the charcoal waves, but reality stuttered.

In a blink, Shin was under him, catching the child mid-air.

But Shin didn't feel relief.

He felt the boy's heart hammering against his chest—a sound he remembered from the Tree of Innocents.

 (No!!!!!!!!, Don't kill me.......

No!!!!!!!, Don't punish me....

Please don' t hit me!!!!!!!

PLease!!!! i beg you......

No.... please don't burn me.......

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Volume 3 Chapter 1 ended...

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