I carefully took a step forward.

There was no point in leaving—I wouldn’t be able to go beyond Mount Hua anyway.

Even if I did step outside, there was nothing I could do.

So instead of wallowing in my own misery, I decided to move.

“You’ve come.”

The place I headed to was obvious.

And the one waiting for me there greeted me with a firm expression.

“I was somewhat worried about you, but thankfully, it seems you weren’t wandering alone.”

Shin Noya glanced at me before shifting his gaze to the person standing beside me—Cheonma.

“Have you finished your thoughts?”

“……”

Finished my thoughts.

I took a deep breath.

If he was asking whether I had reached a conclusion, the answer was a definite no.

I was still tangled in endless confusion, suffocated by my own thoughts and overwhelmed by spiraling doubts.

“Noya.”

“Yes.”

“Do you remember what you once told me?”

No matter how much I ran in circles,

I knew what needed to be done remained the same.

I had spent all this time just coming to terms with that.

I was fated to become a disaster?@@novelbin@@

The destiny I had been freed from due to my twisted soul—

was now supposedly reclaiming me, pulling me back into its grip?

It was absurd.

But no matter how frustrating it was, the situation wouldn’t change.

The only thing that changed was how much it made me feel like absolute shit.

And yet—

‘…No matter how much this makes me feel like shit…’

It didn’t change what needed to be done.

If I was a disaster, then so what?

I clenched my fists and bit my tongue.

Then, I spoke to Noya.

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