Life Past The Recordings

Clouded Judgment

As nature wrapped itself around him protectively, his sight fades away as he drowned deeper to his subconsciousness instead.

'It's dark...'

Teetering on the brink of insanity, there he stood on the edge.

Vision no longer shows what's happening outside, he couldn't comprehend which part is reality as everything around him seems to be so loud.

Too loud for him to think.

'Why am I like this?'

'I don't want this...'

'I shouldn't be doing this.'

'I'm wasting time.'

'I have changed the course, I have to take responsibility.'

'...I must take responsibility'

He knows this.

There's no way he's not aware of this.

But he's tired.

He's really tired.

" . . . "

'Why me?'

That question resurfaced again.

'I am not the protagonist. I am no Hero. So why must I suffer this much? Why does the world seem to revolve around me...? That's not right... I don't want this.'

Too loud. 

'I do it for them... so why does it feel so devastating now?'

'Will I remain here in the void... forgotten?'

'...just like... Always?'

Everything seems to be so loud.

Though, ironically, the more images of his dearest trying to get closer. Rok Soo found himself getting even closer to the edge, away from them.

'...it'll be bad if they got too close to me...'

While keep running away, Rok Soo was genuinely at loss for the first time in his life.

He has no plan, while not knowing his own situation, and he has no sense of what just happened.

What's worse, among his inner voices there are also whispers, ones that he could not recognize immediately, much to his dismay.

『Again?』

『Isn't this what people called betrayal, hmm?』

『 We've been quiet for long due to our conscience as fellow living beings yet this is what we got in return? 』

These voices were especially sharp to his hearing...

While his own monolog echoes self-pity, these whispers sounded the complete opposite.

—deluding him more from his own judgment.

Who are they...?

『 We're not weak. We have what it takes to get what we wanted. Shouldn't we properly use what we have to its fullest potential? 』

Familiar. Rok Soo recognized these voices— Cheapstake? Scary Rock? Glutton? No... it's not any of them... they're different.