Honkai Impact: The Fulfiller

Chapter 23 (Old)

Have you ever thought about the possibility of the world getting reset? When everything is all destroyed and returns to the point where everything replays the same thing over and over again... except that everything wasn't in the way you remembered?

Well... I am too one of those that have been reset by the very being I had once worshipped and betrayed to choose a different path...

I was nothing more than a blind person back then... Unable to see and could only hear what the world looks like... On how wonderful and beautiful it was...

Then, God granted me the ability to see... I found out how horrible the world is and wondered why I could not see the beautiful world that my mother spoke of...

And then I found the truth... on why did God granted her back her vision... on why I could not see the beautiful world she had spoken of... and the God's goals for the world's fate...

I did not want this... I did not want any of this... I did not ask for power... I did not say I will work for you...

I REJECT BEING A PAWN OF FATE!

I will this power to guard and protect this world from the fate you have set for this world!

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If only the young me realize... When you truly want to change the world... you will discover... how pitiful your strength is...

How weak you really are to protect it from the world's inevitable fate...

That hopelessness when everything had turned against her... When God itself decided to take the action by itself...

When a person sacrifices themselves for the world they're called heroes... While the one who sacrifices the world to save someone is a villain...

I choose to be both and now I was banished into this empty black void by the one God that I've rejected to be their pawn of fate...

There was absolutely nothing but darkness and me within this void... Not a single soul nor a sight of a person could be seen... There was absolutely nothing here... Except for me...

Was this my punishment for rejecting you? Was this my punishment for choosing my own path?

No... it can't be... It can't be real! It's not possible! Someone! Anyone! Please! Answer me! It can't be the end... Not when she had put so much effort into protecting the world...

I ran and ran within the dark void looking for something or someone... But I couldn't find anything or anyone... For the first time, I felt hopeless, and fear slowly filled my mind...

I waited... Waiting for something to happen in this empty void even if a small part of me saying nothing will happen...

I began to close my eyes and let my thoughts wander elsewhere... I started to fall asleep somehow despite the void surrounding me and began to dream...

But something... was odd the moment after I started "dreaming". I didn't feel like I was myself when I opened my eyes... It was like I was a completely different person...

And I didn't have to wait long for answers as I saw what happened to me next... Or to be exact, what happened next to this "version of me".

I saw how "I" made friends, I saw how "I" was loved, "I" saw how beautiful the world was with "my" own eyes... It was like a dream come true...

But... I didn't feel like I belong there... I knew this feeling deep down within me when I saw how "perfect" the other me had lived...

It was jealousy, but I didn't want to be jealous of myself... So, I dream again...