After that relentless spiral of pain,
I stared forward for a few seconds,
my thoughts still scattered…
Until my senses slowly returned.
And that's when I realized ..
I was no longer inside the black castle.
"Where… am I?"
That was the first question I asked myself.
But the answers ..
They were starting to take shape… on their own.
I was sitting on a wooden chair… inside an ordinary room with a single bed, a desk, and a few simple pieces of furniture. Things that made it obvious the space belonged to a guy in his twenties.
Right in front of me ...
another person sat.
Also in his twenties, with a look so familiar I recognized him instantly.
We were face-to-face.
I started laughing—quietly at first.
A hollow laugh, wondering if I'd finally lost my mind.
After all…
This room was mine.
These were my things.
And the person sitting across from me…
Was me.
Or rather—
The version of me I used to look like, long ago…
before the reincarnation.
Before everything began.
