I'm ready have bad time...

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Chapter 19: Ego...

I was being chased by a monster.

It had killed countless people, absorbing their bodies.

No one knew how many had fallen to it.

Its body was entirely black, and it always saw me through countless eyes.

Tentacles reached out, trying to grab me.

"Damn it."

A building was collapsing.

I knew my end was near. But then—

A strange voice.

It pushed me aside.

The eyes and tentacles vanished.

"Why...?"

It saved me...?

I didn't understand what was happening.

No... That wasn't just anyone.

Was that... my father?

That necklace—

A photo of my mother and father... and me as a child.

A strange glowing stone flew straight into me.

"I..."

I blacked out.

"Ego... Ego, wake up."

That voice...

I didn't know where I was anymore.

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