The past still haunted me.
The hard choice I'd had to make between my happy life with Emilia and the life I could have had with Karlia.
I thought I had settled it all, but I was dead wrong.
Once again, Karlia fought for my sake, causing her to experience an unbelievable amount of torture as a result.
She did it all for me.
And now I had a choice to make.
One person... or the entirety of existence.
It wasn't even meant to be a decision. It wasn't meant to take that much of a deliberation.
But... but...
"I can't abandon Karlia!"
"I can't abandon everyone!"
The cognitive dissonance only kept getting more severe the more I dwelled on it.
These two clashing ideologies made it impossible to make a decision and choose.
I had someone I loved other than Karlia, but I also loved Karlia dearly.
How could I make the right choice in this instance?
The answer appeared to me like an epiphany.
"I... I can do both."
