It has been a while, my readers. Thank you for coming by to read this lone chapter. I hope you enjoy as this will be a pretty much complicated volume of this story. Yes, it is a new volume. I closed the last volume in a not so satisfying way but expected more from this volume.
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Hiroshi found himself walking aimlessly through the vast corridors of his domain, reflecting on his conversation with Astraea. The notion of killing one another in the future still felt surreal, a heavy cloud hanging over his thoughts. Yet, despite the gravity of the situation, a part of him seemed prepared for it, though he couldn't quite explain why.
