Love of despair
Johan Christ, a war-hardened general, spent thirty years carving his vengeance into the battlefield, slaughtering countless enemies to drown out his grief. Yet, in the end, he found himself questioning everything. His hands, once stained with the blood of his foes, had long been covered in regret. And when betrayal struck, he fell not as a hero, nor as a villain, but as a broken man who had lost everything.
But fate was not so kind as to grant him peace in death. He reborns as Richard Emile Warren, the newborn son of a noble couple in a realm untouched by war. Surrounded by warmth, love, and a family he never had, Richard is torn between two lives—one of bloodshed and another of fragile peace.
Yet even as he learns to live again, the past refuses to let go. The war he died in ended fifty years ago, yet he perished a century ago. A single ogre was said to have brought the war to an end, but Richard remembers saving an ogre child in his final moments. And in the shadows, an ancient force, the ‘Ultimatums,’ continues to manipulate history.
With the weight of two lives pressing upon him, Richard must choose does he let himself be consumed by the despair that once defined him, or does he embrace the love he never thought he deserved?
