“━━━━━━━━━━━━━━!”

Piercing screams erupted from all directions. No, it sounded too desperate and heart-wrenching to be described as screams. It would be more accurate to say that it was a roaring cry. The quiet space shook with terrifying force as if there was a major earthquake. It felt like the whole space was going to turn upside down, and they were going to drop right into space. In the meantime, the light bursting out everywhere began to dash at high speed like a runaway locomotive with a broken brake. And inside this madly fluctuating light—

“Ugh…!” Chi-Woo endured with his teeth clenched, or to be more precise, he was trying his absolute hardest to hold on for dear life. ‘Get angry and destroy everything.’ Chi-Woo had only felt this intense compulsion once in his life; not in the present, but in the future. Moreover, it was even worse now than it had been then. It wasn’t just a feeling of anger and the desire to destroy. All kinds of negative emotions, including despair, were shaking up all his senses and his entire mind.

‘This is…!’ In the past, he would have been overwhelmed by these emotions from the very beginning, but he wasn’t like that anymore. Chi-Woo supported himself with the ‘realization’ he had obtained and ‘accepted’ from his battle with Bael. However, this was the extent of his resistance. He could only barely endure and maintain his state of mind, and even then, it was only for a brief moment. Chi-Woo’s face turned into a scowl as he felt the impulse to destroy overcome him like a tsunami.

—Perhaps.

In that brief instant, a snippet of the conversation he had had with Byeok Ran-Eum after the war flashed through his mind.

—By surpassing the limits of your bowl, a new bowl might be made.

—Then it might be better…

—To just empty it…

* * *

The light that filled the space began to go out one by one. The horrible shrieks that had been echoing from all sides also suddenly stopped. The vacancy left was filled with only groans. Not too long ago, the Chi-Woos and Yoo-Joos had been standing on two feet, but after the lights went out, not a single person...