I wanted to do it, to end it all, to just close my eyes with no tomorrow in my mind. To finally sleep… and sleep for eternity. But I was too bound by the outside world. Too many responsibilities.

It wasn't that I was afraid to die… I just wasn't courageous enough to do it. The reasons not to die were so heavy that I simply couldn't go through with it.

So I stared into space.

Woke up.

Went to work.

Faked a smile.

Came back home.

This world is suffocating, boring, limiting.

I hate it—I hate it so much…

I wanted to die...

Those were my thoughts a few hours ago. But for once, something out there must have answered them.

Here I am… lying in the car…

I can see my own guts exposed, my neck probably twisted.

A tree branch has gone straight through my stomach, leaving a gaping hole.

My lower limbs? Crushed beyond recognition.

Just a wrong turn.

Just a worn-out tire.

Just a coincidence, right?

Or was it fate?

I don't know what happened in those moments.

I didn't scream.

Hahaha… maybe I was too stunned to even do that.

I just heard a loud ringing… the violent shaking… and then nothing.

No pain.

Nothing.

Just a gruesome scene.

I knew this was it.

After years of waking up, going to work, receiving your salary, spending it on basic necessities… smiling outside to hide yourself…

After years, I realized something,

I wasn't the only one.

Some had it worse, some had it better… but does it matter?

We are bound to this system.

We are hollow shells forced to smile.

We can't escape.

Just workers for humanity.

The majority of us, anyway.

Only a few people out there truly enjoy life.

As I felt my life fading away rapidly, I realized something:

We kept chasing money, money, money… hoping one day we'd get enough.

Hoping one day we'd be rich.

We ignored our surroundings and only turned to the internet to brighten our day.

Where are the moments with friends?

The exploring?

The vacations?

The outings without looking at technology?

I'm tired and sick of this.

Here I am… dying… fading… and I realize life wasn't worth it. And yet we are trapped in the very system we built, and death becomes the only escape.

Hahahaha… brothers, sisters..,

I did it.

I made it.

I died.

I know so many of you wish to, but can't. Maybe fate, maybe coincidence… maybe I was just lucky. Or unlucky.

Whatever it is…

Hahahahaha… I did it.

Death is just so… com—

Comforting.

---

Those were my dying words in my past life. Sigh… I was so happy to die, so happy to lose everything. I never once thought about what could be after death.

Yet there was something.

I was reborn.

Reborn in a world with a similar system, but with powers… abilities… techniques… skills.

A world where you could change who you were.

Even if your talent was predetermined, your power was still a mystery to unravel.

You could build yourself and become strong enough to change your fate.

You could explore the stars, destroy ecosystems… dominate entire races… become their god.

Become so strong that you stood above the laws of existence."

The voice trembled—full of emotion, cracks forming in the walls he had built to shield himself.

"Even if my start was low… even if the world betrayed me early on… I didn't care why. I just wanted to live and enjoy life.

But I was born with a taboo power—one meant to consume me.

I was proclaimed dead before I turned five.

A power that brought destruction to my entire family.

But guess what—you all know it.

Yes, my family was destroyed… but I lived.

I survived.

I built myself into something above everything in creation.

I fell for you along the way… swore to protect you with every fiber of my being. So why?

Why did you stand with them?

What have they ever given you that I haven't?

I killed races for you.

Destroyed multiverses for you.

Morphed realities for your sake.

Entered forbidden zones to save you.

Which of them was brave enough to do that for you?

Tell me..

which of them could lay down their life for you?

In this final war, I got rid of all of them… with you beside me.

I hoped that after everything, we could finally build our forever.

Yet you betrayed me."

His voice was full of anguish and pain.

Light flashed—revealing a devastated battlefield.

Corpses everywhere.

Planets and space around them littered with the bodies of terrifying beings whose very wills could shake dimensions and realities.

And on this ruined world stood two lovers.

One—a devastated male, body covered in bruises and gaping wounds, blood pouring from his limbs. He didn't even look at them. Not even at the spear lodged in his chest, piercing his heart.

All of it was insignificant.

Because sorrow welled in his eyes as he looked at the smallest injury he had a tiny knife wound on his abdomen, barely piercing the skin.

Yet it hurt more than the spear through his heart.

His back was lonely, darkness stretching endlessly behind him.

Opposite him stood a woman formed from everything beautiful in existence.

Eyes like infinite universes filled with stars.

A body sculpted to perfection.

A beauty beyond known or unknown limits.

But that perfect face was stained with tears—

tears that could make anyone cry and vow revenge.

Her hands were stained with the blood of her lover.

Her back trembling with regret, pain, and determination.

"To build a future, you said," her voice came, beautiful, intoxicating, mesmerizing.

"Look around. We are the only ones left. You killed everyone. Why? Why must you erase everything?

This isn't the man I fell in love with.

This isn't you.

This is a monster wearing your body."

The words shattered him like shards of eternity stabbing into his heart.

His face twisted in agony.

"They wanted to kill me… kill us. Should I allow you to die?" he asked, voice trembling.

"Kill me? Kill you?

Do you even understand what you've done?

You're not a villain.

You're not a monster.

You are the incarnation of evil.

You destroyed everything.

You made their lives miserable.

You took everything from every being in existence.

You threatened to wipe out all of creation.

So is it wrong they fought back?" she said, her voice low and broken.

"Really? Those hypocrites. Tch… death is befitting for them," he replied, eyes soft as he looked at her.

"I wish I had died back then… so I wouldn't have witnessed what you became.

I don't love this.

I don't want you to kill everyone.

What next?

Only us, living in the ruins you created?" she asked, searching for a reason.

"But we have us.

You and me. Isn't that enough? What more do you want?" he asked, confused.

"I hate you.

I fucking hate you.

My family… my friends… you killed all of them.

For what?

To protect me?" she screamed, laughing in pain.

"They were trying to use you.

They didn't love you.

They only wanted to use you to get to me," he argued.

She shook her head, broken.

"Hahaha… really?

You and I have nothing left to talk about.

This isn't what you promised me under the Tree of Fate that night.

Looking back now… I blame myself for falling in love with a beast like you, believing I could change you.

You are lost in your ego and pride.

You are a miserable being.

You and I are done.

You might as well end everything, because even if you try till eternity,

I will never fall for you again.

Never forgive you.

From now on, we can never reconcile."

Silence.

His eyes sharpened.

His body trembled.

Memories of their love, their happiness, their promises—all resurfacing.

Now all of it was gone.

Two beings stood alone in a silent world.

"So be it.

I am evil… yes.

Yet you fell in love with my evilness.

Can you say you never loved me?

I remember what you told me:

You would rather stay with the man who would burn the world for you,

than with one who would sacrifice you to save it."

He took a deep breath, eyes steady.

"I curse you.

The day I met you, the time, the hour—

you shall always fall for someone who will betray you.

They will sacrifice you for the world."

His words became divine laws.

Mystical chains wrapped around the woman and sank into her body.

She didn't flinch as she spoke:

"And I curse you.

You will always fall for a woman who will never want you.

You will watch her leave you for another man.

You shall never find true love.

And any woman you fall for… is cursed to die."

A golden serpent formed, slithering into the man's head and disappearing.

With their curses cast, the planet roared to life

then exploded.

Existence vanished with it.

The end of a story…

is the beginning of another.

---

" argh, why did void send me to this multiverse again ".., linkir muttered

as she watched everything

being destroyed and then been restarted by a terrifying

power of rules..