The village no longer made a sound.
Smoke drifted silently through the ruined streets as fire crackled faintly between collapsed homes.
Bodies covered the ground.
Some Elios recognized.
Some he couldn't force himself to look at.
His breathing had become shallow.
Uneven.
Not from battle.
From realization.
"…No…"
The word barely escaped his mouth.
His hands trembled violently as he stared at the blood covering them.
Human blood.
Not monsters.
Not goblins.
People.
The whispers were gone now.
And that silence felt worse.
Because there was nothing left to drown out the truth anymore.
Elios slowly turned his head.
Near the shattered remains of a broken wall—
he saw Mira.
Unmoving.
His eyes widened instantly.
Everything inside him stopped.
"…Mira…?"
His voice broke completely.
Elios staggered toward her slowly.
Each step felt heavier than the last.
"No…"
His knees hit the ground beside her.
"…No no no…"
His hands shook as he reached toward her.
Warm.
Still alive.
Barely.
Relief and horror crashed together inside him violently.
"Mira…!"
Her eyes opened slightly.
Weak.
Terrified.
And when she looked at him—
she flinched.
That broke something inside him completely.
Not hatred.
Not rage.
Himself.
"…Brother…"
Her voice trembled faintly.
Not with comfort.
Fear.
Elios froze.
That single expression hurt more than every wound he had ever suffered.
Because even she—
even Mira—
was afraid of him now.
Tears finally fell from Elios' eyes.
"…I…"
No words came after that.
What could he even say?
Sorry?
After this?
After all of this?
The white light above the village intensified suddenly.
The entire sky split apart silently.
Not physically.
Conceptually.
Reality itself distorted.
The air froze.
The wind stopped.
The flames became motionless.
Time itself seemed to pause.
Elios slowly lifted his head.
And for the first time—
he truly felt fear toward something beyond humanity.
Figures descended from the fractured sky.
Not walking.
Existing.
Their forms were impossible to fully comprehend.
Covered in blinding white light.
Presence alone crushed the air around the village.
The gods had arrived.
Every instinct inside Elios screamed at him to kneel.
But he couldn't move.
Not because he resisted.
Because he was empty.
One of the figures stepped forward slightly.
And the moment it looked at him—
the black flow inside Elios reacted violently.
Like an animal sensing a predator.
"…Anomaly."
The voice did not echo through the air.
It echoed directly through existence itself.
Elios clenched his fists weakly.
The god looked toward the destroyed village.
Toward the bodies.
Then back toward Elios.
"…Unmarked."
The word itself felt heavy.
Like judgment.
Elios' breathing became rough again.
"…You…"
His voice sounded broken.
"…Where were you…"
The gods remained silent.
Elios slowly stood.
Unstable.
Shaking.
"…WHERE WERE YOU?!"
The scream tore through the silent village.
Tears mixed with rage across his face.
"When my father died—"
The black flow surged violently around him again.
"When Kael died—"
The air around the village distorted slightly.
"When people suffered—"
His breathing completely broke.
"WHERE WERE YOU THEN?!"
The gods remained motionless.
Cold.
Detached.
One of them finally spoke.
"…Human suffering does not alter balance."
Silence.
Then Elios laughed weakly.
Not from amusement.
Disbelief.
"…Balance…?"
His eyes trembled violently.
"You call this balance…?"
The black flow pulsed harder.
Violently reacting to his emotions again.
The gods noticed immediately.
For the first time—
their expressions shifted slightly.
Not fear.
Concern.
"…It has evolved beyond law."
Another god spoke quietly.
"…Impossible."
Elios heard those words clearly.
And finally understood.
They weren't here because people died.
They were here because HE existed.
Because Black Veil existed.
Because something outside their system had been born.
Elios slowly lowered his head.
Then laughed again.
Broken.
"…So that's all I am to you…"
The black flow spread across the ground around him like living darkness.
"A mistake."
The gods stepped forward simultaneously.
The entire world trembled slightly.
"…The anomaly must be erased."
At those words—
something inside Elios finally shattered completely.
Not emotionally.
Existentially.
The black flow exploded violently.
Darkness swallowed the ruined village instantly.
Reality cracked apart.
And Elios disappeared into the White Domain.
End.