Dylan halted at her question. For a brief moment, he simply looked at her.
Then—
The past came rushing back.
Not as scattered memories, but as wounds that had never truly healed.
Wounds that time had failed to erase.
They still remained buried deep inside him as ...
A blessing.
And a curse.
"Seeing you makes me hate you even more ... so just disappear from my life."
Her voice echoed through his mind.
Then another.
"Disappear ... so I never have to see you again. Today, tomorrow ... never again. You're the cause of every one of my sufferings."
Another fragment followed.
This time, her voice trembled.
"The greatest regret of my life ... was ever loving you. Loving a monster who doesn't deserve to be loved. A heartless demon."
Her cries still echoed in his ears ...
"It hurts too much ..."
"So much ... that I don't even want to keep living in this world anymore."
"I just want to leave ..."
"For good."
One sentence after another.
One memory after another.
