I swear. I will become the guardian of the Nine Worlds. I will do my utmost to protect everyone.

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The Prophet and I locked eyes.

Once, our eyes had the same color. Now, they were different.

We had both experienced different times and had finally changed. The emotions and goals reflected in our eyes were no longer the same.

You and I were now different people. Though our eyes met for only a moment, I could tell immediately.

“…” “…”

Surprisingly, there was no overwhelming turmoil.

I had been worried that, with how much Pingchang had fallen recently, I might end up weeping, saying, “I can’t kill another version of myself, boo-hoo…” But instead, my heart grew cold and indifferent.

‘I am not Kang Jinsu; I am Clara.’

And so, I found it remarkably easy to oppose him. In fact, because we were somewhat similar, anger erupted within me all the more swiftly.

Because he was another version of me, It was so easy to hate him.

No, it wasn’t even hot hatred.@@novelbin@@

It was merely a sense of duty, like finding a pest that needed exterminating. A dull, gray malice boiled up inside me.

‘Because of you… because of you…!’

Everyone was in danger. The correct path to rescue my seniors had vanished.

The fact that this cancerous entity, trying to ruin everything I loved, was another version of ‘me’ was so repulsive I could hardly stand it.

It felt like seeing a cockroach mimic my voice as it scuttled around my home. I couldn’t bear the existence of it.

‘Here, I must…!’

In the midst of our fall, I blasted ether from my feet like a rocket.

Boom—!!

Pink energy burst forth, altering the direction of my fall. I easily closed the distance to the rapidly approaching green yew tree.

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