“…The ring of the head…and, the teacher’s position as the pillar god… is all given to me.

"I'm for-"

As she said that, she suddenly pulled the halo covered with black thorns.

His body suddenly began to collapse.

The girl couldn't pull it, so she simply hit the halo and let the thorns dye her cheeks and neck red. She allowed the halo to tighten her to suffocate her. As the halo of thorns completely pierced her throat and penetrated it - in this way, she forcibly took away the new taboo pillar god's control over the Halo Ring.

——But this behavior must come at a price.

As his consciousness quickly blurred, he felt that the whole world seemed to solidify.

In the pure black and pure white world, only the girl who strangled her throat and quickly dissipated her life became so clear. She was the only existence with color, but she was swallowed by black and white extremely quickly.

"The successor—"

And at that moment, his body suddenly collapsed.

The sin thorn formed by most of his body transformed into a black coffin, freezing and solidifying the girl's body before it was about to be broken. His head completely dissolved and melted, turning into a golden apple held in the girl's arms.

The next moment, the whole world was covered with surging dim yellow.

Freeze, stagnate.

Until everything is silent.

I don't know how long it took, but the girl with white-haired winged ears that solidified in amber opened her eyes slightly and supported her body.

She finally revealed what she was holding in her arms, the thing she was protecting carefully like a fetus... it was a golden apple.

So, time goes back.

She lifted the apple and whipped it slightly.

Winter, autumn, summer and spring flow constantly, but the world is always covered by amber dusk.

Rotate all the time.

Keep going backwards.

Until all the stories begin.

Until...

She saw a young man wearing monocle glasses, a gentle and carefree smile. When she looked at herself... there were thousands of complex expressions in her eyes.

He walked towards him and touched himself tentatively.

——But this time, she didn't fly towards him.

She had closed her eyes and fell into a permanent sleep.

Like amber in the eggs, like an empty cicada suit.

So the world headed on another path.

And now-

As the light in Aivas's hand swelled, the Stone of Eden in his hand regained its vitality and became what it was.
Chapter completed!