Chapter 0
Chapter 0
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 0
Chapter Title: Amid the Ruin
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The world is collapsing.
The ground boils and bubbles, swallowing everything on its surface, while the sky shatters into fragments and rains down.
For an apocalypse, it's quite the picturesque scene.
Watching the end of the world, I closed my eyes and dredged up memories that had long since faded.
Earth. The beautiful blue planet. My homeworld.
I recalled the goddess who had appeared after my first life ended in a drunk-driving truck crash, asking me to defeat the Demon King in exchange for sending me back.
Already 1,048 years' worth of memories.
It had truly been eventful.
From the hellish days of training to the journeys as a hero, seeking out disasters—they all flashed through my mind.
Perhaps because I'd grown too strong, the Demon King broke into a cold sweat the instant our swords clashed and fled without so much as a backward glance.
He hid so thoroughly after that I couldn't track him down for a thousand years.
Because of it, I ended up stranded here right up until the world's bitter end, unable to return.
In that moment, as I alone accepted the destruction, the space before my eyes warped.
The endlessly twisting void eventually halted in place, glowing with blue light.
A phenomenon I'd never witnessed, despite all my long years in this place.
With a deep hum, the rent in space began sucking in everything around it—including me.
What in the world was this? I didn't have time to ponder.
As the entire world crumbled away, I hurled myself into that rift.