Chapter 0
Chapter 0
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 0
Chapter Title: Prologue: Life Is Truly Mysterious
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Everyone imagines returning to the past at least once in their life.
Some wish to go back and dodge misfortune, others—content with the present—are simply curious about the roads not taken...
I, of course, had those fantasies too.
There were even stretches when I buried myself in them all day long.
My life was a brutal tragedy, no matter if you looked at it from afar or up close.
And so, I was shackled to the past for far too long.
Days lost in regrets—"If only I'd done that back then, or if I just hadn't..."—and endless obsessions...
But no human can turn back time, so I couldn't trap myself in delusions forever.
I buried the past and lived for the now and the future.
Some days my hands were stained with blood, others with money. At times I clutched glasses and blades as I plunged into the world's brutal fray.
In the end, it didn't matter if I'd escaped my tragic history or was just thrashing through a new one.
To me, ground down by the grind of existence, life boiled down to just two paths: living or dying.
I lived to survive, knowing death comes with the territory.
That's the mindset I drifted along with.
By then, happiness and misery meant nothing to me anymore, so the past faded from my thoughts.
Yet the world works in truly mysterious ways—sometimes defying all logic.
On the day it all ended, I came back from the brink.
Right to the day my life had shattered.