[You decided to stay back in the end.]
The system blinked after the conjured vortex by Orrelith finally dispersed, leaving the Void in silence.
Ryuk stared at the space silently for a while before a smile of relief bloomed on his face.
'That was a harder decision than I thought.'
To be honest, he had been deeply conflicted.
The door to the outside world was right before him.
Imprisonment for one month?
He never cared for that as he was more than confident that he could slip away unnoticed and disappear without a trace.
But even though he had every reason to leave, that decision never brought him peace.
A part of him felt that the decision to retreat, although logical, wasn't necessarily the best.
But making an illogical choice, especially for someone like him who believed himself to be a survivor, was incredibly difficult.
"If battle truly is the way to growth, why ever run from it?" he asked the system aloud.
