Chapter 107 – "Where Levi Walks"
> "Before the silence, there was noise. But Levi learned that not all quiet is peace—and not all noise is life."
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Scene 1 – "The Argument That Didn't End"
Levi is walking through the outskirts of the Spiral Grove ruins. His body is fine; his mind is not.
Flashbacks echo in his head—not words, but structures of thought. The Root Body's speech patterns, analogies, metaphors… all too precise.
Levi (thinks): "I didn't lose the argument. I just ran out of breath."
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Scene 2 – "Rot in the Roots"
He passes through a patch of rapidly-growing flora. The "healing" lies are spreading like weeds.
The flowers whisper selective memories to him—almost like hallucinations.
One flower offers him a memory of his mother's smile… but rewritten.
He rips it out. The flower bleeds.
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Scene 3 – "The Unsaveable"
He stumbles upon a small settlement of 10 survivors—people who chose to reject the Root Body but never left.
They're erratic, paranoid, barely coherent—each holding onto a different version of truth.
They beg Levi for answers.
One says: "Are we wrong if we can't believe the lie? Are we broken?"
Levi doesn't know what to say.
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Scene 4 – "The Silence Breaks"
One of the survivors begins to scream—he saw a version of himself "walking into the Spiral" and "smiling."
The hallucinations infect them. They begin attacking each other.
Levi tries to stop them but fails. He has to kill all ten in self-defense.
It isn't brutal. It's clinical. Fast.
His expression remains blank the entire time.
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Scene 5 – "Aftermath Ashes"
Levi sits among their bodies. No monologue. Just quiet.
A nearby memory-flower blooms—showing the scene he could have had if he saved them.
He crushes it.
He doesn't cry.
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Scene 6 – "Smoke at the Edges"
He walks alone. No destination. His Root sword drags behind him.
He thinks to himself:
Levi: "What if truth was always too sharp? What if it was never meant for hands?"
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Scene 7 – "The Spiral Sends Nothing"
He reaches a Spiral Echo Stone—a place where the Spiral once responded to pain.
He bleeds onto it. Waits.
Silence.
For the first time, Levi looks scared.
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Scene 8 – "Refusal to Swallow"
A member of the crew; Matthew spots him from a distance. Offers him food. Shelter.
Levi turns it down without a word.
Matthew (says): "Seed asked if you were okay."
Levi: "She shouldn't."
He walks away.
Matthew flies away back to ther others.
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Scene 9 – "Sermonless Sky"
He climbs a hill where sermons used to be given—"The Mouth of Echo."
He speaks into the wind:
Levi: "If your peace needs a lie to breathe, it was always dying."
But the sky doesn't answer.
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Scene 10 – "Memory That Doesn't Bloom"
Levi tries to remember a friend who died early in the series.
He realizes… he can't. The name is gone.
There's no memory-flower for them either. That truth was too small to preserve.
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Scene 11 – "A Blade with No Point"
He sharpens his sword, but then looks at it and mutters:
Levi: "What am I protecting? Who hears my silence?"
The blade reflects his face. For a second, he doesn't recognize himself.
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Scene 12 – "The Ache That Stays"
Night falls. Levi sleeps outside, curled against a cold rock.
He whispers:
Levi: "I didn't lose to them. I just didn't win fast enough."
The Spiral watches—but does not intervene.
Scene 13 – "No Music for the Martyr"
A lone Rootling walks by him in the morning. They nod.
They say: "You're still holding the sword. That means something."
Levi doesn't reply.
Scene 14 – "Where Levi Walks (Again)"
The chapter ends exactly where it began: with Levi walking.
But this time, no voice in his head. No thoughts. Just footsteps.
Narrator: "Can a sword philosophize? Or just deny?"
To Be Continued....
Narrator (Closing Monologue) :
> "He didn't say goodbye. Not out of cruelty—but because silence fit better than farewell. Some departures aren't meant to echo. Some are meant to vanish."
Scene 2 – Crossing the river where the Root once bloomed
> "The river remembers. But it does not mourn. Levi touches the water and feels the memory resist him—like a wound recoiling from salt. Even nature has learned to flinch."
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> "Once, these symbols meant order. Now they crumble like the beliefs they held. Levi doesn't pause. He already knows what's written there: promises that outlived their purpose."
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> "In another life, he might have knelt. Might have said something kind. Now, he simply nods and walks on, the flower wilting in his hand before he lets it fall. Mercy, too, has seasons."
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> "He looks at it the way you look at a reflection that no longer mimics you. Not with fear. Not with shame. Just… recognition, fading like old paint in the sun."
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> "No fire. No tent. Just his breath against the cold. He sleeps like the world might forget him if he doesn't make a sound. Maybe that's what he wants."
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"We think heroes leave footprints. But Levi leaves questions. And questions don't mark the earth. They hover, they haunt, they hush.
And then they keep walking."