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This world…
was not dark.
And it was not bright.
It was balanced.
A gray sky with no sun.
Geometric cities.
People moving in a perfect pattern.
No laughter.
No crying.
No mistakes.
Kim arrived.
He stopped.
He said in a low voice: "Come out, Imtehan."
Nothing happened.
A voice came from everywhere:
"There is no need for me to appear."
The Ruler finally appeared.
A transparent body.
Precise features.
Eyes without a spark.
He said calmly:
"I am the Ruler of the Mind. We met some time ago."
"I am the one who prevents chaos."
"I am the one who makes decisions… necessary."
He looked at Kim:
"Nir was an unpredictable variable. I heard that he died."
"Removing him… was logical."
Kim did not get angry.
He did not shout.
He asked: "Was he in pain?"
The Ruler paused for a moment.
He said: "Pain… is a secondary variable."
Kim drew the dagger and used the Steps of Shadow to get closer.
Breath of nothingness.
The air did not move.
Rather…
the equations stopped.
Kim tried to stab him to activate the dagger's skill.
The first strike — Dismantling Certainty.
He stabbed.
The dagger did not enter the body.
It entered the idea.
The Ruler froze suddenly.
He began to see numbers…
but without connections.
Decisions without consequences.
Consequences without causes.
He said: "Impossible… what are you doing?"
Kim said: "Then taste what is inside me."
"When you erased him without a comprehensible reason."
The second strike — Paralysis of Possibilities.
Kim raised his hand.
Every possibility in the world froze.
No future.
No plans.
People stood still.
Their eyes open…
but without thoughts.
The Ruler said in a broken voice:
"A mind without possibilities… collapses."
Kim said:
"Finally you understand. You will taste what my friend felt."
The third strike — The Final Calculation.
Kim stepped closer.
He placed the dagger on his chest.
He said: "Is pain good?"
All of the Ruler's decisions flooded into him.
Every choice.
Every sacrifice.
Every human erased because "the equation demanded it."
His body began to crack.
Not blood…
but burned logic.
He screamed:
"I… I didn't… why me?!"
Kim replied:
"And I do not hate you."
Then he whispered:
"But the calculation is finished."
The final strike — Death of the Mind.
He drove the dagger in.
This time…
it entered the body.
But the body did not bleed.
The first idea shattered.
Causality.
The mind screamed without sound.
Then…
silence.
The world collapsed.
Not an explosion.
But a logical shutdown.
The laws fell.
Physics collapsed.
And the planet folded into itself like a wrong equation.
Kim stood in the void.
His features did not change.
But his eyes…
no longer looked at the world as a living being.
He said with terrifying calm:
"Another insect has been killed."