Inside the Dream — The Eye Draws Closer
The massive eye within the void was no longer merely watching.
It began to smile.
Not with a mouth—
but with a slight curvature in the darkness around its pupil.
"You are strong, Kim."
"You broke fate."
"You killed concepts."
"You escaped your destiny."
A heavy silence.
Then—
"But do you know why your family truly died?"
The air suddenly dropped.
Kim did not move.
But his heartbeat changed.
The system trembled.
Warning: Severe emotional disturbance
Seed of Possibility stability decreasing
Kim said coldly:
"Do not touch them."
The Abyss moved closer.
"You believe the war… was the cause."
"That fate… wrote your tragedy."
"That you were a victim."
Silence.
Then it whispered:
"But what if everything you lived… was a lie?"
The ground beneath his feet cracked.
Images appeared.
Memories.
But different.
His mother… looking at him in fear.
His father… arguing with a man clothed in shadow.
The night of the fire… not as he remembered it.
The Abyss spoke with deadly calm:
"Your family did not die because of your weakness."
"They died because they knew something."
The eye widened.
"They knew the truth about you."
His heart tightened.
"What truth?"
A laugh without sound.
"You were never an ordinary child."
"You were created as an experiment."
The void opened wider.
Images of laboratories.
Ancient symbols.
People observing a small child—
A child with familiar eyes.
Eyes like his now.
"Your family tried to escape with you."
"So they were eradicated."
A crushing silence.
Then—
"And you?"
"Your memories were rewritten."
The system began fracturing.
Information conflict detected
No data confirming or denying
Risk of user identity collapse
Kim whispered:
"Lies."
But his voice was not steady.
The Abyss moved closer until it filled his entire vision.
"Accept me."
"And I will show you the complete truth."
"Not fragments."
"Not illusions."
"The truth fate hid… from you."
The void began pulling at his limbs.
"But remember…"
The voice grew deeper.
"When I show you the truth…"
"You will become mine."
"A servant of the Abyss."
"Because one who knows everything…
is never free again."
Silence.
The eye shimmered.
"Do you not want to know?"
"Have you not always wondered…"
"Did your mother truly want you to be born?"
The words struck him.
His mother.
The sentence he had spoken on the mountain.
The Abyss had not invented it.
It had been inside him.
The system stability dropped.
41%
28%
17%
The Abyss whispered:
"You are searching for meaning."
"And I hold the answer."
Kim closed his eyes.
Images of Nir.
Beath.
The village.
The child he saved.
Then—
Images of his family.
The night of the fire.
His mother's scream.
A sentence he never remembered clearly…
"Run… from them."
From… who?
The Abyss' eye moved so close it nearly touched his face.
"Just say… yes."
The void waited.
The system collapsed.
The universe watched.
And for the first time since all the battles—
Kim was not facing an enemy.
He was facing a question.