[Scene shifts to Loma and Sylven]
Loma: "Do you know who the Pillars are?"
Sylven: "Yeah… I do."
Loma: "Tell me everything about them. From the start."
Sylven: "…Then listen."
[Flashback begins]
Sylven's voice grows heavier as the memory unfolds.
Sylven:
"It all started with the Titan Generation. Before the Pillars, before the syndicates, there were no rules… only monsters.
They weren't organized gangs or syndicates. They were solitary rulers — chaotic monarchs of the streets. Each one stood alone, defending their territory with nothing but their fists and their will.
Their world wasn't about loyalty, or brotherhood. It was about survival. About proving you were the one who wouldn't kneel.
They fought like animals, every battle pure instinct. Blood soaked the alleys, bones cracked against the pavement. Entire neighborhoods were torn apart, not for money or control… but just so one name would echo louder than the rest.
But chaos eats itself alive. And in time, the Titans began to fall.
One after another, the current Pillars rose. They crushed them, erased them, burned their legacy to ash. The era of Titans ended in blood and silence.
And in its place… a new order was born.
The Era of Ascendants."
[Flashback fades — Sylven looks at Loma with sharp eyes.]
Sylven: "That's the world you're standing in now. The Titans are gone… but the Ascendants? They're worse."
Chapter 93 End