“I was fated to become a calamity.”
After hearing that, I had to sit still for a while.
That the small tree was a Sacred Tree.
That until I ate the Divine Fruit, my soul had been twisted.
That the twisted, lost soul returned to its place after eating the Divine Fruit.
Every step of it was a shock.
But in the end, the most shocking thing was that I was fated to become a calamity.
‘…So in the end.’
Was it that, after all?
What Yeon Ilcheon said, what I went through in the Central Plains—even my experiencing regression—was it all the will of the world?
‘…And my mother as well?’
From the start, my mother didn’t come as the Central Plains’ calamity.
‘She came to leave a calamity behind.’
If she came to leave the true calamity behind—
I couldn’t bring my blanked-out mind back.
Why would the master of the Myriad Realms bother to destroy the Central Plains and become its master?
A calamity is when the master of a lost world appears and acts; my mother appeared in the Central Plains despite already holding the Myriad Realms.
I’d judged that this was because there existed…