Nostalgia Candy returns me to the state I was in at my peak.
In other words, that was still me. It didn’t mean I became smarter or more perfect.
If I let my guard down and relied only on the condition boost Nostalgia Candy gave me… that meant I was done for.
I knew that.
“…!”
I gritted my teeth as I felt an agonizing pain from my right arm—no, from the empty place where my right arm used to be.
I’d missed the timing to take it.
Damn it.
‘I was too hasty.’
With the safe area about to disappear within an hour, and then suddenly a way to open the mart doors appearing on top of that, my attention had been pulled away.
The price for that came in the form of pain so horrific it was almost grotesque.
The severed arm that had been cauterized shut.
Every single syllable of that description hacked into me as raw, freezing pain.
“Hhk.”
My legs gave out for a moment and I nearly collapsed to the floor. Out of reflex I tried to brace myself with my right arm, then realized it wasn’t there, stumbled, and barely managed to catch myself out of rhythm with my left hand.
But it was okay.
“Agent…!”
“J-just… a second.”
Agent Bronze stepped in behind me and supported me. I was gasping under the violent pain.
Go Youngeun came running over…