Chapter 12
At that moment, Yoren felt everything click into place. The pieces of the puzzle he hadn't even realized he was assembling suddenly fit together with absolute clarity.
He remembered.
Yesterday, after coming home from school, he had been lying on his bed, lazily playing Arknights on his phone. He had just finished a mission when an unusual prompt appeared on his screen:
"Human, are you willing to change this world with your actions?"
Two choices. "Yes" or "No."
At first, he thought it was some kind of special event or maybe a prank from the developers. Just as he was about to tap "No" out of sheer skepticism, a flash of lightning split the sky outside his window, startling him so much that his hand jerked—and the phone slipped, smacking him right in the face.
Then, everything went black.
Holy hell... is that how I got there? Was that my method of traveling between worlds? Death by phone-to-face impact? How ridiculous could it get?!
But no—there was no mistaking it now. The dull ache in his head, the soreness in his waist... they were proof. Proof that everything he had experienced wasn't just some elaborate fever dream. The Terra world was real. Vina was real. Winter was real. Indra's brutal kick was real.
He clenched his fists as the realization settled deep into his bones.
Next to him, Zhang Yuan raised an eyebrow. "What's with you? You look like you just figured out the meaning of life or something."