Chapter 412 The Right to Exist — Rui Judged, Joanna Healed
Two events move parallel at the edge of the world that no longer knows time:
On the cracked layer of reality, Rui, who has now become a vessel of rejected will, stands alone, surrounded by the Early Guardians emerging from outside the Spiral.
However, behind the calmness of her face, there is a storm of emotions rolling—fear and hope colliding within her soul, like falling stars crashing against gravity, facing the challenge of the emptiness that haunts. Every passing second feels painful, like the relentless waves crashing against the long-collapsed cliffs.
In the dimension of light hidden from physical space, Joanna, her body fragile and nearly lifeless, is surrounded by six of the Seven Heavenly Angels gathered to fight against heavenly annihilation.
Rui's thoughts step forward, piercing the boundary between existence and non-existence, screaming her name in the endless silence. She feels like a piece of a puzzle trapped in time, alienated yet bound in the hope of seeing her beloved figure endure even in the void.
Both... are on the brink of a final decision.
The sky changes shape.
No longer blue, no longer open—but becomes a layered existential prism dome, as if the eye of existence itself gazes into her soul.
From that sky, six figures descend—not gods, not demons, not angels.
They are the Early Guardians, protectors of the boundaries of reality before concepts are decided. They guard the order from beings that should never have existed.
They circle around Rui like unmoving shadows.