Chapter 100: Worth (3)
An unanswered question resurfaced. It wasn’t like Eros and Psyche, yet I still couldn’t understand why El remained hidden in the darkness, never revealing himself to me.
‘Is he also my enemy?’
Like the Black King?
Considering how he had appeared to me so far, it was clear he bore me no ill will. However, the timing of his appearance was undeniably suspicious.
El showed up just as the functions of the system started disappearing one by one. The more episodes I progressed through, the more I heard El’s voice.
Could it be… that he was the one who took away the system’s functions from me?
El’s voice warning me echoed in my mind. He had saved me from the brink of death, preserving my sanity. He clearly didn’t want me dead, at least not like the Black King or Clara Barnum.
With a thin strand of hope, I called out into the void.
“El?”