Chapter 256: Worthless [2]
Chapter 256 – Worthless [2]
Worthless.
It was a simple word, but one that could break the hardest man alive... if the right conditions were met.
It was a word that could make you feel all the negative emotions in existence. You’d feel pain, jealousy, envy, anger, hatred... all boiling at the fact that you were, truly and utterly, worthless.
You would be angry at yourself, but even more than that, you would be angry at the world.
Because at the end of the day, it was never you who chose the standards that decided what made someone ’worth something.’
It was the world.
It was the world that imposed those standards on you.
And so, when Alice spoke that word, it wasn’t just Lewis who felt its weight.
Even the world itself began to weep.
The atmosphere thickened instantly, heavy and oppressive. The sky of the shadow realm was already dark, but now it wasn’t just dark... it was gloomy, like the entire realm was succumbing to emotion, like it too was collapsing beneath the weight of worthlessness.
Space shimmered unnaturally. The weeping didn’t stop there—time itself paused, almost as if it needed a moment of reflection, to sit with its own failure, to grieve the weight of its own uselessness.