Chapter 81: A New Extraordinary Power
The smell of roasted beans drifted in the air. Ethan sat at a window table in the café, stirring his untouched coffee.
His eyes stared blankly at the street, but his mind was racing.
He was supposed to be planning the next step of his mission. Saving Serena. But the thought had long stopped being about the mission. He really wanted to save her—not for the system, not for the reward—but because... he just wanted to. He didn’t know why, but there was something about her that felt real. Important.
But something didn’t sit right. Someone was after him.
"Who is that person... or that group?" he mumbled under his breath. "Why me?"
His thoughts drifted again, this time to his parents.
In all the memories he’d recovered from this world’s ’Ethan,’ there were barely any details about them. That alone was suspicious. But what was stranger—the school and the university he went to were prestigious, the kind of places only the rich could afford. Yet his family... they could barely afford a proper meal in the past.
"How did they manage that?" he whispered. "We never had that kind of money... So how did they send me to those places?"
He leaned back, eyes narrowing.
Knowing the goddess who put him here, this could be part of her twisted design. A planted past. A fabricated background.
He clenched his fist.
"I need to talk to them. I need to know what kind of past they really had... and how they afforded everything."