Chapter 10: Shattered Pride
[Three months later. Feeling stifled under Lilith’s presence, where even in this vast, open space, everything felt like a prison... just a very large one. You couldn’t hold on any longer. And you started losing your mind.]
[Time passed. But your daily life didn’t change. Sleeping with Lilith hugging you every night, preparing food for the two of you — since she never cooked — watching her strength grow at an abnormal rate, even to your untrained eyes... and continuing your own physical training.]
[Two more months went by. You began training more aggressively, even damaging your body in the process. But you didn’t care. Each time, you woke up the next day fully healed.]
[You started to drift away from Lilith. You no longer accommodated her like you once did. You talked less and less.]
[Your training changed, from a desire to grow stronger, to nothing more than a way to vent your frustration. Lilith tried to stop you, gently telling you that this kind of training was meaningless.]
[But you didn’t listen. You kept going, locked in your pattern.]
[Then, one day, while training like usual, you felt something was wrong. And then, suddenly, a sharp, blinding pain exploded in your head. You clutched it, staggered forward, and began punching the tree in front of you, screaming.]
[Sensing something was wrong, Lilith rushed over and tried to restrain you. But even wrapped in her arms, you flailed violently.]
[Left with no choice, she was forced to use a harsher method, knocking you unconscious.]
[You awoke sometime later. The pain was gone, but something else had changed.]
[Memories. Faint and scattered — but real. Pieces of your childhood from those blank nine years had returned.]
[You didn’t move. You didn’t speak. You simply turned your gaze to Lilith, who sat beside you.]