Chapter 78
There was no step.No door.No falling.Only absence.
Kiro passed through the gate—and everything ceased.
No breath.No sound.No self.
For a moment, he didn't exist.
Then—
—he opened his eyes.
He stood in a valley of bloodless sky.No stars. No sun. Only soft gray light spilling from a horizon that curved upward.
The world was wrong.
Floating islands of bone drifted overhead like forgotten thoughts. Rivers of solid mist ran through fractured terrain. And high above, suspended like a crown of ruin, hovered a war—frozen mid-collapse. Machines broken in the air. God-corpses impaled on divine spires. A battle that had never ended.
[First Dream of Kuni – Entry Confirmed][Core Recognition Initiated: Fragmented Divinity Detected][You are now inside a Memory Loop – Layer One]
Kiro took a step.