The sky seemed to have shed a thin veil of gossamer, becoming incomparably clear.
"Where is this?"
To the left of the Y-shaped pipe, Midnight Howl, who had collapsed on the ground, shakily stood up. He looked at his own hands with a blank expression,
"Huh?"
Li Cheng turned his head to glance at him. As the pipe's gate closed and the chaotic flow of time was no longer leaking, it seemed that the broken Mystery Lock had reset Midnight Howl to a certain temporal node.
"Why am I... still alive?"
Like Li Cheng, Midnight Howl had also experienced two looping patterns, A and B. In Loop A, he was instantly killed upon meeting Cliff. In Loop B, he was brainwashed by Mithril and killed by Li Cheng in that loop.
Two completely contrasting pre-death memories floated up in Midnight Howl's brain, giving him a splitting headache as he began to groan in pain.
"Are you alright? Is it a headache?"
Gray Rain kindly passed over a large sledgehammer used for demolition, "Here."
