A torrent of questions surged through Serein's mind until everything began to spin. A wave of dizziness and nausea rose up inside her, as though the truth itself was tilting the world off its axis.
She had always known the world she lived in hid countless secrets, including ones so vile that the human mind could barely fathom them. But what Deimos had just shown her overturned every rule she thought she understood.
A creature from inside the Gate could absorb a Guide's levo and use it to open a Gate?
Then where had the Gates come from?
Were they truly natural disasters that simply descended upon humanity?
Or had they always been a mistake born from humans themselves?
And people like Serein, like all Awakeners… what were they, really?
"Your world is far more rotten than you imagine, Serein." Deimos said with an almost casual calm.
Serein, of course, already knew that. Her world had been decaying from within for a long time. She had chosen to close her eyes and look away.
