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Chapter 82 - From misfortune to an opportunity

"War…"

The world around me froze.

It was a weirdly tranquil moment, with everyone on the street looking up, to where the ringing of the bells came from.

Everyone needed a moment to process such news. And I wasn't any different.

'War? With who? Here? When? Where? Will they try to conscript? Should we run?'

A myriad of questions rushed through my head as I attempted to make sense out of the news.

And within a second, they only got worse.

'Is it because of me? Did I raise a flag? In a world governed by fate, does raising flags actually work? Or maybe it's because I've skewed my situation too much with this broken system of mine?'

Within a single second, I went from the stunned attempts at processing the news to spiraling down the abyss of increasingly more random ideas.

"Leon!"

Selia grabbed me by my shoulders and shook me, forcing me out of the spiraling loop of negative thoughts.

"Snap out of it!"

Could I be blamed?

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