Zun got back to his apartment, the one I stayed in after I reincarnated. After my talk with Richard and Alex, my mind was still spinning about the shards. But it was the room that gave me chills.
Goosebumps spread across my arms as soon as I stepped inside.
My eyes were drawn to the ceiling.
The eye drawing is still there—disturbing, still in the ceiling.
I touch the old family photo on the wall. X marked my parents head.
Behind the silhouettes of my family…I still saw the mysterious shadow. Vague.
Zun sighed. "What kind of guy was I before…?"
He shook his head. "Well… time to clean up that drawing."
I grabbed a chair and dug through some supplies. Finally found an old bottle of cleanser.
"Sip: Clean Everything." I read the label and scoffed. "Haha, what a funny brand name."
I climbed onto the chair and reached up.
As I pressed the cloth to the drawing—
Time stopped.
Everything froze.
A bloody red aura swallowed my vision, pulsing like a living thing.
Then, through the silence, came a voice.
"Darling…"
As the crimson veil lifted from my eyes, I was no longer in that room.
I was…
Back on Earth.
I was in the bus accident where I died.
My eyes locked onto something in front of me.
My body.
Headless.
Blood pooling beneath it.
I screamed. "What the fuck?! Why am I here?!"
Surrounding me were other corpses. Lifeless bodies of people I didn't recognize.
I staggered back, my stomach twisting.
Glurk—
I nearly vomited from the overwhelming stench.
"Fuck… am I really back on Earth?" I gasped. "Or is this just an illusion?"
I looked around desperately.
But it all looked too real.
The sky. The wind. The blood.
Then—
A hand touched my shoulder.
I froze.
"What the heck is that…?" I whispered, paralyzed with fear.
I turned around slowly, heart hammering in my chest.
There she was.
The girl.
The same one I saw before I reincarnated.
The girl from the road near my apartment.
The girl from my dreams.
My eyes widened.
"You?! Why are you here? Fuck—this has got to be a dream!"
She smiled, soft and calm.
"This isn't a dream, my darling," she said sweetly.
"Stop calling me that!" Zun shouted.
"If it's not a dream… then where the hell am I?!"
She walked toward me gracefully. Her presence sent chills down my spine.
"You're in **my domain. ♡**"
She stopped a few feet in front of me.
"I am a deity. Sherls Ganidi, the Goddess of Lust… and I have fallen for you."
My body went rigid.
Zun couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"What the hell…?"
She tilted her head slightly. "Remember what I said to you in your dreams? Back on Earth?"
Images flashed across my mind.
Dreams before I reincarnated, dreams that made me feel comfortable.
And I saw her still shimmering like back then.
Her voice—*"It's going to be okay."*
It was her all along.
My breathing grew sharp. "You… you're the girl from my dreams…"
She nodded gently.
I clenched my fists.
"Fuck you."
She just giggled, unbothered.
"And also," she said, eyes glowing faintly, "this domain…"
She raised her hand as the air twisted like threads of silk.
"…is called the Thread of Return."
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End of Chapter 7