Of course, this is just my personal wish... The vitality of those guys is as tenacious as cockroaches, and their persistent beliefs, like snakes, and annoying entanglements, brought them together again to hunt down their prey.

Their real target is not me, so I grit my teeth, and the muscles on my face start twitching incessantly.

It's obvious, those guys' target is a very important girl to me...

The hands clutching my knees unknowingly begin to exert force, although he is sitting in a living room chair with armrests in front of the TV, he still feels a bit uncomfortable.

I absentmindedly listen to the jokes of the actors on TV and the laughter of the audience that his humor amuses, but in reality, I'm extremely worried.

Sometimes I wonder if I made a wrong decision in my dream?

No, I smile bitterly and shake my head.

My child is already an adult, and I shouldn't continue to restrict her actions.

I can no longer keep her by my side like when she was a child, always protecting her.

Now she can only rely on herself for protection, even if it means putting herself in the midst of wolves or even more terrifying creatures than wolves, I have no choice but to do so, I am now...

"Death? It's really a pity... Looks like I don't have a choice?"

"Sorry sir, I'm afraid that's the case."

The doctor informs me frankly, and my gaze cautiously scans the medical record, as if looking at the glaring words above and reporting the answer that interests me.

I don't feel a trace of shock, on the contrary, I feel relieved.

I feel no shock, only the image of my daughter appears in my mind. She is so young and has already lost her protector. From now on, she can only face everything on her own. For this, Harry feels very sorry for her.

I still refused the doctor's suggestion of hospitalization and quietly went to the hospital for treatment and got the medication while she was at school. So, no one knows about this and I don't want others to worry about me or feel sad.

Death is not terrifying, that's my true voice.

Because even if I die, my soul will still exist forever.

I don't know when it started, but my life has been constantly reincarnating, which seems the same as others, but my memories never fade away.

It is because of this that I suffer from many memories, they... have made me numb.

"I'm really happy, we are finally together forever... very happy, very..."

I can hardly continue, tears gently flow down my cheeks as I look at the picture of my loved one.

Nevertheless, my daughter is the only one I am concerned about.

I don't want my daughter to experience that kind of thing again, but those persistent guys are really annoying, which makes me even more worried about my daughter and feel helpless and pathetic.

"Come back safely... my child."

The TV suddenly turns into a flurry of snow, forcing me to turn it off.

Death...

Juxi looks at the last date in the notebook... March 31, 2030.

Is this my last time?

He flips through the notes behind and finds that nothing has been written anymore.

"If so many years have passed, then everything I have experienced... So, I have always been alone?"

Juxi looks at the worn-out notebook in front of him and can only carefully put it away in his dormitory where he sleeps.

It is unimaginable what he has experienced in the past hundred years.

"Uh..."

As Juxi was lost in thought, the blood vessels in his body began to swell.

"What... what is happening?!"

Soon, the blood vessels on Juxi's body turned black. Not only that, his body temperature began to rise rapidly, from a sensation of warmth to intense pain in an instant!

"Why... why do I feel so uncomfortable?!"

Juxi wanted to scream for help, but it felt like all the moisture in his throat had evaporated, rendering him unable to utter a single word.

"Help... help..."

No... it can't be?!

Could it be...

Is everything...

Just going to end like this?

Juxi felt difficulty in breathing, and soon everything went black...

clang!

Accompanied by the sound of a mechanism, Juxi's breathing stabilized and his failing heart began to beat normally.

"Wait... I should have died just now, right?"

Juxi looked at his body. If it weren't for some reddened areas, he would even suspect that everything that happened just now was just a dream.

However, after carefully examining his body, he found nothing wrong.

Including the blood that had turned black earlier, which had suddenly...

That darkness, it feels familiar!

As Juxi was trying to recall what that thing was, a female voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

"Since the moment this world was engulfed by profound darkness, I have been protecting you..."

"You? Protecting me?"

Juxi got up in an attempt to find the source of the voice, but the woman's voice seemed to be coming from all directions, making it impossible for him to determine its direction.

"Juxi..."

"Who are you exactly? And how do you know my name?"

Juxi felt as though he recognized the voice of the woman, but he couldn't recall it, nor could he figure out where the voice was coming from.

But before delving into what it was exactly, Juxi couldn't even discern the direction of the voice.

Seeing Juxi struggling to find her, the woman's voice softened: "Don't bother looking, it seems you can't see me right now."

"..."

Juxi didn't know why, but the woman's voice would sometimes appear beside him and other times in a distant place.

"Who are you?"

"... Have you forgotten about me? Or..."

Buzz...

Suddenly, Juxi's wristband lit up out of nowhere, projecting information about the Core Spirit.

After carefully reading the information, Juxi hesitated before saying:

"You... are the Core Spirit?"

"Yes, but a very special Core Spirit."

"Special?"

"Yes, most of our transformations are derived from animals. Because they are specifically targeted at humans, the number of Core Spirits born among humans is extremely rare. Without the passage of time, they would probably all turn into malevolent spirits... instead of Core Spirits."

"Core Spirits in human form?"

"Yes, unless there are special bonds, humans cannot surpass that boundary."

"Unable to surpass... No, how do you know so much?"

"Hehe, because I am the Core Spirit! Actually, a long, long time ago, in a time where human civilization did not exist, we were just ordinary animals like the countless species now."

"... "

"But with the continuous progress of civilization, it is only a matter of time before humans go extinct."

"If that's the case, then wouldn't our battles be meaningless?"

"No! Although most Core Spirits choose to seek revenge on humans, but..."

Juxi's bracelet lit up once again, projecting a picture of a girl.

The picture seemed ordinary, just a scene of someone taking in a stray cat.

"Surely you also saw it, not all animals are filled with resentment towards humans. If there are animals that detest humans to the core, then naturally there would be animals that feel grateful towards them. Some animals even fall completely in love with humans because of it, and in the end..."

"Um, doesn't that become a twisted human-animal love story?"

"... Well, it's kind of similar."

"Oh, so it's you!"

"... Hmph, actually you probably don't know, but I was your wife in my previous life, and you... were my husband."

The woman's voice gradually became softer, clearly she had thought through saying this.

"If you really knew anything, you wouldn't have asked who I am, would you?"

"Um, I didn't realize earlier, is it because your voice has changed..."

"It hasn't changed."

"..."

"Just as I said, you really can't remember at all. But it's been over a hundred years, so it's normal that you can't remember, right?"

"... Yes, it is as you said."

The atmosphere suddenly became somewhat awkward, and Juxi regretted his earlier thought of lying.

"I'm really sorry, I can't remember anything about what happened between us. But it's not that I don't remember at all, since I heard your voice for the first time, I felt familiar, just... just..."

"..."

"I can't remember, who is the one behind that voice?"

Juxi tried hard to recall the past, but besides the contents in that notebook, he couldn't remember anything.

"Oh, I want to know, our daughter..."

"Oh, you mean Jeana?"

"Yes... No, I suppose so."

"Oh, she's a well-behaved child, you know..."

As she said that, a woman dressed in a long blue dress gradually appeared in front of Juxi, but her face emitted a terrifying white light, making it impossible to see her facial features.

"When she found out that I sacrificed myself to save you... I knew it was unfair to her, but I was young back then. I felt that if I had to live in a world without you, I would rather choose death."

"... What about our daughter?"

"Shouldn't I be the one asking you that question? From the moment I sacrificed myself for the experiment, our daughter was entrusted to you, but I didn't expect that you had long since given up on survival. I couldn't save you from the depths of death."

"I died once before?"

"Not just once, but countless times!"

The woman's voice interrupted me once again.

"I constantly hovered in your world, just to pull you back onto the path that belongs to you, to ignite your desire for life once again!"

"..."

"But who would have known that when you woke up again, it would already be a world a hundred years later?"