“There’s no way it will just leave you alone, a tempting prey right in front of its eyes?”

Upon hearing Hamster Mu’s words, the recent situation on the bed came back to my mind.

“Th-th-that it won’t just leave me alone!”

The face that seemed to be calming down now blazed up like molten lava. Mu sighed deeply while looking at me, who was burning with anger.

“I didn’t just talk about the situation, so stop having weird thoughts.”

“I didn’t do anything!”

“Okay. Stop reddening your face too.”

Unable to refute Mu’s words, I quickly fanned myself, trying to cool down my flushed face. Mu stood up, rushed to the window, and then called me.

“Come here.”

Thinking it might mean to cool my face in the night breeze, I followed the hamster towards the window. However, Mu kicked the glass window with its foot.

“Look over there.”

“There? The garden? Why?”

“Can’t you feel that something has changed?”

Changed? I stared intently at the garden at Mu’s words. Then, I noticed that the lush plants seemed to have withered.

“The World Tree is gone, so the plants are withering.”

“No.”

Mu quickly countered my words.

“It’s because all the growing life force is being concentrated in one place.”

“Concentrated in one place?”

“The rotten World Tree inside that child’s body is swallowing all the life force from your World Tree inside your body.”

“……”

“You will die according to your original fate.”

What is this nonsense? I blinked my eyes and stared at Mu for a while.

There’s a World Tree’s power inside my body? Does ‘that child’ refer to Revanpell? Is the rotten World Tree inside Revanpell’s body absorbing other life forces?

I was confused by the incomprehensible words.

“What, what are you talking about now?”

“Just as I said. The rotten World Tree inside that child’s body was originally a World Tree with life force. It wants to return to its original state. To do that, it needs to swallow all the surrounding life force available.”

“Revanpell?”

“No. It’s not that child’s doing. It’s the power of the rotten World Tree inside that child’s body. After using that child’s power recently, you might have felt dizzy or in pain.”

“……!”

I recalled the recent situation when I suddenly felt dizzy on the way to the palace. Besides that, there were instances of feeling dizzy during a kiss and experiencing pain on the terrace.

‘Then, is all of that, everything…?’

I looked at Mu with an incredulous expression.

“Is it certain?”

“It’s my power. Isn’t that more certain than anything?”

“Then, then what should I do?”

“I don’t know.”

“What kind of irresponsible answer is that!”

“I don’t have to take responsibility for it. Humans are the ones who forcibly held onto the power that should have disappeared.”

It was not a wrong statement. Even if the world’s destruction was set aside, the experiment was a wrongdoing committed by humans.

“Anyway, I’ll try to suppress that child’s power for now, so it should be okay for the time being… But still, if the day comes when it swallows the power inside your body all at once by continuing to eat life force and grow…”

“…….”
“At that time, you will die, so it’s better to stop. Originally, there should only be one World Tree.”

“Why are you telling me this now?”

“Your mother is the cause of the destruction of the world she created for you.”

The destruction of the world created by my mother for me?

Mu uttered shocking words, gazing thoughtlessly at the world beyond the withering window.

“I finally found Geneva.”

“What?”

It was the first time I heard the story that Mu had been looking for Geneva. Moreover, what does it mean that the destruction of the world created by my mother for me?

“Don’t you have any questions?”

Mu turned around. A chilling aura emanated from its small stature.

“How you, who almost died when you were young, survived.”

“Mu, how do you know that?”

“Your mother, who couldn’t save you as a doctor, saved you. Originally, your fate was to die when you were young. However, your mother, who loved you too much, defied that fate, fed you the flower of the World Tree, and saved you. I didn’t expect that to happen.”

“……”

“The divine power inside you is different from the power that a priest possesses. A saint? It is the embodiment of a power more sacred, noble, and powerful than the power a saint should have.”

“…….”

“That power is my power, the power of the World Tree itself.”

The flower of the World Tree? It was a word I had heard recently. It was a term I came across when Phoebe summarized the contents of a book a few days ago.

I didn’t expect it to come up here.

“It’s a power that can either save or destroy this world.”

“So, I have your power… I mean, the power of the World Tree?”

“Yes. Not because you wanted it, but because your mother wanted to keep you alive. …Your mother, who wished for your survival.”

My mother feeding me the flower of the World Tree was a surprising story.

“What did she do wrong? How did my mother obtain the flower of the World Tree? What connection do you have with my mother? How do you know all this?”

“…….”