Sister of the Ranking 1st (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 216

His expression as he said that was so sorrowful that I felt I had no choice but to give him an answer. But instead of answering, I looked up at the sky, stretching endlessly before me.

God smiled faintly, as if he’d expected exactly that.

“It doesn’t matter. After all, this world will soon….”

His unfinished sentence suddenly stirred a question within me, and I spoke.

“…Hey, isn’t destruction ultimately about everything ceasing to exist?”

His eyes widened, clearly surprised that I’d spoken up. Staring into his deeply shadowed eyes, I voiced what I’d wanted to say.

“Then, in the end, neither you nor I would be able to exist anymore.… Is that truly what you wish for?”

Instead of answering, he simply smiled while gazing into my eyes. I tried to decipher the meaning behind that smile—but gave up.

That was, after all, the nature of destruction:

Everything ceasing to exist, leaving only sunken ash behind. So if this world truly turned to ash as he desired, then inevitably, even his own existence—and mine—would vanish without a trace.

Suddenly, I recalled the despair on God’s face when he realized his own world had already perished, yet this world remained perfectly intact.

To think he would steal others’ breath because he himself had lost his own—what a cruel notion.

He claimed to love me and declared he would destroy this world for my sake, yet his gaze wasn’t truly fixed on me.

Without a single shared memory, and with even my outward appearance now changed—could he really love me? The question I couldn’t ask circled silently in my mouth.

Was he not truly ending the world for me, but rather for that person of his who had already died?

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