CRACK.The Tenth Fragment fractured.Golden light leaked from Ethan’s chest like blood.The empty world around him trembled.Not from force.From decision.Everything had come to this.Every battle.Every betrayal.Every death.Every fragment.Every choice.All of it led here.To this moment.To this choice.Ethan stood frozen.His breathing uneven.His mind in chaos.Because for the first time—He had no enemy to fight.No monster to kill.No battlefield to conquer.Only truth.Painful truth.Silence stood before him.Hand extended.Patient.Calm.Lonely.Still waiting.The same way he had waited since before existence began.Then Ethan looked at that hand.And memories surged.The Carter family.Being mocked.Humiliated.Treated like trash.Then—Sophia.The divorce papers.The cold look in her eyes.Then—The girl in white.The shattered soul bead.The awakening.Then—Leon.Aria.Seraphina.Kael.Adam.Orion.Raizen.Everyone.Every ally.Every enemy.Every life he had touched.Ev