Conrad said, "Everything before that was just Andrew humoring me, treating me like his personal entertainment. My life was something Andrew gave me, and without him, I wouldn't even be here. So tell me, what right did I ever have to compete with him? "Besides, the cruelest rule of all was that only one of us could pass. The other had only two choices: either live in the shadows forever under a false identity, never to see daylight again, or leave the organization and submit to a mind-wipe, erasing every memory tied to it." Luna snapped, "But you were just as good! The fact is, you've already become a flagship member of your organization. Why couldn't they have accommodated both you and Andrew back then? Why not let you both pass together?" Conrad took a deep breath and said coldly, "I was desperate at the time, and I begged those old fossils with exactly the same argument. But they said I was being delusional. Those were the rules, and they wouldn't change for anyone. "I still
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