Reborn to take over the stage のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 141 - チャプター 150

The voice beneath the broken floor did not repeat itself.It did not need to.The words remained in the air like a physical weight.We have been waiting since before you chose to be born.And this time, you are not the one we want.We want him.Ethan moved before anyone else could.He stepped between the newborn and the opening in the floor, one arm extending instinctively behind him.The baby was there.Small.Silent.His tiny fingers curled around the edge of Ethan’s shirt.Ethan could feel the trembling.Not fear.Recognition.That frightened him more.Richard struggled to his feet, one hand pressed against his injured side.Ethan, get him away from the opening.Elena immediately moved toward the baby, but Grace stopped her with one hand.Wait.Elena stared at her.Wait for what?Grace’s expression had changed.For the first time since Ethan had met her, she looked afraid.Not afraid of what was beneath them.Afraid of what might happen if they misunderstood it.The newborn lifted

The golden sky shattered.Ethan pulled the newborn against his chest as thousands of fragments rushed past them, each one carrying the image of a world that had once been possible. He saw cities he had never visited, families he had never known, and versions of himself who had made different choices. Some fragments contained laughter. Others held the final moments of lives that had ended too soon. A few showed nothing but empty rooms where someone had once waited for a person who never arrived. Then the screaming began again. It came from everywhere, rising above the collapse of the golden sky until Ethan could no longer distinguish one voice from another. He heard children calling for parents, parents calling for children, and strangers begging for time they had never been given. These were not the voices of people who had died. They were the voices of possibilities that had never become people at all. Remember tightened his grip on Ethan's hand. Don't let go! Ethan looked at the boy

Ethan stared at the opening in the golden sky.On one side, his newborn son clung to his chest, his tiny fingers gripping Ethan's shirt as though the world might disappear if he let go. On the other side, his daughter stood inside the old facility, facing a figure with Ethan's face and completely black eyes.Two children.Two dangers.One father.The silver eyed man watched him with quiet satisfaction.Now you understand, he said. Every choice has a cost.Ethan did not answer.His daughter raised her hand toward the figure standing behind her.Daddy, she called again.This time, Ethan heard something beneath her voice.Not fear alone.A warning.He had heard that particular tone before, when she had seen possibilities other people could not perceive. She was not simply asking him to save her.She was trying to tell him something.Ethan forced himself to breathe.Look at me, sweetheart.His daughter turned toward him through the opening.I'm looking.Are you hurt?No.Can you move?She

The light swallowed everything.Ethan heard his daughter scream his name, but her voice seemed to come from somewhere impossibly far away. The facility disappeared. The golden opening vanished. Even the floor beneath his feet ceased to exist.For one terrible moment, there was nothing.Then Ethan heard a heartbeat.Small.Steady.Familiar.His son's heartbeat.Ethan opened his eyes.He was standing in a place that looked like the inside of a memory. There were no walls, no ceiling, and no visible ground. Golden threads stretched in every direction, connecting countless lights suspended in darkness.At the center stood the newborn.The child was no longer crying.He stood beside the tiny dark figure, holding its hand as though they had known each other for years.Remember was nowhere to be seen.Neither was Ethan's daughter.Ethan rushed toward his son.The baby looked up.Daddy.Ethan dropped to his knees and pulled him into his arms.For several seconds, he could not speak. He presse

The golden boundary broke.Ethan moved before he could think.He reached for the woman as she stumbled through the collapsing light, but his hand passed through her shoulder. She was neither fully solid nor entirely a memory. Golden fragments drifted from her body, dissolving before they touched the ground that did not exist.Behind her, the image of Richard disappeared.The other newborn cried harder.The woman turned desperately toward the fading child.No. Please. Don't take him away again.Ethan heard the pain in her voice, and for one dangerous moment, he wanted to believe that he could fix everything.He wanted to reach into the fading memory, pull the child into his arms, and give the woman the ending she had never received.He wanted to make the impossible possible.But he had learned what happened when someone tried to repair every loss by forcing reality to change.The silver eyed man had tried to save every possibility.The Continuum had offered him a different past.The Or