Reborn to take over the stage 의 모든 챕터: 챕터 231 - 챕터 240

Ethan fell to his knees.The voice inside his chest whispered again.Brother, you have to remember what you did to me.He pressed both hands against the black mark beneath his shirt. Pain spread through his ribs, but the worst part was not the pain.It was the memory.He stood in a white room beneath a ceiling filled with silver cables. His hands were small. His feet were bare. A boy stood opposite him, crying beside a glass door.The boy looked exactly like the child Mila had seen beyond the crack.Ethan knew he had never been there.Yet he remembered the smell of burning metal. The cold floor beneath his feet. The terrible certainty that something was about to happen.A man stood behind the crying boy.The First One.It was not wearing a face. It was a shape made of darkness, with two golden eyes watching the children.The boy reached for Ethan.“Don't let it take me.”Young Ethan looked toward the door.Then he did something that made the memory shatter.He turned the handle.He op

Ethan did not move.The stranger wore his face perfectly. The same eyes, the same mouth, the same scar near his eyebrow. Even the way he tilted his head was familiar.But there was something wrong with his expression.Ethan had spent years learning how to recognize himself in mirrors. This man looked like the reflection of someone who had never learned to feel anything.“Who are you?” Ethan asked again.The stranger smiled.“You keep asking that question as though a name will make you safe.”“Try me.”“My name was Noah.”Elena pulled the little boy behind her.“No.”The stranger glanced at her.“Not your Noah.”The little boy clutched Elena's coat.“I'm Noah.”“I know,” the stranger replied. “You chose that name. I am glad you did.”His gaze returned to Ethan.“I was the boy who opened the door. I was also the boy who begged the other child not to open it.”Daniel went still.“That is impossible.”“Is it? You have seen what happens when consciousness is divided. You have watched memor

The voice came from behind the sealed door.“She is right.”Nobody moved.The First One's golden eyes widened, and for the first time since Mila had encountered it, its expression looked less like anger and more like terror.“No,” it whispered.The voice came again.“My name is not yours to choose.”Mila stared at the darkness beneath the ruined machine.“Who are you?”A small figure appeared on the other side of the crack.The child was difficult to see clearly. Light and shadow moved across its face, hiding its features. But Mila could make out two small hands pressed against the other side of the invisible barrier.“I don't remember my name,” the child answered.“Then how do you know the First One is wrong?” Mila asked.“Because I remember being afraid.”The answer was so simple that nobody spoke.The First One recoiled.“You were never afraid of me.”The child lowered its head.“I was afraid of losing you.”The golden eyes brightened with desperate hope.“Then you remember. You re

Mila screamed her sister's name.The darkness swallowed every trace of Lena, leaving only a thin golden thread suspended in the air.Mila grabbed it.The moment her fingers closed around the thread, the world disappeared.She stood in a white corridor.The walls were smooth, the floor spotless, and the ceiling filled with silver cables. Somewhere ahead, a child was crying.Mila knew this place.Not because she had visited it before, but because she had seen it in the memories the First One had forced into her mind.The first transfer room.At the far end stood two children.One was a boy with dark hair and a white shirt.The other had Ethan's face.Between them stood a little girl with golden eyes.Mila recognized the girl.Eira.But this Eira looked younger than the girl she had met. Her face was wet with tears, and she held a small wooden toy against her chest.“Please don't open the door,” she begged.The dark-haired boy turned toward her.“Someone is crying on the other side.”“I

Richard was still on his knees.For the first time since Mila had met him, he looked like a man who had run out of lies.Ethan stared at him.“What body was waiting inside that house?”Richard pressed both hands against the floor.“I thought I had destroyed it.”“That isn't an answer.”“I know.”“Then give me one!”The machine sparked behind them. A broken cable dropped from the ceiling, striking the floor between Richard and Ethan.Nobody moved.Richard slowly lifted his head.“The First One needed a living body for the transfer. It believed its child could be restored if the original consciousness was connected to a body that had never carried another identity.”Samuel's expression darkened.“You told them the body was empty.”“It was supposed to be.”“Was it?”Richard looked away.Ethan stepped closer.“Who was inside?”Before Richard could answer, the child standing in the doorway spoke.“Me.”The single word silenced the chamber.Mila looked at Samuel.“But you're the original ch