Reborn to take over the stage 의 모든 챕터: 챕터 241 - 챕터 250

Ethan couldn't move.His mother's voice came again.“Ethan, please. It's cold out here.”Mila grabbed his hand.“Dad, we don't know if it's really Grandma Elena.”Ethan looked down at her.Despite everything they had survived, his daughter was still thinking clearly. He was proud of her, but the thought of leaving his mother behind was tearing him apart.“What if it is her?” he whispered.“Then we should listen to her,” Mila answered. “But listening doesn't mean opening the door.”Daniel nodded.“She's right. We need to know what remains unaccounted for before we make another decision.”Richard approached the machine, studying the warning.“One consciousness remains unaccounted for.”He repeated the words as though saying them differently might make them less frightening.Samuel stood beside Noah.“The First One wasn't the only thing that could hide inside a connection.”The stranger who looked like Ethan turned toward him.“Do you know what escaped?”Samuel shook his head.“I know wh

Richard stumbled backward.The figure standing behind Elena and Iris wore his face, but it was younger, without the lines of guilt around its eyes. Its white coat was spotless. Its hands were steady.Most frightening of all, it looked at Richard without shame.“You,” Richard whispered.The figure smiled.“You always knew I was possible.”Ethan moved between the doorway and Mila.“What is that thing?”Richard couldn't answer.The figure stepped forward, dragging Elena and Iris with it. Neither woman appeared physically restrained, yet both struggled to move.“I am the outcome he wanted,” the figure explained. “A world where every consciousness could be preserved, every loss reversed, and every child brought back.”Samuel's expression hardened.“A world where nobody is allowed to leave.”The figure turned toward him.“You misunderstand the purpose of preservation.”“No. I understand it better than you do.”Samuel pointed toward Elena.“She wants to leave that room. Iris wants to choose

Nobody moved.The baby stared at Mila with completely black eyes.The woman holding him smiled as if nothing unusual had happened.“Come closer, sweetheart. Your brother wants to meet you.”Mila tightened her grip on Ethan's hand.“My brother?”The woman nodded.“You have been looking for him for a very long time.”Mila turned toward her mother.“Mommy, who is that woman?”Her mother looked as though she had seen a ghost.“I don't know.”The woman inside the room laughed softly.“You always say that when you're afraid of remembering.”Mila's mother stepped forward.“Who are you?”The woman's smile faded.“You carried me before you carried Mila. You heard me crying after they told you I was gone. You begged Richard to find me, and when he told you to stop searching, you believed him.”Richard stumbled backward.“No.”The woman adjusted the baby in her arms.“You remember now, don't you?”Mila's mother pressed her hands against her temples.“I remember a baby crying.”“You remember more

Adrian screamed so violently that Mila nearly dropped him.Ethan caught the baby before he slipped from her arms.The darkness swallowed the laboratory. Somewhere beneath their feet, metal scraped against metal, followed by a deep, rhythmic sound that resembled a heartbeat.Once.Twice.Then the voice spoke again.You have spent so long searching for the beginning that you never considered what existed before it.Samuel raised his head.“Show yourself.”A soft laugh came from beneath the floor.You still believe that every voice deserves a body.“No,” Samuel replied. “But every voice deserves the chance to speak without taking someone else's life.”The heartbeat stopped.For several seconds, nothing happened.Then the emergency lights flickered on.A narrow crack had appeared in the floor between Samuel and Daniel. It stretched from one wall to the other, revealing a faint golden glow beneath the concrete.Richard backed away.“No. That chamber was destroyed.”Ethan turned toward him.

Nobody moved.The First One stood in the doorway, holding a knife that reflected no light. Its face shifted between the woman who had held Adrian, the ancient figure who had haunted their memories, and a stranger whose features none of them recognized.Mila stepped closer to Ethan.The First One looked at Noah.“You remember.”Noah did not answer.“You remember what you did to my son.”Adrian stirred in Samuel's arms.“Stop calling me your son.”The First One's expression broke.For a moment, it looked less like an ancient consciousness and more like a parent hearing a painful truth for the first time.“I searched for you across every world I could reach.”“You searched for a version of me that would never leave you.”“I wanted you back.”“You wanted me to belong to you.”The knife trembled in the First One's hand.Samuel moved between them.“Put it down.”The First One barely glanced at him.“You have no idea what it means to lose someone.”Samuel's eyes filled with sadness.“I know