Then, as they walked off into the distant streets beneath that view, the scene slowly drew back.

The perspective lifted, rising steadily into the sky, tilting as it climbed.

Below, the world stretched wide, cities scattered like clusters of stone and light, villages tucked into valleys, and great shimmering domes glowing faintly over fortified lands.

These domes, they were known as safe heavens.

And this whole view, It had once been a beautiful sight, just months ago.

For all the death that humans had inflicted on one another, the idea of extinction had never truly pressed itself against their throats.

For so many years, that was the fact. Humanity prevailed even through inner chaos within our own race.

Wars and betrayals, these were common human natures.

But at the very least, we never sought for extinction willingly.

However...

Now, that certainty had shifted.

Across the far reaches of the horizon, the earth rumbled.

The land itself trembled as if restless.

Within villages and cities, houses buckled and fell.

Strange, incomprehensible figures, shaped like humans yet lacking even the most basic signs of them, moved across the plains.

Some were jumping, some were crawling, and some were... dragging.

The worst part, all of them were smiling.

Everywhere they walked, people died.

Everywhere they stopped, they ate.

Children crying as they were being swallowed.

A mother whimpering as her limbs were torn one by one, smaller size titans, frantically surrounding and shredding her to pieces.

Her voice drowned out in an instant.

"You bastard!!!!"

A scene...

A man was charging with a spear. The target was a kneeling titan before his house main entrance.

In the titan's right hand, a half eaten woman was there.

Tears dropped, his screaming reached beyond his throat!

'Oooo God give me strength!'

'Ooooo GOD! give me strength!'

And bam!

A slap all it took... as he was crushed to death with a hand.

The last few seconds of his life, it was the sight of his wife, slowly being chewed from the waist of what was left.

'Oh god... don't abandon us'

...

For those creatures, it was a banquet. For humanity, a nightmare without measure.

And it wasn’t only here.

Across the world, city after city was breached.

Soldiers fell screaming.

Families were torn apart.

Humans were treated not as enemies, but as meat.

The Titans never slowed.

The word rest meant nothing to them.

With hollow, mindless smiles stretched across their faces, they moved with childlike manners, devouring everything that moved.

Smoke rose from countless corners of the world. Black columns coiled into the sky, carrying with them the echoes of horror.

The Lords were resisting, but the natives were slaughtered like lambs.

Screams. Wailing. Cities swallowed whole.

What is this?

What is this horror that had fallen upon mankind?

Cleansing?

And why must it be them?

"Oh God!"

"Please don't abandon us!"

An old man in a wheelchair shouted, unable to move, the tremors approaching, and there were blood everywhere, "Oh God! Save us, save this despairing land... "

Snap!

“Liam!”

Boom.

The study doors slammed open.

Mize rushed in, breath unsteady, her face flushed red.

She caught sight of Liam behind the desk, his hand pausing mid-stroke as his eyes lifted to meet hers. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

“Yes?”

"I-... Outside, something outside!"

“T-the cleansing, outside…” Mize’s voice cracked, words out of place “What the hell is going on?”

She flew straight to the desk, palms hitting the wooden surface with a loud smack.

Her eyes were frantic, wide. “I—I spread my Divine Sense. Liam, I’m seeing so many of them. Huge, human-like figures… walking, trampling—and eating.”

Her voice shook on the last word. “They’re eating humans, Liam. This event is insane! It's wrong! It shouldn't be like this?!"

"I- I thought the warp wouldn't attack the natives? But... "

The pen slipped from Liam’s hand.

He set it aside without hurry, leaning back into his chair.

Arms crossed against his chest, his legs stretched forward beneath the desk, shoes scraping lightly across the floor.

“It is, in fact, cleansing, My dear wife."

“But this is too much.” Mize’s voice rose as she leaned further over the desk. “Hundreds of human cities, breached. People eaten alive. Lives erased in this… this event.”

“Don’t worry,” Liam said, eyes half-lidded, his tone steady. “My shadow army is already on the move. I’ll protect this land, our land.”

“That’s not enough, Liam.” She pressed closer, her words trembling. “We need to save everyone.”

At that, Liam raised his brows, his folded arms falling loose to the sides. “Everyone?”

“Yes. Everyone.” Mize’s voice was raw.

“This is too horrible. I wasn’t expecting the event to strike the natives. I thought…” she faltered, “…I thought it was just us lords.”

Liam’s gaze dropped slightly.

His reply was calm, but ultimately different from what she wanted to hear.

“Death spares no one in their eyes, Mimi. What I meant by cleansing wasn’t just against us, it’s against humanity itself. This whole world.”

"And we are no savior, we can't save everyone. You need to understand that... Let go of the moral concepts from the past, and welcome this new one... "

He rose from his chair, his steps deliberate, and moved to the tall window.

Mize followed quickly, floating to his side.

Her hand caught his sleeve, fingers clutching as she begged, voice nearly breaking.

“The whole world is in chaos. I can’t even imagine the pain, the misery, beyond. C-can’t we save everyone?”

“Mimi.”

Liam reached out, took her hand, and lifted her chin gently until their eyes met.

His voice was steady, but there was a weariness buried in it.

“We can’t save everyone… I’m not capable of that. The world’s too big. At best, I can protect the thousand kilometers around us. My armies can’t cover the whole thing.”

"I am strong yes, but not overly powerful."

He let out a low sigh, shoulders sinking slightly. “And even then, we’re barely holding one-fiftieth of this region. Mimi, this world… it’s countless times bigger than the one we came from. It’s impossible to help everyone.”

Mize heard him and understood exactly what he meant.

Her teeth sank lightly into her lower lip, a faint tremble in her expression.

That same helplessness gnawed at her too.

Fuck!

Fuck!

Fuck!

Why do I feel like everything is my fault...

I-it isn't my fault...

I... I didn't...

Yes, it isn't...

I- I can save... them?

Can I?

Even if she poured everything she had into creating more soldiers, more constructs, more guardians, how could it ever be enough to shield an entire world?

Her gaze drifted outward, her all-seeing eye spanning the land.

Ten thousand kilometers in every direction lay open before her sight. What she saw tightened her chest.

Cities broken into ruins. Grounds split apart with enormous footprints. Blood splattered across stone and soil, yet not a single corpse remained.

Her jaw tensed. “These bastards are eating the land I swore to save… I hate it.”

Her words cracked with restrained anger as her teeth ground together.

The second calamity pressing against the human race itself, it was no coincidence. It felt like a curse aimed directly at them.

The first one aimed at the lords.

Now at the world.

But at least, for now, Liam’s plan held.

The thousand kilometers under his protection were steady.

There, her vision only found the endless march of shadow armies.

Black armor glinted beneath the pale sky, serpentine banners billowed as they spread across plains and forests alike.

From time to time, the ground shook, and massive titans emerged out of nowhere.

Each appearance was met by the shifting tide of the shadow forces.

Units broke formation with frightening precision, hunting the titans down like predators surrounding prey.

Mize lingered on a few battles.

The titans were strange, different.

They carried no aura, no energy pressure, nothing to warn of their presence.

Yet their bodies moved with crushing strength, their flesh resilient beyond reason.

When their skin split open, what oozed was not red, but thick black blood.

Her lips pressed thin at the sight.

Liam’s hand came down softly on her head, rubbing gently through her hair as his tired voice followed. “So… are you satisfied with my plan? Protecting what we can?”

Mize turned her face away, unable to answer directly.

“I don’t know…” Her voice lowered to a murmur. “But my heart aches, knowing there’s so much death outside our reach. Because of us.”

Liam tilted his head, eyes narrowing slightly. “So that’s it, huh? Because this world was spared for our sake, and now suffers this event, you feel guilty?”

Her silence lingered long enough to feel heavy. Then she gave the smallest nod. “…Yes. My memories are repairing themselves, piece by piece. More comes back every day.”

“That’s good,” Liam said quickly, a genuine smile tugging at his lips.

His hand softened further, strokes gentler now. His eyes carried warmth he rarely showed. “That’s very good.”

Mize, however, kept her gaze low. “But the more I remember… the sadder I feel, seeing what this world has become.”

“I see…” Liam’s eyes flickered with thought, then dimmed with another sigh. “I’ll do my best. How about that?”

Her head rose, eyes finally locking back onto his. “Mhmm. I believe in you. And I’ll do my part too, to save those I can.”

“I know you will.” His thumb brushed lightly against her temple. “But I won’t allow you to go out there yourself. The state of things is too unpredictable. If anything happened to you… I’d have nothing left.”

Her lips pressed into a thin line. “…Fine.”

She didn’t argue further, though her mind already began moving elsewhere, weighing plans.

And then, just like that, her figure flickered and vanished.

Liam stood there alone, hand hanging where her head had been only moments before.

"We can't save everyone, Mimi... "

Sigh...