Kim slowly opened his eyes.
Darkness.
That was the first thing he saw. No… even the word "darkness" was not enough. This was an absolute void. No earth. No sky. No directions. Only nothingness.
Kim felt his body floating endlessly. As for the silence… it was terrifying to the point of hurting the mind.
"So… this is the Cosmic Graveyard."
But something felt wrong. There were no remnants. No corpses. No shattered thrones. Nothing. Only nonexistence.
Then… he began to hear a sound. A very distant sound, like whispers coming from outside existence itself.
And suddenly… Kim's eyes widened.
Because the darkness around him… moved. Something colossal was shifting within the void. Something grander than the very concept of "size."
And in that exact moment… he understood.
This was not the Cosmic Graveyard. It was a place far deeper. A place lost even to the gods.
**The Black Sea of Nothingness.**
The sea that was said to strike fear even into the universes, lest they fall into it. Here… there were no laws. No time. No life. Only the remnants of things swallowed by the abyss across eternity.
Kim felt a cold shiver run through him. Even the chaos inside him… seemed silent. As if it, too, was afraid.
Then… a very distant light appeared. A crack. No… a colossal black hole tore through the void, yet its color was a striking, blinding white.
The entire sea began to shake violently. And then… Kim recalled something from ancient legends.
*"Every billion years… the Sea of Nothingness tears open cracks toward other dimensions."*
His eyes widened as a terrifying force began to pull him. The black hole was consuming everything around it. Even the void itself.
He tried to resist… but it was in vain. His body hurled at a maddening speed toward the fracture.
Then… for a fleeting fraction of a second… he witnessed impossible things.
Worlds that bore no resemblance to his own. Black suns. Trees the size of galaxies. Cities floating above the void. Creatures staring at him from beyond the dimensions.
Then—
The white fissure swallowed him whole.
Kim vanished… but right before he disappeared completely, words choked within his heart, and his lips muttered:
> "In the end, no one saved me. I was born cursed, and I died hated."
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