"I don't remember much after that anymore," Eugene said quietly while slumping against the canyon wall, his exhausted eyes staring blankly at the sand beneath him.
"I only remember being brought into the medical tent by Freebound's vehicles and hearing people say that the monster was dead. They said someone defeated it..."
"At first, I didn't believe it. There was no way something like the Verdant Devourer could be killed so easily and even if that person really existed... Why was he too late to save us?"
The memories inside his head still felt like a nightmare he could never wake up from. He remembered the stable building collapsing one after another, remembered the screams, the blood, and how everyone around him slowly disappeared until all those sacrifices meant nothing in the end.
Strangely, part of him had even felt relieved back then because if everyone died, then at least he would die too.
At least he would not need to keep carrying all this guilt alone.
