Gion and Gilead gave similar answers as well. Neither of them had ever seen anything similar to a past life in the Dark Room. Of course, it was impossible to know if the same held true for all those who were already deceased, but Eugene became certain that seeing one’s past life in the Dark Room wasn’t a common occurrence. It was something out of the ordinary.

“Maybe you were so immersed in the illusion that you confused it with a memory. It could be, right? Of course, I don’t know exactly what you saw in your vision, but from my experience…. Well… the phantom is a little different from your current self, right?”

No, that wasn’t it at all. What Eugene saw after tracing back the life he led as Hamel, all the way to the beginning, was a man other than Hamel. But Eugene didn’t know why the Dark Room had projected the unknown man.

‘I don’t have any memories like that.’

He thought long and hard but always reached the same conclusion. Neither Eugene nor Hamel possessed such a memory. Had he ever walked through a battlefield full of corpses or killed enough people to make a mountain out of their bodies? Well… perhaps, but he had never wandered around the battlefield with drooping shoulders full of despair.

Hamel had been a venomous man during his mercenary days, and he had never felt despair during his time with Vermouth either. Nor had he ever sat alone on a mountain of stacked bodies either. He knew that some of the mercenaries he had been acquainted with had distasteful hobbies similar to it, but Hamel preferred to simply slaughter his enemies before moving on instead of bothering to make a mound of their corpses. In particular, what if he had done such a thing while traveling with Vermouth? It would have definitely warranted a barrage of harsh words from Sienna, followed by a slap from Anise, and perhaps even a scolding from Molon….

‘A life… before my previous life?’

Eugene laughed at the thought. It was ridiculous. Well, since he had led a previous life as Hamel, it wasn’t out of the question that he had lived a life before that. However… why did the Dark Room show him that life as well?

After returning to his room, Eugene called for Kristina.

“Kristina, I would like to talk to Anise for a moment.”

“Yes, understood,”...