Despite knowing that Doom Caso would have no memories of inflicting despair upon humanity in the past during a time we were already struggling, I couldn’t help but feel incensed. That moment served as a stark realization that there was still room for us to descend further into despair.

Although the Eight Evils and the Eight Virtues carried out a joint attack and the First Evil, who activated the Man Who Overcomes Adversity, drove Doom Caso out of the mainland, the destruction of one of humanity’s two largest surviving cities was disastrous. That destroyed city was the home base for the Eight Virtues.

Therefore, the previous war, which had been stopped as the Eight Virtues tried to occupy the surviving city of the Eight Evils, soon resumed after that. Just like that, humanity’s remaining time for survival had been shortened. It was the last period of the past from then on. In other words, it was the point that determined the middle and last period of the past.

It became more difficult for me to take care of my mother, so I had to give up on my aunt, who was my mother’s only friend. Since then, I never saw my mother smile again as she had to endure...