The man sighed and glanced at his female companion.
"Sophie, you need to face reality. Whether we accept it or not, this world can never go back to the way it was."
"Besides, you know full well what the old Deities were like."
"Back then, we revered our lord so much, but what about Him?"
"The agony of having our souls torn apart, the endless waiting in the Dark Cage... If we hadn't been so lucky, if our souls hadn't been drawn by a miraculous light to be reborn in another so-called Phase World—a kind of Parallel World—we might never have made it back here."
"And Him? Back then, He dressed it up as a 'grand exploration.' But after our centuries of struggle, we should have realized the truth. It was a blatant betrayal!"
"He was the one who threw us into His experimental Phase Transmission Array. So *He* betrayed *us*, not the other way around."
