Hope is the lighthouse hidden in the heart, guiding the voyager towards the ultimate mission, and willpower is the anchor point through time, bringing revelations from the future in exchange.

Accompanied by these two aphorisms that suddenly surged into his mind, Leon's vision blurred, and one by one, girls in white dresses resembling but slightly different from Fredri walked into the valley with expressions of excitement, hesitation, timidity, or exhilaration.

These girls in white dresses, whose appearances were always remarkably similar, no matter their previous expressions, would eventually reach the depths of the valley with strange steps, take up the knife there, and with both hands backhandedly stab it into their own hearts, then collapse onto the vacant ground left in front of the knife.

So is that where the bloodstains come from?

Watching the "corpses" with blood flowing from their hearts collapse, and recalling the circle full of dried blood in front of the knife, Leon couldn't help but frown.

However, at that moment, in countless identical scenes, the stone walls with differently distributed circular symbols lit up nearly simultaneously.

The densely packed circular symbols, drawn by some bizarre force, surged madly toward the knife's hilt, flowed through the wounds into the hearts of the girls in white dresses, and then sprouted back out from the blood-stained circles beneath them, chaotically "splattering" back onto the original stone walls.

Once this process ended, the girls in white dresses who were "dead" with wounded hearts would awaken again, eyes somewhat dazed, sit in place for a while, and then leave with varying expressions.

And when they shakily made their way out of the canyon, a new circle would emerge from the blood-stained ring, and the scene of the white-dressed girl's "suicide" would swim to the nearest cliff wall, becoming part of it.

So is each circle on the cliff walls a "resurrected" girl in a white dress?

Imitating the footsteps of the girls in white dresses, Leon made his way back to the canyon entrance, utterly confused and pondering for a long time, but still couldn't figure out what they were doing.

Unable to understand, Leon returned to the depths of the canyon, searching among the dense circles on either side of the cliff walls as he just witnessed in countless scenes, and eventually found the circle belonging to Fredri.

"Buzz!"

Since Leon had already discovered the knack for "reading" these symbols, when he tried to reach out and touch it, the circle belonging to Fredri this time directly responded, unfolding a clear vision once again.

To Leon's astonishment, the image displayed by the "Fredri circle" this time did not disappear after Fredri left the canyon, but continued progressing toward the "future."

In the vision, Fredri tightly pursed her lips, holding her still bleeding heart as she walked down the mountain, seemingly trying to return to the small village at the sacred mountain's midsection.

But when Fredri reached the mountainside, the blood flowing from her heart had already stained her white dress red, so she hesitated for a moment before changing direction towards another pond.

However, just as she removed her white dress and jumped into the pond to wash away the bloodstains over her heart in preparation for coming ashore, a figure that Leon found very familiar rolled down the steep hillside, accompanied by an old ox's gleeful moo, finally plunging with a splash into the cold and ghostly pond.

"..."

Shit! So does this involve me too?