“I did it, Terrence,” I whispered to the empty room, feeling a profound, peaceful warmth spread through my chest. “I saved them. I saved your legacy.”
They had thrown my memories in the mud. They had treated me like a parasite, a piece of trash to be discarded the moment my protector was gone. They thought they had destroyed a nobody.
They didn’t know that by throwing me into the dirt, they had simply planted the seed. And from that mud, I had grown into a titan, pushing myself onto the throne they had so desperately tried to keep for themselves.
