Chapter 51

They say that desperate times call for desperate measures, and Damien fully understood this as he stood in front of his house—a place where he had grown up his entire life—watching it burn while the fire department desperately tried to salvage what was left. He knew most of his memories would be destroyed along with it. He tried to console himself, thinking that all his memories there were basically fake if his parents had been lying to him his entire life.

However, as he saw his mother in a corner, wrapped in a blanket given to her by the fire department, shaking and calling out his name, a strong wave of guilt rushed through him, as though someone had splashed cold water on him, drenching him down to his bones. But it didn’t stop him from moving forward. He started running down the road—he was the one who had set his home on fire.

First, he made sure that nothing valuable that couldn’t be replaced was left in the house, and all necessary documents were sent and uploade