Chapter 56

As I tore my eyes away from the picture, my attention was drawn to Leon, who was slouched over in a chair and appeared to be perusing a collection of other pictures depicting previous incarnations of me.

"I guess the jig is up, huh?" I said as I approached him while gulping down a considerable amount of the wine straight from the bottle.

"I didn't," he stated right off the bat.

"I didn't realize that your life and our lives were not all that dissimilar from one another," you said. “Because of circumstances like this, you had no choice but to continue moving forward and adapting. In order to prevent people from discovering who you were. The same as... us, the same as myself," Leon spoke in a soft whisper.

I was able to make out some of the photographs that were strewn around the floor, including photographs of paintings that I had done in my younger years as well as photographs that dated back to the 1800s.

"Well... To begin, your age difference from