That pain... that suffering... the endless torture... the agony Aether's iteration endured at the hands of just one man... It was unbearable. That man had left a scar on his soul so deep that even after countless searches, countless attempts to hunt him down... Aether never found him again.
Not even after he killed Jack in one of his iterations... No matter what he tried, Aether could never, ever lay eyes on that man again... the one who had caused him so much pain.
He was never seen again after that day... despite all the timelines Aether walked through, all the tireless searching... he never laid a single eye on that man—until now.
"How are you even alive?" the Archpriestess asked coldly, her voice laced with indifference as she stood firmly, High Priest Aether quietly stationed behind her.
The hooded figure stood calmly before them, unmoving. 'Could this be the man who killed the Sovereign?' she wondered silently, her eyes narrowing.
