Inside his room, Ssy down on the bed,ughing helplessly like a fool as he thought of how his dinner with Chloe went.


    "Who knew I would be so lucky?"


    After Chloe went into the house, Ss got into his car and drove off.


    On the way home, his mind was constantly upied by Chloe''s reaction after he stole a kiss from her cheek.


    Ss would call kissing Chloe on the cheek daring because he had no idea if she would react the way he was expecting, and luck seemed to be on his side as she did.


    If someone were to tell Ss that the way the dinner went was how it was going to go, he would have wagered everything he had on it being wrong. What happened was the least of his expectations.


    The most exciting part about everything is that he got to see Chloe''s cute side.


    Who knew that Chloe was someone who would actually get flustered—and by him?


    Ss actually didn''t know how much his new look affected those around him. He wasn''t aware of the aura that he started exuding after hepleted his first evolution metamorphosis.


    As Ssy on the bed, different thoughts rted to Chloe ran through his mind, and the smile on his face got even wider, as his thoughts always returned to Chloe''s reaction after he kissed her cheek.


    Though it can''t exactly be called a kiss, a peck would be the name, but he doesn''t care.


    ''Sigh... I wonder how things are going to be between us going forward?'' Ss thought.


    He knew that things between the two of them were going to changepletely, and depending on how far, and the pace at which the two of them wished to take things, they may be something in the future.


    Ss remembered Chloe''s reaction, and he was sure that something could happen between the two of them.


    ''The question is if I should be proactive or not?'' Ss thought to himself and made a quick decision.


    "If I really want her, then I should be proactive with my pursuit of her, but will I actually have the time for this romance thing?" Ss asked himself aloud.


    With how much work he had decked out for himself after the construction on the underground facility waspleted, Ss knew that he might not even have time for himself.


    "Well, I still have like two months before it''spleted. I can use that two months to be productive. Who knows?.." Ss could only sigh as he thought further.


    The thing is that he didn''t actually know what he was doing. Everything he did at the restaurant was all spontaneous actions from him.


    He didn''t know what he was doing and he didn''t n for it. He just went with the flow and grabbed whatever he felt to be an opportunity, and luckily for him, things worked out.


    "Ahh... Finally, I will experience this dating thing," Ss said as he tucked himself into bed and closed his eyes.


    A few seconds after closing his eyes, he fell asleep.


    ****


    "Where am I?" Ss suddenly saw himself floating in a void.


    He looked around, but he saw nothing but absolute darkness—a type of darkness that felt very tangible.


    He stretched out his hand to grab the surrounding darkness, expecting something to happen. To his surprise, the ce he grabbed tore away, exposing something that looked like a ck hole. But instead of the middle being pitch-dark as how regr ck holes were always depicted, this one was filled with clustering lights.


    "Wow! It looks so beautiful, but where am I? What is this ce?" He had so many questions that he needed answers to, but there was no one to provide those answers.


    He was confused as he had no understanding of the situation he found himself in. Thest thing he remembered was that hey down on the bed and slept off, and the next thing he knew, he appeared in the void.


    "What... is this maybe one of those vague memories?" Ss asked himself.


    He thought of it as very likely, and he looked around his surroundings once more, but it was still the same as before.


    He decided to study the ck hole in front of him that was filled with lights, and as he studied the ck hole, he noticed something.


    The clusters of lights weren''t actually lights; they are... they are...


    "Gxies?!" Ss eximed in shock when he saw what the clusters of lights truly were.


    "How is it that I''m seeing gxies in a ck hole?" Ss asked himself, his curiosity shooting through the roof, and his questions piling up even more.


    The swirling systems of stars and interster matter...


    "Wait a minute! Matter!" Ss eximed when this thought flowed through his mind.


    He didn''t understand what was happening, but a lot of things—information—were flowing into his head as he studied the ck hole in front of him.


    He let out a deep exhale and tried to focus his attention on the bulk of information that flowed into his head, but it felt like he was looking at a pile of nonsense.


    No, it felt like he was looking at something that waspletely alien to him, but Ss felt strange as the information in his head was very familiar, yet he still couldn''t understand it.


    "Who am I really?" Ss asked himself curiously when he thought of everything that had happened.


    From what he saw during his first evolution metamorphosis, the vague memories in his head, the information that kept pouring into his head sometimes—everything had been very strange and almost unexinable.


    Ss knew what it could be, but it waspletely different from what he used to read.


    "Nah, that''s dumb. Why use the exnation of someone who hasn''t actually experienced a regression or reincarnation to exin my current situation?"


    Ss could only sigh as he thought of this. He really hoped he would get the answers that he so badly needed.


    Ss turned his attention back to the ck hole, and he noticed that the lights in the singrity section of it were disappearing one after the other.


    "What''s happening?" Ss asked as he observed what was happening in the ck hole.


    He looked closer, and he saw that there were two figures standing at the deepest part of the ck hole.


    Ss was even more surprised by this. He thought he saw wrong, but when he looked closely, it was just as he saw previously. Two figures were standing in the ck hole.


    "Wait a minute. Is this even a ck hole to begin with? How can there be two people inside a ck hole, and most important of all, how can there be light in the singrity section of a ck hole?" Ss questioned himself.


    He looked at the two figures in the ck hole, and he stretched his hand to touch the ck hole in front of him, but something very unexpected happened the next moment.


    Ss felt his body yanked from the void and into what he thought was the ck hole.


    Outside the void was a dark space filled up with so many clusters of gxies that Ss found it hard to even start counting.


    He was unable to understand the situation before he heard the same familiar voice he heard during his first evolution metamorphosis.


    "It''s not yet time. We can''t rush it, or we fail again. We still have more than enough time, and you should enjoy it," the voice said, and Ss found himself awake, staring at the ceiling of his room.


    "Sigh... Fucking give me more information and stop mystifying everything!"