The Hundred-Year End

Arin, a restless boy from a village that worships the coming of the world’s destruction, begins to suspect that the sacred Rebirth Day festival hides a terrible truth. When a crack appears in the temple wall and then splits open the sky itself, he is forced to confront the forbidden secret that every 100 years, God ends the world and recreates it from the ashes. Following clues hidden beneath the ancient temple, Arin discovers records from previous cycles, murals of destroyed worlds, and a mysterious black key that seems to have been waiting for him. At the center of this secret chamber, he encounters a strange reflection that speaks like a divine being and reveals that Arin is part of the next cycle. The chapter ends with the shocking realization that the world is not being saved by God, but reset by Him, and Arin has just opened the door to the truth.