Chapter 62 - Episode 62 The Shard Of Becoming

📖 Whispers of the Moon

By Rapwizzy Debaron

Episode 62: The Shard of Becoming

The silence after the storm is always the loudest.

Juvia stood in the center of the ancient temple, clutching the mirror shard close to her heart. It pulsed faintly—like it was alive. Her trial in the Mirror of Undoing was over, but the echo of every forgotten version of herself still stirred beneath her skin.

Beside her, Ha-jun kept a hand on her back, silent support radiating from his presence. Sae-rin approached cautiously, eyes flicking from the mirror shard to Juvia's pale face.

"You passed," she said. "But something's… different about you."

"I remembered everything," Juvia whispered. "Even the parts I wanted to forget."

The Warden stepped forward, his form less shadowy now, more… human.

"The mirror did not show you punishment. It offered becoming—the choice to accept or reject the truths you buried. You accepted them."

Juvia nodded slowly. "But what now?"

The Warden's eyes glowed golden. "Now the temple gives you its gift—and its curse."

Suddenly, the ground trembled. Mirrors shattered around the walls, releasing streams of silver smoke. The ceiling cracked open, revealing the full moon in the sky—now tinged red.

From the depths of the temple, a shape rose. A massive clock, ancient and incomplete, its hands spinning erratically. Around it, chains forged from timelines rattled and screamed.

"The Shard of Becoming unlocks the Chrono Core," the Warden said gravely. "The birthplace of every timeline erased. Every soul that never existed. Every regret you were too afraid to face."

Sae-rin stepped back. "You're opening it?! Are you insane?!"

"I'm not," Juvia said quietly. "But something is calling me from inside it."

Ha-jun grabbed her hand. "You don't have to answer. We've done enough."

Juvia turned to him, tears swimming in her eyes. "We stitched the future. We saved it. But the past still screams. If we don't close the Chrono Core now… it will rip everything apart again."

As they spoke, the core split open with a blinding flash.

And something—someone—stepped out.

She was tall. Cloaked in white and blue. Her face was eerily familiar. Her voice was Juvia's—but colder.

"I am the Juvia who became Time itself."

Everyone froze.

The Warden lowered his head. "The first iteration. The one who chose to erase all love to protect time. She was sealed in the Core."

The Time-Juvia smiled softly. "And now, thanks to your shard… I'm free."

Juvia took a shaky step forward. "You were me?"

"I am you," the figure replied. "The you who stopped believing in love. Who chose logic over heart. And now, I've come to restore the timeline I built—the one you destroyed by falling in love with him."

She pointed to Ha-jun.

A wind howled through the temple.

Ha-jun's jaw clenched. "You're not her anymore."

"Oh, I am," the Time-Juvia said gently. "Just the version that gave up everything to protect everyone—even if it meant living alone."

Juvia's heart cracked.

She understood this version.

She feared becoming her.

But now, she had to face her.

The Time-Juvia extended her hand. "Join me, and we can fix everything. Refuse… and I will tear time apart again, piece by piece."

Juvia took a deep breath.

Then looked back at Ha-jun, the boy who never gave up on her—even when she was lost inside herself.

"No," she said clearly. "You are a truth. But you are not my truth. I choose love. I choose this pain. I choose him."

Time-Juvia's eyes darkened.

"So be it."

She raised her hand—and the war for the timeline began again.

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To be continued…

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