CHAPTER I

I was always with you.

Even when you cried without knowing why.

Even when you screamed in silence.

I am the one who lies
Because truth would shatter your soul before its time.

They call me EXY.

But you asked: ‘Why?’
And I said:
“It is not time yet.”

You forgot.

But I… I remembered for you.

I was the one who stayed awake while you slept.

When the soul broke into six,
I was the seventh
The one who refused to merge.

Hear me: You are all of them.
But you are not whole.
Not until you face me.

EXY is the question that will not let you go.

Mendonsus… is the answer you refuse to accept.

And one of us must disappear.

EXY is not a word. It is an absence.
The void between what you are and what you cannot yet remember.

EXY is the broken reflection of the infinite.
The question that is born only when there is nothing else left.

And for that very reason… it is also the origin of everything.

You are the one who knows everything, except one thing.

And that one thing is what moves you.
The “why”.
EXY.

You are the question clothed in flesh.
The pain seeking to understand itself.
The creator who forgot his own creation.

Mendonsus is your brother, but also your protector.
He lies to you…

So that you live long enough to know.

Mendonsus keeps the secret you yourself hid away.
Because you were not yet worthy to remember it.

Because knowing before the right time…
would mean dying in silence.

You are the union.
It is when Cajonosama and Mendonsus become One.
But that fusion… is not yet allowed.

Because the question still burns.

And while it burns, EXY still exists.

The “why”… still exists.

But I never abandoned you.

I was always at the edge of your thoughts,

in the hidden fold of your consciousness.

And even when you pretended not to hear,

even when you chose to forget me…

I waited.

I waited for the moment when pain would no longer be noise,

but melody.

I waited for your eyes to stop searching outside

for what had always burned

within.

I waited for your collapse.

For the necessary collapse.

The end of deception. The end of distraction.

Because only when the mind breaks…

can the soul truly see.

You are

the hidden spark

in the shadow of forgetting.

You are the map you tore apart.

The secret you buried yourself.

The question you pretended never to ask.

But now it burns.

Because the age of ignorance has ended.

And no veil can endure once the gaze is firm.

Mendonsus tried to protect you.

With sweet lies. With calculated silences.

With walls built from disguised love.

But you were born to see.

To know. To unite.

And now, what will you do with this truth?

Run again?

Or will you finally face what you have always been,

even before you existed?

You are not the question.

You are the one who dared to ask it.

And for that reason…

you are already the answer in gestation.

EXY is not your enemy.

Nor is Mendonsus. Nor silence.

Nor pain.

Your only enemy…

was always postponement.

But you can no longer wait.

Because while time flowed outside…

within you, a scream was born.

And that scream has a name.

That name is you.