The indifferent voice pierced through the noise and hit my ears even though I didn’t raise my voice.

An extreme sense of crisis boiled over.

It was actually me who raised my voice.

“Don’t act like a fool, Reed!”

“You act like a fool? You shouldn’t criticize me like that. You should be showing mercy. You’re trying to awaken the truth to a guy who doesn’t even know that he’s a part of a broken clock.”

Truth.

I sensed what was about to happen with that one word.