After rejecting the Regression Stone and choosing to forge his own path, Jaehwan ventures beyond the Tower into the Chaos Lands, a realm inhabited by the souls of those who have died in the real world.

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Through his unique power of Doubt and his profound perception of reality and death, he sees beyond the illusions these souls cling to, recognizing the decaying corpses hidden beneath their human appearances. This is why he sees Mino as half a beautiful young woman and half a rotting skeleton, revealing the truth she and the other inhabitants desperately conceal. When she tells him, “You’re different from me,” she acknowledges the fundamental divide between them: while the souls of Chaos have settled into an imitation of life, Jaehwan refuses to surrender to illusion or accept a reality imposed upon him. Even surrounded by the dead, he continues to struggle for genuine freedom, remaining an anomaly in a world where the living have long since become indistinguishable from the dead.