Become a puppeteer. Become a proud, self-satisfied savior. Keep climbing upward, let the shell shatter, let the wreckage nourish the soil, and let new shoots grow.
A period is not an ending, but the opening mark of another story.
This is a short story, 60,000 characters in total. I plan to piece various short stories together into a longer work later, and hope to bring everyone a world that's interesting enough.