In the dream, John brings the dreamer to the front of a ruined concrete building. John insists on clearing the blocked doorway by hand, and the dreamer helps. Their wounds heal almost instantly, sometimes trapping grit and glass under the skin until John removes it.

Once inside the shattered reception area, the dreamer sees foul water, wreckage, and human remains. John explains that, during the crisis, people were forbidden from joining him, but thousands still came. He expanded the protective wall outward using his growing necromantic abilities, which alarmed even A—, who recognized that John was making matter behave impossibly.

John then describes his increasing obsession with the soul, the remaining mystery separating life from death. M—’s nun believed discovering that link would bring them closer to God. John says he needed to witness more deaths to understand it, and when five people died in a confrontation outside the wall, he finally perceived something new.

The violent deaths overwhelm John with power and perception. Drawing energy from the five dead people, John stops the hearts of everyone with a gun within a kilometre, including soldiers, police, peacekeepers, and locals. The experience feels effortless and intoxicating, and each killing expands what John can sense.

P— pulls John back and confronts him because John has not restarted the victims’ hearts. John apologizes and claims he lost control, but P— warns him that someone as careful as John should not have accidents. John later admits the bodies were taken in for a skeleton army, and he was no longer joking.

After a silence in the ruined building, the dreamer asks whether John ever learned what caused the “accident.” John answers with a half-smile that careful men like him do not have accidents, revealing that the mass killing was intentional or, at least, knowingly chosen.