Yawen spilled the secrets in one breath, answering many of the questions that had been troubling Annan's mind. Yet, they also introduced new uncertainties.
But he had roughly cleared up the direction of the problem now.
Annan himself was the inheritor of Sisyphus and, at the same time, the successor to the Charioteer. He was to initiate or become the new Charioteer... to allow this world to possess new blood.
And The Worm would definitely want to stop him, to kill him.
Thus, The Worm became Annan's greatest enemy.
It was not that Annan must eradicate The Worm, but that The Worm would inevitably come knocking on his door.
Perhaps, the Winter Reverser's intense malice towards Annan also partly stemmed from The Worm's spiritual contamination...
"As for the death of the Charioteer, even among us old folks, the theories are completely different.
