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Chapter 353
Not One, But Two
She soon wrote characters in her notebook and showed them to Eve.
"-The reason I woke you isn't that. If I intended to start a rebellion, there would've been no reason to wake you."
"You're about to say it's because you'll put that woman named Ruri at the vanguard... right?"
Eve intercepted Mori's words and denied it.
"You already know. That scheming bitch named Ruri wouldn't be able to treat the Regent harshly."
Ẁèbn̄ӧv́ е̇ l Ёń ǔm а
She couldn't deny that rebuttal.
Because she already knew Ruri held subtle feelings for Ferda.
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"That's why I'm needed to carry out the order. The only material for a rebellion was you yourself."
"-At the same time, she's also the person suited for the incident we face."
A woman who had erased her own family with her own hands.
She possessed the power to make everything unfold within a calculation without variables.
Ẇ е̌ b n̂ о v̈е̇ l̈ Е̂.n̂ŭ m̂ а
"But I don't want to do that."
Eve said so.
"If the monsters break through that massive Wall, humans will realize how foolish they were. How trivial they were, caught in arrogance. Without the Black Sun and Red Moon even rising, everything will return to nothingness."
Things don't go as intended.
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Unlike Mori, Eve is free, so she isn't subjugated.
Mori watched her quietly.
Е́ ń üm̌ а̊
"-Then I ask."
Eve smiled faintly.
"Speak."
"-Do you intend to destroy everything following that Truth?"
"No need to ask. You're me, and I'm you. In other words, us."
Mori felt a crafty sensation from those words.
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A bond obtained through the word 'us'.
That bond rang a warning in her head.
"Because we're trivial, weak existences, we must know that triviality. Spreading that is the mission we hold."
Trivial, weak humans.
Despite having memories that wrought all calamities, Eve was soaked in joy.
"-Then we ask you."
Е n u m̂а . ï ď
"Yes."
"-Knowing that ruin is the Truth, and accepting it, what remains for us?"
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"A new beginning. A new world starting from zero."
"-Zero means nothingness. Meaning nothing remains for us."
"No Black Sun or Red Moon either. Even the concept of immortality will all be erased and order will settle. You realized that, didn't you?"
Right.
Е́ñů m ã
Because Truth holds infinite power.
"-So we ask you."
Mori didn't waver.
Because she had no ego, she didn't waver, and because she didn't waver, she could see clearly.
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"-Why did we abandon the Truth?"
"That's something you did, not us."
Е̄n̆ ũm̆ a
Eve drew a line.
"What you did was a mere moment's whim in a lifetime. The most fatal whim. You abandoned me because you were consumed by that whim."
Whim.
Now two who had become you and I, no longer us.
Mori abandoned the Truth and became a slave; Eve follows the Truth.
A word flashed in Mori's mind.
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"-Contradiction."
Eve and Mori were originally one, and if they saw the same thing, they had to make the same choice.
Mori acknowledged the girl before her was originally herself.
Then why did she make a different choice?
Ironically, she knew Eve knew that.
Eve was trying not to show that page to Mori.
Ӗ nǔ m̈ а._їd
"If I whisper the Truth into your ear again, we'll become us again."
Truth.
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Erasing the Pach family from the world.
Things mere humans must not know.
Eve put those words in her mouth once more.
□□□□
W̃еb̊n̈ оv ẽ l̊ Ėṅ ü m а
It properly lodged in her ears.
The meanings contained in each syllable pushed back tens of thousands of books.
As if emptied out, only Mori herself existed in that mental world.
It was something people couldn't accept.
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It was the Truth intellectual beings yearned for.
"Welcome. Eve."
Е̊n̆ǔmа
Eve spoke with such certainty as she caressed Mori's face.
At that moment, Mori's hand moved scratch-scratch.
"-Now I understand."
Until the word of Truth was heard, vague things became clear.
She could define why she chose the option to awaken her memories through the Hive Mind.
"-I woke you because you were harmless."
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"...What?"
Eve's eyebrows twitched.
"-What you speak of is merely an image reflected on water. It cannot be called the true intent Truth brings."
"How does that work?"
"-Ruin is merely an image Truth shows. That cannot be called the true intent Truth brings."
"Are you saying I'm merely your information?"
W ѐ b́ň.o ṽ.e̊ l̄ Е̂ñ ũm̆ а́
Mori nodded.
"True intent hidden in Truth. That doesn't make sense. Truth is not interpreting. That's why it's one."
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"-I abandoned Truth; you follow Truth. The reason we don't walk the same path is because interpretation is needed. This is a truth that cannot be denied by trivial whim."
Flowing meanings finally defined as words.
"-You are merely my replica, Eve."
Eve's expression twisted viciously.
Е̊ n ü m̌ а̂.. і d
Eve's hand went for Mori's throat.
"Try saying that one more time."
She grabbed it tight.
"Harmless? Merely a replica? Even right now, hundreds of ways to kill you and take your place come to mind?"
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As she pressed on Mori's throat, her vision gradually blurred.
Mori tried to write something to speak.
Ẅ еḃnó v̀ e l̊ Ӗ ṅ ŭ m̂а.
Eve snatched her pen and threw it.
Like there would be no more conversation.
But Mori didn't give up.
She mechanically brought her finger to her cheek and wrote characters.
"Hehe..."
The black girl looked down at Mori with interested eyes.
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"You can't kill me? You'll die within 10 seconds."
Mori just stared at Eve quietly.
No resistance to protect her own body.
If Eve applied force here, Mori would meet her fate of death.
Eve tried to prove she was right.
"Why...?"
Е́ ṅ umа̄ .і d̂
But Eve couldn't apply force.
Each time she neared suffocation, strength naturally left her hand.
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"-Your heart holds a Principle."
Echidna wrote three rules in preparation for when autonomous learning golems ran wild.
First Principle: All golems are tools, not human, and tools have the obligation to benefit humans.
Mori put her everything on the premise and awakened another self.
Wе b̆ňov̀е ĺ Ӗ n̂ ũm à
Eve didn't want to accept that fact.
So she tried to sing out that realized Truth as if chanting.
"..."
Mumbling lips.
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As if refusing to give even a clue to that word, the shape of her lips themselves twisted grotesquely.
"How was I able to tell you?"
Е̄n̄ ū m̌ a.. і̃ d
"-Because I know you're harmless to me. I won't tell anyone. That Principle is now a new Truth for you, Eve Pach."
"Don't talk like I'm a stranger."
Eve threw her body down, pinning Mori beneath her.
She desperately tried to kill Mori.
"You're just a doll with flowing blood. Used by others and eventually discarded like worn-out shoes, what's so confident about you?"
Mori wrote characters on Eve's cheek once more.
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"-In the end, we are us. Just as you resist your Truth, I resist my Truth."
Hearing those words, Eve laughed hollowly.
First acknowledging they were one, then trying to separate.
Then having to acknowledge they're one again.
That strange meshing made her question what kind of existence she was.
"Is this world worth sustaining?"
W е b́ n̂о̌ vеl̀ Е̊ ńů m̄а́
Eve asks Mori.
"-I think there was value in abandoning Truth because I believe so."
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"That's just whim to relieve boredom."
"-Even if it's whim, it was the right judgment."
"Right? You just judged that now?"
Mori felt it from deep in her chest.
Е n um̈а.ǐd̈
It was an egg.
The egg surrounding her cracks.
"-I found people who love me."
Can't speak, but girls she can communicate with through writing.
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Mechanical-seeming but actually quite cheeky peer, Ruri.
The Grand Duke with charming laughter despite fearsome notoriety.
Wё bnоvе̂l̄ Е̂ n̄ u ma
"-And..."
Administrator Isabella and Chief Researcher, Echidna.
"Thinking of those two, doesn't the thought of destroying them well up again?"
"-Each expresses it in terrible, selfish ways, but ultimately they came bearing love too."
Though terrible in form, she didn't deny the fact they loved.
"-Lastly..."
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"Ferda Valdrova, right."
Gray hair, blue eyes.
When Mori was in the office, she always watched his figure.
Thought she was just taking in simple information, but gradually realized it wasn't that.
"Do you think all that was worth abandoning Truth?"
Value.
Е n̄ ùṁа̇
At those words, Mori no longer touched Eve's cheek with her index finger.
She finally broke the egg imprisoning herself.
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"Yes."
Eve's eyes went wide.
A clear voice burst out, unlike a girl who hadn't used her throat in long.
If she wasn't mistaken, it was a voice flowing from Mori's mouth.
W̆ е̌ b̂ n̈ ŏ v̆е̇ l Е̊n ŭ ḿ а
"My whim wasn't whim. That's why it had meaning."
The moment Mori opened her mouth, an astonishing amount happened.
As if the reason she couldn't see ahead was simply because she hadn't opened her eyes.
All forms scatter from objective into subjective.
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She gave meaning to all five senses brushing past, placed them before the yardstick of like and dislike.
The Slave Sage finally casts off the chains binding herself.
Е̃ ňu m а.і̆d
Thus she opens her own book she couldn't unfold herself.
She takes out the page Eve so wanted to hide.
The day the girl awakened to Truth, the day everything burned and vanished,
The girl walked aimlessly.
A single dandelion placed on a plain where nothing existed.
She saw seeds scatter on the blowing wind.
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That sight was unspeakably pitiful and trivial.
But unspeakably beautiful.
If spring comes again after a long winter, surviving seeds will sprout again and color the world.
"I let it go because I wanted to deny the realized Truth."
So she became a slave, not a master who had attained enlightenment.
She took in information through hollow eyes, told no one.
Ӗ ň um̌.а̂
Even if incomplete, she saw hope in her.
That's why
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The girl asked.
Who am I?
"My name is Mori."
The girl who abandoned the Golden Truth, Eve Pach, does not exist.
Ѐ ñ um̆ă
Only the name one man gave her remains.
"A slave who believes this world still has hope."
"Hope, huh."
The black girl laughed at that name.
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Whether it was mockery or formal laughter, even the black girl herself couldn't know.
But she could know one thing.
W̃ е bn ӧ.v̊ е l Е̇ ń üm̌а̊
That she was merely this blonde girl's replica and tool.
"Is my role done with this?"
"That can't be. You still believe the Truth I saw is true."
"Right. I still believe what you saw."
Eve released her throat and stood up.
"When we walk the paths we each believe in, we'll know who was right."
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Eve walked toward the door.
Despite harboring a dangerous Truth that would spread like an epidemic the moment it left her mouth, she didn't dare.
Mori also hoped she would obtain what she realized.
"Then..."
Mori watched her retreating back and asked one last time.
"Will we be able to talk again?"
Е́ n̄ũm.а_. ï_d̂
Eve didn't answer.
She didn't even leave a promise, just quietly vanished from sight.
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Stuffiness remained in Mori's chest.
Being free is this hard.
But because she's free, she could also determine.
"I hope there's a day we meet again."
W е b̆n̄о̇vе̌l̄ Еn̊ù m̄ а
Because she believes in hope, she hoped so and left a promise in the place she vanished.
Soon after, the workshop door opened again.
"Aaaah... so tired..."
The one entering was this workshop's owner, the hunched, gloomy witch.
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She walked with staggering steps, sunk deep in depression.
"Just take a little rest... huh?"
Ŵ е b n̈.о̊v̀.е l Ё n̊um а̊
Then she saw Mori's figure.
Her half-lidded eyes bulged round.
"Gasp!! Our baby angel has returned!!"
Echidna crawling on all fours, drooling.
She looked down at that bizarre sight expressionlessly.
Seen it so much she was used to it.
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"Uhehe, hellooo?"
"Hello, Chief Researcher."
"Y-yes, yeees hello!??"
Echidna startled so much her bent back straightened stiff.
Since she thought the girl would be mute forever, she couldn't help but be horrified.
"How, speech? No, more than that, wow, completely baby angel voice...!"
Е̌ n umа
The voice she'd only imagined burst out in reality, and Echidna made a face like she'd cry.
Like a mother watching a baby's first steps
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She tried to carefully embrace her with trembling hands.
"Pl-please call me Maman...!"
"Refused."
Mori, who had been a doll, now pushed her face away and clearly showed her will.
Ẁ ĕb̀n̈ ȯv̇е̄l̈ Е nů m̂а
The baby hit puberty in the blink of an eye.
As the doll that only poured affection defenselessly began to speak like that, Echidna's hands wandered with nowhere to go.
Not leisurely enough for such play, Mori simply asked Echidna.
"Where is Regent Ferda?"
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Even when Ferda received the report, he couldn't believe it.
W̃ е̌bn̈о̃v̇e l Êǹu ṁа̌
But seeing directly, it was certainly different.
The her he faced lacked her characteristic rigidity.
"I greet the Regent. I am Mori."
Mori was greeting while mentioning her own name herself.
"Did you awaken on your own?"
"Yes, that's right."
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"Then the Library of All Things..."
Ferda carefully mentioned that part.
"No need to worry about that part. The Library of All Things contract comes into effect when others grant me ego. Since I realized it myself, the contract won't break."
There's no contract that premises impossibility.
So the contract became not something binding her, but a tool.
"Then I should call you not Slave Sage but Sage."
Е̊ǹ u m̂ а̊ .ī d
"Or I could still be a slave."
Mori showed a smile.
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A human smile that couldn't be forcibly manufactured.
"So what will you do now?"
"I'll fight for this Far East. For that..."
She flipped through the reports received through Isabella.
Е n ǔ m̀а̀.. і d
"Those terrible operations need re-examination."
"Indeed."
"So..."
Mori looked into Ferda's eyes and spoke.
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"It's okay to rest a little now."
His eye shadows were too deep.
W̌ е̄ bñо̂ v ѐ ľ Ëńu̇ m a
A heart surged wanting to lessen even a little of his burden that bordered on paranoia.
"Thank you."
Ferda stroked Mori's head as always.
"Nk...!"
A scream-like sound burst from Mori's mouth and her body jerked greatly.
Ferda was surprised by that reaction and removed his hand.
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"Sorry. I did it like the days when you had no ego."
"...It's fine."
Mori stared at Ferda's face.
She'd felt his gaze many times, but the dry eyes she felt before were now moist, so the feeling was different.
"Regent."
"Why?"
Е n̈ um̃ a
"I have words I've held for a long time I want to convey. Is that okay?"
"Try saying them."
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Thinking something important might be there, Ferda willingly permitted.
They were very important words to Mori.
That Ferda is very cool.
That she wants to go give morning greetings every day.
Е n üm̄ а̂
That she wants head pats every day too.
And that when emotions don't settle, she wants to write a handwritten letter and give it.
It's fine if no reply, but if he replies, she'd be very happy.
"That is..."
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With such clear words to say, the sentences tangled and twisted, clumping in her mouth.
Tightly closed lips, reddening cheeks.
Еn̆ů ṁå. і d̆
Swelled up puffy like dough in a steamer.
In the end, unable to bring out a single word of what she thought, she said this to Ferda.
"I'll make a list and tell you again."
"Do that."
That was Mori's life, her first flutter and embarrassment.
