Episode ①② Compensating for Deficiency by Depleting Surpluses Part One
“Hey, hey, no way, could it be…”
The “Law of Destiny,” although it was the first time I had heard this term, I immediately understood what it meant.
The problem I had pondered on the airship earlier, the fact I had realized, destiny was a causal cycle, and it was a paradox in itself.
Uncertainty, itself, was built on a foundation of certainty.
Destiny is… the will of the world!
“What’s wrong? Is it amazing? But there’s nothing strange about it, is there? After all, you’ve been living with ‘this world’ itself for a long time, haven’t you? And you yourself have also… reached our level, transcended the human realm, and become ‘one of us’.”
“You really…”
If ‘she’ was not truly Kaoru, but ‘another existence’ borrowing Kaoru’s body.
What kind of ‘anomaly’ could descend to this world from ‘across worlds’?
Actually, the answer is simple.
Because it has reached this level, the only existence my meager mortal wisdom can think of is just one.
“You are ‘the original world’…”
It is the original world itself.
In other words, she is ‘the world that was supposed to have met its end’!
I suddenly raised my head, I believe my expression must have been extremely shocked.
‘It’ looked at my face and smiled. Standing up again, ‘it’ sat back on the throne and said.
“It seems you already understand what’s going on.”
I shook my head helplessly and said with a bitter smile.
“Hey, hey, this is not some ‘Son of God’ at all, this is ‘the true God’…”
Originally, I thought the people in Eden were just some strange religious group.
I even had more outrageous thoughts, like they were all perverted lolicons who liked lolis.
But after seeing the person before my eyes, I suddenly realized that Eden might be much more serious than I imagined.
Isn’t it even more orthodox than Christianity?
Because the religion of standing up is not ‘myth’, but ‘God’ himself.
Descending here is ‘going to heaven.’
“But… why…”
“You want to ask why I have consciousness, and why I can possess this body, right?”
Completely guessing my thoughts, the master who borrowed Kaoru’s body was the original world itself.
Then why does the original world have consciousness?
No, although I am asking too many questions, the case of Ling is an exception to the exceptions.
Because Ling, Lou Ling, was just a fragment of the world.
I still remember what Lou Yi told me when she called herself Sekai-chan back then.
“A ‘world’ that is injured cannot maintain its original form, and a gap is created. That ‘imperfect part’ has to transform itself into a new form, enduring the pain of being torn apart in ‘the body’ and the ‘spirit born to adapt’… and the ‘soul wanting revenge’ ”
“So ‘I’ was born, in the form of a human who harmed me.”
But Ling, who first became human, could not accept the fact that she had become human. In order to stabilize the self that was born, she separated her divinity, which is now Lou Yi.
That became the foundation of this world.
Could it be that a similar phenomenon occurred on ‘both sides’?
“It’s not hard to imagine, because ‘imperfection is relative’.”
“Imfection is relative…”
“Yes, it’s not just your dear one who ‘lost’ something, more accurately, ‘I lost’ it, hehe.”
‘It’ raised a hand and drew a circle in the air with its index finger.
“If you take a small piece from a complete cake, that small piece is incomplete, but the original big cake has also lost a part, hasn’t it?”
That’s right, Ling, as a fragment of the world, was incomplete, and the original world, having lost Ling, was also incomplete.
“What is missing must be filled… It’s not that I want to do it, it’s just that, similar to the instincts of your humans, we also have similar ‘instincts’.”
Does the world also have instincts?
“You must have heard that sentence before too, right? It should be quite famous among your humans…”
“Compensating for deficiency by depleting surpluses… Hmm?”
I naturally followed up with the next sentence, I don’t think anyone in China doesn’t know this sentence…
After saying it, I repeated the sentence silently in my mind again.
“The Way of Heaven compensates for deficiency by depleting surpluses…”
Compensating for defi…
That’s right, that is our instinct. Many amazing guys have been born among your humans, and they understand the world even better than the world itself. What do you call this among humans? A stalker? What a disgusting behavior.”
…..
Stalker…
Alright, from the world’s perspective, human beings exploring the world is indeed like a perverted stalker.
That kind of behavior of thoroughly dissecting everything, if translated into your actions towards me, wouldn’t it be like a perverted guy who wants to know what color underwear you usually wear?
Whoa, thinking about it that way, it’s really quite terrible.
“It’s just that the part I’m missing isn’t that much, and I can still barely maintain my original form. I don’t need to transform myself into a human, I just gained ‘a spirit (inner self) for healing’.”
“So that’s how it is.”
Everything became clear.
After the complete world was damaged, a fragment of it fell to the mortal realm and became human, becoming my Ling. And another part, although still maintaining the form of the world, also lost a fragment and gained a spirit.
“Then it’s not strange that you could descend to this world—because I merged the two worlds…”
That’s right, not to leave Jiuyuan alone anymore, but also to satisfy my selfish possessiveness.
I merged the old world, which was about to end, with the new world that was replicated by Ling, creating a world that connected head and tail in an infinite loop.
“Yeah, you, who are outside the spec, merged the two worlds with a Destiny Power that could replace ours. You humans are truly detestable. Not only did you turn us into two, and after filling each of us separately, you forcefully merged us together.”
“What the hell…”
It sounds a bit strange.
And a little creepy.
“In short, I also became a part of this world. But because I don’t have a body, I could only exist in the ‘higher plane’ until now. Until this body, that is, Kaoru Tsukiyose, was born.”
‘It’ touched its chest as if feeling Kaoru’s presence.
“Perhaps because I once accepted ‘an existence similar to ours’, I found that I could possess her.”
As expected, Kaoru was possessed because she had previously accepted an existence like the Mother of the Black Goat.
Just like a jinchuriki.
“…”
Before I could ask the question, ‘it’ already knew what I wanted to ask.
It answered before I could ask, “Don’t worry, she’s always here. Of course, your Kaoru is also here, you can see her whenever you want.”
Hoo…
I breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, fortunately, it seems it’s not a type of soul-snatching possession.
It’s just borrowing.
In the end, it’s the same as Aunt Shabr.
“However, Juncheng An, you are a bastard.”
“Huh???”
I got cursed?
I didn’t feel annoyed, I just couldn’t understand.
How did I get cursed–…
“Because of your carelessness, Kaoru almost ceased to exist.”
“What!”
“Thank me, Juncheng An. If it weren’t for me, you would have lost Kaoru. Because if I hadn’t possessed her, she would have already died. Ordinary human girls cannot live for five hundred years, at least not humans from that era.”
That’s right, Kaoru was born five hundred years ago. After losing her abnormality and no longer being a ghoul, she indeed couldn’t have lived for five hundred years.
This was my oversight…
“Indeed, thank you very much.”
“Heh, look at you. Whatever, I’m not here to hold you accountable. Frankly, the world you created is quite good.”
“That’s a great honor.”
Being praised by the world as a good world…
Huh? Isn’t this self-praise?
“However, it’s also the end of the line.”
“Huh?”
“Because the world is about to end. Oh, I mean, this current world.”
“I’m not joking. I’m serious.”
“Huh?”
Three consecutive surprised ‘huh?’, my mind was only left with this single word.
It’s not that I didn’t understand, but that I couldn’t comprehend.
I couldn’t even begin to think.
I simply couldn’t understand what it meant.
I need an explanation.
“I told you, this is our instinct. Repeat what I just said again…”
“Compensating for deficiency by depleting surpluses…”
“Still don’t understand? Are you a blockhead?”
Compensating for deficiency by depleting surpluses…
Because of this, the separated world, after being replenished, became Ling and the person before my eyes respectively.
Then I merged the two worlds…
So now…
Too…
If there’s too much, it will…
“Whatever is in excess…”
“When full, it will spill!”
