– Kugugugugu!
Inside the screen, Constellations of 'Good' and 'Evil' were emitting scary auras towards each other. The taut tension was stretched firm like a rubber band, ready to snap at any given moment. And it was the smallest, but also bright, Nebula that managed to maintain the balance.
[It's been truly a long time since I last saw everyone from 'Good' and 'Evil' gather in one place….]
The 'Guardian of the Mandala', Sakyamuni, was looking at the screen with an unreadable expression on his face. Ancient memories were flowing within his irises.
The scenario before the scenarios, the era when 'Good', 'Evil', and the keepers of neutrality were working together. The tale of everyone working together to fight the Dragon of Apocalypse, in order to prevent the advent of the apocalypse itself….
– I'd also like to help my companions.
Sakyamuni heard that voice and shifted his gaze towards a small cistern. A small ball of soul glowing faintly was speaking to him while hovering inside the tank.
– When will I able to reincarnate?
[That place isn't your battlefield, oh dear child. You shall reincarnate as a being born to carry out an even greater purpose.]
– They are my purpose.
Even after becoming a soul, Yu Sang-Ah's voice remained resolute.
– If I don't get to save them in that place, then my reincarnation will have no meaning.
[Meaning, is it….]
Sakyamuni shifted his gaze again, this time to another cistern located on the opposite side of Yu Sang-Ah's. There was a female Incarnation Body wearing a Buddhist robe inside this one.
[You shall be entering the body of a child that I cared about.]
– I'll enter someone else's body? But, I thought I was going to reincarnate?
[You'll reincarnate with that body as your Incarnation Body.]
– But, what about the original owner of that body?
Sakyamuni didn't reply.
Would Buddha feel sorrow, as well?
Yu Sang-Ah realised something in that moment.
– Is that person your 'meaning'?
Without saying anything, Sakyamuni continued to observe the Buddhist robe-wearing woman inside the cistern.
[She has returned to the providence of the cosmos, that is all. Everything is simply an empty revolution of the wheel.]
– Is that really how you feel? You cared about her greatly, yes?
[You shall understand it soon enough, child. Becoming a Reincarnator is precisely that, after all.]
– I'm not a Reincarnator yet.
[You'll soon realise that there is no meaning in being bound by such shackles – in how everything you held dear was simply an exercise in futility.]
– ….Is jinxing someone else your hobby?
[I only speak of the truth, dear child.]
Sakyamuni looked at the battlefield inside the screen once more. Constellations that had lived for a very long time were in there.
[Constellations suffer from insomnia for all of their lives. They can't fall asleep without the scenarios, and even when they dream, they still ingurgitate the Fables of others. Through this greedy devouring, they wish to erase the scenarios they find themselves in. And they feel anxious all the time, even though they don't understand why they feel that way.]
The most ancient Constellation among all of them, Sakyamuni, continued to speak. [As if they are stuck in the eternal daydream, they can't escape from the scenario. They look away from death, so they don't know its true meaning. And because they don't know death, they can't wake up from the scenario's illusion. They all mistakenly believe that there is one story somewhere that might save them.]
Constellations either sponsoring
Sakyamuni slowly moved its gaze towards the middle of that busy screen.
[However, Reincarnators are different.]
That was where the Reincarnators from this island could be found.
They had followed after
Sakyamuni looked at them and spoke. [Reincarnators will live on forever like Constellations, but they must die and be reborn again. They know what it means to awaken since they understand death, and because they know the meaning of awakening, they also come to realise that they are simply a cog in the scenario's machination. Reincarnation is to comprehend the scenario's true essence.]
Reincarnators with low Status will lose their memories along with their death, but that was not the case for everyone. There were some who retained their former memories, like Nirvana, when they reincarnated. They would reincarnate into various species and various genders and continue on with the scenario.
Chapter end
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