⸢The universe in the beginning was 'one'.⸥
When I regained my wits, that sentence was floating in front of my eyes. I couldn't tell whether that was just a line of text, or a memory of something taking possession of the sentence.
⸢The 'one' was truly omniscient and omnipotent in this world. Because, the 'one' was the universe itself, and the universe was the 'one'. The 'one' was perfect. And it was perfectly alone.⸥
Right after that, a blinding explosion went off.
⸢And that's how 'one' became 'two'.⸥
That was the first explosion. People, later on, would call it the Big Bang.
⸢'One' was no longer omnipotent afterwards.⸥
An incredible dizziness assaulted me, and I fell down on my hands and knees.
This was inside the door, the deepest part of the 'Final Wall'. The wall didn't try to suck me in anymore. Maybe, I had already been sucked in.
I looked around to discover Han Su-Yeong collapsed on the floor. I placed her unconscious figure on my back, and stood up. I raised my head to realise that Anna Croft was now standing before me.
[….Looks like you saw the First Fable.] The Wenny King currently possessing her was smiling in my direction. [I made the exact same face as you when I first saw it, too.]
I didn't reply. I had no time to shoot breezes with him like this. Where did my companions disappear to?
Maybe he read my anxiousness, because he continued to speak to me.
[Aren't you curious? Why does this thing called 'Fable' exist in this world?]
“….I didn't come here to discuss such things with you.”
[However, it'll be impossible to go any further without talking about it first. It was the same for me, you see.]
I could hear Han Su-Yeong's breathing coming from my back. Her breaths soon became a Fable and unfolded before me. The world seemed to distort, and a passage decorated with display shelf-like things appeared next.
⸢The universe became 'two', and the 'one' grew lonely.⸥
⸢Things that weren't necessary back when there was only 'one' began appearing.⸥
Figurine-like beings were engaged in combat above these display shelves. The history of 'scenario' that began in countless planets, including Earth, was on display right there.
⸢The 'Good and Evil' was created to differentiate the two.⸥
Agares and Metatron were bitterly fighting each other. That was the 'Great War of Saints and Demons', where angels and demons, even as they bled crimson-coloured Fables, never compromised on their ideals.
⸢The 'communication' was invented to soothe the two's loneliness.⸥
Citizens were battling demons within the walls of the [Industrial Complex]. And I saw Jang HYeong trying to dissuade this battle between those walls.
⸢And 'Samsara', a wish to return to when it was 'one', was created.⸥
Next up was Sakyamuni gently stroking a certain Incarnation Body trapped within a water tank inside his chamber. It was the Incarnation Body belonging to the now-dead Tang Sanzang, who loved Sakyamuni once upon a time.
⸢However, 'two' could never go back to being 'one'.⸥
All the Fables I had been reading were displayed here.
These battles were repeating themselves within the predetermined conclusion.
Han Su-Yeong must be slowly waking back up, because I could feel her tremble a little.
⸢The 'two' needed something to connect the divided two. An existence that would live through all the Fables, and act as a proxy to their good and evil, their communications, and their Samsara.⸥
My feet came to a dead stop just then.
⸢The 'Character'.⸥
I couldn't leisurely watch on anymore.
The 'Wenny King' walking next to me like a ghost spoke up. [It's such a malicious joke, don't you agree?]
He cackled before hiding within my shadow.
The number of individuals appearing on the display cabinet grew. Some were simply put on display like some plastic figurines, while there were some still trapped in the wall with only their faces exposed as if moulding hadn't been completed yet.
“….Ji-Hye!! Yu-Seung-ah!!”
I recognised those faces.
I tried so hard to free them from there, but the more I struggled, the deeper their faces sunk into the wall.
I ran along the display shelf. Yi Seol-Hwa, Gong Pil-Du, Yi Gil-Yeong, Yu Sang-Ah…. everyone from
“Is that bastard tls123?”
Chapter end
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