Pathos asked with an incredulous look on her face while pointing at the chanical tapeworm-spider.Granted, the aforentioned chanical monstrostity had stopped pacing in circles at this point and was now rolling around on it’s cage floor like a dented puppy. It was kinda cute, but also mildly disgusting with all the wriggling and writhing about.
Zhen Liu was caught off guard by the sudden action, but quickly reclaid his composure before speaking his thoughts on the matter.
"I an...maybe sothing like that?," Zhen Liu answered, "it’s just...feels kinda wrong to suddenly put an end to a life I had inadvertently cause to exist. I’d rather not be like Victor Frankenstein and run away from the problems I cause."
=An understandable sentint, that man was a terrible father,= Logos agreed, having read a bunch of the literary classics that ca from their lord’s world.
Pathos on the other hand decided to be a bit snarky....and cryptic.
Pathos quipped while making a prayer motion with her hands,
"Okay, I’ve been aning to ask this. Y’all have been hinting at the divinities of my world being real and occasionally popping up here, so of the aether arts in here clearly have the word ’buddha’ in their na’s, like [Buddha’s Golden Palm] and [Buddha’s Begging Bowl Imprisonnt], is that the sa Buddha I know or is that a Buddha exclusive to this world?"
Logos and Pathos answered simultaneously as if not suddenly dropping a bombshell on Zhen Liu’s head.
"Say what?," Zhen Liu asked with genuine shock to his voice," also wait, does that an-"
both Logos and Pathos stated while shaking their heads violently against the notion that the Buddha might have been a Kaijin Lord. Granted, they had a very good reason for this though.
=We’re beings made of desire, he literally has none, it causes us both spiritual and physical pain being in the sa room as one another. And to elaborate further, the Buddha started mortal in your world, reached nirvana to remove himself from your world’s circle of life and death and I now believe is hopping into other worlds to this day...last ti we saw him was...around the ti we were on the lord prior to you and your imdiate predecessor.=
"I...kinda expected that, also what the fuck you t him?!"
=Not directly, no, that aforentioned predecessor of yours did though. Coincidentally, he was also from your world milord.=
The sheer amount of coincidences stacking upon one after another was starting to drive Zhen Liu mad to the point that he briefly forgot about the chanical oversized parasite as he needed answers.
"You ntioned that guy before...who was he?"
Logos looked to Pathos for a mont, sharing a look that caused the forr to shake her head.
=Unfortunately, we can’t tell you,= Logos answered.
"What? Why not?"
"Of course he did...," Zhen Liu sighed in exasperation, "can you at least tell his title, what he was like before ending up here or what he was like?"
While he didn’t know whether or not the enigmaticness was due to the influence of these two, or because his predecessors we’re overly dramatic, he was getting sick of it.
Thankfully though, Logos and Pathos could at least tell him that much...and maybe a bit more than they intended.
=The Pentinent Judgeman,= Logos interjected, =he called himself a "man of god" and was a very...sad and angry individual. Naly at himself.=
"Why’s that?"
=He said that in his past life, the one on your world, he was sothing called a "witch-hunter" and when he ended up here, he realized just how ssed up his occupation was and how ssed up he was.=
"Oh..."
"Huh..."
As soon as Pathos made that statent, Zhen Liu couldn’t help but stare at the chanical parasite that had stopped rolling around and was now sleeping in the glass cage.
Did he truly want to spare this accidental parasite because he felt responsible, or was it because he felt a strange sense of kinship with the beast before him?
After all, they both irreversibly took over soone else’s life and dramatically changed their trajectories. Granted, one ended in tragedy and bamboo exploding out of their body, while the other was yet to be seen.
’Yeesh. Newton thinks about gravity from an apple to the head, Einstein realizes relativity from a stray thought at work...I question my existence and the aning of my life from staring at a parasite and learning about my predecessor...how is that fair?’
Zhen Liu went silent after this revelation, an understandable reaction to have when one re-evaluates their life, but this silence went on long enough that Logos and Pathos got a little worried.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, I’m fine, just...realizing that I probably won’t be able to turn this thing into a kaijin until I get stronger...probably."
=That is correct milord, you won’t be able to turn living animals into kaijin until you reach the Aether King level.=
"I was just joking about that, what?"
=Well...=
As Zhen Liu was busy being regaled about even more details about what he could potentially do, after going through a small existential crisis in the depths of a magic library, wondering about his own value as a person/transmigrator, the group of beings that had no reason to question his aning we’re busy with their own thing.
Naly, finding ways to alleviate their boredom...mostly.
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How does one determine the value of a life?
By having soone else judge the company they keep?
By having others gawk at the items they own?
By spreading the faith they follow to others, regardless of it’s flaws?
Is it only through the validation of others that one can determine their worth?
No.
At the end of the day, the only person who can make that call, is the sa person that stares back when a mirror is involved.
-A philosophical rant of worth, by a man who t a Buddha.
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