"...because I know more than the heavenly laws themselves!"
"...." Theo frowned deeply, his brows knitting together as he held his gaze on his father's face for a long, unbroken mont, as if trying to peel apart the layers of confidence and see what truly lay beneath, "Father, you know I don't have a problem with your arrogance. If anything, it's the opposite. It gives strength, it gives direction. Every ti you declare sothing impossible with that sa pride, I push myself harder, I commit everything I have to help you make it real, but..."
He paused, drawing in a slow breath that seed heavier than it should have been.
"...don't you feel like you've crossed into dangerous territory?"
"What do you an 'dangerous territory,' boy? Are you saying I've lost my mind?!" Robin raised a single brow, the faint amusent in his expression sharpening into sothing more pointed, "Do you really think I would joke about sothing like this? Or exaggerate for the sake of pride?"
"What do you expect to think when you're claiming you understand the heavenly laws better than the heavenly laws themselves?!" Theo shot back imdiately, the disbelief in his voice no longer concealed.
"Did I actually say that?" Robin shook his head, his expression shifting into one of mock grievance, almost as if he had been unfairly accused, "I understand their relationship with humans better than they do. That's all."
"...that's barely any different." Theo muttered under his breath, clearly struggling to reconcile what he was hearing.
"There's a difference. A very important one." Robin raised a finger, his tone steadying as he leaned slightly forward, "The heavenly laws are nothing more than tools. Tools that were programd to regulate and preserve the universe after the master laws were used to bring it into existence." He paused briefly, letting the idea settle, before continuing in a slower, more deliberate cadence, "When it cos to maintaining the structure of the universe itself, or utilizing the full spectrum of the seven tiers of laws, I am nowhere near the level required to claim understanding, let alone superiority."
His brows then drew together, his gaze sharpening.
"But when the matter concerns how those laws are embedded into energy foundations, that is where everything changes. The heavenly laws do not place patterns in the correct positions, nor do they arrange them in the correct sequence. And this isn't randomness either. You won't stumble upon the correct configuration even once in a million attempts. The proper arrangent of patterns is effectively nonexistent if you leave it to chance… almost as if it were deliberately avoided."
"...you're saying the heavenly laws intentionally create flawed pattern arrangents?" Theo repeated slowly, his voice dropping, the weight of the implication pressing down on him, "This… is the core problem humanity has faced since the very beginning?"
"Exactly. And don't underestimate just how severe that is." Robin gestured toward Theo's arm, his expression turning more serious, "Tell , what would happen if your liver were placed where your arm is, and your big toe were positioned where your head should be? Would you still be Theo? Would you even qualify as human at that point?" He leaned back slightly, resting his arm casually, yet his eyes remained sharp, "Humans require a specific structural arrangent to be considered human. In the sa way, law patterns require a precise structure to function as intended."
He continued, his tone gaining a subtle edge.
"From what I've observed, the natural arrangent produced by the laws is only just sufficient to prevent total collapse. It's the bare minimum required to keep the foundation from falling apart, just enough to deceive you into believing it is correct. And as your understanding of the law deepens, the foundation naturally becos stronger and more stable, reinforcing that illusion, making you believe you're progressing along the correct path."
Robin's gaze drifted away for a brief mont, his eyes darkening with restrained frustration.
"Everyone who ca before tried to solve the problem from the sa direction. They all focused on how to force energy through the human body, treating it as weak, as flawed, as sothing that needed to be compensated for…" his voice lowered slightly, "...but not a single one of them stopped to ask the more fundantal question."
He turned back, his eyes locking forward again.
"Why is the human body weak to begin with?"
"Why is it that a single dose of contaminated beast blood can enhance it so drastically?"
He exhaled slowly.
"Even I fell into that sa trap for a ti. I accepted the premise without questioning it. I followed that path, just like everyone else… and in doing so, I wasted years of my life chasing a problem that was never ant to be solved that way."
"Are the heavenly laws deliberately suppressing humans in this way?" Theo frowned deeply, the muscles around his eyes tightening as unease crept into his voice, "But… why would they do sothing like that?"
"I don't know the reason." Robin shook his head slowly, his tone calm yet layered with thought, "But now I understand what Azramid ant when he said it was a Seal. The heavenly laws didn't gather one day and decide to inconvenience humanity, that much is obvious. This feels closer to a seal… or perhaps a curse. Sothing deliberately placed, like a crude ga designed to restrain us, to narrow our potential and keep human growth within certain limits."
He let out a slow breath, his gaze drifting montarily as if revisiting the mont of realization.
"To be honest, ever since I used that thod and uncovered what's really happening, my mood has been split between two extres…" he paused briefly, then continued, "Good, because the solution itself isn't complex, not in the way we imagined. Even children can grasp it with proper guidance. Good, because modifying already-built system using this approach is entirely possible. Good, because if this discovery spreads, my na will be etched into history without question. And good… because I managed to reach it before Nihari's ascension window."
His brows slowly drew together again.
"But at the sa ti, my mood is foul… because of how absurd this entire situation is. Because of the existence of soone, or sothing… that thought it was acceptable to impose this kind of ga on humanity."
"...." Theo fell silent, his thoughts spiraling as he tried to process the scale of what was being suggested. The idea that so unknown entity could influence heavenly laws themselves pressed heavily on his mind, tightening his chest with every passing second, "...Could it just be coincidence? Maybe this system was always ant to be discovered by us eventually, but we simply failed to reach it? Maybe the heavenly laws were trying to guide us toward stronger foundations, but it resulted in the opposite effect instead?"
"Will that explanation help you sleep better when you lay your head on your pillow at night?" Robin let out a soft chuckle, the faintest hint of amusent coloring his tone, "There's one small flaw in your interpretation… what about exceptional humans like Raiden? Why are they capable of using the laws so efficiently?"
"..?" Theo froze for a brief mont, caught off guard, then spoke more cautiously, "You an… they naturally possess proper pattern arrangents within their foundations? But doesn't that contradict what you've been saying?"
"Not at all." Robin shook his head without hesitation, "You're asking the wrong question. The real question is… how does an exceptional human co into existence in the first place?" He paused, letting the thought settle before continuing, "There are two primary paths. The first is selection. A human is randomly chosen by the planet's spirit and marked with a seal that only the law itself can interpret."
"From that mont, they are born with an extraordinary body, one perfectly aligned with a specific law. When they begin building their foundations, the patterns don't struggle to find their place… they fall naturally into what is effectively the optimal arrangent, or rather, the optimal arrangent relative to their affinity, whether that affinity stands at 91% or reaches perfection at 100%. Even within that range, the ordering of patterns still plays a decisive role."
"And the second path?" Robin raised a slight brow, continuing seamlessly, "A human might be exposed to a specific law under extre conditions, or experience a rare, almost impossible coincidence, allowing them to gain the law's favor in an exceptional way… like what happened to the father of the Destra family before he was even born, while still in his mother's womb." He shook his head lightly, "But you won't find an ordinary human like you or simply cultivating and having the correct pattern arrangent form naturally. That simply does not happen."
Then his fingers began tapping rhythmically against the arm of his seat, his gaze drifting toward the distant spaceti corridor, his expression shifting into sothing more contemplative.
"But there was one thing that kept bothering for a long ti."
"What is it?" Theo asked imdiately, leaning forward slightly, his focus sharpening. The depth of this conversation had already surpassed anything he had anticipated when he first arrived.
Even his father's earlier remarks about achieving advancent within less than a century now felt trivial, almost childish, compared to what was being discussed.
"...Why is it that exceptional humans tend to produce exceptional descendants?" Robin murmured, almost to himself, "Take the Maizer family as an example," he gestured toward Pitsu, who was roasting sothing massive in the distance, "How many of them now possess perfect affinity to sound? Twenty? Thirty individuals? And all of that originates from a single ancestor who achieved that alignnt first."
"...it used to bother you?" Theo nearly followed the line of reasoning instinctively, but then caught onto the phrasing, his eyes narrowing slightly, "Did you… find the answer?"
"Almost." Robin turned his head back toward Theo, a quiet laugh escaping him, his eyes glinting with restrained excitent, "It appears… to be a loophole in the seal."
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