Abraham stared at him in silence for several seconds before finally sitting back down.
"Are you… Naless?"
In response, Naless nodded.
"Yes. That is the na others use to refer to ."
Hearing this, Abraham gradually regained his composure.
"So it is rely a title. In that case… what is your true na?"
Abraham asked with curiosity.
Naless shook his head.
"I do not know. I have no na."
Naless ca from Krat .. a world that possessed no concept of nas.
Its inhabitants were designated by nurical sequences, as though they were machines.
"I see…" Abraham murmured, sinking into thought before continuing.
"Tell , Naless—
you are the sole survivor of your kind, correct?"
Naless nodded.
"That is correct."
Abraham decided to dig deeper.
"How did that happen?"
"I foresaw the demons' invasion. I tried to warn my people beforehand, but they did not listen. I alone survived."
Abraham's eyes narrowed.
"How did you know the demons would attack? Can you see the future?"
Naless answered imdiately.
"Yes. I possess a visual ability that allows to perceive most future paths .. countless probabilities. Every one of them led to the demons' invasion. Frey currently holds this ability, but he is not yet capable of using it to its full extent."
Naless was speaking of the Void.
Abraham's eyes narrowed further, as though sothing had just clicked.
"That is a world-boundary-breaking ability… the Law of Causality.
Where did you obtain it? Did you create it yourself?"
Naless shook his head.
"No. I was born with it."
At that, Abraham grasped his chin, his suspicions rapidly solidifying into certainty.
"Let ask you this to confirm sothing.
You do not rember what drove you to pursue the breaking of the Law of Life and Death… am I correct?"
Naless nodded.
"Yes. My current mories are limited to what is contained within the mask."
"During your journey, you studied all living beings in an attempt to understand how life works .. and how death works," Abraham continued.
"To the point where one could say you were obsessed with them."
His words were based on what Frey had told him .. on how he had described Naless.
Naless did not deny it.
"You could say that. I spent most of my life pursuing the concept of life and death."
"You do not know what compelled you down that path, do you?" Abraham asked once more.
Naless confird it.
After that, Abraham fell silent, pondering everything he had heard.
He was sharp—exceptionally perceptive—and the pieces quickly fell into place.
"What conclusion have you reached, Abraham Starlight?"
Naless asked, a cold gaze settling upon the human before him.
Abraham t that gaze, laying out his thoughts.
"What I am about to say are my own conclusions—ones that may be correct… or may be wrong."
He spoke with a hardened expression.
"Go on," Naless gestured, allowing him to continue.
"First—and I am certain you understand this—world-breaking abilities do not appear from nothing. They are either inherited, bestowed… or created from scratch."
"Your ability to see the future was not inherited from your predecessors, from what I understand. It was not granted to you by another entity .. the likelihood of that is extrely low. And you did not create it yourself."
Abraham's reasoning was built upon his own deductions.
Even the possibility that the ability had been granted by another being was nearly nonexistent .. because Naless would have discovered the truth long ago, once his power surpassed the limits of comprehension.
He would have been able to trace whoever granted him that ability .. had that been the case.
"Quite clearly… every possible explanation has been eliminated in your situation. Which ans sothing is wrong. A crucial piece is missing."
Abraham continued.
"Then there is your excessive obsession with the Law of Life and Death—as though you were trying to reach its origin, to understand it in its entirety. And you believed that by achieving that, you would reach your goal… whatever it was that led you down this path in the first place."
"The cycle of life and death revolves around birth, creation… everything that lives. Your pursuit of this domain suggests that you carried unanswered questions about these very concepts."
With every word Abraham spoke, Naless's eyes shifted subtly .. as though he himself had contemplated the sa thoughts before.
"Perhaps you once asked yourself…" Abraham went on,
"Why do you possess the ability to see the future?
Why are you different from the rest of your kind?
Why do your talents and potential surpass all of theirs?"
"Why… were you born this way?"
For a mont, silence fell between Abraham and Naless, while Frey listened closely .. trying to grasp where his father was heading.
Abraham was dangerously close to the truth.
"The reason you sought to understand life and death… the reason that explains everything—"
"—is simply this."
Abraham spoke plainly.
"You are like us."
"You… are a reincarnator."
The final word echoed in the air.
Shock washed over Frey.
As for Naless .. his expression did not change at all.
"Judging by your reaction," Abraham said slowly,
"I assu you have considered the sa possibility yourself."
Naless did not deny it.
"Indeed… that would explain many things."
The reason he had been born with the ability to see the future was simple ..
he had possessed it in a previous life.
He sought to understand life and death because he was trying to uncover who he had been before his reincarnation.
And the reason was ..
"You forgot your mories. No—more accurately, you lost them."
"The mories of who you were before you beca Naless."
Naless retained no recollection of his past life.
That was what drove him to unravel the chanics of reincarnation .. to learn what had happened to him, who he truly was… and how he died.
"You are remarkably sharp, Abraham Starlight," Naless said, acknowledging the human's intellect.
"Your reasoning is very close to the conclusions I reached myself, based on the mories I still possess. As you said—there is a very high likelihood that I am a reincarnator."
"I do not know why I lost my mories of my true self before becoming part of Krat. But what I do know is that it drove into an obsession so deep that it led to countless massacres."
Naless was affirming that Abraham's line of thought was correct.
"I am certain that I discovered sothing during my journey… but my current self is incomplete—lacking many critical mories. That is why I do not know what I uncovered exactly."
"But there is no doubt."
Naless spoke with a aningful expression etched upon his face.
"I… was a reincarnator."
"A person who lived another life—before the world ever knew him as Naless."
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