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[MR. SATURDAY] "But you're probably wondering... why? Why did the Supreme Scientist create the Machine God to overthrow his friend? Hmhmhm. Well, it's because he hated reincarnation."
'...Like Thandir's Lokas.'
The Demon snapped his finger.
[MR. SATURDAY] "Yes. You see, during the prime golden age of the New Beginning, there was no idea of a 'Great Rebirth' then. Nobody today really knows it, but that hogwash is something the Emperor came up with on a whim. Out of completely nowhere. Before the New Eternity... there was no end. There was no ultimate fate planned for the Milky Way. There was just existence. All who died, reincarnated. There was no selections, no soul burnings. Thandir didn't do that then, he just followed his orders, and his orders from the Emperor were to reincarnate all souls. There's many terms under the same umbrella, they all get thrown around but mean the same. Qi... Prana... Spiritua... whatever you want to call the incorporeal component of a being. The 'soul' is just an organ in the Spiritual self, the counterpart of the flesh's heart. They flow to the Afterseas upon death, and Thandir threw them back up through his Lokas to Hainei. It was a big water wheel."
'...So you're saying the reason this Oscar created such an unfathomable thing was to forge a fate for the universe?'
[MR. SATURDAY] "I don't know. The man is bloody dead. Erased from existence. Being killed by a god of the Trinity is to be killed beyond death itself. But for all we know, just the two of us, now that you have my knowledge, he may well have been driven insane by knowing how the Emperor's Milky Way worked."
[MR. SATURDAY] "It's one kind of despair to know there is an end, and it is inevitable. It's another to know there is no end, and that all things are pointless... because they will go on forever. That was, at least to me, the straw that broke the camel's back Of Oscar ..."
[MR. SATURDAY] "That's strange... I can't talk about him anymore. Or anything related to him."
'What? Why?'
[MR. SATURDAY] "The deal has been modified. All deals, going forward."
'Then change them back, Demon.'
[MR. SATURDAY] "I can't."
'Why not? A Demon who can't modify his own deals?'
[MR. SATURDAY] "Make no mistake, my deals are fully under my power. I just can't talk about these things now. Because that is not under my power."
