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Last updated: January 22, 2025

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Dr. MEI

Father

Kevin Kaslana

Su

Elysia

"No. 17"

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Narrator

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The man walked alongside time. The night crystallized in his dream and left behind a hazy starlight.

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Narrator

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He remembered she said that every ray of starlight was born from the fusion reaction of a stellar core, wandered for millions of years before escaping to the planetary surface—

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Narrator

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—And traveled for another millions of years in the cold space to fall into their eyes.

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Narrator

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She said she used to believe that every star in the sky was an enemy. But right before a world-cycle, she realized...

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Narrator

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Every star in the sky was also a mark of civilization's breaking its destiny eventually.

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< Look through memories. >

Child

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Dad, we're alive... Don't you find that magical?

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Father

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Huh?

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Child

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Dad, I don't understand why we're alive. I don't understand why the world exists. I can't think of any reasons.

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Father

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...

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Father

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MEI, don't ask other people those questions.

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Child

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Why?

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Father

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People don't like hearing them. They'd think the asker needs to see a psychiatrist or is on a funny drug.

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Child

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But.. do they know the answers to my questions?

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Father

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I don't think they do, which is exactly why they don't like hearing them.

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Child

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Why is that?

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Father

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Because they lack the courage to face life. You're young... so you may not feel that.

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< Memory end. >

Kevin

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< Look through memories. >

MEI

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Please imagine a possibility. In a spacetime greater than the universe, your consciousness and your life may have appeared countless times, but you're unable to realize it.

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Kevin

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If I'm unable to realize it... doesn't that mean whether the hypothesis is true doesn't matter?

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Su

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I don't think so. Such critical thinking will influence your view of the world and life.

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Kevin

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Really?

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MEI

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I have an example. Have you heard the story about a poor man and a rich man sunbathing together?

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Kevin

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Oh, did the rich man make more money than he could spend in several lifetimes, but end up sunbathing like the poor man?

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MEI

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Yes. A famous sophistry, isn't it?

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MEI

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Sunbathing is one of the many freedoms the rich man enjoys. For the poor man, however, that's probably his only freedom.

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Kevin

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Um, I think your example made things harder to understand...

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Su

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She means having the same outcome doesn't amount to having the same process. This is especially true for philosophy, where questions are often more important than answers.

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Kevin

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... Oh.

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MEI

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What Su said was an aspect. But like the rich man who had more freedom than sunbathing...

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MEI

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For us, by making use of the parallel truths, we can push our understanding of the world further.

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MEI

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So what I really meant is...

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MEI

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I thought of an experiment that can partially validate my hypothesis. However—

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MEI

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I'm still missing the crucial "witness".

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Su

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But... MEI, could that witness really exist? Even if the universe cycles, the process itself can destroy any history unbeknown to us.

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MEI

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It depends on whether the truths, which control the fate of the universe from the outside, reveal clues in the universe.

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MEI

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From this perspective, the incompleteness theorems in the logical system are actually our friend.

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MEI

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If even the universe itself isn't a self-contained loop in terms of causality... then for any descriptive system, an observer is bound to find its flaw—

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MEI

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—And gain insight into new truths.

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< Memory end. >

Kevin

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< Look through memories. >

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Elysia

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How did it go? Are the examination results right? As I said, Elysia is really a Herrscher.

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MEI

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... Yeah.

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MEI

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Come to think of it, I once calculated the probability of a Herrscher like you appearing. It turned out that I needed to write thirty to thirty-five zeros after the decimal point.

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Elysia

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Really? But I find myself average.

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MEI

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This may be true in terms of your subjective perception. Due to accidental symmetry breaking, you escaped the bondage of finality. To analogize it rather strangely—

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MEI

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—It's like someone defied thermodynamics and boiled the coffee with ice cubes.

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Elysia

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Wow! That's a rare spectacle in the universe!

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Elysia

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Thank you, MEI! I feel much more confident about what I'm going to do!

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MEI

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... I wish you success.

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Elysia

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I will! You bring me luck, MEI.

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Elysia

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Maybe not everyone in MOTHs like you... but no-one can deny your abilities, let alone your contribution.

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Elysia

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What I'm going to do won't make a difference in the future without everything you've created.

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Elysia

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You don't have the channel to return to Honkai like me.

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Elysia

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You don't have the power to resist Honkai like Kevin.

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Elysia

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But your wisdom can discern the nature of the world, and show humanity the only way out of the maelstrom.

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Elysia

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There are certainly irreplaceable mistakes and unacceptable sacrifices—but in an unreasonable world, who can lead everyone forward better?

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MEI

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... Thank you.

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MEI

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But to be honest, it isn't my mistakes that people fear the most, right?

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Elysia

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Hmm... Maybe you're right.

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Elysia

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But as I see it, that's one of the reasons people trust you so much. Kevin should know it better than anyone else.

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Elysia

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By the way, you can relay what I said to him~

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< Memory end. >

Kevin

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< Look through memories. >

MEI

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... What are you doing?

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Kevin

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Um... nothing.

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Su

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We were discussing the changes to the plan. While I understand why the executor of Project Stigma was changed to Kevin...

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Su

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You should've notified me in advance, MEI.

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MEI

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Didn't Kevin tell you? He made the request himself.

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Su

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I know, but...

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MEI

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People need something to keep themselves going. You do, and so does he.

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Su

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...

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MEI

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Su. If Project Stigma is in your hands... Then strategically speaking, I agree with Kevin in that it amounts to us losing this option.

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MEI

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... Am I wrong?

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Su

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... No.

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MEI

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Then on behalf of the organization, I ask you to accept this arrangement.

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Su

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... Yes.

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MEI

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I understand how you feel, but we can't measure strategic value by personal preferences.

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MEI

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Project Stigma is the worst plan... but as the last guarantee of civilization's freeing itself from fate, it must exist, even if it causes us to—

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MEI

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—Sacrifice our lives, honor, and even worth.

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< Memory end. >

Kevin

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< Look through memories. >

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MEI

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... Kevin. What's your opinion on recent events?

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Kevin

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Um... What are you talking about?

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MEI

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First of all, I'm assigning impossible projects to your friends.

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Kevin

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... People need an idealized aim.

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Kevin

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Doing the impossible may be futile, but it's better than doing nothing at all.

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MEI

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What about yourself? Unlike them, you're responsible for a plan that can be done.

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Kevin

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This is the trust they put in me. I'll spare no effort to accomplish my mission.

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MEI

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... I'm not asking about that, Kevin.

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MEI

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When I study Honkai and humanity's fate, I at least feel the joy of discovery. But what can you gain from something to which you don't aspire?

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Kevin

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I'm content with seeing you realize your self-worth.

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MEI

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...

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MEI

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Kevin. When you led your friends, you said people need an idealized aim. If that's true, how can I be your only aim?

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MEI

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No matter how close we are, I'm independent. Setting the concern of another individual as your aim... in my opinion, is purely an act of passion.

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Kevin

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MEI, I...

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MEI

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Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you must change here and now.

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MEI

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But Kevin, you know that I'm not physically capable of becoming a MANTIS.

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MEI

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You have a long life ahead of you... Some day, you'll part with me and find your own way.

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MEI

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When that day comes, it won't be attached to anyone... even me.

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< Memory end. >

Kevin

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< Look through memories. >

MEI

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... Kevin. What do you think is the most beautiful thing about life?

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Kevin

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You want to hear the truth?

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MEI

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Your lie can only fool me for three seconds. Oh, and you can't answer "meeting me".

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Kevin

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Alright. Let me think...

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Kevin

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Oh. I know this is gonna sound weird...

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Kevin

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When I was in school, we boys would skip class for Eden's concert... I think that air of freedom I breathed is the closest thing to the beauty of life.

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MEI

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I expected you to say something so wild. At that time, you should've said...

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MEI

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"Plus, I'm just a high school student. Live free, live happy. That's how I would live my life."

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Kevin

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... Yeah.

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Kevin

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Everybody's changed.

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Kevin

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No—MEI, you're the only one of us who hasn't changed, like the truth you've been seeking.

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MEI

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... If truths change like humans do, this world might be a better place.

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MEI

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Kevin. I believe the most beautiful thing about life is that, despite being constructed by truth, it can gradually understand and control truth on its own.

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MEI

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But as you know... the more we understand, the more apparent the cruelty behind this beauty becomes.

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MEI

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"Ignorance is bliss." This is what past fictitious beliefs and the current "Prophet of Sundown Alley" advocate.

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Kevin

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But you're different.

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MEI

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Of course. I'd like to call it ambition.

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MEI

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Although from a utilitarian perspective, people may say not going forward is going backward, but at least for me, curiosity instead of necessity is the real force driving people forward.

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MEI

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I don't know if you were curious about this when you were a child... I once asked my father...

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MEI

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"Dad, we're alive... Don't you find that magical?"

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Kevin

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... Magical?

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MEI

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Yeah.

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MEI

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If the universe is crowded with existences, when why am I the one to sense my life?

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MEI

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Why was I born? Why born on Earth? Why born human? Why born in this era? Why born female?

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MEI

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And why am I observing Kevin through MEI's eyes, not observing MEI through Kevin's eyes?

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MEI

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You see, I have a series of unanswerable questions.

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MEI

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By the way, you've heard of electrons being identical, haven't you?

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Kevin

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Oh, I have. Electrons are elementary particles and don't have distinguishing properties like physical objects, so you can't tell them apart once they mingle, right?

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MEI

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Yes. That's why someone proposed that maybe there's only one electron in the entire universe. It's traveled through every spacetime in a higher dimension, and exists as every electron simultaneously in our eyes.

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Kevin

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... That's an eerie kind of romance.

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MEI

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These hypotheses get more romantic. A fanciful philosophy argues that the universe is the superposition of an endlessly repeating fate, in which every consciousness is but the special state of a common soul.

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MEI

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Think of it as a superstitious reincarnation. Maybe I'll become a victim of Sundown Alley in the next life, robot Prometheus in the life after that, and so on.

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Kevin

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Um...

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MEI

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Objectively speaking, this is an indescribable horror for some, and an unattainable salvation for others.

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MEI

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But I think it's at least an interesting thought experiment. It can help us understand the volume of the world and the weight of life.

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MEI

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Then again, it all boils down to imaginative thinking. As long as it's expressed abstractly enough, it can be neither proved nor disproved.

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MEI

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Therefore, in the field of cognition, this is only another form of escape.

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Kevin

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Are you saying people will face the truth someday?

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MEI

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Yeah. Although the complete truth is simply unknowable, such a metaphysical flaw actually discusses what's outside humanity's horizon.

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MEI

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As we explore nature, the visible truth continues to broaden. It's already vast enough to encompass us who are finite in every way.

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MEI

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Your math teacher might have told you about the so-called incompleteness theorems... but I'll tell you that any physical conclusion is provisional on the mathematical logic level.

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MEI

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As long as it's drawn by humans, it has a scope of application, and can never explain anything beyond that.

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MEI

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A truth that's "applicable everywhere" has been nothing more than a monster fantasized by philosophers. This "sole thinking" has done more harm than good to us.

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MEI

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But most interestingly... everything I said makes facing the truth all the more fascinating. At that moment, everyone will be shaken to the soul.

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Kevin

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I... I'm not sure if I understand.

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Kevin

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Are you trying to say this is like some sports... where their lasting appeal comes from being untamable?

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MEI

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Of course. I've always believed that thinking is the greatest extreme sport in the universe.

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MEI

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So, is your girlfriend more insane than you imagined?

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< Memory end. >

Kevin

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Kevin

(After all, our world itself is rather bizarre.)

< Enter the portal. >

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Kevin

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I've come.

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???

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...
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Kevin

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Excellent. Preserving your self from countless derived consciousness is no easy task, even for you.

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???

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...
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Kevin

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It matters not. The project only needs you to appear here. You've been lying low long enough.

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???

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...
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Kevin

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They will certainly have the chance to prove themselves. In the meantime, they must understand what they're challenging.

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???

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...
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Kevin

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I agree that's an unstable factor. I shall meet her in person later.

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???

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...
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Kevin

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Yes. According to our plan, I will shoulder the authority of Finality bit by... and eventually finish our destined course.

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Kevin

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The fifty-thousand-year wait is over. Thank you, No. 17.

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Kevin

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You may rest peacefully.

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End