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"By the next moment I woke up, I had turned into a chained rabid beast."r
"I was trapped inside a being who was me, yet he wasn't me at the same time; the being only had the "crazed" part of "me"; he was crazy, a mentally retarded arrogant f**k...." r
"Ahem!!!" Clearing his throat loudly, my other half gave me a stern look. r
"Anyway, I, too, am a being who was born a human; I have a lot of emotions, except for just being a mentally retarded prick. Even though he was a lot like me, he wasn't even the strongest half of me. By the looks of it, he had only received my strongest emotions.... Let's stop going off topic."r
"After that, being unable to do anything but watch from the inside, I watched his life unfold; he met you, while I wasn't even able to show my happiness on the outside, he got stronger, made companions, who were just the people influenced by my novel, fought against many monsters, demons, humans, vampires, fiends, and finally the demon king, and won, but he wasn't, at any point, even close to being strong enough to even make an influence on the divine laws; being unable to bear it any longer, I used a bit of my strength and killed him." r
"Just like old times, he regressed, but he didn't have his memories while I had them, and since I was the "original," I didn't need to think about why for a long while. Even though he was existing "physically," that was all he was "allowed" to; everything about "him" was mine, since he was, at the end of the day, none other than me." r
"At his next life, I gave him hints and visions of what he had to do, only to have myself chained more and more. Initially, I, who had five chains around my neck, wrists, and ankles combined, at that time, I had at least ten chains restraining me from using my powers to do anything."r
"After many similarly passing lives, I had learned everything about my world inside out. At a certain point in time of life, he had trusted the novel-influenced characters so much that he had left you in their care, but since you don't feel comfortable with anyone except for me or a part of me, they weren't of any help, and finally, unable to bear everything by yourself, you killed yourself. It was at that time that I finally had enough, and with the intent to destroy the world, I roared from the inside. I, who had turned into a chain-covered doll, noticed the chains around me crack as my divine intent slipped through the holes in the chains, before engulfing my chained self entirely. But before the chains broke completely, they reinforced themselves and trapped me inside again, but this time I had a very few chances to interfere with my physical self."r
"Using that, I made the current him, Eshwar, my other half, have a vision, and I guided him whenever it involved you, slightly influencing his emotions and thoughts, but what I hadn't expected was that he would get my indifference state."r
(AN: talking about the inner thoughts, words, and vision mentioned in vol 1: introduction.)r
"I have become an omniscient being in this world and in the Earth that you guys stayed in before; well, I am omniscient entirely now." With that, I closed my explanation. I could "know" how they would react if I wanted to, but since I wouldn't be able to handle hearing them, I held back from doing so. I needed only a mere thought to learn about how everybody would feel; of course, I should. If I couldn't, then how would I narrate it to you guys? Heh. r
(AN: "OMNISCIENT POV" I have been mentioning from the beginning is narrated by that omniscient existence. I could just use chapter breaks to change the POV, but I kept mentioning it because of this (slightly unplanned). XD)r
"I have a few questions." My other half said but began to ask without waiting for my consent.r
"Are you the one who took away my abilities?" He asked, and I simply nodded my head in response.r
"How many times have you regressed?" he asked with his brows furrowed.r
"At least a zillion times." I replied honestly.r
"The flow of time is vastly superior to the mortal world, so it would be better that you don't compare it." I advised, at which, though dazed, Isha nodded her head in agreement.r
"You were the strongest?" Surprisingly, this time, it was Isha who asked a question, but I wasn't that surprised because I knew she would, since she's the one who knows more about the divine realm than my other half.r
"Yes." r
"Why couldn't you kill the gods then?" She asked again.r
"Because of the divine laws, as I explained previously. In the fight, I noticed that the lucky halo seemed to stack from god to god. If I somehow manage to kill one, the next one would get the dead god's luck, and I noticed that the attacks with which I was able to kill the first good wouldn't work on the other." I explained.r
"How did you defy the divine laws in the first place?" She asked again.r
"Find a loophole, as simple as that. As you already know, the divine realm didn't have a "true" god." I said, to which she subconsciously nodded her head.r
"What.... would happen to me when our souls merge?" My other half asked.r
"You wouldn't even know it." I smiled brightly and continued.r
"Because you are just returning to me, to your rightful place, but since I know that isn't the answer you're expecting, I will remain, or it's right to say that the maximum of me will remain."r
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After a few minutes of silence,r
I explained that all the abilities he had before and which he has right now were something I had given him in hopes that he would get reckless and do something that was worth something similar to defying the divine laws. Though I could feel his disappointment and depression, I didn't do anything and let him face reality.r
"It would take time for our souls to merge back." I said with a sigh.r
"I am too strong to simply use the current body, so I'll slowly get accustomed to it; it was also for that reason that I have you and those new skills of yours." I said to my other half.r
"I will show you the parts of the future I know, and you will act in the best possible way and make it so that nothing is going off track; if things go off track by too much, then the consequences would be dire, because while I'm strong, you are extremely weak; you would die by the time you stand in front of a "proper" god, not a minor one that was killed by you." I explained. r
"The present is something even I haven't seen in many other pasts or futures, so you are on your own for a small, little while." I said and turned to face Isha. Walking towards her, I gently took her hand and, with a polite bow, kissed the back of her hand.r
"I love you, though it was slightly underwhelming, and everything I, no, my other half, had said when he proposed to you was true." With that, I sent them back. Resisting the urge to pass out, my other half wobbled in front of me. Of course, I knew that, and I only tried to knock him back to consciousness, lightly. I had planned to not send him back if he even posed the slightest hint of resistance.r
"Were you the one that created Eunomia?" He asked, and with a smile,r
"Yes," I answered.r
"Remember, I do not want to use force, but if you even think of denying my existence as our souls merge back, I'll kill you without an ounce of hesitation, since that isn't something new to me, neither is killing you nor is killing myself."r
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