Chapter 460: The Evil God Festival - Boathouse

"I gave this creation, named Taville, all the qualities I thought would give it a soul, and then made it into a god and cast it into all the world-lines that come through the gate, in the hope that some human being in one of those world-lines would be able to make him feel the love that would give him a soul."

Bai Liu raised his eyes slowly, and he sighed with something like regret:

"But no matter how many world lines it passes through, it is like a cold statue, a broken mirror, sitting on a throne looking down impassively on the humans who kneel before him, giving them external objects as they should, but unable to feel human emotions in any way."

"I realized it wasn't going to work that way and summoned it back from all the world lines."

"I inquire about it." Bai Liu drops his eyes and lifts Taville's jaw, asking the still sleeping Taville softly , "Why do you not wish to become an Evil God?"

"Why don't you want to feel love and pain, to be a gatekeeper with a soul?"

Bai Liu's gloved hand caressed Taville's closed eyes, his tone growing softer, "I got a very interesting answer."

"It looked at me with those pure black eyes and said that it thought humans were just fine the way they were, without the need for gods and gates."

"In Taville's eyes, it's just great that they're just warming up to each other in this universe, where love and pain are intertwined."

"It doesn't understand why God has to exist, and God has to guard the door, and God has to give mankind all those things, and God has to guard the door, and all those things instead of making the world line better, they're making them more miserable."

Bai Liu looked up at Bai Liu and smiled, "I told it, it's not that God has to exist, it's that God already exists, and if it's not you, it'll be someone else."

"It couldn't understand and asked me if there wasn't a world line of God in this world."

"I told it to say no."

"To be honest, Taville is a bit of a disappointment to me." Bai Liu slowly stepped back as he flicked his hand, the threads wrapped around Taville's body lifting Taville up like a puppet on strings, "Because no matter how much I tell it these truths, how much I teach it to become an evil god, it can't understand it, and it can't do it."

"It has a foolishly naive perception of humans."

"I gave it so much divine power, and it foolishly drained itself bit by bit in the middle of fulfilling human wishes."

Bai Liu looked at Taville, who was lifted up by the silk threads as if in pity: "I originally thought that such gratuitous giving and gifting by Taville would make these human beings love Him, but it didn't, and all He ever got was even more insatiable demands."

"No matter how much Taville, as a god, gives to mankind, all He ever takes back from mankind is desire, endless desire."

"I got bored, and after my last bit of patience with this creature after my own heart ran out, I chose to banish Him."

"Since humans can't make you learn [love], I'll let humans make you [suffer]."

Bai Liu drops his eyes as he loosens the threads suspending Taville from his hands, and Taville instantly falls into the endless darkness of the universe.

Then with one hand, the silk threads flung out and suspended Taville again.

Bai Liu smiled and looked up at Bai Liu across the watery wall : "Don't be so nervous, I won't really let go."

"He's the only leverage I have to talk to you face-to-face, and I wouldn't dare throw it away, or I wouldn't be able to find any other way to get you to sit down honestly and pay attention to what I'm saying."

Bai Liu clearly treats Taville like a doll, he is playing with Taville as much as he is playing with Bai Liu.

Clutching the handle of the chair, Bai Liu stares at Bai Liu: "So what did you do to him?"

"I put part of [the door] on Taville's eyes." The silk threads on Bai Liu's hand were spread out, and Taville's eyes finally opened slowly.

Taville floated in the universe, eyes slightly open, it was a pair of streaming silver-blue eyes, as if reflecting the entire back of the universe in it, rivers of stars flowed, the light glittered, but there was no emotion, just that simple indifference refracted everything in the world, like a piece of well-made glass, complete and empty reflection of the things behind, not at all like Sheta's flat and open-eyed Sheta's flat, open eyes.

There was no emotion or soul in those eyes.

"When humans look into Taville's eyes, they can see those abyssal universes on the other side [of the door], the countless threads of insanity struggling within them, the desire refracted from the other side of the door into these people's eyes, plunging them into the same madness as on the other side of the door."

Bai Liu looks to Bai Liu, who briskly explains, "Soon enough, they will develop an extreme hatred for the Gatekeeper who both fulfills their wishes and binds their desires."

"So they will hurt the carrier of this door, the owner of these eyes, to their heart's content until their desires are satisfied."

Bai Liu hooked the corners of his mouth, "-until those monsters of the Abyss on the other side of the door managed, through their brutalization of Taville, to get through the gap in the door over Taville's eyes and come to this side of the door, becoming heretics in the mouths of these humans. "

"Sheta didn't cause those monsters." Bai Liu calmly asks back, "It was the desire of these people to destroy the door on Sheta's eye, so that the monsters on the other side of the door crossed the door and arrived on this side that caused it, but you induced Sheta to make him feel that it was his fault, and to make the people around him feel that it was his fault, so that they would hate him even more, and make him suffer even more, didn't you?"

"bingo." Bai Liu smiled, "That's right."

Bai Liu shrugged and sighed regretfully, "Actually, I personally feel that I did something wrong when things came to this tragic point."

"I originally wanted Taville to have a soul because of love, so I sculpted it to be a non-aggressive god, but my ultimate goal was for it to kill me, but a Taville of this character couldn't possibly take the initiative to come and attack me as its creator even if it was tortured to destruction by me."

"So I changed my strategy."

Bai Liu laughed a little, "I cleansed its memories and told it that you were the original Old Evil God and Gatekeeper, and that [I] was just a greedy, human who had robbed you of your godhood."

"If you want to maintain the order of this universe and the integrity of the Gate, you have to come and kill the most greedy, the being in this world that wants to destroy you the most, and that's [me]."

"I banished Taville like this into the next 658 world lines, and at the same time lowered my derivatives into those world lines, and I induced, hinted at, and conditioned my derivatives to whisper in their ears in their dreams - just kill Taville once and for all, and you'll be able to gain the most valuable thing in this world."

"I know what kind of God I am, and so I know exactly what my creations will be like, what kind of things they will go and do - they can't resist such a temptation."

Bai Liu lifted his eyelids, and his eyes, which were looking directly at Bai Liu, turned silver-blue for a moment:

"-because they, like me, are themselves a collection of the greatest desires of the two universes on either side of the door."

"I expected Taville to rebel against me in order to protect the Gate and preserve truth and order, but it still hasn't."

"It was like countless previous world threads that were gods, allowing me and other humans to slaughter, abuse, and maim it, and in that instant I realized that this guy wasn't at all compassionate towards humans to fulfill human desires."

"It was pure naivety and indifference, it didn't give humans or me any proper eyes at all, it couldn't see any desire-filled existences like us in its eyes at all - even when [I] stood behind it in those 657 world lines as the enemy who killed it to take over the throne of the gods, it was still cold and earnestly looked at the book without once turning its head back."

"Because it finds books more interesting than humans."

"Later on, even if [I] intensified my torture of it as its enemy, and even banished it further into the game, it already had no emotions towards me, love, hate, hatred, none of it."

"Because it has no desire for me or all other humans, whatsoever."

"Interesting to say the least." Bai Liu let out a soft chuckle, "At this point, it's actually less human and more arrogant than I am for being my creation."

"When I was all ready to give up on this creation, two amazing things happened in the 658th world line."

Bai Liu looked to Bai Liu, who was on the opposite side of the watery wall, and the smile on his face deepened, "The first thing that happened was that my derivatives got out of my control."

"There was no way for me to enter his dreams, to touch him, to tantalize him, to hint at him, something that had never been done before, and this derivative grew up as if he were a perfectly normal human child growing up aloof in this world line."

"It's really interesting, I watched him and realized that he actually survived in an environment that rejected him in the extreme."

"Juvenile humans are prone to commit suicide in the absence of their own kind, or the rejection of all their kind, simply put, when they are not loved by their own kind, but it is interesting to note that he actually survived this situation without any human accepting him."

Bai Liu's face turned cold little by little.

Bai Liu continued as if he hadn't seen it, grinning, "Not only did this juvenile derivative survive, he made the mistake of dropping me into his neighborhood in Taville, a creation completely incapable of emotionally regarded as a kindred spirit, in an environment where all of his kind were loathed and rejected."

"-and this misperception is simply because they are all in the same state of isolation."

"And that knowledge allowed this derivative to become attached to his destined enemy, a creation that did not even look him in the eye."

"He wandered day and night around what he thought was the only one of his kind, watching Taville as he thought he had concealed himself well, pretending to give the only one of his kind what little food he had without realizing it because he didn't want the other one to starve to death, and surreptitiously hiding the books he liked to read in the same places where Taville often borrowed them. "

"An even more amazing situation came next."

The arc of the smile on Bai Liu's face widened, "This derivative, in this complete lack of any emotional response from Taville, relied on the feelings generated by its own misperceptions to generate its own soul."

"This is the first time I've seen a human produce a soul without being loved."

Bai Liu The last trace of expression on his face disappeared.