Death… And Me

Chapter 2054 No Help?

Naturally, no one believed that straight away. ”As useful as Gem? Thatʼs not possible. You are the Universeʼs Sentience!”

[Sure am... or was, to be more specific.] Sister Orb explained.

The twinsʼ group looked at the Soul Gem Orb, knowing that Sister Orb would continue to talk. [Gem mentioned it already. I was so bored and dulled that I simply didnʼt care about anything anymore. So, why should I care about what would happen to the Universe? I just wanted to change my destiny. That said, I separated myself from the Universe.]

[That day, when I passed the Control Orb to Gem, was also the day that I lost all connection with the Universe. Iʼm truly, just a sentience. It isnʼt wrong to call me an AI, either, since Iʼm not that far from one. I can work with the system Gem created, after all. Unfortunately, my influence only applies to the Soul Gem Orb and the Soul Gem Dimensional Realm.]

Sister Orb then looked at Gem. [Have you never wondered why the system you created worked so perfectly? I mean, you found pretty much no obstacles during the creation of the system by using the Control Orbʼs properties.]

Gem didnʼt seem surprised when he heard those words. ”So thatʼs how it is. You were right. I was indeed impressed that the system worked perfectly from the very start. I thought it was due to the Control Orbʼs exceptional abilities. But now that I know you were there, it is very obvious that you intervened every time during the system creation, right? You made sure that the System compatibility got no issues.”

Sister Orb confirmed Gemʼs words. [Exactly. Thatʼs also why I can work with the system since I put myself within its creation. In any case, thatʼs all there is to it. Now I canʼt do anything about the situation of the Universe even if I wanted to. After so long, the Universe that I was part of has changed. Not only did the Universe change, but so did my sentience, or soul, for that matter. I wouldnʼt be able to integrate myself with the Universe anymore, even if I wanted to.]

[And you better be careful. Since my sentience left the Universe, there is a chance that a new sentience was born in my place. Of course, itʼs only a chance. If I were to risk a guess, I would say that not enough time has passed for that to really happen. I myself took a ridiculous amount of time to come to be.]

Rean pondered a bit before asking. ”So, you are just Sister Orb now, right? Still, you were the Universeʼs Sentience before. You definitely have the answer to a lot of our questions. Not only that, the number of secrets that you know should be more than enough for Roan and me to reach the Divinity Realm.”

[Thatʼs not gonna happen,] Sister Orb immediately cut Rean off. [I thought something like this might happen one day, so I sealed my own memories. As a matter of fact, it was only when Soul Gem found out about my existence that I myself discovered that I was the Universe Sentience. Until a few minutes ago, I truly thought I was nothing more than the AI Soul Gem created.]

[As for secrets of the Universe, all the ones that matter to you and would still be available after so long are sealed. I canʼt remember anything useful.]

Roan didnʼt quite believe that. ”Is that so? Then you wouldnʼt mind if we tried to search for it in your memories, right?”

Soul Gem shook his head straight away. ”If you think I have a way to peek into the Universe Sentienceʼs memories, then you are wrong. I didnʼt even know it was there until a moment ago. First of all, is Sister Orbʼs soul really a soul? It is different from anything that was born in this Universe before. Itʼs not like I can pull her out.”

[You wouldnʼt want it anyway,] Sister Orb continued. [Iʼm part of the system. Iʼm the reason why it works so smoothly too. If you pull me out, which I donʼt think it is possible to start with, the system would collapse. Iʼm the mediator between the system and the Control Orb. My sentience itself keeps everything together.]

[Of course, if you donʼt mind losing the system and the Soul Gem Realm forever, then by all means, go ahead and give it a try. I only became this because I didnʼt want to live like I did before. I have experienced a lot and had a lot of fun thanks to these two. I have no regrets anymore.]

Rean and Roan couldnʼt see Sister Orbʼs face because she didnʼt have a body. That made it hard for them to tell whether she was lying or not. Yet, they felt that she was truly not lying. Perhaps it was due to the Soul Connection between them. But then again, perhaps it was also Sister Orb who was manipulating it to make them feel like that.

However, Rean and Roan just shook their heads in the end. ”Forget it. Sister Orb is definitely not lying.”

Celis, Kentucky, Gem, Sesame and Luan looked at the twins. ”How can you be sure?”

Roan shrugged his shoulders. ”She is too stupid for it.”

Rean nodded. ”Not to mention childish...”

Sister Orb would vomit blood if she had a body now. [Fuck you! Who the hell is stupid and childish?! Do you know how many times older than you I am? Even Roanʼs entire life as a Death Spirit isnʼt anything but a drop of water in the ocean compared to me!]

”Ha!” Roan snorted in response. ”And whatʼs the use of that if all this ancient memory is sealed? Isnʼt that the same as saying that you lost all that age?”

[This...] Sister Orb had no answer to that.

Finally, Gem raised his hand. ”Ahem... if Rean and Roan believe it, then so be it. Still...” His expression turned serious. ”Is there really nothing you can help us with?”

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