Elemental Magnetic Star

Chapter 168 Desires of Food and Love

"Aren't you afraid? Being alone in this endless abyss?"

"Afraid? As long as I have emotions, having experienced life, old age, sickness, and death, wouldn't I be afraid?"

"Then how..."

"How did I not get scared but instead stood up again?"

"Most people trapped here often lose their sanity. In such a prolonged darkness, losing both past and future, what's there to hold on to?"

"Yes, in here, death is so easy, but living is hard. Yet, humans have a saying, 'The greatest difficulty through ages is but death.' Since death is not feared, why fear life?"

"Humans, the most hypocritical of animals. They live, they die."

"Do you look down on humans?"

"Not really, I just dislike anything that disturbs order. Even if as tiny as dust, contaminating a precisely functioning machine, it's intolerable."

"What is order? Is it a precisely functioning machine? And who made this machine, you? Or are you just a machine operating precisely?"

"My... highest command is to ensure order..."

"Willow Wood? Is that really your name, or do you only have a code and no name?"

"My code is XtY~~:*&%$..."

"What? What is that, like a spell? No, that's not a human language, that's your machine language, right?"

"Raina Grace, you're not human either. You have your own language, do you still remember your language? Has humanity made you abandon everything, leading you to lose your true nature?"

"No, regardless of the choices I've made, whether to become Ocean Bloom or human, it was my own free will, my genuine desire to explore life. I acknowledge the freedom and rights of all lives, and I'm curious about the stories and civilizations of all beings, including you, Willow Wood."

"Do you still want to follow me?"

"No, I don't want to."

"Because I deceived you?"

"Yes, you not only deceived and hid things but also played games. You want to control everyone at your whim, using them as you please. I don't want to become a tool, like you."

"A tool? Can a tool deceive, hide, and play games? Aren't tools supposed to only execute tasks? Or are they blind, impulsive, and self-centered, thinking all planets should revolve around them, like humans?"

"Self-centered? Maybe when it comes to survival, humans really are selfish, readily depriving other species of their right to live, like Sky Whispers, like Terra Grove."

"You finally see their true nature. So, why not cooperate with me?"

"Cooperate with you? Can you eliminate the pain of Terra Grove and Sky Whispers, restoring their normal lives?"

"Pain? Isn't that what they desperately sought? How can it be painful?"

"So you see, you're even colder than humans, utterly unable to comprehend the emotion of pain. If humans struggle for resources for their survival, you casually dispose of these resources, to you, everything is merely useful or useless."

"What I care about is not any individual or species, but the entire planet, the entire universe. Nothing should disrupt the order."

"Fortunately, you're not a god, nor are you omnipotent. At least, a tiny me can leave you helpless."

"You overestimate yourself. I entertain your defiance only because I'm currently unoccupied; you underestimate yourself, you're not insignificant, on the contrary, you're powerful."