' I think this is as far as I can go ' Yuni thought to herself as she was in a room with her body frozen in place , as many chains tied her to hang in the air ' Binding ... Maybe this was something that Mir put on me because they figured I was going to be sitting the whole time '
81Please respect copyright.PENANAiYYgVjYFJo
As much as that was fine for Yuni , since these bindings are more physical than mental , she gave up on the escape from the prison of paths and hoped the next entrance would leave her in another room . She wakes up in her own body and thinks about the physical challenges that are keeping her locked in that prison .
81Please respect copyright.PENANABv6Bw0pMks
' Mental challenges are pretty easy to bypass , but I feel like there is some kind of challenge to do once I get back my ability to do certain things . Blind would surely be great to lose because it would be extremely joyous to see so many things and colors , Silence too , since I can finally let out a lot of words or shout . '
81Please respect copyright.PENANAM8vQxGQbSz
While she judges what happens once she loses the challenges , she couldn't help but try to recall some memories after remembering about Amnesia ' Hmm , I'm starting to forget ' by the speed of the memories being lost , she can tell that she will be fine , but she was starting to forget the experiences .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAWl6OxcuqEt
' I already had senseless , which removes my sense of taste already , so I can't even remember what food tastes like and that's just one of the few gone ' she wondered if Ordo had experienced the same thing as before ' Well it's not like I'm in that much of a danger '
81Please respect copyright.PENANANPH9WjX0eR
She could tell from the intensity that Amnesia was only chipping away at her experience right now , she doesn't remember them , but she can still remember the the context of it . Even though the quality of the context seems to be degrading in clearer details like the emotions felt .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAGBOe1XR7Yb
When she remembers , she can still remember her adoptive family , but she can only remember simple things like , the number of people , the gender , what kind of people they were and barely even remembers their faces .
81Please respect copyright.PENANABI4b5uNoZb
" I can tell you are worried about your memories " "Obviously , I know for a fact that those memories were filled with more than just simple text and basic details . I can't recall that deeper ones , but I have certainty that they happen so it isn't like that mandela challenge that you said had no earnings in steps"
81Please respect copyright.PENANA78V59HnNLj
" That's why I told you not to get it " Mir said , remembering the time when Yuni had barged into their collection of challenges "At least you help right" While Mir was furious at Yuni , they did all they could to make sure that the Dementia was turned into Amnesia so that the challenge at least had a structure to it .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAp3NXUgNUMn
" I guess this must be why Ordo left " Mir said while Yuni could sense a hint of sadness and self -reflection from Mir "You feeling sympathy for the player ?" Mir threw a wet towel at Yuni " Shut up , I'm just starting to worry about you . Unlike you , that player barely got as much as you do . "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAgKigI5pcUv
"Maybe they just don't cheat as much as I do" " Yeah right . I've been looking at your life and it seems like only the last four years are good " Mir said while Yuni thought of how they knew about her life .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAYkBXeF8Woo
"Have you been gathering my memories ?" " Yeah , why wouldn't I do something like that ? These memories are great . " Mir said as they checked them all out "Why is it valuable ?" " I can't believe you don't understand the value of these memories that you have "
81Please respect copyright.PENANASzOnVStpGZ
"I know it's important , but the way you say it makes it seem like you found some rare item ." " Your sense of value seems to have disappeared together with your body senses " Yuni chuckled and asked "Maybe I'll lose my sense of humor and you'd pick it up" Yuni joked while Mir could only tolerate her nonsense .
81Please respect copyright.PENANATfbtojG1iA
" Anyways , don't break that prison of challenge , it is a very great structure that you have , which is giving me a lot of steps " Mir said as they floated near Yuni to continue researching information "Maybe you should call people to research about these challenges"
81Please respect copyright.PENANATpfLJhH33v
" No , if I do that , they'll grow soft and I might lose challenges because there are more cowards " Mir said and Yuni asked "So there are softies in your world ?" Mir sighed and explained " Yeah , because no matter how much strength you gain from these paths , a lot would like to get strength the easy way "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAeNejfBHySx
"I mean , it's not like there is a right way to grow stronger" " Oh is that what you think , miss talent of many firstborns ? " Mir said "Okay , maybe there are some ways that are better and more correct than others"
81Please respect copyright.PENANAZqTh0jDxeg
" Yeah and finding the correct ways means going through trial and error , which means you should be disappointed if you are on the wrong path . I've seen worlds that develop through trial and error , which is what should happen since there are a lot of unknowns "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAJDFalMMEKH
Yuni grew curious about how Mir had that idea when they were always stuck within the integrated world systems with Welt around "How do you know that information ?" " Well , it's not something I should hide like that thing you mentioned "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAklYPaVqvun
' They probably meant that talk we had about Welt's regression ' Yuni thought as Mir explained " Remember the system's origins ? " "Oh yeah , you were going to take it to me and we talked about it offscript" " Are you intentionally angering your own daughter ? "
81Please respect copyright.PENANA4eNZ89u29I
"Her fault for trying to make a story out of mine" Yuni said as she held the storybook from Fame and then thought about it "Now that I think about it , things are starting to be ... What's the word ?"
81Please respect copyright.PENANAVSgmzeDlPk
" Dull ? Lackluster ? Boring ? " "One of those , maybe it's because I'm getting too strong" " Is it because you always get to the top so quickly ? " Mir checked the memories and answered " Or rather , it's mostly because Amnesia is getting rid of all the enriching experience by pairing up with Hopeless "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAmn5PW25bt4
"So this is depression ? I heard Rein talk about it a lot , never thought I'd be that depress" Yuni thinks of something to distract herself and asked " Can you tell me more about the system's origins . What is it like ? Mom and dad ? or just one ? "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAWzaJffXsd9
Mir thinks about it " ... that place is dead " Yuni continued to listen as Mir continued talking about it " It was an amazing place , a front for civilizations and the system's origins " Ceil , who was allowed to read this , was generally pissed with Mir for ruining the story by inviting some random information that got in .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAuhifS8vsDw
' I was just trying to learn what happened before , but now Mir is about to take an info dump all over these pages ' " How do I say this ? That front of civilization was advanced for sure , creating the code that was able to use an expanded range of physical materials like a computer for the program to be made . Which is how systems develop , kinda like how souls were born and cultivated in life , this code was made to adapt to any corporeal material "
81Please respect copyright.PENANArCcnLyAf2Y
Ceil still paid attention to it since it was important " So first of all , that civilization collapsed and those programs and codes that they made , which could anchor themselves to many compatible material , spread out . More importantly , like an animal , it had self-preservation "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAheIwkE2ju6
"And that world grew through trial and error ?" " Yep , I can remember since I have a huge piece of that system , which was well developed , maybe Welt also got a big piece , but from the looks of it , they don't seem to have any memories . "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAfjFfkNMPqn
"You have the full memory storage ?" " Yep , but it's mostly useless , since it's so foreign and that civilization was long gone already , these programmers are probably an ancient race and if Welt did that thing with sand , that means my information is probably more outdated than I think "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAfBiyXqljli
" Why do you not use it ? " " I do , I was able to make it so that all perceived difficulties can be transformed into challenges . So if you are blind and someone shoulders it for you , then you can see even if you don't have eyes . But if it were anything else , that would be the more basic transfer of sight , which might cause the body to destroy the foreign organ . "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAmU0A4bVSqa
Yuni wanted to ask how that was even possible , but thought maybe she should check that later , since she will likely forget due to Amnesia.
81Please respect copyright.PENANANxwCfW2xFo
...
81Please respect copyright.PENANAug5GghJZ46
Ceil sighed as she closed the book , which continued to write as if its ink was alive . She could sense Themiel coming into the country and went out .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAg0zr6hyJTF
Themiel couldn't believe how easy it was to do something that was forbidden to angels , but he did it and the stress that accumulated during it couldn't be easy to ignore for him . He can already feel the punishment he brought to himself for defying his own belief so that he could save the country .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAje4otUbaXu
' So this must be what soldiers feel when they are at war ' Themiel couldn't help but feel closer to them , which made the punishment he was giving to himself feel much lighter . He quickly passed through all of the paperwork that was necessary and quickly called a meeting Ceil didn't watch the meeting with Themiel because she was preparing a script ' I think this one makes the most sense '
81Please respect copyright.PENANAPjdqbkuvCW
The meeting eventually evolved into a court with Themiel on trial , just like the one in which Yuni had attended , except this time Themiel was shouldering the punishment for breaking several laws and rules from angels at the end .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAnwpn2ITyMr
It was a sight to the jury as they had watched Themiel confess several sins , such as invading the private residence of a higher being like Welt , taking the property of a powerful and benevolent being who held the responsibility of many worlds .
81Please respect copyright.PENANA7hinglk6Q2
Themiel's wings were painted black from all the punishment that he willingly took , since the evidence that he held was more than enough to push the country away .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAnK8TSwziXY
" While the sins you have confessed are indeed heavy , as your means are in other ways more sinful yet the result was beneficial for the country . So you must think that the ends justify the means , right ? "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAlvdi17utyx
The judges asked and Themiel's response was " Yes " he did feel that all the things he did to obtain that information were more excusable because of the result it would lead to . He knew it would tarnish the country's image , but if it allowed the country to no longer dwell in the past because of the ominous file he acquired , it felt worth it .
81Please respect copyright.PENANASF8lPGLUuK
' At least the country is now free from the never-ending present and can look forward to a future ' Themiel thought and suddenly the door swung open " I would like to interrupt " Themiel heard Ceil's nonchalant voice and turned to her while his chains rattled and his wings lightly fanned wings .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAY2wnjRW24m
" Themiel felt tempted to do something like that because I threw something towards him " Themiel couldn't help but grow confused as to why she said that " Young soul , you have no involvement in this , we have heard of your contributions in that legacy by the edge of the country "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAo8h8CiAoBC
" Yes and I've also been requesting you to stop anchoring yourself in these worlds , didn't I ? " The court took a moment to think about what Ceil had been requesting as soon as she rose high enough to start requesting that .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAohY7XwwbAa
" To get my words into your ignorant mind , I'm tricked Themiel into doing that through a series of complex actions " As Ceil said that none of the angels looked at her with suspicion because it didn't seem right until they started discussing among themselves " Perhaps it could be possible , I've never heard a first circle angel do something like this willingly "
81Please respect copyright.PENANASw9iI5pryo
The jury talked among themselves as Ceil continued to rack up the accusations on her " But you were in a rage when you threw that book " Themiel said , trying to defend Ceil " Themiel don't be so stupid . That was an act , a really convincing one "
81Please respect copyright.PENANA21jg8s0y9d
Themiel knew very well that it wasn't an act , but the jury only knew about it through words " So you tricked Themiel into infiltrating the place on his own ? " " Yeah it's a very hard place to get to , so I need someone else to do it . Someone with more power , I was planning to rack up power , but that was too slow , so I did the backup plan and now we are here . "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAgyWPN5GQVb
The angels stared down at Ceil with mixed expressions , some clearly felt that she was a danger and some just couldn't believe how Ceil was able to get this close and trick an angel of the first circle .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAakR9tsTNXI
" Your crimes are too heavy for a simple exile from the country " " Obviously , it's gonna be heavy , but it was worth it , wasn't it " Ceil taunts the angels as the angels couldn't help but not disagree with that claim . For it was thanks to that which allowed them to make a proper decision and actually consider Ceil's request .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAJo8Rdm0zpy
They also felt at fault for not trusting Ceil , requiring her to trick Themiel into bringing this information to them " The court ... no , the council has decided " many angels summon their power , all with mixed intentions .
81Please respect copyright.PENANActhZMv0hda
" Each of us will grant you something , be it blessing or a burden , but the final verdict is exile " a first circle angel concluded as a circle of light surrounded Ceil , many angels also cast their power to give Ceil what they believe is the right one .
81Please respect copyright.PENANA0aVw7rj6FB
Some see Ceil as a trickster , some see her as someone willing to sacrifice herself to save others and some reluctantly admit in their minds that what Ceil did was necessary but still unforgiveable . But Themiel could see that Ceil was not going to survive the exile .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAQd4TCHcv79
The first circle angels were bringing punishment to Ceil because they understood the importance of a first circle angel and despite the blessings of the other angels Ceil would fall and be unable to survive it .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAOA17FcSOj5
Ceil didn't bother looking at Themiel ' It was quite a good material to learn , but I won't be able to survive this unless I cheat ' Themiel forfeited his halo and gave it to Ceil . The halo floated gently towards Ceil as Themiel said " I forgive you Ceil "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAyyqGyUwzIq
' If I didn't do that , I would never have understood what the mortals feel when they fight , it was a great experience for an angel like me . I cannot let a young soul be the sacrifice to preserve the country . ' " THEMIEL , WHAT ARE YOU DOING !? " The voice boomed as Ceil felt the protection of a halo filled with the light of Themiel .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAXtYKN3IpSu
" She deserved this much for putting me in this sacrifice at least " ' But she didn't do it intentionally ' Themiel couldn't help but recall what Ceil said about using witnesses ' If anyone had seen that wrath she got into , they've would've believed it was accidental '
81Please respect copyright.PENANAMPoFlzCDXg
" THEMIEL YOU ARE A FIRST CIRCLE ANGEL " the first circle angels' voice boomed through the court , the angels weren't keen on taking back what was given and merely questioned Themiel's action .
81Please respect copyright.PENANA6cY9h0ElqH
Themiel knew they wouldn't believe what he said about Ceil , who threw a genuine tantrum that led him to know about the regression " Even a first circle like me believes that committing a smaller act of evil to save the country was a justifiable sacrifice "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAfo6ER41cOH
The first circle angels couldn't disagree and neither could they agree , as the circle of light was ready to send Ceil away " So with all your service in preparing the safety of our country , I grant Ceil all my power as a first circle angel "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAzv5J4N9PDc
A flash of light took Ceil away as Themiel got off , shaking away all the punishments that were laid on him " Themiel " the angels looked at him with much sadness to see someone change so much that they couldn't understand " I have work to do "
81Please respect copyright.PENANACNHr2XcLob
...
81Please respect copyright.PENANAr1FYUe1dbG
A ball of light crashed into a grass field and it unfolded into wings that blocked the calm and raging wind , allowing Ceil to see outside ' This is an unexpected gain ' Ceil could feel many angels weighing her down with their power and transformed those weights into weapons , storing them away .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAu7eQ5e0eE1
' Had to cheat a little to regain this level of power ' she didn't feel particularly annoyed that she had to cheat like Zaun would feel . She used her new attained power and drew a circle as Eyes opened from the line .
81Please respect copyright.PENANA0zbXJcM6P8
Ceil located Rein and reached her , finding Rein in a grass plane carrying a folder while hiding herself . Rein looks at the folder's contents and senses Ceil's presence " I got the wrong one " Rein said without much care about what she saw , Ceil looked at the contents and found it was Grasil's memories from many playthroughs and regressions ' Yeah this is the wrong one '
81Please respect copyright.PENANArgv5EOGmjl
Ceil threw it into her inventory and took out another folder that she stole from the evidence that the angels were not watching " Looks like you got Naul's loot " " Oh yeah , he was in there and we did bump into each other and dropped our folders " Rein said figuring out how she got the wrong file .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAPM09fSxhxH
' But if Themiel has Rein's loot , then what did he get ? " Yuni received Themiel's folder from Naul as she checked it with Mir in the hall to avoid any eyes that were possibly watching or ears that could be listening .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAPuaWud1JMi
" This is really bad " Mir said as they continued to summarize it " I didn't know Welt was that inlove with Ordo and now it's the complete opposite " "How long until you finish summarizing it ?" " A really long time , I'll get Patience , so not much time passes outside "
81Please respect copyright.PENANA2xYisxaClS
Yuni waited as Amnesia slowly chips away her memories , but she needed to know about what happened in the first playthrough before Welt started this massive project of many world's trapped in some loop .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAxga6UqcjKs
Mir checked Yuni's step generation and they could tell the steps were becoming less and less likely due to Yuni not feeling more motivated and said " How about you try leaving the prison now ? "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAGHvlcWdOE8
"Won't that collapse this hall ?" Mir checked the hall's condition through the admin room " Nah it'll be fine . The admin room is connected and will preserve it for you , why don't you spend as much time as you want there , if I need anything , I can just pull you out "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAy0rMFjTKof
Yuni senses a change in the hall and an entrance to the prison of paths appeared " Good luck " "yeah" Yuni didn't know how to respond to that , she could tell that all her experiences were being degraded into simple knowledge without any experience .
81Please respect copyright.PENANASKfjj0M2PS
Naul wasn't ignorant of that either and he went out to figure out how to cure it ' Mom why are you so good at making it hard for me ' he thought as he searched throughout the demon realm to figure out more about soul degradation .
81Please respect copyright.PENANA8x8xCnriY3
He never had to deal with degraded souls because he never cared for them , but now he has to look into it " Fazor " Naul held his hand out to the demon , who was stunned with confusion because he was not aware of what Naul wanted him to do .
81Please respect copyright.PENANA3JJeRx5IaN
" Hook needle and string " once Naul finished whatever operation he had , Fazor interviewed the soul that was stitched together " This one is a success " Fazor said " Yeah , but it's pointless if these memories don't hold well " Naul couldn't help but view this problem like a world with no cure for cancer in which they can only hope the patient survives .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAYTrhyuV6lb
' No , but even then , there was chemo , so maybe there is a way to stop or cure the soul degradation right ? ' Naul recalls asking Mir about how Yuni was losing her memories slowly , but she can still vividly remember events , although she doesn't know all the details .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAQUKgNIkPa2
' So basically like those mass-produced webtoons and manhuas . The story is about someone who can travel to the future and there is no major plotpoint other than the protagonist figuring out how to sell food to the dead future world and buying high-tech machines for cheaper . or regression stories were they just know the future and use what they know '
81Please respect copyright.PENANAHEZ1gZIknx
Naul thought it was a horrible way to explain it , but he remembers Ceil insulting how garbage the mass-produced stories he reads and tells him , even making one mass-produced story was better than reading one .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAzmtp8xekSC
' And then I blamed her for starting the information flow , which I had to optimize or it would corrupt my sheets that record all produce scores . ' Naul pauses to think about the information flow that made learning history a much richer experience because they could witness it with more visual information and realistic footage that wasn't a bad actor trying to use history as propaganda tool for the present .
81Please respect copyright.PENANA3fuLA2RPcc
' Wait , I might be able give her chemo then ' Naul quickly went to Mir " I already got that solve " Mir said and Naul froze in disbelief , seeing that his help was pointless " I plan to give her all the memories she was losing " Mir looked at Naul and could see that he was in some sort trance .
81Please respect copyright.PENANA3YewgK51K3
" Fazor , what happened " " He gathered a lot of degraded souls and worked very hard in restoring them , he probably went through a train of thoughts and came to you " Mir thinks of that train of thoughts " Oh " ' Wow , even though he is a greedy bastard , I guess there is some love in there . '
81Please respect copyright.PENANAAMpuUCO8XK
Mir had to hide their thoughts because Yuni told them not to tell them . After all , it's better that way and so they said " But if you can , maybe you can search for some memories in Welt's files . " Naul was confused as to why he needed that " Why ? "
81Please respect copyright.PENANANyfsnWNqCS
Mir thinks of the memories they've gathered and are generating for Yuni as a reward " Well I just feel like your mom wanted to experience things and I don't have the memories of experience that she went through before thankless and Welt likely has it , probably plans to give it to Yuni once she removes her challenges "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAUssxACuDwQ
' There could be a file for that after all , fame would keep gathering information about the surroundings . At first it was text , but after I upgraded it , images of her past adventures also showed '
81Please respect copyright.PENANAPf5Wc47vQU
" So it's a reward ? " Naul asked and Mir thought he was trying to taunt them , but knowing Naul doesn't care about world affairs , they said " No , rather it's to complete it , I can't just give her memories with a blank time period , how do I say it ? ... Whatever just do it for your mom to ensure the high-quality experience she will receive as a reward to fix the soul degradation "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAuqSQcxKL6X
Mir said " By the way , here is your reward " Mir's system prompt appeared , showing Naul some new material " I heard from your mother that you like new resources . This is a system resource , it's what we use to build and further harvest more of it . "
81Please respect copyright.PENANAkb6IhTnQQO
" I know how that works already " " Yeah , but I can teach you more " As much as Naul loves hoarding the most favorite type of resource he likes is knowledge " I'll go get the memories " " Good luck finding it "
81Please respect copyright.PENANA0jSO1ySghN
Naul thinks about the sorted files he got and bought it to Mir " Maybe it's in there ? " ... " No it isn't " Mir said " Fine , I'll go get it " Naul headed out while Mir checked on Yuni .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAWz9iCnyS43
...
81Please respect copyright.PENANA2MdRbwYg8c
Yuni walked out of the room with chains on her ' I didn't expect to appear here ' Yuni thought that it was going to be unlikely for her to be able to go anywhere else as the room behind her starts to back away .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAwm1Q9vaHim
' Shifting rooms , must be Delirium's work ' Yuni thought as the layout seemed to be growing simpler because Amnesia had given Delirium a harder time messing with her now that her memories aren't so colorful or varied as they are being degraded .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAK2BAsVTg3q
So right now , Delirium can only use the other challenges as a base . Yuni threw the chain back as it latched onto the room she exited , taking her into the shifting prison , which was starting to expand .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAJlpCxJQDqO
The air reeks too much of Amnesia's code chipping away her memory as Yuni imagines this murky air working like a pile of sand slowing eroding her memories away ' It will be hard to get back all my memories '
81Please respect copyright.PENANArmggPgYRyx
Yuni couldn't imagine how hard it must be to remake her memories since it wasn't glass grinding it to powder and melting it to reshape it . Each memory belonged somewhere and isn't like the molecules a glass is made of ' Oh wait , I could just use myself as a base instead '
81Please respect copyright.PENANAjRG3ATQihh
Yuni can still recall the sequence of her life starting from birth , where she remembers her memories of the collector and the long line of poverty-stricken family upto her last account before entering Welt's world and then the present moment .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAPELmmCStYl
' Oh , but how can I get that idea to Mir ' Yuni received some memory before it gets eroded by Amnesia's memory erosion ' "I got it" ? Looks like Mir got the message ' Yuni thought as she removed the chain and fell into another room to slow Amnesia's memory erosion .
81Please respect copyright.PENANAuLSQ4IFsgD


