Did 1+1=2?
Why did a slap hurt?
In essence,
these things were all settings within the world.
If he wished,
Orsaga could alter the mathematical laws of the entire universe.
He could make 1+1=3, or directly make the answer to a question into a random number.
He could also alter the foundational rules of the existing Material World.
He could make the one being hit feel no pain, while making the one doing the hitting feel pain instead.
At that point,
once two people stood together, a third person—or something else—would automatically appear around them.
The result of 2
would be overwritten.
The existing state of affairs
would be completely changed.
He could even,
if he wished,
reverse the past and alter his own origin.
He could change his own settings.
Making himself an angel or making himself a human would not be impossible.
However,
everything came with a different price.
And altering his own origin
involved no ordinary number of factors...
The Abyssal Will, his own Abyss Layer...
Countless things that had already happened were like invisible threads, tightly binding him.
They made his current settings increasingly stable.
If he truly wanted to alter his own origin,
he would first have to cut away those threads that represented reality!
There was no need to think too hard about it.
The price such an action required would undoubtedly be enormous...
At the very least,
just thinking about it made it clear that it was not a worthwhile deal.
It would be a catastrophic loss!
Besides,
although Orsaga would not be bound by the various settings of the Marvel Universe System, the DC World System, the Abyss Demon of All Realms, and so on, that merely meant jumping from one setting into another...
No matter how he tried, some factors would