"What do you mean, I never possessed sanity? If I had no memories, then how was I reincarnated as 'Sno'?"
Sno was growing more and more confused by the True Creator's words, but the True Creator remained unhurried, speaking with the composed air of an old cadre who had all the time in the world:
"Because this was not an arrangement, but an accident under the influence of an authority."
As he spoke, he lightly rubbed his hands together, causing the coffee that had already gone cold to steam once more before continuing:
"I tried several times to awaken you after you had gone completely mad, but you had fused so deeply with Origin Quality that, in terms of status, you had fully reached Above the Sequence. Even I could not exert enough influence on your mind. So, for a long time, I simply used two virtual personalities to split apart Ancient Chaos's characteristics, until even the four portions of Uniqueness had been completely extracted."
"In other words, you spent more than a thousand years completely stripping four Pathways from Ancient Chaos, leaving behind only the parts that did not belong to the twenty-two Pathways?" Sno repeated the True Creator's words, yet he still could not understand where he himself had come from.
The True Creator merely gave him a reassuring look and sipped his coffee as he said:
"Perhaps because it had lost the characteristics of the two Knowledge families and the two Order families, Ancient Chaos developed a kind of 'deficiency.' This directly caused the two virtual personalities of Wisdom and Order that I had implanted to be treated as materials for 'completion,' which gave me more possibilities to manipulate Ancient Chaos."
"However, Wisdom and Order alone had very limited influence over Ancient Chaos. My research remained stalled