Why? Iver hesitated, but did not answer.
Yulia pondered for a while, then suddenly broke into a radiant smile. She sat on the ground, patted her thigh, and gestured for Iver to lie down on it. "Big Brother has answered so many of my questions... So let me hear about Big Brother's troubles. Maybe I can help answer them too!"
For a moment, Iver lost himself.
It was not because Yulia had invited him to rest his head on her lap...
Rather, he had only just realized that, in a sense, his melancholy and hesitation might have been meaningless.
—The theme of this world was "self-separation."
Constant Self had separated himself ten times. The Crowned Lord, Supreme Heaven, and the Great Sage had all undergone severance. The power that Reincarnation Angel initially separated had become Amber. The many Snake Tails separated by Ring Angel had become who he was now. Fallen Angel was also a fragment separated from Lucifer, not to mention Pillar God Hourglass, who could help others perform severance...
At its root, this was because the Source River was absolutely pure.
The only path to becoming a Pillar God was to purify oneself until reaching a state of purity. And the safest and most mature way to do that was self-separation.
Once one began thinking about the philosophy of self-separation, the question of "what is the self" became impossible to avoid.
Reincarnation Angel, Ring Angel, "the Snake," Shepherd, Ai Shiping, Iver, Aleister... Their essences might be the same, but they were also absolutely different from one another.
If one could not discover what the true self was, then all that remained was self-denial and inner struggle.
Yet at that moment, the words Lord of Scales and Feathers had once spoken rose in Iver's heart:
"—You came from another