The world inhabited by the Octopus Person was not a beautiful place.
When the planet was still a barren wasteland and life had yet to appear, pollution had already arrived.
Amid the blazing, molten magma, pollution blossomed into flowers, gradually cooling these ceaseless torrents.
Thus, the land was born.
Upon the rocks, the pollution did not stop advancing. Instead, it continued to spread, growing stronger in the rainwater.
Lightning supplied the energy needed for matter to change. Pollution circulated within it, and matter known as "organic compounds" was born from the cold primordial ocean. After several wondrous reactions, consciousness was born under pollution's first push.
Once consciousness appeared, pollution spread even more rapidly.
Evolution began spreading across the entire planet like a virus.
Life was influenced by its environment, and it also influenced the environment.
Cold stones and warm seas, the sky beneath the stars—strange creatures were gestating within them.
At that moment, certain beings adrift among the stars noticed this place.
Their gazes alone caused a devastating disaster. More than ninety percent of all life vanished forever into the river of history from merely catching a fleeting glimpse of those Great Beings.
The remaining ten percent all underwent mutations beyond imagination.
The ancestors of the Octopus Person appeared at this time.
Just as the common ancestor of most life on Earth had five fingers, the tentacles of the Octopus Person's ancestors were inherited as well.
In the small seas, jellyfish with countless tentacles swam in groups, forming clouds beneath the waves.
Beneath the sky, these creatures that relied on tentacles to swim gradually occupied the heavens, blotting out the sun.
Underground, slimy, writhing creatures used rocks to form shells, gradually taking the first step toward becoming living beings.
The eight kinds of Octopus People, moving in different directions, ultimately