Pleasing the readers—this was an answer that went without saying.
This was the meaning and purpose behind the existence of every Omniverse across the pan-timeline.
He had considered this possibility before, and had even asked Naruto, who had appeared because of him: If everything was designed, imagined, and the past never truly existed, what would you do?
Naruto had been unable to accept it either and had only taken it as a joke.
Now, he too had been made the subject of such a joke, yet no one told him it was a joke.
This was real. What Lan Mu wanted had always been a real answer, not Deceive Self.
"I..."
He was left speechless, almost finding it absurdly funny.
He had experienced countless trials throughout his life and come this far, all for an answer like this.
For a moment, Lan Mu was furious beyond measure, yet there was nothing he could do.
He wanted to vent, but there was nowhere to vent it.
Even as he lost control, he immediately realized that his loss of control had been designed by the author too.
Whatever curses he unleashed now had also been designed to make him curse.
But so what?
"Fuck you..." Lan Mu cursed madly. He had never cursed anyone so frantically before.
He knew that even cursing the author might only be because the author had made him do it.
Normally, it would have meant nothing. But when he thought of making the author personally write out profanity insulting himself, it suddenly felt meaningful.
Yet after cursing for over a hundred lines straight, he suddenly found it boring again.
Because he realized the author could simply gloss over it.
The other party did not need to actually write out every single curse word.
"No! You said it