In that moment, Lan Mu went all out.
Did the author's control over the world within the interface really leave Lan Mu with no options at all? Not necessarily.
The fact that he could refuse that ending and still throw a tantrum here showed that the author's design also had to conform to a certain logic and the character's personality.
Otherwise, Lan Mu would have simply gone to make amends and fulfilled the promise.
Yet he had not. Lan Mu realized that the author understood "Lan Mu" just as well as he did.
Making amends was indeed one of Lan Mu's wishes, but using that as the ending was not where Lan Mu belonged. It could not provide a final account of Lan Mu's entire life.
So while it seemed the author controlled everything about Lan Mu, the author still had to observe certain rules and faced limitations.
Although the author theoretically had the power to make Lan Mu eat shit right now, could the author truly do that?
Just as 001 had always possessed the ability to erase Lan Mu, yet still allowed Original Sin to reach this point.
Put plainly, the author was not the only one deciding fate. Some people also held a share of that influence.
"The existence of the pyramid has already made it obvious that the world the author lives in should be something like Earth... so the author is a human."
"As a human, he has constraints. He is merely my 'god.'"
At that moment, Lan Mu thought of the only way to restrain the author in reverse: use the readers.
Everything he did was being observed by higher-interface beings, so the words he spoke could also be seen by them.
If someone was truly willing to help him and exert a major