When Link said "thank you," the Living Tribunal's three faces, unchanged since time immemorial, underwent violent, plainly visible fluctuations like streams of data for the first time.
Its will, formed from countless cosmic laws, fell into a logical "quandary" at that moment.
The being before it had already exceeded every known category of "anomaly" in its database.
He had severed the "bitter consequences" of his own actions and reconciled all the "contradictions" within himself.
He was both chaos and order, both merciful and brutal, both god and man. He had become a "complete individual," logically consistent and unified in will, who could not be simply defined or denied.
On the Living Tribunal's face of "Vengeance," the power of laws representing punishment and destruction actually began to dissipate beneath Link's clear gaze. It could find no "sin" or "evil" to attack, because Link had already turned them all into jewels upon his crown.
Its face of "Necessity" could no longer shake him with the suffering of any living being in the universe, either. Link had already declared that he would satisfy every "need" in his own way.
Finally, the gazes of all three faces converged on the partially concealed face in the center, the one representing "Equity."
Now, a final judgment had to be made.
Within the Living Tribunal, the most intense computation of laws since the birth of the universe began.
It calculated the possibility of erasing Link.
The result was: possible. As the highest embodiment of order in the multiverse, the Living Tribunal possessed the authority and power to end any single universe and everything within it in an instant.
But the cost was: unbearable.
During his earlier evolution, especially at the moment when Link obtained the Six Infinity Stones and forcibly endured the backlash of the laws, his