"What outcome?"
"Preventing the apocalypse."
Edward said gravely, "Isn't this so-called apocalypse just that circle of Outer Deities surrounding Earth? To fight the Outer Deities, shouldn't you accommodate a Sefirah and advance to a Pillar to gain greater power? Why would you die?"
Although most people had a poor impression of Adam, loathing his arrangements and his insistence that "this is a necessary sacrifice," they had to admit that he genuinely wanted to save the world.
The world was falling apart, and Adam kept patching it up.
Faced with Edward's questioning, Adam said, "That is precisely why I will die."
"???"
Edward's heart jolted. Something suddenly occurred to him, and he exclaimed in shock, "When you... said you would die, did you mean you've merged with the True Creator?"
He remained silent.
In the original story, Adam and the True Creator had also merged later, but that had happened after Adam advanced to Sequence 0. Moreover, Adam had been dominant after "they" merged. The one who "died" had been the True Creator.
Now, Adam had yet to advance to Sequence 0. Why would he merge with the True Creator?
Wait, wait!
Edward's mind suddenly descended into confusion. He abruptly realized something he had previously overlooked.
The True Creator had two personalities.
One was rational, and the other was insane.
Edward had always assumed this was some mutation caused by the influence of a "transmigrator" like himself.
But was that really the case?
Looking back on his previous conversations with the True Creator, their attitudes toward their "other self" were rather intriguing...
What if those "two personalities" referred to the True Creator and Adam respectively?
They haven't fully merged into one and exist as two personalities. That's why the True Creator has two completely different attitudes toward me.
"..."
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