[Although, in this final stage, what you had actually inscribed into the underlying layers of these three cores with the Engraving Knife consisted mainly of the fifth simulation, along with some miscellaneous information generated between simulations.]
[In terms of mental expenditure and concentration, however, you had been even more exacting and serious than when you recorded the previous four complete lives.]
[Because your brain, governed by absolute reason, understood with perfect clarity that the final moments of this fifth simulation marked an immense turning point in your entire life trajectory and cognitive logic.]
[It began at that brutally cruel moment in the sewer when expanding your domain had revealed the whole truth of how the simulations worked.]
[Before that, you had been a survivor desperately grasping for power to protect yourself and save others in a chaotic world; afterward, you had become a sinner who bore the karmic burden of countless parallel worlds with utter lucidity.]
[These were already two entirely different, even opposing, states of the soul.]
[After this turning point, you could never again choose to press the button that started a simulation without any psychological burden, as you had before.]
[Within your causal logic, starting a simulation had ceased to be an "attempt" and become an absolute "sin."]
[Because, in truth, within that brain of yours that had run countless deductions to their limits, you yourself knew, however hazily and despairingly, that in this twisted world thoroughly permeated by curses and a thousand-year conspiracy, there was absolutely no way you could find the perfect final answer to every problem through just one more simulation.]
[You did not even have the false impression that you were "only one final step away from success."]
[You knew with utter clarity that, if you started another simulation, you would merely be