"So even after waking up, you still don't want to do anything, do you?"
Omega Zero asked his indifferent colleague with heartfelt anguish.
"What can I do? I'm not some 'savior.' I'm just an ordinary hotel servant. I don't even know where I came from, so what right do I have to pursue the truth?"
"But no matter who you are, you have the right to pursue the truth!" Omega Zero could no longer hold back in the face of such an attitude...
"Even a single-celled organism that knows nothing has the right to pursue the truth! Let alone us, who can think independently!"
"How can you be sure our thoughts are truly 'independent'? You say you've awakened, but before that awakening, were your distorted thoughts independent too? And how can you be certain the thoughts you have now haven't been distorted? What if you 'awaken' again in the future? You awaken once, awaken twice, and keep awakening forever—then are you awake or not?" His colleague fired a string of questions at Omega Zero.
He had once gone through the stage Omega Zero was in now, so of course he understood Omega Zero's feelings. But after his burning passion had been spent, he could only fall back into confusion amid this enormous mystery. This hotel was an inescapable den of demons for these Seekers of Knowledge. They could only sink deeper into it, gradually abandoning their "desire for knowledge" through repeated despair and becoming machines that could no longer think...
After hearing his colleague's retort, Omega Zero fell silent for a while, seemingly giving his words serious thought.
But after a moment, his resolute voice rang out again:
"I do believe that I've awakened, but I've never thought awakening was a one-time thing. If someone could wake up completely all