Hokma — Episode 4Location: Library – Floor of ReligionAngela(Library Director)…Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_1_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)You’re making an appearance here more frequently than I had thought.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_1-01"Angela(Library Director)I don’t expect you to enjoy my visits.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_2_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)You are free to think whatever pleases you. So, what is your business?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_2"Angela(Library Director)There’s something I’d like to hear, Hokma.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_3_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Is it something the director of the Library is unaware of…? What would that be?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_3-01"Angela(Library Director)I want you to tell me what you think of this place.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_4_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Are you here for insignificant advice?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_4"Angela(Library Director)…I won’t press you if you don’t feel like giving a response.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_5_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)…As seen from my eyes—this is a purgatory.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_5-01"Angela(Library Director)You don’t see it as a plain hell?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_6_b"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)The moment the guests sign the invitation and step into this place, they are quantized and copied.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_6-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)It is a preparatory step for their lives to be unraveled in the form of books.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_7-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Even if they meet their demise here, they do not actually face death in a true sense.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_8-01"Angela(Library Director)…Because this is akin to a virtual space where simulations take place.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_7-01_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)You know it well.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_9-02"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)They merely pass into eternal slumber, forfeiting their memories and knowledge.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_10-02"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)…Angela. What stops you from letting them go?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_11"Angela(Library Director)…Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_8_b"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)The fate of the guests’ lives has yet to be determined, and I presume it is because you are still hesitating.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_12-01"Angela(Library Director)…I wonder. Why I can’t let them go. Why I hesitate.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_9_b"Angela(Library Director)Our being is made up of the Light, including myself.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_10_b"Angela(Library Director)That’s why we are unable to leave the Library. We simply cannot exist outside of this place.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_11_b"Angela(Library Director)And I want to… break this constraint.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_12_b"Angela(Library Director)All of us here could be given a new life, or we could all perish. The outcome will be either one of the two.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_13_b"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Have you ever thought that the weight of the two extremes are too burdensome to bear?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_13"Angela(Library Director)…I’m not sure. Still, this is the path I chose, so I’ve decided to see the end of it.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_14_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)“Is there any way to navigate this infinite space without getting lost?”Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_14"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)“Where are the books that hold significance? Where is the book that I need the most?”Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_15"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)“Is that book truly what I need? Does it exist at all?”Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_16"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)In this vast void of life, the only compass one can rely on is faith.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_17"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Without faith, you cannot proceed; even if there is a way.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_18"Angela(Library Director)Because you don’t know what dangers might be lurking in it.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_15_b"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Indeed. And every person seeks their own version of the single perfect book… that must exist somewhere.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_19"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Is your faith in it still adamant?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_20"Angela(Library Director)Maybe…Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_16_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)You lack certainty, unlike when you first began the journey. Why is that?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_21-01"Angela(Library Director)…I don’t know. I’m not even sure if I really know myself anymore.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_17_b"Angela(Library Director)Do you believe it exists, Hokma?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_18_b"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)My opinion is not relevant.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_22-01"Angela(Library Director)I suppose not.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_19_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Angela, the essence of religion is faith.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_23-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)That ‘one book’ can exist because of the strong faith that it exists.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_24"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)When that faith crumbles, so too shall the Library.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_25"Angela(Library Director)It exists because I believe so?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_20_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)It is evident that the extent of faith differs on an individual basis.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_26-02"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)For instance, a lunatic’s faith will always be true to them no matter what anyone else may say. It’s not that one believes in the existence of something; the belief is what brings it into existence.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_27"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)And when one’s faith is broken, their soul expires in most cases.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_28-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Things that have lost their reason to exist because people no longer believe in them shall disappear.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_29-01"Angela(Library Director)…Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_21_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)You, however, remained strong.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_30-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)You believed in Sir Ayin just like I did, and even when your faith was betrayed, you sought to start anew on your own two feet.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_31-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Perhaps your wish wasn’t limited to freeing yourself… You mayhap want all of us—librarians, and even Abnormalities—to lead their own lives rather than bind themselves to a role on an artificial stage.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_32-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)So that they can live in true independence without putting their lives in the hands of Carmen, Ayin, or anyone else.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_33-01"Angela(Library Director)You’re being gracious towards me after all that’s happened?Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_22_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)It’s up to you to interpret it.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_34"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Ironic, is it not. Sir Ayin and I irresponsibly created you and gave you life…Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_35-01"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)And now you are irresponsibly trying to give life into our hands.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_36"Angela(Library Director)Say what you want, but you’re still going to stop me.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_23_a"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)That depends on your decision.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_37"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Until then, I shall trust you and wait patiently.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Hokma_38"Angela(Library Director)…Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_24_a"Angela(Library Director)I’ll be going now.Audio: "ch8_Hokma_ep4_Angela_25_b"
