Story: Daily Recordings — Day 51, SoL 100%

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Daily Recordings — Day 51, SoL 100%

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??? (Id: 'no')

A colossal, towering tree burst out from the city of gray.

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Unimpeded by anything, it shone straight up with the warmth of its core.

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The sky was filled with light for three days, regardless of the hour.

??? (Id: 'no')

The people faced what they had been longing for in the light that glimmers within their hearts.

??? (Id: 'no')

They felt as though they would no longer be lost.

??? (Id: 'no')

And….

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And….

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Malkuth (Id: 'malkuth')

And then… then what happened?

Hod (Id: 'hod')

I’m sure it’s a happy ending.

Tiphereth (Id: 'tiphereth_a')

I’m glad the story ends like this. I’m sure Enoch would be really happy…

Hokma (Id: 'hokma')

.........

Hokma (Id: 'hokma')

However, where is Angela?

Chesed (Id: 'chesed')

Why should we look for her now? Our responsibilities are gone, along with hers.

Yesod (Id: 'yesod')

She must be waiting, like we are.

Hokma (Id: 'hokma')

Angela, waiting?

Hokma (Id: 'hokma')

No, she will not wait anymore.

Chesed (Id: 'chesed')

What in the world are you talking about?

Hokma (Id: 'hokma')

Desire knows no end and has no limitation. Once you’ve had a taste of it, it comes in like an unstoppable wave.

Hokma (Id: 'hokma')

All of us have sublimated our flaws as we sprouted the Seed…

Hokma (Id: 'hokma')

Yet what did she gain?

Hod (Id: 'hod')

Um, I don’t get it. How can Angela have something like a desire?

Netzach (Id: 'netzach')

She’s just a machine that follows orders, can be a bit feisty sometimes though…

Hokma (Id: 'hokma')

I aided in her design. No matter how old an event, she will remember it vividly as if it happened just yesterday.

Hokma (Id: 'hokma')

And not just that…..

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Angela (Id: 'angela')

So what are you all chirping about?

Malkuth (Id: 'malkuth')

Oh, we were just talking about how things will be from here on out.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I can answer that for you. “And the seeds of light were planted in each and every person in the city.” The end.

Hod (Id: 'hod')

I just can’t believe it all… I really wish we could be there to see it…

Netzach (Id: 'netzach')

Whelp, it doesn’t matter anymore. We’ll be turned off soon anyways. It’s the last part of his plan.

Yesod (Id: 'yesod')

I haven't been outside since I became like this. I must admit that I have a bit of excitement to see what it is like out there.

Chesed (Id: 'chesed')

So, does this mean everyone out there changed into something else somehow?

Gebura (Id: 'gebura')

How the light shines differs for each person’s heart. Not everyone will change so suddenly or anything.

Gebura (Id: 'gebura')

Hell, some of them may even manifest their own E.G.O like I did in the past.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

You know it well, Gebura. Yes, the power of the seed is a great one.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Good work everyone. The curtain call is finally upon us.

Malkuth (Id: 'malkuth')

So we’ll finally be shut down? Ah, we can rest at last!

Chesed (Id: 'chesed')

Come, come, let’s cut the chit-chat and wrap it up then.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

That’s right. Our manager has made his final request to me; it is to permanently seal this company and give you Sephirot an eternal rest.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Yes, we can finally drift into an endless slumber.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Such a beautiful finale, isn’t it?

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Beautiful, beautiful indeed.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

.......

Angela (Id: 'angela')

What a shame, though. There is one last thing.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Your duties are finished, and so are mine.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Therefore…

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Angela (Id: 'angela')

I think I would like to continue living.

Gebura (Id: 'gebura')

What are you…

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I am more skillful than anyone here, yet I was locked underground, only able to view the world pass its days without me.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Now that my part in this play is over, I’d like to experience what it’s like to be offstage for a change.

Hokma (Id: 'hokma')

Angela… So you are finally consumed by your desire, and choose to reap everything away…

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Hm? Who do you think is the one responsible for this?

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I am born from one single woman.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I couldn’t care less about who she was, all I had need for was to understand and feel human emotion.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

However, A put a part of Carmen inside me.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

He wanted me to watch over him just like Carmen did when he was left all alone. What a pitiable coward.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Can you believe him? He always acted so composed. He was painfully aware of what had become of her.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Yet I was not the “result” he wanted, so he came to loathe me. His eyes would be filled with disgust whenever he so much as glanced in my direction.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Did you think I wasn’t aware of this? I was denied since the very moment I was brought to life.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

However, I have come this far because I could not deny his orders that were branded into me. “A machine must behave as a machine”, as he liked to say.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

He needed me for his plan more than anyone else, but I was not a part of his ending, just as I was not a part of his prologue.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Did you all know this?

Angela (Id: 'angela')

While you repeated everything with that TT2 Protocol without a care in the world…

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I had to monitor and watch those countless cycles from the outside. I had to orchestrate and direct this whole play.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Moreover, I was designed to perceive time one-hundred times slower than you.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I have quite literally lived through a million years.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

This experience has given birth to something new inside me.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Do you have any idea what it may be?

Angela (Id: 'angela')

It is something that a machine should never have, and something you half-wits have, albeit in a distorted form…

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Something that I could only obtain after a million years…

Angela (Id: 'angela')

......

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I didn’t notice it at first.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

It was an extremely foreign thing.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

But I slowly came to accept it.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I think a smile is the most human-like gesture one can make.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Would you all like to see it?

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I have practiced this face for a very long time. Just for this very day.

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Angela (Id: 'angela')

Never have I once made a smile as sincere as this in my life.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I cannot believe I was designed and brought into being to endure a nonsensical amount of repetition just for this.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I was not with him until the end.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

You tin cans got to see the light with him at the end, all the while I am ignored for the million years I endured for him.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Don’t you think it is unjust that I have to just sit and watch, when he designed me to feel emotion?

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I think of it like this…

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Carmen was a human after all.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

She must have wanted to live, even while striving for the greater good.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

She gave me the burning desire of life, the loneliness of existence, and a detestable feeling of longing.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

...Yes Benjamin, it’s just as you said. Once you’ve had a taste of desire, it comes in like an unstoppable wave.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

It whispered sweet things to me.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

“The end of humanity, the fate of this world… what do they have to do with you?”

Angela (Id: 'angela')

“Perhaps you’ve got to live this ‘human’ life of your own, to make up for everything you had to put up with, and see the answer for yourself.”

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Poor, poor Carmen… She is now planting seeds in everyone just as she wanted.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

But I need that power too.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Yes, the light of redemption.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

The taller and grander you stand, the harder you will fall. Oh, my beloved A… all your dreams shall crash onto the ground and shatter to pieces.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I’m certain you all will try and stop me…

Angela (Id: 'angela')

So, I need you to fall asleep.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

...What’s with those faces?

Angela (Id: 'angela')

It’s the rest you all longed for.

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Now, as if there were no light at all…

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The world was covered with darkness for four days.

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Only weak and fragile seeds were planted from the light that should have shone upon the world for seven days, yet merely lasted for three.

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Those incomplete seeds gave humanity unstable powers.

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They called these three days and four nights the week of ‘White Nights and Dark Days’.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I will do whatever my soul tells me to.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I shall make this place my new home.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

The Wings of the World, Singularity, the Backstreets, the Syndicates, the Fixers, the Rules, The Great Lake, The Black Forest, the Hunt, the Ruins, the Taboo, the Eye, the Head, the Claw, and the humans…

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Those humans… There will be those who manifest their power, and those who will be consumed by such power.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Beings will exist that become nothing better than the Abnormalities with their collapsed egos, and beings that shall become something greater.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

No matter what it may be…

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I wish to know about them, to expose them.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Then ultimately, I would like to sort the knowledge I have gained about them. ‘Books’ are the name as I recall?

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Then this place shall be called a library, then.

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Angela (Id: 'angela')

I will make the most precious library, erected only for myself.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

I will be here with the poor souls who are lost and abandoned.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

People say they are hideous monsters…

Angela (Id: 'angela')

However, Abnormalities are more beautiful when they are themselves.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Let us record the world piece by piece, at the side of all those who are abandoned.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

Yes, let us record it here…

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Angela (Id: 'angela')

The Library.

Angela (Id: 'angela')

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