Hokma vs. Pluto (Stage: 70009)Location: Library – Floor of ReligionHokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Greetings. I am Hokma… I am the librarian who guards this floor.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Hokma_1"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)You are quite the polite gentleman. This was unexpected from the Library that was rumored to be brutal.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_1"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)Not to mention, this place also has a… rather quiet and moody atmosphere. Not bad.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_2"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)The silence and emptiness makes it hard for one to believe that the macabre atrocity of turning people into books has taken place here on multiple occasions.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_3"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)…May I ask who the people behind you are?Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_4"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)They’re the assistant librarians who shall aid me in receiving you warmly. You may introduce yourselves to each other.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Hokma_2"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)But of course. My name is Pluto.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_5"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)…I believe this was a floor dedicated to the topic of religion. What is religion in your view, if I may ask?Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_6"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)What could it be. I would say that it is what one firmly believes in, and a state of mind that gives motivation and significance to their deeds.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Hokma_3"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)Is the power of a belief really limited to endowing one with such a mindset?Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_7"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)Doing deeds for the good of this world doesn’t inherently make one a good person, and neither does committing a bad deed make one evil.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_8"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)Even if one performs misdeeds, they can be a virtuous person, and can be forgiven for anything…Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_9"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)I’d argue that belief and religion are what enables one to think that everything they conceive and accept is right.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_10"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)In that context, faith in religion has to be a truly selfish and cruel concept.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_11"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)I suppose your statement isn’t entirely incorrect.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Hokma_4"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)Do you agree with it?Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_12"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)I could say it is true that an unsteady and crumbled mind is prone to absorb improper beliefs.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Hokma_5"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)Unsteady, you say…Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_13"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)…Do you have anyone or anything you believe in?Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Hokma_6"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)I cannot say for sure. I tend not to place faith in what I cannot see.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_14"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)In fact, I cannot be entirely certain of if I am here in reality or in a dream, or if I am actually looking at you or not.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_15"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)I even question the fact that I am here, standing on my own two feet. After all, it may be a mere product of an illusion.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_16"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)Humans can fool their own senses; how can I believe in what does not exist, let alone worship it?Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_17"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)That would be akin to sensing coldness upon touching a hot object, and vice versa.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_18"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)For instance, what if… there was a deceptive entity that masks one’s perception of the world with falsehood?Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_19"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Regardless of the reality, if one perceives it in a certain way, that would become an undeniable truth.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Hokma_7"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Even if it turns out to be false, the fact that one believes it to be the truth at the moment… remains stalwart.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Hokma_8"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)To believe in something, one must believe in themselves and their view on it.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Hokma_9"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)You’re speaking specious words.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_20"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)I only realized that day that I cannot blindly trust what my eyes show me.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_21"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)In that moment of the past, I was made a fool.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_22"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)The shallow promise that our safety would be secured… The thin piece of contract is what cost me everything.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_23"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)Had he not saved me, I might have drowned myself in resentment toward the whole world… and met my end.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_24"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)…Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Hokma_10"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)And now, I plan to take the path he intends to open.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_25"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)If I had to state one thing I believe in… It would be Sir Argalia and the new world he shall create.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_26"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)Let me ask you what makes you put faith in him.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Hokma_11"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)If I can close my eyes and open them again to a new world forever devoid of lies… I will readily believe in him.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_27"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)And I hope you will come to appreciate the City when it becomes such a place.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_28"Hokma(Patron Librarian - Religion)I will refrain from stating my assessments. My opinion matters little to you, after all.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Hokma_12"Pluto(Yesterday’s Promise)Well, if you say so. In that case… be prepared.Audio: "ch7_Blue_ep2_HP_Pluto_29"
