Story: Hokma — Episode 2

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Hokma — Episode 2
					
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						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						Are we managing to get closer to our goal?
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						On the contrary to what people say, it appears that aging does not necessarily bring greater wisdom.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						Just look at this old man. Going through what feels like an endless cycle of intermittent greed; the obsession over things that have passed; pointless regret. Now trapped in a routine of staring at the iron hands of time without reason.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						By the way, I have always wanted to ask you something.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						I noticed you wear a sad expression on your face each time one of your employees died.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						Just as I have become an old man, no human being is free from the cycle of life and death.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						As our research was to cure the disease, not to live forever.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						How about an example?
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						Do you remember that one employee? The one who was nice and upfront with you?
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						He passed away recently.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						When he received the letter that he was accepted into Lobotomy Corporation, he never would have expected to meet such a futile demise.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						If I wanted, I could have brought him back to you.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						But I did not. It is in the order of this place that an empty spot shall always soon be filled.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						Did you finally discover the secret of this place?
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						Lives are trivial here. The tenuous hold on life can be severed so easily, and yet may come back as if nothing happened. We reached a point in which we don't even need to mourn their deaths.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						An employee who died just yesterday may come back from my simple call, yet another employee may never open their eyes again from a single wave of my hand.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						That is what death means here, A.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						It is neither honorable nor noble, nor is it miserable or cruel like we may think it to be.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						So please, don’t punish yourself too much.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						I do not wish to see you suffer from such a personal and insignificant thing.
					
						Hokma (Id: 'hokma')
						For the future will bring you much more pain to bear.