"I gave this creature named Tawil all the qualities that I thought would give it a soul, and then made it into a god, and released it into all the world lines that came through the door, hoping that a human in these world lines would make him feel loved and thus have a soul."

Bai Liu slowly raised his eyes and sighed with regret:

"But no matter how many world lines it has gone through, it is like a cold statue, a broken mirror, sitting on the throne and looking down indifferently at these humans who kneel down to it, giving them external objects step by step, but it can never feel the emotions of humans."

"I realized that this method was not feasible, so I summoned it back from all world lines."

"I asked it." Bai Liu lowered his eyes, lifted Tawil's chin, and asked softly to Tawil who was still sleeping, "Why don't you want to become an evil god?"

"Why not feel the love and pain and become a gatekeeper with a soul?"

Bai Liu's gloved hand gently stroked Tavier's closed eyes, and his tone became softer: "I got a very interesting answer."

"It looked at me with its pure black eyes and said that it thought humans were fine as they were and didn't need gods or doors."

"In Tawil's eyes, it's good for them to just stay together in this universe, with love and pain intertwined."

"It doesn't understand why God exists, why God has to guard the door, and why God has to give those things to humans. God has to guard the door, but these things don't make the world line better, but make them more miserable."

Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Bai Liu and smiled: "I told it, it's not that God wants to exist, but God already exists. If it's not you, it will be someone else."

"It couldn't understand and asked me, is there no God's world line in this world?"

“I told it no.”

"To be honest, Tawil makes me a little disappointed." Bai Liu slowly stepped back. He waved his hand lightly, and the silk strings wrapped around Tawil lifted Tawil up like a puppet. "Because no matter how I tell it these principles, how I teach it to become an evil god, it can't understand, and it can't do it."

“It has a foolishly naive understanding of humanity.”

"I gave it so much divine power, but it foolishly consumed its own power bit by bit in the process of realizing human wishes."

Bai Liu looked at Tawil, who was being lifted up by the thread, with pity: "I originally thought that Tawil's selfless giving and donations would make these people love him, but no, he always gets more greedy demands."

"No matter how much Taweel, as a god, has given to mankind, what he takes back from mankind is always only desire, endless desire."

"I became fed up, and after my last bit of patience with this creature that was created to my heart was exhausted, I chose to exile it."

"Since humans can't teach you to [love], then I'll let humans make you [suffer]."

Bai Liu lowered his eyelids and loosened the silk thread that was hanging Tavel in his hands. As soon as Tavel was loosened, he fell into the endless dark universe.

Then he opened his hand, swung the thread, and hung Tavel up again.

Bai Liu looked up at Bai Liu on the other side of the water pattern wall with a smile: "Don't be so nervous, I won't really let go."

"He is the only bargaining chip that allows me to talk to you face to face. I dare not abandon him casually, otherwise I will not be able to find any other way to make you sit down and listen to me attentively."

Bai Liu clearly treats Tawil like a doll. He plays with Tawil and Bai Liu at will.

Bai Liu, holding the handle of the chair tightly, stared at Bai Liu: "So what did you do to him?"

"I put a part of the door on Tavier's eyes." Bai Liu loosened the thread in his hand, and Tavier finally opened his eyes slowly.

Tavier was floating in the universe, his eyes slightly open. Those were a pair of glittering silver-blue eyes, as if the entire universe was reflected in them, with stars spinning and shining brightly, but without any emotion. They simply and indifferently reflected everything in the world, like a piece of well-made glass, completely and empty reflecting the things behind it, not at all like Shetta's look of looking straight ahead.

There was no emotion or soul in those eyes.

“When humans look into Tawil’s eyes, they can see the abyss-like universe on the other side of the [Gate], where countless crazy world lines struggle. Desires are reflected from the other side of the door into the eyes of these people, causing them to fall into the same madness as on the other side of the door.”

Bai Liu looked at Bai Liu, who explained briskly, "Soon, they will develop an extreme hatred for the gatekeeper who can both fulfill their wishes and restrain their desires."

"So they will do whatever they can to harm the carrier of this door, the owner of these eyes, until their desire is satisfied."

Bai Liu raised his lips and said, "——Until those abyss monsters on the other side of the door, through the cruelty they inflicted on Tawil, successfully passed through the gap in the door on Tawil's eyes and came to this side of the door, becoming heretics in the mouths of these humans."

"Those monsters were not caused by Xieta." Bai Liu asked back calmly, "It was the desires of these people that destroyed the door in Xieta's eyes, allowing the monsters on the other side of the door to pass through the door and reach here. But you induced Xieta to think that it was his fault, and made the people around him think that it was his fault, so that they hated him even more and made him more miserable, right?"

"Bingo." Bai Liu laughed, "That's right."

Bai Liu shrugged his shoulders and sighed with regret: "Actually, things have developed to such a tragic point. I personally feel that I have also done something wrong."

"I originally wanted Tawil to have a soul out of love, so I carved it into a non-aggressive god, but my ultimate goal was to have it kill me. With Tawil's personality, even if I tortured him to death, he would never attack me, his creator."

“So I changed my strategy.”

Bai Liu smiled and said, "I cleansed its memory and told it that you were the original old evil god and gatekeeper, and I was just a greedy human who stole your throne."

"If you want to maintain the order of this universe and the integrity of the Gate, you must kill the most greedy person in the world who wants to destroy you the most. That's me."

"I banished Tawil to the next 658 world lines, and at the same time, I sent my derivatives to these world lines. I induced, hinted, and controlled my derivatives, and whispered in their ears in their dreams - as long as you kill Tawil completely, you will get the most valuable thing in this world."

"I know what kind of God I am, so I also know what my creations will be like and what they will do - they cannot resist such temptation."

Bai Liu opened his eyelids, and his eyes turned silver-blue in an instant as he looked directly at Bai Liu:

"——Because they, like me, are the combination of the greatest desires of the two universes on both sides of the gate."

"I thought Tawil would fight me to protect the Gate, to uphold truth and order, but he didn't."

"It was just like the countless world lines in which it was a god before, allowing me and other humans to slaughter, abuse, and torture it. At that moment, I realized that this guy was not fulfilling human desires out of pity for humans."

"It is pure innocence and indifference. It has never looked at humans or me in the eye. It cannot see any existence full of desires like us. Even if I am standing behind it in those 657 world lines as its enemy who killed it and took its throne, it still reads the book indifferently and seriously, without even turning its head once."

"Because it thinks books are more interesting than humans."

"Later, even though I became its enemy and tortured it even more severely, and even banished it into the game, it still had no emotions towards me, love, dislike, hatred, nothing at all."

"Because it has no desire for me or any other human being."

"It's interesting to say," Bai Liu chuckled, "that in this regard, as my creation, it is even less human and more arrogant than me."

"When I was ready to give up on this creation, two miraculous things happened in the 658th world line."

Bai Liu looked at Bai Liu on the other side of the water pattern wall, and the smile on his face deepened: "The first thing is that my derivatives are out of my control."

"I can't enter his dreams, contact him, seduce him, or hint at him. This has never happened before. This derivative is like a completely normal human child who grew up alone in this world line."

"It was really interesting to watch him and see how he managed to survive in an environment that was so hostile to him."

"Humans in their infancy are prone to committing suicide when they have no peers or are rejected by all peers. In simple terms, they commit suicide when they cannot get love from their peers. But the interesting thing is that he actually survived without any human acceptance."

Bai Liu's expression grew colder little by little.

Bai Liu pretended not to notice and continued with a smile: "This infant derivative not only survived, but in an environment where all his peers hated and rejected him, he mistakenly placed me in Tawil near him, treating me as a fellow creature who was completely incapable of generating emotions."

"——This misconception is simply because they are all in a state of isolation."

"And this knowledge made the derivative develop feelings for his destined enemy, a creature that didn't even take him seriously."

"He wandered around the only person he thought was his own day and night, and he thought he was hiding himself well while observing Tawil. Because he didn't want him to starve to death, he pretended to casually share his few meals with his only fellow, and secretly hid his favorite books in the place where Tawil often borrowed books."

"Then something even more surprising happened."

The smile on Bai Liu's face widened: "This derivative, without any emotional response from Tavier, relied on its own erroneous cognition and emotions to create a soul on its own."

"This is the first time I've seen a human being develop a soul without receiving love."

The last trace of expression on Bai Liu's face disappeared.