Liseis and the weakened Luther remembered one of the teachings that had been buried in their minds.
Without Gods, humans will perish. Without human belief, Gods will disappear.
Humans needed Gods and Gods needed Humans. The Gods were willing to kill all humans even if that meant disappearing as well.
Liseis, who was inside Emilia, came to know how Emilia understood this teaching more than anyone else.
'This damn woman...'
Liseis could read Emilia's thoughts.
Flip. Flip. Flip.
[ Emilia, who was the leader of the human race, offered humanity to the Gods as a price to change this tragedy. ]
She started to tremble. She felt a heavy weight on her shoulders as if she was carrying the world on her back. It was too much, both for Liseis and Emilia.
"What do you wish for?" Kalzic asked her that question once.
Liseis froze in shock after she heard the answer.
"I wanted to keep my memories for eternity."
Flip. Flip. Flip.
[ Record of memories. This was what she had wished for. She wanted to forever keep the memories of her and Kalzic. ]
Flip. Flip. Flip.
[ History began from God's power and a human's desire. ]
Flip. Flip. Flip.
[ Emilia had the power to tap into the history of a person. She had made this power into a room called Door of Truth. ]
Emilia began carrying out her plan while bearing the burden of the future. Kalzic was no longer around. She needed to fix the mistake left by the two of them. Even if she had to do it alone.
She talked to the Gods.
"You can have your revenge but your powers existed because of humans, thus pay back your power by listening to my request."
"This insolent human!"
"Well now, calm down."
Liseis, who could still hear Emili's thoughts, started to tremble even more after knowing the truths of the world.
[ Emilia would make it so that the Gods could keep their powers and have a chance at their revenge. ]
How? The answer would be to pass on belief to future generations.
And the teaching she passed on the humans was anger.
The phrase Luther and Liseis had read over a million times finally showed up.
[ They hated gods and gods hated them.]
Emilia thought that it was a way to keep their beliefs that 'Gods' existed so the Gods could keep their powers.
With that, one of the conditions was fulfilled.
[ At the same time, she tried to save humans. Emilia was a human who sacrificed humanity but couldn't abandon them entirely. ]
"There was a reason why she chose anger," Liseis mumbled.
Luther nodded. "Emilia must've wanted us to only hate the gods and not be curious at them."
Because the more curious someone is, the more they would crave the truth. The two souls who bore no hatred for the gods became curious about them, and it brought them here.
Flip. Flip. Flip.
[ The Door of Truth held the key to the Gods' revenge. ]
Finally, the full plan of Emilia was revealed.
"My blood shall be passed down. It shall protect this door that carries his history and the history of others. Until the time comes that he will learn the truth, you shall not attack the humans."
Emilia locked the door away from the world and imprisoned it in this room to bury the foretold tragedy of the past. Then she passed on a message to her future successors.
The orally passed message appeared in their head.
[ Don't let the Flamestone inside. ]
Because if the Flamestone realizes the truth, the Gods would be permitted to touch the humans.
Flip. Flip. Flip.
They finally arrived at the end of the book.
[ Three days after the Flamestone regains his true history, the Gods' wrath shall fall on humans. They will suffer so much that they will beg for death but will never be embraced by the abyss. ]
The light disappeared along with the book and the only thing left was the sense of emptiness as they gazed around the room.
Liseis and Luther didn't dare make a move. They absorbed the truth they sought. But did they like what they found in the end?
"Haaaaaa."
Luther let out a deep sigh and thought to himself at that moment.
'So, this was the true history.'
True history was the life of a human stopping a tragedy caused by a God and it was also a story of how tragedy fell on a God because of humanity.
'True history was a tragedy.'
Liseis, who had been looking at Luther, realized the same thing and sighed much more deeply than she had in her entire life. It was actually more than a laugh than a sigh.
"Ha... haha... haaaaaa."
She looked around and thought.
'No wonder they killed themselves.'
Everyone in this world used to live in that time. Learning true history meant that they would be in a swirl of emotions after. They must've suffocated while feeling all that.
Fear. Regret. Desperation. Guilt.
'Door of Truth, my ass.'
It was not a room that grants you the truth. No, it was a gravestone, a cemetery, and a temple to confess your sins.
This was the room of neither salvation nor condemnation. This was the room where the dead will forever pray for forgiveness.
The room of eternal punishment.
"So..."
"...I know."
Luther and Liseis looked at each other. They looked like kids who have lost their way home. Their eyes asked each other a question they both couldn't answer.
'What do we do now?'