Chapter 56
Now then, I have a ton of questions prepared.
Knowledge is power; thats common sense for the modern person, after all.
This time, I plan to ask all I can without prudence.
First, Ill start with what Im most curious about.
Hey, can I really be called Julia-kaasan and Alfred-tousans child?
I thought I already answered yes, but I do understand your worries.
Due to the issue of racial affinity, those two originally had trouble conceiving.
They can form an embryo at least, but the embryo is fastidious and ends up being particular about the soul that should reside inside it.
Among all of the souls that circulate in Marquekt, only one in a million would be compatible with their embryo.
You were the owner of the one compatible soul in that million.
The difference between you and normal children is that the memories of your previous life crossed over with you, but the basis of your dead soul joining the cycle of samsara did not change.
Although normal people would reincarnate without their memories, you reincarnated while retaining your memoriesthat is all.
Since the genetic characteristics of your body and mind were completely inherited from those two, and there is only the fact that the memories of your previous life were not removed from the soul, theres no doubt that you are their child.
I feel like I kind of understand and kind of dont, but it must be so if youre saying it.
By the way, is there a difference between the mind and soul?
Ah, that.
There is a difference.
Lets see, to explain in an easy to understand manner, with the body as the hardware and the mind as the software, then the soul would be the user that is operating them both.
The soul cant be created by any physical methods; even the gods arent able to, they can only recycle them.
Lets organise that a little.
Dad and Mum were a couple that had trouble conceiving, so I was born because my otherworlder soul was compatible with their embryo.
Thus, it wasnt that the soul of the child who was supposed to be born was overwritten, nor was it switched.
And every human reused the souls of former living humans, so its not like only my reincarnation was special I suppose.
Of course, thats excluding the fact that the memories of my previous life remained.
Huh? But while Dad was with his previous wife, didnt he have three children with her?
I thought his former wife was also a human but
I dont know anything about the things before your reincarnation, but it might be that they had some elf blood in their ancient ancestry.
The elven bloodline is special, because theres quite a strict distinction between elves and non-elves.
So theres not much hope of gaining a younger brother or sister in the future?
Not necessarily.
Alfred-san has acquired the Attention of the War God, has he not?
In one of Marquekts widespread myths, the God of War, Marslat, was also depicted in an anecdote as a lustful god who inseminated over a thousand women, forming an army composed of just his children.
Since he acquired the attention of that Marslat, he should have an easier time conceiving as a secondary effect.
Thats incredible.
When I return, Ill tell Alfred-tousan.
In that case, would it make conceiving a boy easier?
I heard Julia-kaasan wants a girl though.
I wonder about that?
I wouldnt know the details unless I asked Marslat himself.
There arent any myths stating that he only has sons, so I think it should be fine.
Naturally, they are simply myths, but myths like those give gods their power.
Hm? Isnt it because gods have the power that it turns into a myth?
Myths are not truths; in the end, they are tales created by mankind.
If that were not so, the divine beings descended from Marslat would end up flooding the land.
Thats true.
It seems that there isnt a great difference between the fictional tales in this world and the myths in my previous world.
But that wasnt written in [Appraisal]s explanation though?
The gods blessings that appear in [Appraisal]s information are merely one part Well, I cant really say that, but they are about half.
At any rate, [Appraisal] cannot completely analyse the portion that has no relation to conflict.
Unlike skills, blessing contents are somewhat fluid after all
Speaking of which, I feel like the people of Marquekt dont really understand when I talk about the matters of reincarnation, why is that?
Even though this world has you, a goddess governing over the cycle of death and rebirth.
The cycle of samsara in this world refers to the system of purifying souls and recycling them.
Its an issue of having a more pragmatic system thats different from the beliefs of rebirth in your former world.
Deceased creatures have their bodies decomposed by microbes which later becomes nourishment for plants, and those plants become nourishment for animals Its similar to that.
In other words, its not that the people in this world believe that their souls transition through the cycle of death and rebirth, theyknowit.
They think that being reborn with their memories is impossible.
This is to say nothing of the existence of a world other than Marquekt, with an otherworlder who lived in there reincarnating into this world; this is a situation that far surpasses the imagination of the people in this world.
So youre saying that the cycle of samsara is common sense, but reincarnation is something of the occult.
Thats right.
I just have one more thing to add.
Gods exist in this world, so the span of religions have naturally converged to a more narrow range.
I believe thats why the concept of reincarnation is only known by experts of the very limited number of unique religions, even though the concept of heaven and hell may exist depending on the location.
I see So its precisely because there is a god that the manner of believing in god is set.
Because there werent any gods in your former world, any religion could be established as long as there were believers.
Its very paradoxical, but there is more liberty in the imaginative power of religion of your previous world where gods didnt exist, rather than Marquekt where gods do exist.
That the religious ideology produced by that liberal power of imagination became a salvation for the emissaries of
This matter also made me feel very powerless.
The goddess made a slightly gloomy face.
Next.
Everyone in
Ahh, because both monsters and villains enhance their statuses through Curses, right.
You can certainly see it that way as well, but concentrating the Curses on the stronger specimen is a standardised rationale.
By doing that, theyre able to prevent the Curses from being snatched away by those on the side of the benevolent gods.
Something similar would occur even in your former world, right?
Our company is utilising the management resources possessed by your company more efficiently to bring forth greater benefits, which is why our company should proceed with an acquisition of your company something like that.
Of course, that doesnt mean that the emissaries of
Survival of the fittest, huh.
Ive thought about this for a while now but why does the system of this world resemble that of the games in my previous life so much?
Were not really imitating those games though?
Marquekt has had this system since long before electronic games were created in your former world.
I presume that someone felt that it was worth doing and probed along the lines of doing ones best, and contrived a game-like system as a result.
And the readings of the HP and MP systems?
If someone wanted to grasp their life force and mana as a numerical value, wouldnt that naturally be one of the optimum solutions they would end up with?
If someone wanted to accurately know just how many more attacks someone could take and remain alright, and how much more magic they could use, they would try to grasp their life force and mana as a numerical value.