"I..." Kyle said.
He wasn't sure what he should say.
Was this person after a specific answer?
If he answered wrongly, would he be killed?
Obviously, this was someone who could do whatever they wanted.
This was someone with actual power.
Killing a mere Primal wasn't difficult.
Was this another Parasite?
But then, why would the Lord send someone this powerful?
Wasn't he afraid of unveiling this Parasite?
No, this made no sense.
Why was he here?
"I don't want to hear what you think I want to hear," the man said, like he had read Kyle's mind. "I want to hear what you think is right."
"There are no wrong answers."
"Only opinions."
Kyle took a deep breath.
"Well," Kyle said. "I… It's not easy to answer."
"Why not?" the man asked.
"After you gave me context," Kyle awkwardly said, "I feel like I'm missing context."
"Interesting," the man said. "What context are you missing? You know that the God of the Cult is fighting the God of this Cosmos."
"One is a power associated with Energy."
"The other is a power associated with Death."
"One harbors an entire Cosmos of living beings."
"The other one travels from Cosmos to Cosmos to consume these beings."
"What other context do you need?"
Kyle grimaced a bit. "Well, it sounds like a clear-cut case, but after you gave me more context, I'm no longer sure."
"Things don't seem so simple anymore."
"Yes, one side is just a marauder, burning down villages they ransacked. That seems pretty fucking bad. Feels like proper dickhead behavior."
"Yet, for some reason, I also don't like the other side. I don't know why. Everything you've said makes them seem justified in their actions. They're dealing with this marauder, and it's the right thing to do to stop them."
"But I just don't like that side either. I don't know why. I just don't like this God."
"Something seems fishy."
The man swallowed another mouthful of Burning Heart.
"Why do you feel like this?" he asked.
Kyle got reminded of several things.
The time he had been helpless in front of the underground gang on Earth, forced to do their bidding.
The time had been under Theodor's thumb, once again forced to do someone else's bidding.
The time he had been under Magic Lady's command, doing her bidding.
Right now, he was doing the Cult's bidding, even though he had kind of accepted the job of his own volition.
Now, he also felt like he was doing this weird God's bidding by following his stupid rules of Karmic Luck.
He was supposed to contribute to the war effort. He was supposed to help the Cosmos become stronger so that the God could kill the marauder.
Was it the right thing to do?
Yeah, probably.
But why did it feel wrong?
'Why? Why does it feel so wrong?' Kyle thought.
At that moment, Kyle realized why it felt so wrong and why he really didn't like the God.

"Let me borrow your metaphor," he said. "The man in the car hears the identity of the driver of the speeding car over the radio. He knows that person. The driver of the speeding car has done horrible things to the man in the car."
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