(MC POV)
After my apparent 'loss' in the war against the Great Ones, most of my Origin essence was left behind in the centre of the universe.
I then went and reincarnated myself in the mortal worlds, living amongst them as one of their own and just generally experiencing living as a mortal.
I managed to get through a few lifetis normally before Iris finally found .
The mortal had slowly gained empathy over the years and she had found that to be abhorrent, thus the formation of her plan to 'reset' back to how I was before.
Since her power of creation was limited and her forte laid in Ending things, she couldn't just 'make' apathetic again.
Sure, she could End my feelings, but having no emotions is not the sa thing. And it wasn't like the past had no feelings either since I did love everything equally.
Thus, she used her omniscience to find the best future that she could influence to return back to how I was before..
Unfortunately, the future she sought seed to be extrely improbable, the scene she saw of returning to my past self was extrely blurry to her, aning it was not likely to happen at all.
But being the entity she was, she had all the ti in the universe to figure out a way to fix that.
She started with just small nudges here and there, manipulating so events to go one way or another to influence the future.
Slowly, she realises that taking certain actions would make that future turn clearer and clearer, confirming that such a future beca more and more possible with each of her actions.
With her future sight, she worked to make that future beco a reality, but it was not always easy for her.
As Origin, I was the master of my own fate and no future could shackle . Just a single stray thought or action on my part would be enough to derail all her efforts in returning back to my past self.
Iris was nothing if not patient, so she never gave up even after I've lived thousands of lifetis which resulted in thousands of failures on her part.
That was until I reached my newest incarnation on Earth.
The vision she saw was the clearest it had ever been, making it almost practically guaranteed to happen. She watched over everything down to the tiniest detail and plotted the perfect plan to make the future she desired happen.
It simply required to reincarnate into another world so she influenced events in that world to end my life, throwing into this world.
But as they say, 'no plan survives first contact'.
Her plan did not account for my loss in mory nor my unexpected rush at ascending to the Spiritual Plane which resulted in the crippling of myself.
All her plans for that world went up in flas just like that.
She tried to salvage it despite all that but ultimately decided it was a failure when her vision of that future faded back to being a blurry ss.
But since it was the clearest vision she saw, she decided not to completely give up on it and appeared in front of in her dragon form when I was stuck in the Cloud Plane.
The previous tis she had refrained from intervening directly since I still had my mories and would have recognised her if she appeared in front of . With the fact that I lost my mories this ti, she saw it as an unexpected boon since she could now appear before without recognising her.
Although, the truth of the matter was that the previous already knew about her constant ddling but just didn't care about it since the outco mattered not to .
In her dragon form, she Ended the flow of ti and brought us back to the past, far enough that I would be able to stick to the script she had laid out for .
But things went out of script the mont I returned.
Once again, I did sothing unexpected for her when I decided to take in disciples. But since her vision of the future actually beca even more clearer after that, she welcod the change instead.
Iris also took note of Tsuki who would eventually crossover from the other world, recognising her as soone who would influence my progress greatly.
The fact remains that Tsuki was actually fated to transmigrate here after her death even without Iris's involvent and would eventually et too.
And since Iris already found no harm in intervening directly, she chose to appear before Tsuki and make so changes to her as well. She gave her a power similar to her own and planted the suggestion in her to create the mory potion for .
Since the 'Origin energy' that Tsuki would use to create the potion would be Iris's energy, Iris would be able to control the world that my consciousness would drift into.
Of course, the recipe that Brendan found was provided by her too and many of the strange incidents that seed to have no cause were also a result of her ddling.
The appearance of those giant tentacle monsters, the summoning of Lilith, those busybodies appearing here were all done by her to make aware of Origin.
She was also the one who made Sylphy 'Fall' as a goddess. But it was more because she was quite annoyed that the reincarnator Sylphy sent here had dared to disturb .
Things like the portal activating underneath the monster sanctuary was also done by Iris. The portal was actually a remnant left by Lilith to travel around the different Planes for fun back when she was younger and slightly more mischievous.
Iris had used that to lure over to this Plane to set up for this final confrontation.
The secret words in the instruction of creating liquid Origin were also snuck in by Iris. The words harbor the effect that only people that had her Origin energy could see it which ant aside from herself, only Tsuki and I could see them.
Once I drank the potion and was within the world that she made, I was on the final stretch of her plan to 'reset' .
An unexpected problem ca to her in the form of my disciples trying to join that world too.
Not wanting to fail now, Iris split the world into two parallels and dumped my disciples into one while I remained in the other one.
But since the two worlds were mirrored, she needed to keep things balanced to avoid both worlds crashing into each other so she was forced to create copies of my disciples into my world as well.
Due to the fact that she had no interest in anything in existence with the exception of myself, she never bothered to make sure the copies she made had the sa mories and personalities.
Coupled with the fact that she didn't want my disciples to 'get too comfortable' with , she didn't make a perfect clone of for them in their world either.
Thus she needed to switch between the mirror worlds to keep up the ruse, even throwing in those 'End Shadows' to keep us occupied and less suspicious that sothing weird was going on.
Unfortunately, Iris had spent most of her concentration on so her attempts at distracting my disciples were half hearted at most. It didn't take long for my disciples to figure out what was going on and co up with plans to break out of their prison.
Elaria and Tsuki managed to figure out a way to breach the wall between the two mirror worlds, Brendan created the potion to track , Kiyomi followed them to guard them while the rest of the girls used their powers to make the breach.
They managed to find in the other world during that yakuza fight at the docks, which finally forced Iris to pay more attention to them and prevent any more attempts from their side to make contact with .
But when I was at the final few monts in reaching the future she had desired for so long, her concentration lapsed montarily and allowed my disciples to break through again, shattering her desired future in an instant.
And now… Here we are.
Origin and The End.
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