Foundation: Recruiting Anime Characters, Containing Supreme

The three of them continued to look at the subsequent intelligence, and a huge amount of information came into their eyes.

【To be honest】

He hid the key to the problem from all of us, from the very beginning.

In our initial inquiry

We asked him if he had any experience of the afterlife.

He said he couldn't remember anything.

Like everyone else, our tracing machine showed he was fine.

He found me first

Just two months ago

He asked me

During his absence, did we gain any power to achieve immortality?

[We have already mastered the ability to achieve astonishing longevity, but what you might not expect is that we do not possess the power to make people immortal.]

[Our best theorists have recently suggested that this may never be possible.]

We Can Achieve His Resurrection

[Even his, but can't be repeated once or even multiple times]

[Intelligent life is entangled with quantum instability, precisely locating a particle and obtaining infinite and uncertain momentum, which is fleeting.]

[That's how it is. The longer you are bound to a particular container, the tighter it becomes.]

The more likely it is to collapse on its own

[Whether it's science, magic, or trickery, it's the same: everyone will die one day and will always die.]

His disappointment with this law

[Obvious]

I felt a little uneasy about his reaction.

Less than a week later

[O5-2 has received information that a serious protocol breach has occurred.

[Roger, or O5-11, begins direct contact with a contained individual]

[This individual refers to a apex-type multifunctional entity. Simply put... it is divinity.]

We kept our initial findings secret.

He cleverly covered his tracks—no breach alert.

[No record was generated]

[But one guard failed the random amnesia test, which is enough for our agents]

We cannot confirm

But we can imagine

He risked exposure and made some kind of deal with the other party.

This will never be tolerated.

[The two oldest among us, today's O5-2 and I, confront him directly.]

We met with him privately.

But he told us to drive away all the guards, and he would explain everything and ask for our help.

[I secretly recorded it]

[His plea is in case of emergency; it would be easier to just replay it now.]

this moment.

Suddenly, the trembling voice of an old man sounded in the ears of Genos and others.

There was a mixture of fear and despair in the voice.

"At first I didn't dare to speak out because you wouldn't let me leave the detention center."

"The truth is, I remember everything."

"I remember there was a sweet annihilation at first, like a deep sleep; but looking back, I think it was less than a day."

"Slowly but surely, I returned to my body with a dream-like consciousness."

"At first I was numb, blind, deaf, and numb, but then it was as if all my nerves were connected again and my senses returned—more than when I was alive."

"I felt like I was trapped in an immobile shell, and the intensity of my struggle gradually increased: sensitive, then sharp, and then tormented."

"I can't fully describe it to you."

“But please hold your breath, beyond the anxiety, beyond the pain, beyond the despair, the splitting headache, the bulging eyes—an endless dream of suffocation.”

"My skin swelled and cracked in the hot sun; soon the flies swarmed around me."

"I could feel the eggs hatching and the larvae crawling around. Evil energy was building up in my body, my cells were starting to disintegrate, and my interstitial fluid was turning sour and corrupt."

"Somehow I can still feel it all, and the feeling is growing, even as my brain is falling apart."

"My perception continues to extend, deep into the stomachs of birds and the teeth of fire ants."

"I could feel every nail, every hair being blown away by the wind."

"And my senses drifted away into the ocean, dissipating into the stomachs of billions of diatoms."

"I don't know."

"The more I distract myself, the more I feel the pain."

"And when I had decayed to the point where even the smallest nerves were indistinguishable, the pain changed—from the searing, tearing agony of human speech."

“It became something too terrible to articulate: a horrible, maddening sense of extension between every part of me.”

"Humans tend to become numb to chronic pain, don't they?"

"But with every year, every month, every second that goes by... I swear it only gets more painful as time goes by."

"In my past life, I have pondered heaven and hell, and whether I would end up on one side or the other, or somewhere in between."

"But compared to the numbness of heaven or the torment of hell that I imagined."

“This feels completely different.”

"In hell, at least there are confirmed abusers and memories of past actions."

"And a modicum of justice, even if my soul has rebelled against it."

"I can imagine the relief in hell, for a soul like mine it is."

"I don't think of it as a punishment. I don't think of it as karma."

"I highly doubt this is simply the way we are, you see?"

"During that time, I was truly, absolutely, and completely alone, and it wasn't long before all my memories withered and turned to ash."

"Overshadowed by endless pain."

"After my rebirth, I don't think I can recall the most horrific part—my living brain is too small for the torment."

“As overseers, we have witnessed, inflicted, and even endured tremendous suffering.”

"But what awaits us is more terrible than this, just as an earache is more terrible than a bee sting, just as frostbite is more terrible than a burn."

"I have been dead for 18 years, and my pain is beyond words. But for those ancient dead, do we dare to imagine their pain?"

"Please believe this: I will never go through this ordeal again, not even in a hundred years."

"I sought help from the evil spirit."

"I'm sure he would extend that to all of us if he wanted to."

"I offered him huge concessions from the Foundation in exchange, perhaps even release."

"But he smiled and refused."

"But I still wonder if there might be someone else who would be willing to take a cheaper deal, even if the price is closer to—no."

“There’s no comparison.”

"I can accept any outcome as long as it stays this way forever."

"Do you believe me? Will you join me and escape this fate?"

"Please!"

An old man's narration.

Almost immediately, Genos and the others determined that it was Roger's voice.

After hearing his story.

Genos, Freelian and the others all changed their expressions slightly, and instantly realized the content above.

Death is not the end, it is the beginning.

After death.

It will retain all its own "perception".

And experience the decay and destruction of every cell in your body.

The perception of oneself will continue endlessly even after it turns to ashes and feces.

It becomes a never-ending purgatory.

At this moment.

A creepy feeling flooded into their minds at this moment.

however.

This time the message was unusually long.

The fear of death emerged, and the three of them swallowed their saliva.

We were stunned.

[Then: sympathy, then: fear]

I can’t remember the last time my heart beat so fast.

But we don’t operate in a vacuum

[The revelation of such a huge matter must have been notified to the parliament for discussion in advance]

Before the convocation of Parliament

[He didn't want to admit that he lied, but he was indeed desperate to do this]

We urged him to hold an urgent conference call.

【I know】

[A little further and it would be an act of betrayal]

[However, as the three of us rushed to the Alpha Conference Room, I suddenly found myself with a subtle feeling.]

[He then recounted his confession again—as dull and blunt as before.]

But the debate that ensued?

I've never seen anything like this.

[At first, most of the voices were skeptical: calm, concerned, and thoughtful]

[However, O5-8, who suddenly turned pale as she listened to his story, immediately began to enthusiastically support the move.]

"We must declare human death a Keter-class SCP."

"And contain it at all costs."

This absurd behavior caused a quarrel.