Chapter 269: Ezra Dunster's Dilemma

Ezra Dunster have realized a long time ago that he had made a ruthless monster -- the same monster that was now ruining his own life and the distant memory of his person -- and it was his own responsibility, and nobody else. There was no one to blame other than his own curious mind, and it is only now that he fully realized that St Thomas Aquinas was right in what he wrote in his immortal Summa Theologica.

Evil needed the good to be corrupted, and this is his most pragmatic inference for now. The desire to separate the evil from the goodness of things is a futile attempt because even the good will die from this unwanted separation, which is mainly the case as a direct effect of the original sin.

It is the humans who have the fullness of creation by being made in the image and likeness of God, and all other things (especially the invisible ones as it is the norm with the visible) have been corrupted with the same curse of death. The mastery of the poison of literature has become familiar with himself, and it is part of a great portion of knowledge that he now possesses on how everything sinful will come to an end, and it must apply with a distinct aspect of the unseen from certain destruction, too.

This crucial knowledge has come not without a price, however. In as much as his curiosity has led his experiments to this all-important discovery, he unknowingly created a ferocious monster in the process. Not just a dangerous and fearsome monster that all skillful fantasy writers may ever think of, but it is a monster in the same form of a human being. This monster has been unwillingly given the breath of life, and there is simply no greater tragedy than this.

In all of Ezra Dunster's travels and journeys, nothing has ever prepared him to reach this juncture and meet his own evil self. It is only now that he fully understood everything that President Algebra has told him, in exchange for his most foolish self in vowing to keep President Algebra's most devious secrets.

The main problem with this incident happening is the fact that he is now governed by an impossible bond, which means that his vows must be fulfilled at all costs, or risk losing his own life by obligation. He simply cannot break this inherent lie that he regrettably agreed to, and simply reverse the natural necessity.

Now, he has also confirmed that the motion of life is constant. It contains both life and death. It has become the paradox of living, and the major tolerance of the inconvenient duality of good and evil, and of creation and destruction.

For the meantime, he must contend with this monster on his own. And more than trying to defeat this monster, he must also deal with the Dark Prince that took possession of President Algebra's humanly flesh in order to deceive him.

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