Since it is known that the driving force behind the "death of Lycaon" is actually the Cyber Church......

Then Russell understood everything.

Why did Lucaon die because he slit his wrists, but his head disappeared?

Why was Lycaon's head placed in the secret base a few days later showing no signs of decay, as if it had been refrigerated and sealed immediately after leaving the body;

Why can't the Three Sages and the cameras all over the island capture what is going on in between...

Lycaon's body was indeed killed by slitting his wrists.

Because there is always a risk in replacing the ontological life through the "righteous head". What's more, Lycaon didn't have the determination to live.

In order to make himself die on the social level, after arranging everything, he issued a command to "cut his wrists" to his body in the bathtub at home.

After his body died, the sheath took the righteous head—he had returned to the Church and could do such a thing.

But Lycaon did not expect that the company would investigate the cause of his death for so long. In order to appease his companions, he sent the head kept in the church back to the sheath at a time when they were all going to the "secret base".

「… Those murderers who wear 'werewolf hoods' are actually righteous heads under the hoods."

Russell asked softly.

Lycaon nodded tiredly, "yes."

His face showed a sad but relieved chuckle, "It's you... Did you guess that?"

"Hmm. There are several reasons to wear that kind of fully covered headgear, such as not wanting others to recognize you, which is the most superficial answer.

"The deeper answer is that you plan to obfuscate your existence and make the werewolf hood, an element that can be easily imitated by others, synonymous with the werewolf and make him a 'werewolf, the hallmark of the event. You plan to increase the number of werewolves through this behavior."

This is also the part that Russell guessed before.

But even Russell found himself undercounting.

"But there's a deeper reason – because what you really want to hide isn't 'who you are.' Because under the hood, it's not anyone's face at all... Rather, it is a mechanical prosthetic head used to manipulate the body.

"That's not anyone. It's just nothing......

Russell paused slightly when he said this.

He suddenly thought of himself.

Beneath his own mask, there was also nothing.

And he is also hiding his identity and rebelling against the company; He is also taking the place of others' existence with the help of their social identities; His purpose is also to subvert the company's lies, break the cognitive cage, and awaken people's sense of resistance......

Aside from the fact that Russell doesn't want the world to be chaotic, he's actually not that different from a werewolf.

"I see."

Russell suddenly laughed out loud in relief: "So I'm a 'werewolf.'"

「…… What?"

On the contrary, Lucaon began to lose track of Russell's thinking.

"He who is clothed in wolf's clothing is neither a wolf nor a man, but a werewolf... In the same way, I who exist as someone else is neither another person nor me, but another being between others and me."

Russell felt fake.

Long before Russell had a relationship with Delphinium, he had this idea.

At that time, Russell had not yet completed the spiritual transformation, had not built the glorious spiritual sanctuary, and was not even aware of the fact that he was not "Russell".

As a result, he questioned himself, began to doubt his own existence, and grieved at his own emptiness and hypocrisy.

Afterward...

It took a long time for Russell to finally accept his many identities.

These masks, all of them are him. He was "me," Russell, and he was anyone he remembered.

And now, he's again

The degree has returned to a realm of looking at mountains or mountains.

"Even if you put on a wolf's head, you won't be a real wolf; Controlling one's body through the righteous head, that is not the original, truest self..."

As soon as Rucaon was about to say something, Russell chuckled, put his finger to his lips, and made a gesture of silence.

"Peace of mind. I'm not trying to dismiss you, Lucaon. The fixed wear and tear brought about by the upload of thoughts will indeed make you no longer the real you...

"—But does the search for 'self that is pure enough, affect anything?'

"I don't think anything will matter. Every moment I am different... Not to mention, my psionic energy itself is constantly inhaling different lives. I'm the least qualified to question others' purity.

"So... Lycaon, and His Excellency the Pope. I don't think there's anything wrong with your inventions, really.

"After the idea is uploaded, it is no longer downloaded, but only in the cloud and in the server...... This is indeed a direction of human evolution. Not only will I not stop it, but I will praise it."

Russell said seriously, "The only thing I want to stop is that you plan to cause chaos around the world and use the lives of ordinary people against the company."

At this point, Lycaon's face became blurred again.

The Pope's "ascension" emerged from him.

「…… You convinced me, Russell. In that case, I have nothing to hide.

"Then I'll make it clear...... What exactly is the church's 'great integration, plan?'

The old man was very sure and said with great solemnity, "People need to know the truth. They have the right to die awakely.

"You're thinking too much of the company, Russell. The Big Seven are not the Seven Demon Gods. The so-called head office is like a fish shadow formed by the gathering of countless sardines. Each of its functions is composed of countless employees; His strength comes from the 'group,'

"And these employees will be submissive to the company because they are living in a field called 'market'. Companies that have complete control over money, resources, and output control everyone's lives through a magic called 'credits'.

"But as long as everybody denies the system – when the 'credit' is lost, the power of the company is left only with the power of the 'group.'

"And if the employees rebel against the company's domination, then the giant will collapse. We can re-establish our own order on the ruins of the head office... Currency, military, government. And to do that, we need to get everyone to reject the 'Big Seven'. In the process, bloodshed is inevitable. I'm just waking people up...... The chaos that ensued in the process, and even the war, in which all the blood was shed, was the price that had to be paid in order to reach the true outcome.

"The world cannot be divided into seven, but into one; People should no longer squander resources in this way, but should accept a unified allocation. In order to achieve this goal, the 'Great Integration' is a necessary step. And the significance of the werewolf plan is to detonate the post-apocalyptic civil war a hundred years later in advance... Let people fight for a common purpose when they still have a little room to spare.

"This civil war will probably kill about 80 percent of the population...... But this will only be the least meaningful at the social level, because the 'Great Convergence Project' can save the lives of all those who have value. In this way, the war purified the lower population, like a repetition of the Shari'ah war.

"And when this war is over, only about 20 percent of the people will be reborn and regain their bodies. They will have seven times the size of their living space, as well as the resources of the world. Their desires become adjustable, regardless of how many resources they need to expend. Even a little saving in the use of resources can expand the future of at least three hundred years, which was only a few decades left.

"And the longevity of the world is not limited to this.

"—you've told me a lot of secrets, Russell. Then I'll give you one back.

"As I said before, the turmoil caused by the depletion of the planet's resources will cause the world

Sexual panic. It could be war, division, suspicion, hatred... So that humanity can no longer be united, and it is impossible to accept the great integration.

"But you probably didn't think that this is the dragon's purpose itself?"