Chapter 146: You Should Pray Too! (1)
After preventing the end of the universe, I immediately used perception alteration to rewrite the memories of all humanity. The apocalypse never occurred, and the riots and crimes they committed were erased as if they had never happened.
In the process, I restored as much of the damage they caused as possible. Where restoration was impossible, I fabricated plausible incidents to fill in the gaps. Honestly, this part was far more challenging than resolving the bif system.
It was an excruciatingly tedious task, one that made me question why I had to shoulder such a burden. I had to accept the risk of manipulating human memories without their consent. Yet, I couldn’t avoid doing it.
If not me, then who...?
Even if I had declared, “We’ve averted the apocalypse; let’s all forget the past and return to peaceful times,” no one would have listened.
The irreparable scars of memory would have festered, eventually becoming the spark for humanity to turn on one another in war.
So, it had to be done. It was a task only I could accomplish.
“I really shouldn’t keep doing this.”
Was this how Son Goku felt when he joked about reviving his comrades with the Dragon Balls? I found myself experiencing something similar. Every time someone died or a catastrophe struck, my mind whispered, Just fix it with perception alteration. That thought grew stronger and stronger.
What if that thought became all-consuming? What if I started viewing humans not as people but as NPCs to be manipulated at will?
Could someone like that still be called human? I was beginning to understand—not just in my head but in my heart—why tampering with memories was considered taboo on Earth.
Maybe I should find a religion...