Hypocrite
Everyone gasped when the soul jam cracked and a powerful energy exploded from the broken fragments, taking the Sage of Truth away to somewhere.
When everybody open their eyes, the Sage and the soul jam was nowhere to be seen.
Salt.o.s: no... Where is he...? Where did he go?!
White Lilly:...! To the only place where he can decide his own destiny...
Pure Vanilla: a place where he can choose his own destiny...?
Everybody fell silent, not knowing what it means at all but they have bigger things to worry about.
Meanwhile, when the Sage opens his eyes, he finds himself in his other realm and floating before him was the enraged soul jam of Knowledge, emanating corruption in its glow. The soul jam flew to him in rage as the other realm was screaming all together.
L.o.k: YOU!! How dare you?! I could have given us everything! I could have gotten rid of those horrible traitors! I could have gotten us the attention of the gods! I could have-
Sage.o.t: you could've gotten us all killed!!
L.o.k: ?!
Sage.o.t: have you gone insane?! Aren't you supposed to be smart enough to know the concequences of your actions?! You were always the one nagging me about choosing the rights words, the right things to say! Yet here you messing things up time and time again and for what?! Your own entertainment? Is it really so entertaining to watch your colleagues loose their power and life energy? Is it entertaining to watch your students nearly die for you? Is it really that entertaining to loose your original purpose all for a moment of glory?! I regretted the decisions I made in the past everyday because of your pride! I regretted every horrible sin I had committed under your command! And yet I still did it... Because you were a part of me... now look at yourself, you are no longer the light of Knowledge... You've become so deceitful you deceived even yourself...
L.o.k: silence! How dare you speak to me as if all of this was my fault?! You! Were the one who lied first! You. Were the one who let those cookies decapitated you without a fight! You were the one who questioned our gods!!
Sage.o.t: I know!! ... I know, and what did you expect? Suddenly being bored one day and blessed with the knowledge of the world but left to ponder on the one question the gods never gave you? To the point even other cookies start to question it too? What do you seriously expected me to do?! You saw what happened in every outcome, when I tell them the truth, they kill, when I lied to them they waged a war against each other! It was endless cycle of nightmare that neither you nor I have the power to solve! Only our gods, the ones who gave us our dough and body can answer this horrible question! Why did the witches baked us cookies? Was it out of boredom? Was it out of amusement be entertainment? Why did they gave us such fragile little bodies that breaks so easily? And for what? I did my best... And come up with my own answers... To the point even other cookies can tell it's not the truth so I started lying to myself too... I tried convincing myself what I told them was the truth. But was it really?
I agonised over what I should say and what I should do to pleased these cookies... So I prayed to our gods and request for their Devine answer... But no one answered... No one.
L.o.k: and all that question, all that fear and doubt over what you should do started it all.
Sage.o.t: it did. I started to wonder, what if I did the opposite of my virtue? Would that get our gods attention...? So I lied... Time and time again... But nothing, no witches came to punish me for my lies... Only cookies did... I did everything to get our goods attention, I waited for their response but there was nothing.
L.o.k: and from that point you then believe your beloved creators has abandoned you all, but you don't even know for what or why.
Sage.o.t: no... I don't, despite all that I kept going, I did my duty as the Fount of Knowledge, I get recognition from the cookies but not from the witches, I have the cookies attention...but not the witches... Slowly they became mindless fools... Dependant on my answer and my answer alone... As if my word could determine the fate of this world... Thats when I reached my limit... I lost my mind and begin to lie to all the cookies and revealed to them how long I've been lying.
L.o.k: resulting in them banding together to beheading you for your lies.
Sage.o.t: indeed... And I deserved it... What kind of Fount who was made by the gods to spread knowledge... Would lie to his students faces...?
L.o.k: you had the power to drive them away, to put them in their place, yet you refused to do so, by that point I truly believed you have failed in your mission as a virtue.
Sage.o.t: perhaps you were right... I have indeed failed... Even when they wanted to kill me, I still couldn't bring myself to truly harm them... After all they were also our gods creations too... How could I ever bring myself to harm them...? Their my students after all.
L.o.k: you were a weak willed cookie who was too much of a coward to raise his weapon yet now, the day you finally decided to raise your weapon it was so you could stab me in the back, how far you have fallen O Fount of Knowledge.
Sage.o.t: indeed... That is the truth isn't it? I have teached many strong warriors to wield all sorts of weapons to fend for themselves but what about me? I was given a driven power and position along with my friends... Yet I spend my days coop up in that wretched spire, learning, teaching isolating myself from the rest... Looking back... I truly was a liar and a hypocrite aren't I? I was supposed to be your master, the wielder of your powers... Yet in my desperate moment I let you take control of me and become the master of my body instead... And lost all hope in what's left in this cruel world had for me...
L.o.k: so why now did you choose to act when I'm so close to getting us what we always wanted? Why destroy all our efforts to put into this moment now?
Sage.o.t: because... It doesn't matter what you do... They won't come back, I accepted this truth now... They will not return our cries for help any longer... Just as the mother bird teaches the fletching to fly... The fletching will one day out grew the nest... And must fend for itself... And that means we must do the same... Besides, I highly doubt the purest manifestation of knowledge would truly feel so much rage towards our gods... As much as you do right now... No, those are my feelings, all my negative thoughts, feelings and emotions ecumilated and was absorbed by you... It messed with your true function and made you have the same thoughts and emotions as well... You no longer have a grasp of your original purpose anymore.
L.o.k: and that's where you're wrong. I am me, I will always be me, this body is my permanent form and it will always be me, and I am forever will be the better version of you, the you who was too much of a coward to do what he was meant to, I am the cookie who will make the gods regret for ever abandoning us.
Sage.o.t:... You truly believe your Shadow Milk cookie don't you...? You used my body for so long now, you actually believed your a functioning cookie.... But you're not, you weren't made a cookie, you were never attended to be a cookie, you were made to be given to a cookie... And that's me. I'm supposed to be responsible for your powers... So in truth... I'm still the one responsible for your actions... Yet here I am, pointing the finger at something that has completely loose its mind... I truly am a fool... But that is why I returned. To learn and fix the mistakes I made, the sins you and I committed, I shall not rest until all is fixed.
L.o.k: what? Hey- what are you doing?!
Sage.o.t: something I should've done centuries ago... Taking back control of my life and my destiny.
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