Already a God in Super God Academy

"There is no such thing as the supernatural!"

"Is that so? Then how do you explain our existence?"

"But that isn't scientific!"

"Science? Let me see. Oh, you call every phenomenon that can't be explained by current technology... science? Oh? Quantum physics?"

"Then... how do we explain it?"

"Hmm, let me think. Why don't you try blocking out all the light visible to the human eye? Maybe with footage filmed inside a sealed box?"

"H-How is that possible?!"

"Well, in terms you can understand today, that thing should be called dark energy, right?"

"But you know what happened to me!"

"Perhaps that's just how you see it?"

"No, it's what a lot of people think!"

"Oh? Are most people's opinions always right? Hmm, there's a saying in Chinese culture: 'Truth is often in the hands of a minority!'"

"But most people can't see it... and someone has already tried that method..."

"No buts. Think carefully: what happens when a person disappears?"

"D-Death?"

"Perhaps you could understand it as being reborn."

"How does that make sense? How can someone die again after they're already dead?"

"Hmm, oh? There's another saying in Chinese culture: when a person dies, they become a gui; when a gui dies, it becomes a jian; when a jian dies, it becomes a xi; when a xi dies, it becomes a yi; when a yi dies, it becomes a wei; when a wei dies, it becomes formless. What if we put it another way?"

"The cycle? Reincarnation? Laozi once said, 'The formed becomes the formless! The formless is the beginning of heaven and earth! The formed is the mother of all things!'"

"Then what is the formless?"

"The formless..."