Mei smiled but shook her head. "No, it has nothing to do with the river." she replied.
"The River of Destiny is my core power. But we, Destiny Spirits, are a bit special, too."
"If you are one with the Spirit Essence, you already know where the spirits come from, don't you? You can tell they come from you right now."
Matt nodded at her. "That's right. I was talking to him, and I heard about several things. Does it have anything to do with that?" he asked, and she nodded.
"It was the Spirit Essence that tried to solve the problem of the Spirits of Destiny. We were just a spirit with tremendous power, but we could only use it to see destiny. Our protection depended on others, so we occasionally died helplessly. We were the most pitiful kind of Spirit. And so our progenitor wanted to solve the problem in a different way."
"He came up with a great idea then. To create spirits with exceptional and powerful abilities, with no attacking power because we cannot attack, but which could be used for defense and would be the most impeccable defense that could exist. Those spirits joined us through a spiritual bond, the deepest connection ever created.
Thanks to that, we now have how to defend ourselves." After saying this, she stopped before the river and grabbed some water. Then suddenly, a great spirit came out of the water and manifested in front of her.
The Spirit was shaped like a giant whale, so it was gigantic and looked imposing.
Mei smiled, "That connection I have with this little beast. Though it cannot speak, its function is only to allow me to have one more ability." She said, looking at Matt out of the corner of her eye.
After that, she suddenly moved, causing the huge whale to return to the water and pulling out another spirit residing there.
As soon as she did this, that other Spirit had the instinct to attack her. Since he had been pulled out of his home, how could he not attack? But she raised her other hand to the beast and stared at it.
"My function as an existence is to understand it and take care of it. I cannot break certain boundaries, but to some extent, I am a person who sees the future. It is because of that that I am not interested in anything current; I am only interested in knowing the future. And that future will eventually become what I don't care about, for it will be the present.
As long as the world exists, my existence will remain locked in that infinite loop, where the present does not matter to me except to gain more power and wisdom to understand the future." As she spoke, many spirits gathered around her.
They danced softly to the sound of her beautiful voice, which made everything in this world more colorful, even in Matt's eyes.
But Matt found that to be a curse rather than something to be proud of.
'She was born to see destiny, which means seeing the future. Her very existence is based on worrying about that future that doesn't exist right now but which she knows will happen...' He sighed.
"I find your situation very pitiful." He said, and she smiled.
"Everyone says so. That we are slaves to destiny, but isn't that what we like? If we like something, we want to do it continuously."
Matt smiled. "In any existence, doing the same thing a thousand times becomes monotonous. The situation becomes monotonous, isn't it the same for you?" he asked.
"No, I can do the same thing many times and never get bored if I like doing it. Seeing the destiny, isn't that my destiny?" she asked, and he smiled.
"That makes you a slave to destiny. But who says we're not? Maybe we're all slaves to destiny, after all." He asked and looked at her.
"Let me ask you, you, as a spirit of destiny, have you ever seen someone break their own destiny? If someone dies young because someone made a mistake in killing them, does it count as breaking destiny? Or are they simply fulfilling one of several destinies they had?" he asked.
She stared at him for a brief moment. As someone who understands destiny better than anyone else, she understood what he was getting at.