Lord of Perverted Ladies

The laughter beneath the ocean continued.

At first, Adrian thought it was only the sound of water moving through some enormous underwater cavern.

Then it laughed again.

This time, everyone heard it.

The sound traveled through the ocean like a vibration, deep enough that Adrian felt it inside his chest.

Aeron slowly lifted his head.

The giant creature that had once been nothing more than an impossible experiment of evolution stared toward the horizon.

"I heard it," Aeron said.

Ryan swallowed.

"Please tell me you heard something normal."

Aeron turned toward him.

"No."

Ryan sighed.

"Of course."

The rain of memories continued falling around them.

Each drop disappeared the moment it touched someone’s skin.

Adrian watched Noah suddenly freeze.

Noah’s eyes widened.

"What?"

Adrian stepped closer.

Noah looked at his hands.

"I remembered my first day at school."

Ryan blinked.

"That doesn’t sound terrifying."

"I didn’t remember it before."

Noah looked confused.

"I remember my mother walking me there. I remember the rain. I remember being afraid because I thought everyone would hate me."

He laughed quietly.

"Why did I forget that?"

Nobody answered.

Another drop landed on Ryan.

His expression immediately changed.

He stared at the ground for several seconds.

Then he whispered,

"I remember my grandfather."

Adrian looked at him.

Ryan rarely spoke about his family.

He wiped his eyes quickly.

"He used to pretend he couldn’t hear me whenever I asked him for money."

A small smile appeared on his face.

"He always heard me."

The laughter beneath the ocean came again.

This time it was louder.

The surface of the water trembled.

Aeron turned toward the ocean.

"It is not laughing because it finds something funny."

Adrian looked at him.

"Then why?"

Aeron remained silent for several seconds.

"I don’t know."

That answer frightened Adrian more than anything else.

Aeron had been evolving constantly.

Every time he encountered something new, he adapted.

But now he was looking at something he couldn’t understand.

Something beyond evolution.

The Guardian stepped forward.

"I know that sound."

Everyone turned toward him.

The Guardian’s expression had changed.

He looked almost afraid.

Adrian stared at him.

"You know it?"

"Yes."

"What is it?"

The Guardian looked toward the ocean.

"Emotion."

Silence followed.

Ryan frowned.

"Emotion?"

The Guardian nodded.

"Not human emotion."

The ocean suddenly moved.

A wave rose several hundred meters into the air.

Everyone stepped back.

There was no storm.

No wind.

Nothing that could have caused it.

The wave remained suspended.

Then something appeared inside it.

A face.

Not human.

Not animal.

It was made from water, darkness, and thousands of tiny lights.

Two enormous eyes opened.

The face looked down at them.

Adrian felt something strange.

Not fear.

Not curiosity.

Something else.

He couldn’t name it.

The creature spoke.

Its voice came from everywhere.

"I remember."

Adrian’s heart stopped.

The voice continued.

"I remember being alone."

The wave trembled.

"I remember being afraid."

Another wave rose.

"I remember wanting someone to stay."

Adrian looked at his mother.

She had gone completely pale.

His brother was staring at the ocean without blinking.

"Mother," Adrian said quietly.

She didn’t respond.

The creature’s eyes turned toward her.

"You remember."

His mother took one step backward.

"No."

"You do."

"I don’t."

"You chose to forget."

Her hands began trembling.

Adrian moved beside her.

"What is it talking about?"

His mother stared at the ocean.

"I don’t know."

The creature laughed again.

But this time the laughter wasn’t frightening.

It sounded sad.

"I was there before you remembered him."

Adrian’s mother closed her eyes.

The rain suddenly became heavier.

Hundreds of memories fell.

Thousands.

Millions.

Adrian saw flashes everywhere.

His mother standing in a place with no sky.

His brother as a tiny child.

Adrian himself standing beside him.

Elia smiling.

The Origin watching from a distance.

The First Choice sitting beneath a tree that had never existed.

Worlds being born.

Worlds disappearing.

People laughing.

People crying.

People choosing.

And then Adrian saw something he had never seen before.

His mother was holding a small glowing object.

Inside it was a tiny world.

She was crying.

And someone stood beside her.

The first Adrian.

His brother.

She whispered something.

Adrian couldn’t hear it.

The memory distorted.

Then the world inside her hands began to cry.

Not metaphorically.

The tiny world itself cried.

And the sound became the laughter beneath the ocean.

Adrian opened his eyes.

His breathing was heavy.

"What did you do?"

His mother looked at him.

"I don’t know."

"You knew it."

"I didn’t remember."

"You just said it knew you."

She looked toward the ocean.

"I remember creating him."

She pointed toward Adrian’s brother.

"But I don’t remember creating that."

Everyone became silent.

His brother stepped forward.

"Then what am I?"

His mother stared at him.

"I don’t know."

For the first time since they met him, Adrian’s brother looked genuinely frightened.

Not confused.

Not curious.

Afraid.

Adrian placed a hand on his shoulder.

"You don’t need to know yet."

His brother looked at him.

"But I want to."

"I know."

"What if I don’t like the answer?"

Adrian smiled faintly.

"Then we’ll find another answer."

His brother stared at him for several seconds.

Then he smiled.

It was the first completely natural smile Adrian had seen from him.

The ocean spoke again.

"You understand."

Adrian looked upward.

The enormous watery face was staring directly at him.

"What do you want?"

"I want to feel."

Adrian frowned.

"You already feel."

"No."

The creature’s eyes dimmed.

"I remember everything."

The rain stopped.

Every single drop froze in midair.

"I remember every creature that lived."

Thousands of lights appeared inside the ocean.

"I remember every world."

More lights appeared.

"I remember every death."

The lights slowly disappeared.

"I remember every choice."

The ocean became still.

"But I do not know what any of it means."

Adrian understood.

Memory wasn’t emotion.

Knowing that someone had died wasn’t the same as feeling their absence.

Remembering someone’s smile wasn’t the same as missing them.

The ocean remembered everything.

But it didn’t understand what those memories meant.

The Guardian stepped closer.

"That’s why the next evolution is emotion."

A message appeared before Adrian.

NEXT EVOLUTION: EMOTION

Then another line appeared.

MEMORY CAN REMEMBER.

EVOLUTION CAN CHANGE.

CHOICE CAN DECIDE.

The final line appeared.

BUT ONLY EMOTION CAN GIVE MEANING.

The message disappeared.

Adrian stared at the ocean.

"What do you want us to do?"

"I want to learn."

"How?"

The ocean was silent.

Then something strange happened.

The face disappeared.

The waves lowered.

The ocean became completely calm.

A small creature emerged from the water.

It looked like a child.

Not human.

Not exactly.

Its body was transparent, and tiny lights moved through it like stars.

It walked toward Adrian.

Aeron immediately moved between them.

The creature stopped.

Aeron watched it carefully.

"Are you dangerous?"

The creature tilted its head.

"I don’t know."

Aeron glanced at Adrian.

Adrian smiled.

"That might be the most honest answer we’ve heard today."

The creature looked at Adrian.

"What is happiness?"

Ryan raised his hand.

Everyone stared at him.

"What?"

The creature pointed at him.

"You laughed when you remembered your grandfather."

Ryan’s expression softened.

"Yeah."

"Why?"

Ryan thought about it.

"Because I miss him."

The creature frowned.

"Missing someone causes happiness?"

"No."

Ryan shook his head.

"Sometimes missing someone hurts."

"Then why did you smile?"

Ryan looked toward the ocean.

"Because even though he’s gone, I still have the memory of him."

The creature stared at him.

It seemed to be processing every word.

Then its body began glowing.

"What is sadness?"

Noah answered this time.

"It’s when you lose something you wanted to keep."

The creature looked at him.

"What is fear?"

Noah hesitated.

"Knowing something can hurt you."

"What is love?"

Nobody answered immediately.

Adrian looked at his mother.

Then his brother.

Then Elia.

Then Noah and Ryan.

He realized something.

There wasn’t one answer.

"Love," Adrian said slowly, "is when someone matters to you so much that their existence changes yours."

The creature became completely still.

Something inside it changed.

A tiny light appeared in its chest.

Then another.

Then another.

It smiled.

"I understand."

The ocean behind it suddenly began glowing.

The creature turned around.

"I think I understand."

Adrian smiled.

"What?"

The creature looked back at him.

"I am not supposed to understand everything."

The world went silent.

"I am supposed to feel it."

A message appeared.

EMOTION: AWAKENED.

Then another.

LIFE HAS LEARNED TO FEEL.

The ground trembled.

But the message didn’t disappear.

Instead, a final line appeared.

WARNING.

Adrian’s smile vanished.

The letters changed.

EMOTION CREATES ATTACHMENT.

Another line.

ATTACHMENT CREATES DESIRE.

Another.

DESIRE CREATES CONFLICT.

Adrian looked toward the ocean.

The creature was still smiling.

Then the ocean behind it began turning black.

Not dark.

Black.

The blackness spread outward beneath the surface.

Aeron stepped backward.

"What is that?"

The Guardian whispered,

"The part of emotion nobody wants to remember."

Adrian stared into the darkness.

Something moved beneath the ocean.

Something enormous.

Something that had been waiting.

Then a final message appeared.

NEXT EVOLUTION: DESIRE.

And beneath it, in smaller letters:

EVERYTHING THAT FEELS... WANTS SOMETHING.

The black ocean opened.

Two enormous eyes appeared beneath the surface.

They looked directly at Adrian.

And for the first time since the beginning of everything...

Adrian felt something he had almost forgotten.

He was afraid.

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