Mage Joan

Two days after receiving Metatron's last letter, Qiao Ann was studying spells in the study that evening, and suddenly heard a knock on the door.

"My father, can I bother you?"

The timid voice of the raised daughter came from outside the door.

"Come in, Inanna." Qiao An put down his pen and got up and stretched.

The door slowly opened, and Inana, who transformed into a girl's form, walked in lightly.

Qiao An looked at the pretty face of her adopted daughter, and found a haze in her eyes, and asked her if she was on her mind.

"Father, have you received any news from Udinese recently?" Inanna asked inquisitively.

Joan shook her head and asked her: "Inanna, tell me the truth, are you homesick?"

"Not at all!" Inanna firmly denied, "This is my home! I don't want to return to the dark underground world in my life!"

"Then, do you miss Udinese's compatriots, such as Lord Saoirse, and your biological mother Ishtar?" Qiao An asked calmly.

Inana first shook her head, hesitated for a moment, and added embarrassingly: "I have never missed the two you mentioned, but occasionally I think of the people in the territory, such as the butler Lavin, who has always cared for me. There are Tisitea and Varak."

"Since this is the case, I can invite them to visit Yunzhong City." Qiao An thought thinking, "In fact, it is more convenient for us to go back to visit them, but I promised the Supreme that as long as she is still in Udinese for a day, we will I won't go back, it's not easy to go back."

"My father, I came to you today to tell you... Your Majesty has gone." Inana lowered her head, her voice expressing complex emotions.

"Gone?" Qiao An was taken aback for a while, not sure whether the words of the adopted daughter were literal or implied that Ishtar was no longer alive.

"This morning, I received a letter from Lord Saoirsa. She said that the Supreme had left Udinese ten days ago. To be precise, she left without saying goodbye." Inanna sighed.

"It turned out to be running away from home!" Qiao An breathed a sigh of relief, "I was shocked, thinking she had passed away suddenly! By the way, did Saoirsa tell you where the Supreme went and when did you plan to come back? "

Inana shook her head lightly, her expression sad.

"The supreme will never come back again, she's leaving... in fact, it's no different from asking for death."

Qiao An frowned, her mood becoming a little depressed.

"Master Saoirsa discovered that Supreme was missing. It was already the next day. He also found a letter for herself in Supreme's bedroom."

Inanna faintly tells the story of Udinese's changes.

"In this farewell letter, Your Majesty said to the Prime Minister that she has had enough of a false life and vowed to stay away from her hometown, trying to find audiences who examine herself from a higher dimension, and ask each of them how Can they be sure that they themselves are not living in a book or a product of fiction?"

"If those high-dimensional creatures can't give her a satisfactory answer, she will kill the opponent, and then continue to search for the next target, continue to pursue the answer to this question, until a satisfactory result is obtained, or she will die on the path of pursuit."

"How can she look for the so-called higher-dimensional ‘audience’ that does not exist at all and is completely out of her own imagination?"

Qiao An couldn't help asking.

"Who knows this?" Inanna smiled bitterly, "We all know that the Supreme is crazy, but we didn't expect her mental symptoms to deteriorate so quickly and so severely. She has completely lost her mind and suspected that she was fictionalized in the novel. The characters that come out have always lived in stories made up by others, like a brain that is soaked in a petri dish and dreaming."

The unintentional words of the adopted daughter touched Qiao'an's heartstrings. The original criticisms of Ishtar were swallowed back.

Inanna's dream of "brain in a tank" was just an analogy to highlight how ridiculous Ishtar's crazy thoughts were, but Qiao An didn't think so.

He has actually seen the "brain in the tank" and has personally experienced the dream of the "brain in the tank" in Metatron's laboratory.

Put yourself in it and think about it. If your brain is also taken out, stored in a tank, and artificially induced to indulge in endless dreams, how can you judge whether your life is true or not?

Ishtar suspects that she is a fictional character, living in a book or a play, it is like "brain in a tank" realizing that she is dreaming. Is she a lunatic or a prophet?

If Qiao An had never walked into Metatron’s laboratory, had never witnessed how Princess Ling Su manipulated and played with the victim’s brain and dreams, he would treat Ishtar as an unreasonable lunatic like Inanna. It can also explain the genetic history of psychosis of the beholder family from the perspective of anatomy and neuroscience, so as to provide a reasonable and reasonable interpretation of Ishtar's madness, and prove that her madness is not surprising with impeccable arguments.

However, the more a person knows, the more he realizes his ignorance.

For opinions that could not be falsified for the time being, even Ishtar's seemingly absurd ideas, Joan did not dare to easily assert that she must be wrong.

Looking at Ishtar's delusion of persecution from another angle, returning from the medical field to the field of philosophy, Qiao An experienced a deeper sadness than mental illness.

The farewell letter Ishtar left to Saoirsa finally raised the question: "You are alive, you feel that you are alive, but are you really alive?"

Before a person thinks about how to live, shouldn't he first try to determine whether he is really alive, living in the real world, rather than fictional images written by others?

Qiao An admitted that this is a thought-provoking question, but unfortunately he is also in this mountain, unable to give an answer that satisfies Ishtar and himself.

Also in this farewell letter, Ishtar made arrangements for his own affairs:

"If there must be a new queen in the Demon Eye's Nest, you can write to Inanna and ask her and Mitra to come back."

"Anyway, I'm no longer here, and Mitra's promise made at the time can also be invalidated. Both she and Inanna can go home. Who will inherit the throne? Let them discuss it by themselves!"

"His Majesty the Supreme left such an exhortation in the letter, and Lord Saoirse also acted exactly in accordance with His Majesty's exhortation. On the council of Udinese, he read his majesty's farewell letter to all the warlords and nobles.

At this point, Inana hesitated to speak but stopped.