By Zephyria 
He, who was now sitting in the position of God and operating the ‘System’ that made the entire universe run, was a single being with a substantial ego. But the primordial god, who had fixed him in this position and comfortably entered the path of annihilation, was originally an inanimate object without an ego. It was not a substantial entity with an ego, but rather a huge law or rule that moved the world, a true System in the true sense of the word.
The System, in which Entropy and Negentropy were complexly accumulated, had been leading the universe without any problems for a very long time since the creation of the world, and as soon as a person who could fulfill the role finally became qualified, it designated him as God and then disappeared, leaving only very faint traces.
The first person to be appointed as God as a single personality was an ancient demon named Young-won. As of now, no one in this universe has maintained their ego longer than Young-won’s demon, but in fact, even when he became God, there were about a dozen more people who had lived longer than him in the entire universe.
However, under the System’s strict standards, no one was more qualified than him. Those who had lived longer than Young-won were not stronger than Young-won, those who were stronger than Young-won were more foolish than Young-won, and those who knew more than Young-won did not live longer than Young-won. If he had not qualified around that time, the rules of the universe, which had already reached their limit, would have collapsed and perished without a trace.
The demon, who had received the name of Young-won from birth and was not bound by time, sensed the long journey that would unfold before him from the moment he became God. When he was a demon, he could stop his boring life whenever he wanted. However, no one could ever take ‘eternity’ away from him unless he himself wished for it.
However, the right to self-loss of Young-won was deprived the moment he became God. The law that sustains the world must exist at all times, and the one who governs that law must also exist. Unless he could find the next qualified being and hand over the position of System administrator to him, he would have to live forever as a stuffed animal.
The first few thousand years were okay. It was what he had expected from the beginning, and he had lived that long even when he was a demon. But even the god without personality was worn away by time and disappeared. Even if his great ability and body could handle eternity, the mental body was bound to reach its limit as long as it had an ego.
After he unknowingly began to feel faintly exhausted, another few thousand years passed. In the meantime, several universes bloomed and withered meaninglessly, and dozens of civilizations shone brilliantly and then disappeared. From his perspective, during those few thousand years, hundreds of thousands of years passed in some worlds, while only a few hundred years passed in others. This was because the flow of time applied differently to each world.
Even so, the right person to take the baton had not yet appeared. Those born before him had long since vanished, and now there was no one wiser or more powerful than him. It was a terrible shackle. From then on, his only concern was how to completely crush his ego, because if the ego did not exist, the pain would naturally disappear as well.
Then, at some point, he finally fully admitted to himself that he was exhausted. And at that very moment, the Easter egg that the Primordial System had hidden for him suddenly flashed to mind. It was the existence of a ‘companion’ who would bear eternity with him in preparation for when the next runner did not appear and God’s ego became unstable.
He could see through the past, present, and future of all universes, if he didn’t directly intervene. No, from God’s point of view, the distinction between the past, present, and future of the human realm was meaningless. Every moment was the past and the present, and also the future and the past.
But strangely, he could not read the flow of the dimension where his Young-won was predicted to sprout. Even though it was a faint world that he had never particularly paid attention to or intervened in, and that had not even been born long ago.
Encountering the unknown after countless years breathed new life into him, who had been endlessly rolled around in the shackles of tedium.
He watched that world for a long time. There was still a long time before his companion was born, so it was easy to create the environment in advance.
And when that shining soul finally revealed a fragile breath on the foundation of the world, he rejoiced and delivered the Divine Mandate. His companion was not a soul that had lived many lives, but a tender and young soul that had just been born. Only by living a complete life as a human could he be reborn as a true companion.
He had meticulously prepared so much for his companion. A harmonious family that was financially wealthy but not very politically connected, so they could live peacefully, detached from political interests. The Blessing of allure that anyone living in that world could not help but love. The position of spouse of the most powerful leader in that world. Of course, he had also prepared a spare tire that could take his place at any time in case his companion’s soul was reluctant to have a spouse, and he had also planted a congenital defect in the spouse’s fate in case the powerful spouse put pressure on him, though that was unlikely.
After preparing the soil and planting the seeds, he took his eyes off it, relaxed, and waited for it to sprout someday. He didn’t want to take his eyes off the soul he was so looking forward to even for a moment, but he couldn’t. While he was focused on one universe, dozens or hundreds of other universes that had already reached their limit were in crisis or being destroyed.
He went to see his companion’s soul as often as he could, whenever he had time according to his standards. He didn’t reveal himself until his companion’s soul finally graduated from childhood, fearing that there might be a problem with growing up properly as a human.
Since he was already melted into everything in the world, it was as good as being together all the time, but meeting his companion in person was bound to be a special experience.
Noah Hamilton, the boy named, grew up as beautifully as the radiance of his soul. Looking at his sun-kissed blonde hair and fresh blue eyes, the exhaustion that had reached its limit seemed to disappear on its own. He did not regret the name Noah, which he had carefully chosen after realizing that a companion who would bear eternity with him would be born.
If his name came from eternity, Noah’s name came from peaceful rest.
Eternity and rest.
He sometimes put those two words side by side in his head and fell into satisfaction alone.
Humans grew up surprisingly quickly. He would turn away for a moment and then come back to find them growing rapidly. But why? Compared to the years of endurance he had lived so far, a human’s life, which was barely a hundred years, was clearly short… For the first time in his life, he felt impatient. He couldn’t bear the anticipation of Young-won, who would be with his rest. Noah was growing fast enough, but it was not enough.
Noah, who had reached adulthood by human standards, sometimes complained of loneliness to him. He couldn’t understand. He was already coming to see Noah often enough. He didn’t know how many universes he had watched perish in order to make time to see Noah. In principle, he should have intervened to prevent them from perishing. But he let several universes and billions of souls die. Because the clear eyes of his companion, whom he met briefly in the meantime, were much more precious.
Noah, who was completely unaware of this fact, was often, no, actually quite often, sullen. He didn’t bother to comfort him. He thought that Noah would understand well enough once this life was over and he came to his side completely.
The young companion was very lonely. He seemed to be luring other humans to share his bed in order to fill his emptiness, but he thought it was fortunate. He couldn’t satisfy the physical desires that he had as a human anyway, and he had no intention of satisfying them in the first place. So it didn’t matter if he used a few other humans as hand warmers to soothe his loneliness. It was better if it reduced his grumbling to him.
Sometimes when he went to see him, Noah was sharing a bed with someone else. He smiled brightly, admiring his young companion for spending time soothing his loneliness in that way. However, the companion, whose face was flushed and red, often burst into tears in despair when he met God’s bright smile. It was completely incomprehensible.