Hearing what the Dread Lord said, Entity 303 looked at Null with a face full of emotion, "So the reason he doesn't talk much is because he has to process everything in his head before speaking… I didn't expect he's been fighting evil every single day!! That's really not easy!!"
At this point, there was a "pfft" sound. Entity 303 suddenly seemed to think of something and burst out laughing.
Seeing this, he quickly coughed to hide the awkwardness. "Cough cough… even though it's kind of tragic… I just can't help it when I imagine two little Nulls fighting in his head…"
That description instantly gave the rookie a vivid mental image. He could practically see the two little Nulls inside Null's mind.
One of the little Nulls gave off a dark, sinister aura, its face twisted as it waved a weapon and shouted, "Kill them all!! Kill them all!!"
The other little Null was surrounded by "holy light," waving a "magic wand" and scattering rainbow-colored light, speaking in an extremely gentle voice, "Peace~ peace~"
On the surface, Null looked calm and composed, but inside, those two little Nulls had already fought hundreds of battles.
That kind of contrast… who wouldn't love it?
"This is great! It's gap moe! We're saved!" the rookie blurted out.
Hearing this, Entity 303, who had just managed to hold back his laughter, immediately lost it and burst out laughing again.
At that moment, there was a "bonk," and the familiar sound of a head flick echoed on top of Entity 303's head.
"Cough cough! Control yourself! Null already has it hard enough! Where's your sense of empathy?!" the Ender Queen lectured him while pretending to stay composed, though the corners of her mouth gave her away.
At this moment, their teasing about Null's gap moe didn't catch his attention at all. His focus was entirely elsewhere.
Null completely ignored Entity 303's teasing. With a proud look, he turned to the Dread Lord and said, "So you've finally realized I'm someone you can't even compare to?"
The Dread Lord had just talked so much about him, describing how hard his journey had been, and he didn't care at all. He even felt a little sleepy.
But the moment the Dread Lord showed a bit of humility and said he wasn't as good as him, Null instantly perked up.
Looks like this kind of thing really is hard to overcome. His ridiculous competitiveness must be part of his nature.
As soon as Null finished speaking, everyone froze for a moment, then looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"Dread Lord, he's had it so hard, blah blah ten thousand words… polite comment, I admire him. Null, so you finally admitted defeat?"
"I thought the Death Knight's gap moe was already enough, but there's an even bigger one??"
"Null says nothing, just wants to win."
The Dread Lord shook his head helplessly and let out a long sigh.
He had already said before that their competitiveness was just their nature at work.
Null could suppress his nature enough to maintain calm emotions, but he couldn't suppress that competitive instinct.
It felt like he had already beaten a level 99 final boss, yet was still being toyed with by a level 1 mob…
Seeing this, the Dread Lord gave a bitter smile and went along with him. "Yes, yes… I finally realize it. I admit defeat, I bow to you!"
Hearing this, a satisfied expression finally appeared on Null's face. After thinking for a moment, he glanced at the Dread Lord, then looked at everyone and said, "What he said just now is pretty similar to my experience."
"I am my king's dark side. That darkness is my nature. Back then, everything I did was driven by instinct."
"At that time, I didn't really have a sense of self."
"But my king told me that a sense of self can be cultivated."
"If you nourish it with evil, it will be filled with evil."
"On the other hand, if you nurture it with love, it will be filled with love."
"At first, I didn't understand what my king meant… back then, I was influenced by all kinds of negative emotions every day, but I didn't notice anything strange, because I didn't even think those were negative emotions."
"Later, my king slowly taught me how to perceive the beauty in the things around me."
"At the beginning, when I saw the things he said were beautiful, I felt confused, because I couldn't see that beauty."
"But strangely, for some reason, I would occasionally recall those scenes. Whenever I thought back to them, I would feel… very… very…"
At this point, Null paused, frowning as he searched through his mind for the right word to describe that feeling. Finally, he said, "Very calm… and very comfortable."
"Whenever that happened, the strange voices in my head would disappear… so I actually liked that feeling."
"After that, with my king's help, I gradually became able to perceive that beauty. When I saw those beautiful things, a warmth would rise in my heart."
"And then I slowly understood what a sense of self meant."
"Actually, by the time I understood it, my nature had already been filled with goodness."
"What I needed to do was balance my nature and my sense of self."
After saying this, Null looked around at everyone again, then continued.
"As for what he just said, about me needing to balance things in my head before doing anything…"
"That is true, but that only applies when I'm dealing with people and things other than you."
Hearing this, everyone's eyes widened.
"I get this one! It means in his eyes we're all already good, so he doesn't even need to judge whether it's right or wrong, right?!!"
"Damn!!! I've got goosebumps! Null just said so much in one go, and that last sentence sounded like a confession to us?!!"
"Entity 303, when did you learn possession magic? Get out of Null's body right now!!"
To everyone, it clearly sounded like Null was "confessing" to them, just like Entity 303 had done earlier.
Even though he wasn't as direct about it, talking about family and bonds and all that.
He still clearly expressed how different they were to him.
Just as everyone was tearing up, Null looked at them in confusion.
"What confession?"
"Even though I have the urge to kill you a hundred times every day, no matter how much I want to, my king wouldn't allow it. Since I can't kill you anyway, what's there to balance? I might as well just give up on that idea."
Entity 303, Ender Queen, Dragon Prophet, The Final Dancer, Wither King, Dread Lord, Little Bug?
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