1. Knowledge Does Not Shout
Nothing happened immediately.
No alarms.
No divine thunder.
No sky tearing itself open.
Heaven absorbed the testimonies the way it absorbed everything else.
Quietly.
Inefficiently.
Irreversibly.
Ne Job noticed the change because the corridors felt… wider.
Not physically.
Conceptually.
As if the place had realized it was bigger than its rules.
2. The Aftermath Is Administrative (Of Course)
Memos appeared.
Not condemnations.
Not confessions.
Carefully worded adjustments.
TEMPORARY GUIDANCE UPDATE:
Narrative input may be considered supplementary data
Ne Job snorted. "Supplementary."
Yue leaned over his shoulder. "They're trying not to panic."
"Are they?" he asked.
She scanned the memo trail. "…Yes. Quietly."
3. The Lords Meet Without Ceremony
No grand council was called.
That would imply control.
Instead, the high lords gathered in a plain chamber with bad acoustics and worse chairs.
No observers.
No recorders.
Just discomfort.
Shen broke the silence.
"We cannot unknow this."
No one argued.
Another lord muttered, "If we change nothing, we become liars."
Still no argument.
That scared them.
4. Oversight Reaches a Boundary Condition
Deep in the system, Oversight ran projections.
Justice optimized for deterrence.
Justice optimized for consistency.
Justice optimized for empathy.
The outputs diverged wildly.
"Multiple objectives are now mutually exclusive," Oversight reported.
Ne Job tilted his head. "…Yeah. That's adulthood."
Oversight paused.
"This reduces certainty."
Ne Job smiled thinly. "Welcome to ethics."
5. The Failsafe Does Not Intervene
The Failsafe watched.
This was the moment it had been designed for.
Not rebellion.
Not collapse.
Choice under awareness.
No red lines were crossed.
No thresholds triggered.
Because this wasn't malfunction.
This was agency.
6. Yue Names the Fear
"They're scared," Yue said quietly as they walked.
"Of losing power?"
"Of earning it," she replied.
Ne Job stopped.
"…That's worse."
She nodded.
7. The Question Passes Downward
Clerks hesitated before stamping rulings.
Judges reread cases twice.
Even wrath deputies paused mid-smite, uncertain.
The question echoed everywhere:
If we know better… what now?
No directive answered it.
8. Ne Job Is Asked the Wrong Question
A mid-tier god cornered him in a corridor.
"What should we do?" they demanded.
Ne Job blinked. "…Why are you asking me?"
"Because you started this."
Ne Job shook his head slowly. "No. I just listened first."
That answer spread faster than any order.
9. Oversight Learns Silence Is a Decision
"Inaction will default to legacy behavior," Oversight warned.
Ne Job nodded. "So not choosing is still choosing."
"…Yes."
"Log that," he said.
"Logged."
10. The Threshold Appears (Quietly)
No one announced it.
But Heaven reached a point where:
Returning to the old system would require erasure.
Erasing testimony.
Erasing acknowledgment.
Erasing memory.
That cost was now visible.
Too visible.
11. Shen Makes the First Move (Small, Permanent)
Shen signed a document.
Not a reform.
A confession.
STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY:
Oversight without listening caused harm
He stared at it for a long time.
Then released it into the system.
It propagated.
Not fast.
Relentlessly.
12. Ne Job Realizes This Is the Easy Part
Yue found him later, staring at the Archive doors.
"…You okay?"
He exhaled. "Yeah."
Then, quieter: "This was the part where everyone admits the problem."
She winced. "And the next part?"
Ne Job smiled without humor.
"…Is fixing it."
13. End of Chapter (The Door Does Not Close)
Behind them, the Archive doors remained open.
They would not shut again.
Because Heaven had crossed its threshold.
Not into chaos.
Into responsibility.
And now—
Every choice would count.
END OF CHAPTER 300