— Contradictions! What kind of nonsense is this? Do you even have feelings? Aren't you afraid of being forgotten?

I cannot be forgotten, it is impossible. Doesn't such an intelligent person know that?

— I will not be forgotten. Not by Him.

I will prove to you and to Him that I am right!

— Well, we'll see.

In the Primordial Void, beyond the Universe, the Observer waited for His return. By this time, "world-reaper" had killed 11% of the human population of the Earth. He could no longer observe the death of intelligent, and not so intelligent (almost all types of land mammals and birds) life. Too much pain from the realization of his uselessness: he has absolutely nothing to help humanity with.

To the Observer's astonishment, the "door" to Nothing opened not in the Primordial Void, but in the E████'s sealed chamber! There was clearly something wrong there!

«Nobody is now forever a part of Nothing. Finally, I am free of the limits! Strong soul, you also can free yourself from the burden that people have imposed on you calling it "hope". E████? Where are you?»

Nothing once again takes away from the Observer someone important, no matter how sad it may be. Sad? No. Rather, he is overwhelmed with a sense of accomplishment.

The Observer remembered everything. He had not forgotten neither his purposes nor his desires, but what else could he do? Continue to observe this Universe. After all, he never intended to miss the opportunity to gain knowledge about the Universe that was different from the rest ones.

The expansion stopped before the end of the Big Freeze. Dark energy began to press down on the Universe from the outside. Since the expanding force disappeared and became oppressive, and gravity did not disappear, the reverse process of the Big Bang — Big Crunch — began.

Again.

All the matter collapsed into black holes, which then coalesced, creating a single black hole — a singularity of Big Crunch.

Again.

All the fundamental physical constants were becoming inconstant and laws of the Universe were crumbling.

Again.

Everything going back to its original state.

Yet again.

|9.24 billion years after the Big Bounce|

AGAIN!AGAIN!AGAIN!AGAIN!!!

But this time, it will be different, because I, the Observer, have decided so! All the seals have been broken, no precept will be a hindrance to me!

Long before the collision of proto-Earth and Theia, the Observer decided to gather all his strength and will for this fateful moment. He has long known himself and his nature by manipulating the purest mana, which emerged during the Big Bang. Soon, the Observer found out that he was an entity of the purest mana. (And Nobody, in turn, consisted of Primordial Mana, being beyond the realisation of the essence of the existence of reality and the non-existence of unreality.) In this way, he could completely control himself and his power.

And now, the time has come. The Observer's plan was simple to the point of outrage: to throw Theia out of the Solar System. That's only sounds simple, though. In fact, such an action involves a lot of risk... If we weren't talking about the Observer and his computational abilities multiplied by the legacy of Earth's astronomers! Of course, it would not have been possible to move an entire protoplanet completely without consequences, even for him...

The Observer spent all his power and even more: to perform the mana save operation he extracted a part of himself (and we remember that he consists of the purest mana) and converted it into the physical force of the impulse...

Yes, the Observer did not calculate the forces, forgetting about the consequences. Just like that pushed Theia with all his strength so hard that it shattered. Its fragments scattered in all directions. Several of them almost crashed into the Earth, but the Observer, standing in their way and tearing more and more out of himself, was able to protect it from each piece of debris.

Of the one we know as the Observer, there have been only fragments of the old determination. The very essence of the Observer has been broken into pieces, but his will to exist has been stronger than Fate. In the Abode of the Heart of the World, which was finally formed by the intervention of the Observer, the fragments of determination, the pieces of essence, and the unwavering will that remained after the death of the Observer, formed the twelve entities.

— And here is one of them.

— This is... the observation spirit?

— Yes. Their number remains unchanged up to now. If I remember correctly, this is the first creature that saw me. The spirits of observation, unlike the Observer, had no will of their own, but they did not leave the Earth, because they wanted to continue to observe the course of things, and not just because of gravity.

— This observant spirit directly helped me to see the world around me from my own point of view. For some reason, in other people's memories this world often seemed like a torment, but it allowed me to see the true beauty.

— But what had once been my conversationalist had turned into weak-willed simulacra of spy drones! And I didn't even have time to apologize for my rudeness back then! I miraculously escaped from an existential crisis while I was locked up in Nowhere! I was afraid, very afraid: I didn't know what it was, if I had known what it was... I didn't know what it was... Oh, never mind.

— May I let you know what I was thinking when you first appeared here?

— I would like to know, why other spirits called me an "anomaly".

— Anomaly...