Chapter 0 Prologue
"Have you heard about this folklore? Thousands of years ago, for restoring peace from the war-torn land, a group of "immortals" who claimed to be gods divided the world into nine spaces, and each space had its unique colour. Each colour represents different occupations, well, I mean it was like the occupations in your society. These nine spaces are now called " the Mirrors", only a few qualified people can travel freely from space to space, and the rest can only live in their own space until the next cycle of their life." The priest yawned and continued talking:"People in this universe are born without colour or shape, transparent, like glass or like water, without so-called face, body, limbs, and even less thought."
"What about you, why do you have a body? Why did you come to our world?" the little boy asked.
"Hey, listen! Please don't interrupt me. In the world I am now living, there isn't a concept called "people". But we do have the concept of 'individual'. We don't have gender as well. When it's time to conceive the next generation, we use our life as an agent and pray to the gods. The gods, however, if they nod their heads, new life will naturally be born. The nine worlds must be in a state of balance. Once the balance has been broken, no one can escape from a great catastrophe.”
"That's why you came to our world because the catastrophe happened."
"That's not the case I am telling you. My world is still in perfect balance. I consider myself as a witness, who is wandering in every Mirror World. My duty is to bind my knowledge into a book, record all the events, and leave it to me Hereafter. And, I am a priest because my birth colour decided"
"Dyeed? Is it white?"
"Yes, in my world, white is us, the servants of the gods - priests. Red is the guardians who protect the world - soldiers and generals; yellow represents the earth, dedicated to growing food - peasants and farmers; green represents the forest - hunters; blue is divided into two types, azure blue guards the sea, sky blue guards the air; purple is the wisest group which teaching people endless knowledge, and this space has various so-called research institutions who sending research products to other spaces; black, the deepest colour, is a group that absorbs all kinds of negative emotions for the other spaces and stabilizes the other seven worlds. It can be said that in addition to the black family, the other people have no negative emotions. Now you should have some ideas about the world I am living, don't you? "
"Yes, but hold on a second, you said at the beginning that there are nine spaces, there's still one you haven't told me yet..." little boys are always full of curiosity.
"I am not quite willing to talk about that, since you asked, fine, let's talk a little bit about it. The last one is the space called 'primitive', it has no colour and it is the space in which life was in the initial stage. Our space, in your point of view, is a thin sheet of glass, and a bridge of eight colours connects these spaces. Only qualified people can board this bridge and this bridge is the only path that allows people to go through spaces. Those who are not qualified will be thrown into reincarnation immediately. In the initial space, every newly conceived life will be assigned here. Go to different spaces, whichever space is not balanced enough, will go to which one. There is no need to worry about overpopulation because the gods will control it. In short, the gods manage everything and all you can do is to live as you have been assigned.”
"I see, living in your world is easy, isn't it? I don't even have to take goddamn exams, write my stupid CV, find my internship, and struggle to find a job with poor wages. But how the gods determine the occupations and the colours? You did say the initial life has no consciousness, right?"
"Random. No one cares about this issue at all actually. As long as you are dyed with your colour, the colour won't be faded, and you gonna be the person in that space until the next reincarnation. Oh, nearly forget, death is also a concept that does not exist in my world. But do remember that we have a certain number of souls, and no new life can be created without the fall of the souls, so the nine spaces will always be in the state of balance eternally.”
"Look at that!! Is this the Rainbow Bridge! So gorgeous! It must be the most magnificent thing that I had ever seen! "
"It is. Welcome to our world, my dear amigo".
