"You are..."
Seeing the Starry Dragon flying up and down before him, as if acting coy, Kong Tai's face was filled with shock.
He didn't feel any malice, so Kong Tai didn't break the freeze behind him.
"Are you a Void Insectoid?"
"Void Insectoid??"
The Starry Dragon stopped in front of Kong Tai. It floated in the air, its right claw resting on its chin, striking a thinking pose like a human.
"Someone has called me that before, but that's not my true name!"
"Not your true name?"
"Mhm!" The Starry Dragon tilted its head and blinked its eyes lively. Staring at Kong Tai, it said joyfully, "Don't you remember?"
"You were the one who named me! My name is Space Dragon!"
"I named you?"
At this moment, even Kong Tai was stunned on the spot.
"I named you? How come I don't know?"
"We've met??"
Ignoring the shocked gaze cast from the other shore, Kong Tai met the Space Dragon's eyes, his face full of confusion.
"Met? How could we not have met."
Kong Tai's confusion clearly made the Space Dragon anxious. It swayed its body, constantly darting around Kong Tai.
As it turned, it even plunged headfirst into the boundless space outside Kong Tai's body.
Then, as if nothing had happened, it rushed out from the other end of Kong Tai's body.
"I was created by you. You are my 'Father God'!"
Its dragon body wrapped around Kong Tai's right arm, its dragon head emerging from Kong Tai's right shoulder. The Space Dragon stared into Kong Tai's cerulean eyes, anxious, "These eyes, this body, this innate control over space, the ability to be space itself, I will never forget that it was you, you who created me."
Looking at the Starry Dragon, feeling the intimacy emanating from it at this moment, Kong Tai couldn't help but reach out, placing his palm on the Starry Dragon's head and slowly stroking it.
The Starry Dragon, as if it had found a long-lost owner, gradually narrowed its eyes under Kong Tai's hand, its dragon face filled with contentment.
"Is it really me?"
Seeing the Starry Dragon behaving like a pet under his hand,
This gradually made Kong Tai's heart filled with doubt.
He wondered if, before he traveled from his original world to the world of One Piece, he had truly experienced another unknown period of time.
"Then what am I?"
"Am I truly the Father God that the Space Dragon speaks of?"
As far as he knew, there was only one being in this world that could be called Father God. It was the owner of the giant eye he had seen, as he had learned from the other shore.
"Could that be me?"
At this moment, Kong Tai suddenly had a bold thought, and was startled by it.
"But if the owner of that giant eye was myself, then what am I now?"
"A clone, a projection, or just a wisp of the Creator God's spirit???"
"No."
Lifting his head, Kong Tai did not look at the Space Dragon. Instead, he cast his gaze into the depths of the void, unleashing a powerful will that belonged solely to him.
"I am me, not someone else's clone, and certainly not someone else's projection. No matter who it is, no matter who brought me to this world, and whether I experienced other histories before, at least at this moment, in this place, within this world."
"I can be absolutely certain, undoubtedly sure, that I am me, I am Kong Tai, the unique Kong Tai. Everything I see is true, then I am true, and everything else is vanity."
After realizing this, Kong Tai's spirit seemed to break through a bottleneck at this moment, causing his body to accelerate. In a dimension invisible to outsiders, he quietly took a huge step forward, completely breaking the existing rules and reaching another realm that all beings could only look up to.
"You..."
The Other Shore looked at Kong Tai, speechless.
He had expected Kong Tai to quickly reach the 'infant stage' he had mentioned, but he hadn't expected it to be so fast.
He still remembered that when he first met Kong Tai, Kong Tai was just a tiny human who had barely touched the world's rules. But in this short period, which seemed like a blink of an eye to him, the young man had completely become a life form like himself.
However, although surprised, it was also within reason.
Moreover, he had just learned from the Space Dragon that Kong Tai might have been the secret of another great existence from a long time ago.
"No wonder your spiritual world is so vast, so unimaginably large. It turns out you were already an incredibly, incredibly powerful being, you just lost that memory!"
Nodding his head with a self-proclaimed understanding, the Other Shore wore an expression of sudden realization.
With that thought, the Other Shore floated to the Space Dragon and introduced himself, "Hi! I'm the Other Shore, a god who has signed an equal contract with Kong Tai."
"God?"
The Space Dragon opened its eyes and glanced at the Other Shore, a trace of disdain flashing in its eyes. It was nothing like the pure demeanor of the crowd when they first saw the giant eye.
"You, with your capabilities, can sign a contract with the Father God? I think you're the one obeying the Father God!"
"Uh..."
The Space Dragon's disdain made the Other Shore freeze in place.
Was the Space Dragon wrong?
No.
In fact, at the moment of signing the contract, the equal contract he had personally drawn up had, without his knowledge, been transformed into a master-servant contract.
Therefore, what he had signed with Kong Tai was not an equal contract as he claimed, but a master-servant contract.
However, his divine dignity, and the innate arrogance he felt when facing Kong Tai, prevented him from telling Kong Tai the truth.
Being exposed by the Space Dragon like this, the Other Shore felt so embarrassed that he wanted to disappear immediately.
"Heh heh!!"
Reaching up to scratch his head, the Other Shore's eyes under his eyelids glared angrily at the Space Dragon, then he mocked, "So what if it's a master-servant contract? I'm Kong Tai's servant, you're his pet. We're on par, no difference."
"How is there no difference? I am indeed a pet, but one personally created by the Father God. As for you..."
The Space Dragon glanced disdainfully at the Other Shore, "You're just one of the insignificant gods in a world. What right do you have to be the servant of the great Father God?"
The Space Dragon looked down on the Other Shore immensely, as if the Other Shore was just a wildflower that could be crushed at any time.
"You..."
The Space Dragon's intelligence, and its tone, were completely different from what he believed the legends to be.
The legendary Void Insectoid was said to be a very simple creature, and would never exhibit such complex emotions as the one before him.
This left the Other Shore completely unable to deal with the Space Dragon.
He pointed at the Space Dragon with his right finger, clenched his left hand into a fist, and his eyes were filled with rage.
If he didn't know that he couldn't defeat the creature before him, he would have charged forward long ago to have a great battle between servant and pet.
"What 'you'?"
The dragon head gently rubbed under Kong Tai's palm. The Space Dragon narrowed its eyes, its black and white pupils casually looking at the Other Shore, provoking him, "What?"
"Are you perhaps still trying to fight me?"
The arrogance and disdain in its tone were clear to anyone.