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Wired Lain: "Why are you crying, Lain? Because you deleted yourself from everyone's memory? But, Lain, isn't that what you wanted all along?"Lain: "It is, but..."Wired Lain: "You must feel good that no one is dying in any strange way and no one is being hurt and no one hates you, either."Lain: "Yeah. I guess."Wired Lain: "And don't forget that dead people's information is no longer leaking out of the Wired anymore. Not anymore. So at last Lain is free and no longer needs to be anywhere. This the way you wanted it to be, isn't it, Lain?"Lain: "You sound just like him."Wired Lain: "Him? That man has never existed all along. Even if he had, he wouldn't have had thoughts about being God."Lain: "I know, but I'm nowhere now. If I'm nowhere, then what? Then who am I? And where am I?"Wired Lain: "You yourself said it: 'The Wired isn't an upper layer of the real world, isn't that right? That's what that man was mistaken about."Lain: "Huh?"Wired Lain: "A network is a field to pass along information. The information doesn't stand still there. Information functions by always being in motion."Lain: "I have..."Wired Lain: "People's memories aren't just personal or one part or unrelated fragment of the history of humanity. But they're shared in the collective unconscious. Do you think that humans could create something that could store memory that's that vast? I really don't see how."Lain: "The Wired has just connected to something else all along. But then what was it made to connect to?"Wired Lain: "Do you believe most people really need to know that?"Lain: "Huh?"Wired Lain: "Just look how far they've come and how much they've accomplished without ever knowing. The human world creates and prays to its various Gods, and they convince themselves this is how the world is."Lain: "I don't like how you're saying this."Wired Lain: "Either way, it is Lain who is saying it. Me. Understand? Oh, that's right. Lain was never a person now, was she? Lain is omnipresent, existing everywhere. Lain watches quietly, seeing everything. Right- Lain is God."Lain: "Wrong. You're wrong!!"Wired Lain: "It would be much easier if you became God. I think it would be a lot easier than being a human being. You wouldn't have to do anything, just stand there and watch all day. No one would ever look down on Lain or pass judgement. No one would ever hate Lain, either."Lain: "I don't know."Wired Lain: "Hey, Lain, why don't we go back to the way it was and start things all over again? I mean, you already reset things once."Lain: "Enough!!"