Turning [Small Despairs] into [Small Hopes]... This was not even mentioned in the quest. He had just been thrown into the fray without any knowledge. The God had definitely thought that it was virtually impossible for Ji-Cheok to give them hope, as he had neither mind control skills, nor any speech skills in particular.

‘But the God didn’t know the true nature of humans.’

Even in Auschwitz, humans had hope. Even in the Gulag, humans had hope. In the Japanese colonial period, Koreans had to change their last names and were on the verge of starvation, but even then, they still had hope.

It was not because they believed that tomorrow was going to be better than today. How could they think like that when there were people dying around them? In order to keep their sense of living in this fucking reality, they burned themselves to leave a legacy and resisted the oppressors.

Taking from the experience of someone who had hit rock bottom, hope was resistance. Resistance, desire for survival, and a human instinct. It was easier to take away someone’s hope by putting a billion won in their bank account rather than frying them in boiling oil.

But the Gods...