Talk:Holou/@comment-180.183.97.4-20181016090808/@comment-47.221.202.137-20200607051722

It was implied in volume 8 ch4. In her search for meaning when she was the first and only Deus, she created "five small mechanical cubes. There were units for observation, analysis, validation, and adaptation, and a fifth to oversee and command them...the machines had intelligence but lacked something the girl possessed. Something she did not even know she had [a heart]". As I read it, these cubes were the predescessor to/ the first Ex Machina. This is confirmed by Tet later in the same volume, where he tells Holou that she created the girl (Shuvi/Schwi) who led to his exsistence by believing the story Riku told about a "god of games"