"The Divine Beyond Honkai ()"
"One last thing?"
Zeng and Lü's words left Kiana and the others stunned.
"Are... are you going to disappear?"
Kiana gathered her courage and walked up to Zeng and Lü to ask.
Just moments ago, this person who looked exactly like Uncle Xu had been clutching her throat and threatening everyone else.
"Disappear... more or less."
Zeng looked at Kiana and said, "Kiana... you, and all of you..."
"You're all good people, just like Little Sakura."
"Why do you have to disappear?"
Kiana pressed on.
"Why do we have to disappear... That really isn't an easy question to answer... Let me think."
Lü said to Kiana, "Kiana, do you question the eventual death of people? Why... do you question the fact that we will eventually disappear?"
Lü's words stunned Kiana, leaving her at a loss for what to say.
"People die, life fades away, and in the end, everything in the world loses its meaning with the passage of time... Nothing lasts forever. That is the meaning of this world."
Lü spoke those words, and Zeng continued where Lü left off.
"Life goes on. Children grow up, and then they have children of their own. Though they too will eventually disappear, there will always be something that gets passed on."
Zeng looked at Kiana and said, "Kiana, you haven't grown up yet. But precisely because you haven't, you still have so many possibilities... We envy that."
Zeng looked into Kiana's eyes.
"We will eventually disappear. That is inevitable fate; it is only that the time happened to be chosen as now."
"And... fortunately, it is now. At least before we disappear, we were able to obtain the answer we wanted to know."
Light shone in both Zeng and Lü's eyes.
Their pupils had originally been