MEI said to SU, "Before Kevin returns, you must... finish reading the letter I left for you."
MEI was already in a very weak state, yet she still forced herself to hold on and spoke to SU. From her pocket, she took out a tiny silver key, barely half a finger long, and placed it in SU's hand. "And this... after you finish the letter, you'll know how to use it."
Only after doing all that... did MEI fall back into her chair, as though those movements had exhausted all her remaining strength.
To everyone's surprise... MEI began to cry.
It was as if she were saying something to her lover, who had yet to return.
"I'm sorry... Kevin, I lied to you and said my illness had gotten better..."
"When you returned from the moon, we could be together... but..."
The tears in MEI's eyes slid down her face and finally fell onto the back of her hand.
"For the next several thousand, perhaps tens of thousands of years... Kevin will have to remain alone in this world... He'll surely be lonely, won't he?"
"SU."
MEI seemed to remember something and reached out her hand, searching for SU, who had been there moments ago.
She could no longer see.
"SU, please, stay by his side. Don't let him go down the wrong path. Promise me, okay?"
"...MEI, Kevin is my friend too."
SU knelt on one knee before MEI and said, "I'll keep watching over him."
Tears also appeared in SU's eyes as he looked at MEI, who had been tortured beyond recognition by Honkai.
Watching a friend reach their end truly felt awful.
SU reached out, wanting to catch MEI's hand, but her arm quietly fell halfway through the motion.
"MEI?!"
Before Kevin returned from the moon,