Purpose

"Ah, why me?"

Pardofelis found it strange. Although she was a Fusion Warrior, she was weaker than some of the dead soldiers, yet she had somehow been saddled with this responsibility.

Huang Hao found it strange as well, but all he could do was sigh helplessly. "You find it strange too, right? An ordinary person who wanted to remain ordinary, and a group of warriors who wanted to become heroes, yet we ended up with completely different fates. The ordinary person became a hero, while the warriors died without even knowing why."

"That's fate for you."

Listening to him and looking at the devastation on the screen, Pardofelis couldn't understand why fate had treated her this way.

"All right, all right. You should feel lucky, since you're different from everyone else." Huang Hao reminded Pardofelis several times from within the space. He had wanted her to prepare herself, but instead, Pardofelis asked, "Why are we different?"

Huang Hao was stunned, but he still forced a bitter smile. "We don't know anything. The only thing we can do is keep moving forward. When the burden of the era falls on your shoulders, you either throw it off or get crushed beneath it. Naturally, we have to choose the former."

After he finished speaking, Pardofelis finally calmed down. But then she thought of something else and said, "Thanks, but why are you telling me all this?"

Huang Hao rubbed his forehead in exasperation. "No, it's just that you were running around anxiously a moment ago. How could I not coax you into calming down? Besides, you'll have to stay calm during the operation."

Pardofelis scratched her head awkwardly and murmured an apology before quickly saying, "Then let's get started. There are still people over there who need rescuing."

Pardofelis had thought that as long as she succeeded, those people wouldn't have to sacrifice themselves. But Huang Hao said, "Do you think I only need one person to cooperate with me? Of course not. All we can do is strike the Herrscher a fatal blow while he's weakened."

"Then those people..."

"Yes, they'll die. They have to die."

"How could this..."

Pardofelis sat dejectedly on the floor. She knew that every Fusion Warrior had joined this war. That meant her friends might die here too.

Pardofelis asked, "Can we only wait?"

Looking at the Pardofelis who was completely different from the one he had imagined, Huang Hao was rather surprised. He countered, "Then what do you think we can do right now?"

Pardofelis said nothing, but Huang Hao pressed her further. "I heard from my daughter that you were pretty lively and optimistic. Why do you look so dejected?"

"How could anyone be happy in the face of such a terrifying disaster?"

Pardofelis's answer was within Huang Hao's expectations, but he hadn't expected her to be so earnest. Neither of them knew what they were talking about anymore. They simply sat there in silence as the screen between them flickered with scenes of war, both of them feeling a heavy pressure.

For some reason, Huang Hao suddenly asked, "Tell me, if the future we already know is good, but far too many people still have to sacrifice themselves, while changing the future makes it unpredictable, should we do it?"

Pardofelis was caught off guard when Huang Hao suddenly asked her that. She didn't know how to respond, and the answer to these questions was still uncertain. Even so, she gave her answer: "I heard you can foresee the future. Is the ending really that tragic? I think that if we aren't going to change it, then what's the point of knowing about it? Right?"

"Exactly. Isn't that why I came here—to change all of this?"