Anna wiped away her tears.
After such a long time, they had finally seen each other again, only for him to leave once more.
"Can't you stay? Even just for a day?"
She pleaded with him, something she very rarely did.
Gu Qingshan comforted her. "It's all right. What I'm doing next isn't traveling through time, but 'rewriting.'"
"What's the difference?" Anna asked.
"Leaving Time Island last time was a special case. Normally, once I activate Rewrite, I'll begin to exist at some point in the past and continue forward until the moment I leave—which is right now."
"So... the next time you appear, it'll be right now?" Anna asked.
"Right. You'll see me leave, and then I'll immediately appear in front of you again," Gu Qingshan said.
Anna paused, then understood.
Whew—
She let out a breath and smiled through her tears. "Oh, come on. You had me feeling a little sad there. I'll wait for you right here, then."
Gu Qingshan nodded.
Mu said solemnly, "We can't delay any longer. The apocalypse is unpredictable. We have to leave right now, before anything changes!"
"Wait a moment," Anna said.
She took a ring off her hand and slipped it onto the ring finger of Gu Qingshan's left hand.
"It's filled with all the fine wines I've been saving," Anna said.
Gu Qingshan nodded, delighted. "Now that's something I can get behind."
Xiao Miao stood to one side and drawled, "Right, and it's on his ring finger—"
Lola said, "That's reassuring."
Everyone nodded as if it were only natural.
Everything was ready.
Mu turned into Black Flame and slipped into Gu Qingshan's Sea of Consciousness.
Three coins were tossed into the air, where they hung motionless, giving off strange ripples.
—Gu Qingshan was a Sin Condemning Angel and a Chaos