(Is that so?)
Ye Chen's thoughts sank into boundless shock and endless despair.
(I had aspired to wipe out the Abyss, to bring more peace and justice to the world.)
(And yet.)
(I myself turned out to be the greatest calamity?)
(The truth I had sought so bitterly for so many years...)
(In the end...)
(Was it really such an ironic outcome?)
(Why... did it turn out like this?)
(Teacher...)
(If everything this Havijordan incarnation said is true...)
(Then why, exactly, did you go to such absurd lengths for my sake?)
(Even dragging the survival of the entire world's civilizations into it?)
(If things were truly as he said, then even if you wanted to preserve your own offspring, there was no need to go mad to this extent, was there?)
(Birth, aging, sickness, and death—such is the natural course of life.)
(Didn't you understand even that?)
(If I truly was a malformed child who could not live beyond six hours after birth...)
(Then someone as powerful as a god could have created countless better replacements afterward. Why cling so stubbornly to a worthless defective like me?)
(You warned me countless times not to let personal feelings sway me.)
(But weren't your past actions the very height of acting on impulse?)
(I... I...)
(To you...)
(What did I...)
(Really mean?)
Ye Chen asked inwardly, his heart filled with confusion.
If what the Havijordan incarnation had said was true, then Lyle's past actions and Ye Chen's present beliefs and principles were undoubtedly in complete opposition!
Ye Chen was the kind of "hero" who could sacrifice himself without hesitation for the greater good.
Yet Lyle was the kind of "madman" who could throw the greater good into chaos without hesitation for personal feelings!
If the Ye Chen of today could travel through