"Then..."
Golden Shadow slowly turned toward Phainon, waiting for his reply.
Phainon nodded. "If Brother Yan Huan were to take over the responsibility of [All-World]..."
"Compared to a flame that knows only how to burn, he will surely go farther on the road to salvation."
Phainon turned around and walked across the dock pieced together from wooden planks, looking toward a sliver of light on the sea's horizon.
"One person will go to the future..."
"One person will remain in the past."
"If I can use [Sunrise] to slay the gods, perhaps the knot of fate can finally be undone."
"Brother Yan Huan, if you can find a way to prevent the [Iron Tomb] from being born, then the cycle of more than thirty million worlds will not have been in vain."
"The time has come to test our understanding, partner."
Phainon turned back and looked at Yan Huan.
At that moment, Yan Huan's figure overlapped with Golden Shadow's.
"I understand." Yan Huan nodded, then reminded him:
"Actually, it doesn't matter if you stay here. I can handle everything myself."
"Haha, you really do love making grand claims. That's just like you..."
Phainon smiled calmly.
"But I can't stop moving forward. This is my fate..."
"I never expected the image of the hero I had always hidden deep in my heart to finally step into reality."
"--At the end of this long journey of chasing flames..."
Phainon raised his head slightly and looked into the distance.
"Cyrene, that unprecedented page has already been turned."
"Lend me the power of [Years]. Send my partner back to the origin of time, back to your side--"
"And I will walk the unfinished road to its end... just as the countless versions of me did in the past, as always."
"We'll have to part