The girls' words, filled with innocent hope, shone like a ray of the warmest, most dazzling sunlight into Cui Ciyou's heart, where a trace of gloom still lingered.
Their longing for "family," their dreams of "forever," were also like a searing-hot key.
Once again, they unlocked the grand plan deep within Cui Ciyou's heart, one he had drawn up long ago but kept secret.
The feeling of being relied upon, trusted, and deeply needed by these girls was so real, so warm.
It almost brought tears to Cui Ciyou's heart, hardened as it was by the loneliness of his previous life.
Is that so? Together forever?
Cui Ciyou's gaze slowly swept across the lovely faces before him, each filled with happiness and hope.
In that case, when the coming "Displacement Incident" threatens to turn the whole world upside down... I'll have to be even more...
Cui Ciyou had already resolved to give everything he had during that world-sweeping catastrophe.
He would find a way to save the hundreds of thousands of people in the Fitoia Territory.
But his original motives had not been quite so pure.
At first, I only thought of using the enormous credit I'd earn by saving the Fitoia Territory.
I'd use it as political leverage to help Philip retrieve his two sons from the vortex of power in the Asla Kingdom.
I also didn't want to see thousands upon thousands of people displaced, as they were in the original story.
Enslaved, or torn from their families... I thought that since I had the ability, I might as well do it.
But now, things were different.
It seems I have another reason to fight, to put everything on the line. A reason... that leaves absolutely no room for failure!
When those memories of the "Displacement Incident" from