San San knew, so of course San San would tell Ye Chuqi. Even if Ye Chuqi couldn't understand those words at the time, she would remember them. One day, she would find the relevant memories and understand what they meant. She was always collecting strange odds and ends, after all. Who knew when one of those little things might turn out to be important?
And now Ye Chuqi understood what those words meant. That "loop"—the Time Loop—explained why the terrifying Power of Rules surrounding the palm-sized Little White Fox hadn't torn him apart when she first found him.
Little White was trapped in a Time Loop. He wanted to break free of its control, unaware that he had long since become part of it. Breaking the loop would be almost the same as destroying himself.
Was that why Coroa had said all those things—to keep Little White from destroying himself?
But why did Coroa know Little White? Ye Chuqi had never been able to figure that out. For Coroa to travel so far and appear before Little White at that moment, he must have cared deeply and been worried about him.
Perhaps he had made a promise to Little White. Coroa certainly kept his promises, but he spent most of his time on the Thirteen Misty Islands, guarding their inheritance realm. He only wandered to the other islands when he was bored and rarely showed himself. For him to travel all the way inland, to somewhere as sensitive as the Beast Abyss Depths, just to pass a few words to Little White...
As the focus of Ye Chuqi's thoughts shifted, she unconsciously affected her surroundings. The points of light began to move erratically.
It was as though a consciousness were reminding Ye Chuqi of the answer she most wanted to