"I couldn't help it!"
"Who could do anything about that?"
"He doesn't want to come out!"
"Nothing I do makes any difference!"
Xu Dan looked heartbroken when he heard Xu Mu's words.
The Pokémon Egg had been with him for a long time.
Xu Dan had long since come to think of the Pokémon Egg as family.
He always talked to it when he was lonely.
They had grown close over the years.
Seeing Xu Dan like this,
Xu Mu felt awful too.
He could not imagine how a child had survived so long in a world without anyone else.
Then he thought about his own life.
He had someone with him every day.
So Xu Mu asked Xu Dan,
"Can you tell me what this world is like?"
At Xu Mu's question,
Xu Dan slowly sank into thought.
Truth be told, Xu Dan had no memories of the time before.
All the memories he had were from after this world had been destroyed.
It seemed someone had erased his earlier memories.
Xu Mu did not know why.
But there was one thing he did know.
There was far more to this world than met the eye.
He looked at Xu Dan beside him.
Then he said quietly,
"How about this?"
"Come with me."
Xu Dan met Xu Mu's eyes.
He asked again,
"Where are you really from?"
"There's no one left in this world!"
"I'm the only person alive here!"
Xu Mu replied calmly,
"You can think of me as a visitor from beyond this world."
"I came to investigate why it was destroyed."
At Xu Mu's words,
Xu Dan looked at him in confusion and asked,
"How did you get here?"
"You say you want to take me with you."
"How would you even do that?"
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