Zuo Zuo stared blankly, not understanding what he meant. But she quickly came back to herself and strained forward, trembling as she said:
"What do you want me to do?! If it's for Brain, I'm willing! Of course I'm willing! I promised him that no matter what happened, I would stay with him until the very end! I will!"
The figure remained silent. In that moment, a faint trace of relief seemed to cross his face.
Like a remembrance, a recollection.
As though long, long ago, in an age ruled by the passing years,
he, too, had once had a girl willing to watch over him, so he would no longer be alone.
But afterward...
He had destroyed it all with his own hands.
"Go find him."
His voice grew ever more distant and hollow within the flames.
He lowered his head and said:
"Take this authority over time. You are the only one... who has lived through everything he experienced. He fought countless time wars and saw through the entire history of the past and future... and in every passage through time, you experienced everything he did..."
"If there is still time, give him these memories. After he embraces finality, perhaps he will still remember..."
"And if it is too late, you can take command of time. Through the long years before the Time King awakens again... you can wait for him with this time... wait until..."
"He returns."
His voice grew quieter and quieter. The moment he finished speaking, the raging fire swallowed him.
The pitch-black flames spread along time and causality into the distant past of his countless reincarnations. From the boy who first fell into this dream to his first cycle through the years, his entire past within history burst into raging flames as he departed.