Seeing how gentle and considerate Kanae Kocho was, Lin Guang could only smile helplessly.
"Kanae, I'm not a child anymore."
Kanae Kocho walked up to Lin Guang and tried to pat his head, only for her hand to pass right through it. At the sight, a trace of sadness appeared in her eyes.
Noticing the change in Kanae Kocho's mood, Lin Guang smiled and said, "Kanae, one day you'll be able to truly touch Shinobu and me again."
Kanae Kocho shook her head, putting away that trace of sadness, then looked at Lin Guang with a smile. "It's all right. Just discovering that you can see me and talk to me is enough for me."
Lin Guang flatly rejected her words. "That's not true. If you really were satisfied, Kanae, you wouldn't have appeared tonight, would you?"
"Yes. When I heard you say I could keep watching over Shinobu, I really was tempted, but..."
Before Kanae Kocho could finish, Lin Guang interrupted her.
"No buts! Since I have a way to do it, please trust me, Kanae. All right?"
Seeing the earnest look on Lin Guang's face, Kanae Kocho knew that he sincerely had her and Shinobu Kocho's best interests at heart and was working hard for their sake.
Looking at the earnest, persistent, hardworking Lin Guang, Kanae Kocho could no longer bear to refuse him.
"All right, I trust you. But I know Shinobu has never been able to let go of what happened to me. She's always wanted to kill the demon who killed me. I'll wait until Shinobu lets go of this completely, or until she... gets her revenge. Then I'll leave."
"If you can't do it in that time, I really will leave."
Kanae Kocho agreed to Lin Guang's request. After all, seeing departed souls and