Order fell silent.
"What's wrong? You can't do it? Fuck you! When I didn't want to go, you dragged me there, and now that I fucking want to go, you can't?"
Chen Si suddenly roared himself hoarse and slammed his palm against the bridge railing, leaving a hand-shaped dent.
He crouched down, utterly lost, and peered through the gaps at the traffic streaming along the distant highway and the lights and neon of countless homes and buildings.
"Order, you know, plenty of girls have liked me, but I never believed any girl would ever truly fall in love with me. Yet it actually happened, more than once, and I let every chance slip away."
"Even though Historia broke up with me, even if she doesn't want to be with me, she's carrying my child. I still love her."
"And there's another girl there who really wants nothing from me, who fell in love with me simply because I'm me. I might never meet someone like her again."
Chen Si sank onto the concrete pavement and leaned against one side of the bridge, tilting his head toward the sky. His vision gradually blurred, the city's neon lights growing indistinct as scorching tears streamed down his face.
"I really want to see them again..."
"You can see them, but..." Order paused briefly.
"Name your price." Chen Si's tears vanished instantly. He sprang up from the ground and brushed the dust off his backside.
"You..." Order began.
Order could sense the violent surge of emotion Chen Si had just experienced. The fleeting fluctuation in his mental energy had been as fragile as a frail young child's, yet now he acted as though nothing had happened.
Perhaps this was human pride.
"I'm serious. Do you want to possess me, or make me kill people