Ye Yu was truly stunned by the monsters. After he confessed his crimes to them, every one of them chose to forgive him.
Among them were the few monsters who could sense changes in the timeline. They, too, chose forgiveness, though for some reason, the looks they gave Linde seemed laden with meaning.
Ye Yu marveled at the monsters' mercy. He did not know whether to call it kindness or foolishness. They approached everything with a positive attitude.
He found himself thinking exactly what Linde once had-if these monsters really reached the surface, humans would probably make them suffer terribly.
Just then, Toby's voice sounded in Linde's mind again. "One day left."
Linde had already decided to give up trying entirely. He was bound to return to the past anyway, and this disaster might well be what sent him there.
So Linde stopped researching magic and the like. He knew how powerful Toby was.
Toby was effectively a true god, far more powerful than the false god the monsters spoke of becoming by absorbing seven human souls.
If even Toby could not stop that being, what made him think he could?
Since he had one day left, he planned to spend it having fun with Frisk. As for Ye Yu? Ye Yu said he had something to do and would not be joining them.
Linde discovered that his fellow countryman seemed to be a Nintendo fanboy. He had specifically borrowed Linde's magic to make a Switch console. Linde wondered whether Ye Yu's "something to do" was actually playing games.
But Linde did not bother asking. He took Frisk along to explore and enjoy the sights.
First stop! The Ruins!
They started at the flower field in the Ruins, where Asgore and Toriel were watering the flowers together. The two children