"What did you say?" Du Yu gripped his wine cup tightly, spilling its contents all over the floor.
"Du Yu, you and He Suoyi are each other's cause and effect. You determine his ending, and he determines yours," Wazhang told him slowly. "If you stop now and cease being an Operator, you can bring this ill-fated bond between you to an end."
Du Yu thought for a moment, then asked, "Master, how do you know how things end for He Suoyi and me?"
Hearing this, Wazhang merely smiled at Du Yu, seeming to ponder something.
"That is unimportant," Wazhang said. "This humble monk has no wish to force anything upon you. I am merely offering you a choice. The person who makes that choice will always be you."
Du Yu thought this man was truly strange. He kept insisting that Du Yu would destroy the world, yet he hardly seemed worried, as though discussing something utterly commonplace.
"I'm not in the mood to think about that right now." Du Yu shook his head. "I don't have your broad perspective, Master, worrying about the whole world every moment of the day. My country has a saying: 'Just do good deeds; do not ask what lies ahead.' Have you heard it?"
"Heh." Wazhang smiled. "This humble monk has only heard, 'Do all that lies within human power, then heed Heaven's will.'"
"Don't they mean the same thing?" Du Yu said. "That's exactly what I'm doing right now-doing all I can, then heeding Heaven's will."
"Then... do you know what 'Heaven's will' means?"
Du Yu knew that if this monk truly knew his ending, then what he said was "Heaven's will." So he said, "Master, right now, all I want is to see this exchange gathering through properly. If you still want to