"'Time,' did you know? I've been watching you for hundreds of thousands of years. I so wished that one day I could walk over to you myself and embrace you," You Si said tenderly.
Du Yu was confused. He felt as though he had forgotten something important. He had clearly remembered it!
If "You Si" appeared, he had to... had to...
"Now it's all right. I don't know who created me, but my duty was to hold back that damned stone door. Now I've left, and the stone door has opened... Shall we leave together?"
"Leave...?"
"Yes. I've listened to your stories for hundreds of thousands of years, and I know I've fallen deeply in love with you. Will you come with me? We'll go somewhere without 'Eternity' and, like the people in your stories, spend a lifetime together, through birth, aging, sickness, and death. Will you?"
Du Yu seemed to come to his senses. Yes... he had to leave. He could disregard everything else, but he absolutely had to leave.
He had to escape this hellish slaughterhouse trapped within Eternity.
He braced both hands against the chair and tried to stand. Yet even as his flesh tore apart layer by layer, spurting great quantities of blood, and he screamed incessantly, he could not get up.
The instant his flesh tore, it regenerated. He could never escape.
"I... can't leave..." Du Yu suddenly remembered something and silently shook his head. "Someone in this world always has to become 'Time'..."
"So... if I can find someone else to become 'Time,' you'll be able to leave?"
"Ah... yes..." Du Yu chuckled. "If you can find someone to replace me, I'll be able to leave..."
"How could that be difficult?"
Just as she "always" did, You Si agreed to his request to find