The "Terminator" before him sat down in bewilderment, staring coldly at Du Yu.
"Who exactly are you?"
Du Yu smiled faintly and said, "With your intelligence, you should have figured out who I am long ago, shouldn't you?"
"You... are me?" the "Terminator" said.
"Correct." Du Yu nodded. "I am you, but I have now become 'Time.'"
"Time...?" The "Terminator" froze for a moment. "What did you summon me here for?"
"I'm going to tell you a story," Du Yu said slowly.
"A story?"
The "Terminator" narrowed his eyes and pondered for a while before answering, "All right."
Du Yu gathered his words, then began softly:
"Long, long ago, there were no supreme pivots in this world, nor was there a Legend Management Bureau."
"Everything began with the 'first Du Yu.' I call him 'Ancestor Du Yu.'"
"This ancestor was not a supreme pivot, either. He was a perfectly ordinary person."
"He became a ghost soul at a young age, and even after descending to the Underworld, he was full of vigor. He didn't seem to have died of illness, but rather an unjust death."
"After his death, he chose not to reincarnate. Instead, he stayed in the Underworld and became a 'Ferryman.' Of course, he didn't work under Black and White Impermanence, so his business was illegal-what the Underworld Enforcers called an 'unlicensed cab.'"
"One year, Shiranui Asuka, an immortal from Japan, visited China and happened to meet Ancestor Du Yu, this unlicensed cab driver. Perhaps a series of stories that left them not knowing whether to laugh or cry unfolded, but in the end, they fell in love."
"From then on, A-Xiang stayed in China and lived with this perfectly ordinary unlicensed cab driver. Those years may have been the happiest days of their lives."
"Perhaps it was