The moment she entered, Rita saw Ren Yu fiddling with a pile of instruments she did not recognize, along with bottles and jars spread across the table. She could not help asking curiously.
Without even looking up, he said, "I'm refining medicine."
After thinking for a moment, he added, "A medicine that can treat the hidden dangers inside your mother's body."
At those words, the girl's eyes immediately lit up.
"You really are incredible..."
A stream of praise poured from Rita's lips. Her gaze was so soft it seemed as though water might drip from it, and she was only a step away from pressing herself against him.
With a thought, Ren Yu quietly summoned "Flame Passed On."
There was a reason he had said those two things to Rita.
Out of the corner of his eye, he examined the girl before him.
"Hmm... Her affection has long exceeded the limit, and so has her trust... But her respect is still a little short. Although what I just said made her respect rise quite a bit, it's still just short—just a tiny bit away from reaching the threshold where she can inherit my badge."
Now that he knew Rita would inherit his badge in the future, and that he himself would disappear from this world, leaving no one but her to remember that he had ever existed...
Ren Yu simply began considering this direction, trying to see whether he could escape this period through some other means.
The problem Ren Yu currently faced in passing the badge on to her was that Rita's affection had long since maxed out, as had her trust. As for how to raise things like her reverence for him...
He was not too sure either, but judging by the way it had been steadily increasing