After all, she had no other options left.
Rita's eyes were filled with fear.
It was the unease born from losing her mother.
If Lord Ren Yu could successfully cure Lis, Rita felt that she could offer up everything.
At this moment, as she watched Lis's miserable state, memories of the love between herself and her mother kept surfacing in Rita's mind.
"It shouldn't be like this... Mother... You'll definitely be all right. You'll definitely get better again. Lord Ren Yu, you said so, didn't you...?"
Rita was terrified that Lis would leave her just like that without saying a word.
Seeing the girl's tearful, lost, worried expression, Ren Yu was at his wits' end as well. He hurriedly comforted her, "Y-you don't panic yet. Let me think, let me think this through properly... I'll definitely do everything I can to save her."
As he spoke, Ren Yu secretly instructed Hiyori Maru to first sever the pain signals within Lis's body. Then, with a bitter expression, he pondered what to do next.
There was no helping it. Faced with something like this, he was helpless too!
So this was what that guy meant by saying it couldn't be changed?!
No matter what he did in this time and space, it would ultimately be useless. It would all be erased by those "rules."
In other words, no matter how powerful or capable Ren Yu was, he could not affect those intangible things.
But was he really supposed to just let it go?
"I'm not willing..."
Someone furrowed his brow tightly. If he just let it go, he truly would not be willing.
Setting aside the fact that the person who needed saving was Rita's biological mother, and that her daughter Rita was close to him—making her practically his future mother-in-law—
Even