"Will you leave with me, or continue staying here?" Xu Zimo asked.
"I haven't figured out how to face you. Every time I think of you, I also think of my father, my family," Lan Ke'er said after a moment of silence, pain in her voice.
"Do you want to keep running away for the rest of your life?" Xu Zimo asked.
"Even if I don't run away, so what if I leave with you now?
Can you stay with me forever? Can you keep me company as I peacefully live out the rest of my life?" Lan Ke'er asked with a bitter smile.
"I know you. Your steps will not stop.
In the end, you will still bear the Heavenly Mandate and go to Beyond the Heavens, climbing step by step into ever higher worlds.
In the end, I won't even be able to see your back."
"This is my mission," Xu Zimo replied after a silence.
"Yes, a mission!" Lan Ke'er nodded.
"You abandoned me before, and now you are abandoning me again.
Even if many things were placed before you for a second choice, nothing would change, right?"
Xu Zimo did not answer. From a certain perspective, Lan Ke'er was not wrong.
In truth, he had never had the chance to choose.
As the Devil Master, he enjoyed the conveniences brought by this identity.
But he also bore its mission and responsibility. If he could not lead the Devil Race to revival, his former enemies would grind his bones to dust and scatter his ashes.
Xu Zimo had no doubt about that.
That was also why he had always needed to grow stronger.
If the other person had not been Lan Ke'er, Xu Zimo would not even have considered such romantic attachments.
"I've decided. I will stay