"He nourished the world with his flesh and soul, merging his consciousness and soul with it to form a new barrier."
"As for Jun Changmo, don't worry. I handed him over to someone suited to handling this. He'll be treated very well." Siye gritted his teeth, stressing "very well."
Pure malice.
Wen Yanyu continued nodding in vague understanding.
"Rather than saying he perished during that time, it would be more accurate to say he was merging with your world's World Core. And when merging with something like that, there's a fifty percent chance of his consciousness being obliterated and disappearing outright. The other fifty percent is..."
Siye twirled his finger. Golden threads wound around his fingertips, weaving a heart in the air.
"If there's something he can't forget, or an obsession strong enough to sustain his consciousness independently, he can return to the world in a human body."
"You're the obsession that kept his consciousness alive. That's why, even though he forgot everything, including a lot of common knowledge, he still remembered you."
Siye raised his eyes, considered for a moment, then added, "Of course, you don't need to worry too much. Everything that happens in your world is recorded by the world core. He'll gradually receive that information, too, and return to normal soon."
"So..." Wen Yanyu stared blankly at the figure projected in the air. Before his brain shut down, he spoke his first words of the day. "Fu Hanchuan merged with the world core and became an undying, indestructible being?"
Siye considered for a moment, then nodded slightly. "You can think of it that way."
"That's fine."
"After all, the one dreaming doesn't just dream. Sometimes, she rewrites the dream's ending herself."
In the silence, Wen Yanyu didn't hear that last sentence.
Eternal life...
A goal