"It's great," Ess replied, "You know, she's always strong, and even if Ed isn't around her, she'll make herself live a good life...and she has Willy."

"Willie?" Hei Yi whispered the completely unfamiliar name, and an inexplicable hostility suddenly arose in his heart.

"…She and Ed's son."

Is, who said this, felt strange embarrassment and confusion.

A brief silence, as if time was frozen.

After trying hard to digest the news that made him feel complicated, Heiyi asked: "Why isn't he by her?"

"...Because he disturbed the running of time, he had to pay the price." Iss replied, "He is now... an executor."

"And did he just accept it so obediently?" Hei Yi sneered, "He threw her down... Why should he pay the price he deserves!"

Is looked at the mage who suddenly became angry and felt helpless: "Or what do you want him? He deliberately pushed Naria away when he knew his ending, rather than let her be sad than let her fall into a long wait... or like you, in order to get a perfect result for everyone, give up the victory we finally got, and continue to 'do it again and again' again? Even if you know that it may lead to a worse and irreversible ending, you have to bet on that incredible amount of one in a possible way?"

In the shaking fire, the mage's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he lowered his gaze silently.

Is thinks he should understand. He is not good at persuading others - except with ice blades and sharp claws. He only hopes that he can understand that the more he asks, the more he needs to pay... Whether the price is borne by himself or others, what he does has exceeded the limit.

"If it were you," Hei Yi suddenly spoke and asked him softly, "Will you give up?"

Is opened his mouth, but couldn't answer for a moment.

He is a dragon... He is a dragon raised by Scott Clithers. He is greedy and stubborn. If it were him, he would never give up unless he died.

So what if it will ruin everything? Anyway, he has lost everything.

He may even be even more crazy than the person in front of him.

"You want me to give up because my actions will hurt the world you are guarding, but I..." The mage's voice was low and scattered in the wind and sand: "I have nothing."

What made him persevere until now was no longer hope, but despair.

"But do you really think you have the possibility of success?" Is couldn't help but sigh, "You should know that what you ask for cannot be costless, right?"

"If I could completely master 'time'," Heiyi looked up at him, and the dark blue eyes were shining with flames brighter than the flowing light in his sky: "I can make everything happen again according to my will. If it were the ancient gods who created time... Why can't I? And if I could recreate time, all the damage I had caused would no longer exist."

...This is probably a real "bold".

Even Is couldn't help but be amazed...but he felt that there seemed to be another problem.

"But," he asked, "then, will Ed and Naria in the time you created... and Is, really, be the 'past' you want to redeem?"

Heiyi stared at him in a daze, without answering, nor could he answer.

He once asked himself this way, but he didn't dare to give him an answer.

If not, then what is the meaning of all his efforts?

If he just wants a "good ending", no matter whether he is in that ending or not... then what he wants is clearly in front of him.

The blonde young man in front of me... This unique ice dragon is simple, straightforward, willing to give trust, and will think about others. The light blue eyes decorated with broken gold are bright and clear, and there is no trace of hostility or shadow in that little bit of natural pride and willfulness - a person who has been loved and grown up... A dragon who has been loved and grown up will grow into such a personality.

In the past, in his most beautiful dream, there was never such a beautiful Is Clithers.

"...Can you tell me more?" he asked in a low voice, "more... what you've experienced."

.

Is told the story all night and tried to add a little vivid and interesting thing to his dry narrative - he had never tried so hard when telling Nana's story.

He even remembered some memories that had long been forgotten, some irrelevant details, such as when they first went on an "adventure", Ed showed off his elf weapon that he stole from his father's collection, remembering Nariya's sword without any power, and remembering Alan who was blocking the door with a dark face when they returned home...

"…Alan is dead." He told Heiyi, "as Calebrian said, he lived to his old age and died."

He missed him very much... He also missed Scott very much. He wished he could truly exist around him, not just a little bit of soul fragments that merged with the Eternal Fire...

He finally learned to accept "lost". But that's because he got much more than he lost.

He was increasingly confused about how to convince Heiyi. So, should he still "accused" him?...

He waited for Heiyi to leave quietly. This time, he would not rush to catch up. He needed to take some time to think about it...or go back and ask Tess and the others for advice on how to convince others.

But Heiyi never left.

"I need to make sure there is nothing left of the spell," he said.

Of course, Is doesn't want to suddenly become a baby in a few days.

So they stayed on this desolate planet for several days. Although they were not as stiff as they were at the beginning, they had little to say.

Is himself didn't talk much, and this "Ed" was not the long-winded guy he knew.

When Is finally could no longer bear the bad food on the planet, he realized that the reason Heiyi left was not just to get the results of an experiment.

"Don't you want to run away?" he asked him.

"...You are not the executor, are you?" Hei Yi asked him back.

Ice nodded: "I made a deal with Ankran."

Heiyi nodded thoughtfully.

They exchanged some information. Interestingly, no matter which time line they were on, Anchorland eventually became the manager of time.

And when he became a manager, there was only one Anchorland left for countless hours.

The various paradoxes about time still make Is dizzy and difficult to understand, but what makes him even more difficult to understand is Heiyi.

"Then, take me back." He said.

At least now, he really doesn't want to escape anymore.

At this time, Is could not help but remind him: "Although I don't know where they will lock you up, it will definitely not be so easy to escape... They might even kill you."

"They won't." Heiyi was very sure of this. "The value of keeping me alive is higher than the danger of keeping me alive, and the danger of making me dead is no less than the danger of making me alive."

Ice's mouth twitched slightly.

But if Heiyi made such a decision, he had no reason to refuse.

He contacted Ankran, but did not put the metal ring that could suppress the power of magic around Heiyi's neck.

If he regrets it... maybe he still has a chance to escape.

Ankran, who received the news, came very quickly, and it seemed no surprise that Ice could successfully complete his mission.

He opened another door, and Heiyi asked nothing, walked over calmly. When he walked to the door, he paused slightly, but he did not turn back.

He stepped in one step.

When the thin black figure disappeared, Is's heart seemed to be empty.

He never thought that his mission would end in this way, and his indescribable melancholy gradually filled his chest.

"...You don't plan to kill him, are you?" He couldn't help but confirm to Ankran.

"If things can be solved so simply, I would like to do it." Ankran replied, "but he has a very complicated relationship with many timelines. If he cuts it off directly, the trouble is not less than the trouble he can cause. For example, I am not sure whether the timeline you are in is a recreated one after he has enough power. If I kill him now, you and your world will completely disappear. Ed will also disappear... and the tasks he completed will also become unfinished."

Is was stunned. It took a while before he could find his voice: "...Don't you tell me this kind of thing earlier?!"

If he didn't find out who it was...If he had no intention of killing Heiyi...

"If I told you, you might be worried about it and accidentally die at his hands, and then, because of your death, he may also change something, which ultimately leads to him not creating that timeline...you and your world will still cease to exist." Ankran said.

Is speechless.

"It's very interesting, is it?" Ankran smiled at him. "There are countless you in the countless timelines. They are both the same, not the same, independent of each other, and influence each other. A small change will cause countless unpredictable changes, perhaps only affecting the time when a flower blooms, or creating countless worlds and destroying countless worlds... If space is regarded as drawing paper, 'time' is the pen that paints all colors."

Is didn't find it interesting at all, he just felt a headache.

He cleared his mind, filled with countless countless things, asked Ankran for his reward, and Ankran told him: "Wait until Ed completes the task at his hands."

"That won't take fifty years, right?" Is asked vigilantly.

"It depends on Ed himself." Ankran was calm, which made Ice wonder if he had been deceived again.

"Can't you let him return to this time when he completed his mission?" he asked, "For example, now?"

"The executors who complete the task will return to the origin," Anchor, in a good mood, patiently explained, "You have been there... there, in a sense, time is still, but when they leave the origin and go to a certain timeline, they also need to follow certain rules."

“…Can you say it simpler?”

"…wait, it won't be too long - maybe there will be a little surprise."

“…”

Is sincerely hopes that what he calls "surprise" will not turn into fright.
Chapter completed!