'Master, tell more about you and Mister Vanitas,' Henrietta requested.
'How did you manage to find his reincarnations throughout the billion years you lived after his first death? It shouldn't have been easy, right? Did you ever stop to think it was too much and wanted to give up?'
'How were you able to keep going like that?' Henrietta asked.
'My dear disciple, we were dual cultivation partners for thousands of years with no one else but each other. It wasn't wrong to say that we were one part of each other. We were connected on a spiritual level,' Empyrean Scarletsea stated.
'When your soul is close to another person like that, you'll realize that you will have the ability to sense wherever they are, no matter where they are. I relied precisely on that vague sense to track down Vanitas's reincarnating soul throughout the cosmos.'
'Alas, even with this vague ability, it hadn't always been easy. Sotis, it could take thousands of years. Other tis, it could even take millions of years,' Empyrean Scarletsea sighed.
Shortly after, she ntioned, 'You asked how I could keep searching even when I have to watch Vanitas die each ti, but the right question should be-Why couldn't I stop searching?'
'What couldn't you stop, Master?' Henrietta asked.
'Because if I had stopped, Vanitas's reincarnations would die even more frequently. He was able to live close to a hundred years under my protection. But without it, he wouldn't even reach adulthood. Sotis, maybe not even past infancy,' Empyrean Scarletsea stated.
She only knew because she had been slightly late at least a few dozen tis. Those instances were the worst of all her search attempts.
Henrietta couldn't help but feel deeply shocked.
'How could such a cruel fate follow Mister Vanitas so persistently? Just what did he do to deserve such cruelty from the heavens? Even the most sinful beings in the world wouldn't be condemned to such short lives, right?' Henrietta wondered with doubt.
'There was a ti when I wondered the sa thing, my dear disciple,' Empyrean Scarletsea sighed before saying, 'However, one thing I don't doubt is Vanitas's inherently good nature.' 'I have seen it far too many tis. Even without his past mories, his reincarnations would never sin without justifiable cause. As such, he couldn't possibly have such a sinful past life.' 'It can only be said that the heavens do not tolerate his existence. That must be why they trapped him in a cruel cycle of endless reincarnations,' Empyrean Scarletsea figured.
'Do you hate the heavens for that, Master?' Henrietta wondered.
'Hate? Hate might be an understatent. My hatred for the heavens ran deep as a bottomless abyss and more boundless than the vast cosmos itself!' Empyrean Scarletsea stated.
Suddenly, she thought of sothing and said, 'Maybe it was because of my deep hatred that the Outer Beings arrived and destroyed everything...'
'Surely not...' Henrietta didn't find it plausible.
However, she still couldn't help but wonder if it was actually true.
If her master's hatred for the heavens did summon the Outer Beings to destroy all of the heavens, how unbelievably deep could her hatred actually be?
Henrietta didn't dare to imagine it.
Nevertheless, after learning about Vanitas's history and fate from Empyrean Scarletsea, Henrietta felt more affectionate toward Vaan.
Even if he couldn't rember his past lives, she hoped he would be able to live well in this lifeti. In fact, she thought it would be for the best if he didn't rember any of his past life mories.
She feared the countless unfair and unjustly deaths would twist his mind and turn him towards evil.
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Sea of Stars
Ding!
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