Chapter 216: The Mix of Water and Flames (4)

The circumstances surrounding Luo Ju Di's death were natural in its way. The woman was dead now, had died—and should have been long dead. And yet someone suddenly challenged the very notion of it.

"Bring… mama back?" Chunhua asked unsurely.

Even a young child like her knew the finality of death. There was no turning it back—

"Yes." Li Yang nodded at her. "It… hasn't been that long. So maybe if I knew where the creature was heading to and can meet up with it—I can retrieve your mama and bring her back to you." 

"You'll do that for me, Uncle Yang?"

Bao was already giving the CEO aghast and wild gestures behind Chunhua, but Li Yang wasn't having any of it. He squeezed the young girl's shoulder reassuringly and did his best to smile.

"I'll do my best to return her here with you, Chunhua. It's not fair for a young kid to grow up without their loving mother at her side."

Chunhua tilted her head at him. "Not fair? Mama told me that life isn't fair."

Li Yang pressed his lips together grimly, but then nodded. 

"Well… nobody really knows what life is going to throw at us. It could give us sunshine and joy, but at the same time, it could also bring us rain and stormy days. That much is true." He stared at his daughter. "What your mother said about life is certainly true… and yet when you think about it, we can't say what is fair or not. The world doesn't owe us anything at all."

"Huh?"

"What if you worked hard at school, Chunhua? You wanted to get the highest grades in class to make your mother proud so you studied well for the exams and did your best. Do you think that you'll get it?"

Chunhua looked at him with uncertainty. "No?"

Li Yang knew that his words were starting to not make any sense at all to the child. He didn't even know if what he said was making sense to him either. But a certain part of him wanted to say it. 

Perhaps he needed to say this to remind himself of it.

"You might get it, Chunhua… but there's also the chance that you won't. Other kids may be studying as hard as you and they won out in the end, one of them might have a certain advantage by donating a large sum to the school's foundation or it could be sheer talent and genius—and you'd think that's unfair."

"And it is unfair, Uncle Yang." Chunhua frowned. Her mother told her that was cheating… at least the one about buying out the highest grade. But the girl couldn't say anything about those studying either.

"The world doesn't owe us anything at all—we need to work harder than others, find every loophole possible and use everything to our advantage. But sometimes that isn't enough at all and we still fail."

Chunhua stared at Li Yang and saw the very same aura that she did when they first met. It clung to him tightly. A darkness hanging over him that prevented any light to seep into him, but at the same time, it meant that he wasn't blinded? 

Honestly, the child didn't know what to think but she tried to focus on his words. Tried to listen hard and understand what he was trying to convey.

"Uncle Yang, are you telling me that you'll look for mama but you're not sure if you can bring her back?"

"I'll use everything in my disposal to bring her back, Chunhua. That's the only thing I can promise you…"

He knew he was going to regret his words for saying this. Instead of making difficult promises like this one, he needed to do the opposite. Li Yang should have been scolding Chunhua for trying to prevent the natural order of things.

Death was death indeed.

And yet he said this instead. Li Yang wondered if it was power getting to his head—was the System allowing him to be arrogant to make such bold claims as this one? Was Bao's words earlier true and he was shamelessly confident now?

Chunhua looked at the man promising to make things better, and she reached out to the man's sleeve. "Thank you, Uncle Yang."

What else could a child say at this moment?

Li Yang only smiled back at her and wordlessly nodded.

If the Heavens were laughing earlier at the naivety of the child, those watching and listening suddenly stopped cold at Li Yang's statements.

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"What did he say? Did I hear correctly when he said that he's going to retrieve the soul of that woman?"

Accomplishing the System's main quests ordained by the Heavens to seek for Harem Members was fine and alright. Everything was in the realm of possibility if it happened to be focused in that area.

"Holy cows! If you're still deaf at this point, then I don't know when you'll start getting the necessary senses to have common sense. He really said it. You're not deaf at all." 

"What a lunatic."

"He already tried to escape us once—and it didn't do him any good, did it?"

The Observers from Heavens even allowed Li Yang's sudden disappearance to be something that wasn't his fault and blamed Peach for it. The identity and authority of Peach as the Moderator of the Creators managed to trump LoveStellar Organization's Harem program.

But this was another thing entirely.

"Well, it's not too often that we visit that sector of the universe so it was a nice change of pace. Can you actually believe that goddess? She has no sense of pride at all."

"You clearly haven't been paying attention at all, dear sister. I have my own theory as to how that happened."

"Everybody already knows that the CEO looked like her brother. Still that doesn't mean anything at all. I assume if you tossed another scrawny NEET so-called protagonist into that world—Aurora would have reacted the same." 

The Observers from Heavens were willing to laugh and even poke fun at the Goddess Aurora. A fellow deity that spent a good portion of the universe's existence to simply spend her time in a state of sleeping after she banished her brother.

Seeing as to how the Goddess Aurora was caught up in the strings of the past and chased relentlessly after Li Yang because he resembled Aseroth, her brother, and did not even care one bit about her creations and all the collateral damage that occured—it was terribly amusing.

The Observers might have been the epitome of schadenfreude.

When one was at the pinnacle of existence, boredom became a constant thing. Thus the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that from witnessing the troubles, failures and other toils of weaker beings was something they relished in.

Such programs like the LSO catered to it.

But now Li Yang said he'd bring Luo Ju Di back and this time, the Heavens mood changed. 

Oh, it already happened before… this desire to bring someone back from the death? Maybe there were countless individuals around the universe that dared to the same at this very moment.

It was an endeavor that many seek to accomplish.

However, not everyone in the Heavens liked it at all. It was something that confronted the systems already existing in the universe. Individuals, both people and gods, could be benevolent and humor someone simply because they assumed that they were above it at all.

But when something challenged them.

The Heavens were pretty vicious.