The flickering firelight scorched the girl's calm face.
On that face wearing a metal mask, Jack saw no emotion.
Anger? Resentment? Unwillingness?
None of those.
What existed was only a tranquility that had accepted all reality, and a determination that entwined Yun You's soul like invisible chains.
The little girl was not wrong; her "birdcage," though akin to Jack's cage on a spiritual level, was fundamentally different in essence.
The latter's cage came from family lineage and others; it could be actively broken. But the former's prison was a self-imposed constraint, with no possibility of being broken by oneself.
Or perhaps, as Yun You herself said, she had no intention of breaking the prison but instead saw it as a fundamental goal for lifelong struggle.
For Yun You, she only envisioned two outcomes for her life.
One is to complete revenge and let the shackles naturally dissolve.
The other is to die on the path of revenge, turning to dust with her dreams.
