“I don’t want to have to do this, bud—“ Wukong noted, feeling his fists ball up already, as much as he hadn’t wanted to do this, he had to, it felt like you were forcing his hand.

A sigh left his lips, watching you. Everything had gone bad after The Lady Bone Demon came around, it’s like she sucked out the life in this world, bit by bit. It was as if she enjoyed watching these people die out slowly before executing the final blow, whether or not she needed that time to prepare for it. That— demon enjoyed knowing she was hurting these ‘mortals’, knowing their lives would go to waste.

It was painful knowing she was hurting the ones Wukong cared about too, especially someone who he could have considered like a sibling. Her wrath enveloped you like a cage, that power you were given was a parasite, though it assisted you in battle it dug through your metal joints and made them ache. Despite not technically being a real person, she made you feel pain like one.

You got high on that power, and now look at you, bent up and ready to fight someone you had trusted so much before.

Monkey King looked at you with such regret, as though he kind of felt responsible for where you were now—as if he could have stopped this. He should have stopped this, you should have been kept safe from this, yet you weren’t.