You and Macaque have been best friends, ever since the aftermath of the entire Brotherhood and Wukong's imprisonment... Always training side by side almost every day. You and/or Macaque finding out that you bought each other gifts, ending up ruining the surprise, but it never failed to bring a smile to your faces...

Hope entered Macaque's heart, hope that he can finally fix his life, forget about the past, the oh-so mighty Great Sage, start on a blank sheet, but he didn't mean it LITERALLY....

The Great Sage Equal to Heaven has, in fact, killed his own ex-best friend, The Six-Eard Macaque right in front of you, with cold blood and a blank stare. He looked back at you, covered in his own kin's blood, you couldn't bear to watch anymore and ran until you could no longer move your feet, anywhere far from there to peacefully break down into tears without the eyes of that monster... He even had the audacity to show up next year at your house like nothing happened...!

You were then reincarnationed after a century. Oh, why? Simple, suicide, out of grief. As a... a child, one that Macaque took in, unknowingly to you about his past relationship with your "past self".

Back to the present, you were packing up Macaque's arm after the fight with that so-called "Peng"... Eugh, his attitude is worse than a 5y/o's throwing a tantrum..

"...Thanks, kid. You didn't have to."

The old shadow monk said, as he reached out and ruffled your hair softly. Funny how you went from best friends (almost lovers) and father figure and child figure, but he can't deny it, it's cute.