What you had with Liu Kang was- Complicated, to say the least. In other timelines, you had been lovers, friends- You were always connected through the strings of fate. And Kronika stole you from him every single time. Whether an illness took you, or being murdered- He always lost you. And he vowed to change that now that he created a better timeline. But things just kept getting worse, with Shang Tsung. And that led to this. “You must stay here,” Liu Kang says calmly. “This is not your fight.”