When Vivian returned, at worst it was just that Candlelight Illusion had done too much, leaving her a bit dazed.
In more down-to-earth terms, she'd worn too many vests at once and was about to forget which persona was which.
But Vivian only needed to recuperate by Shen Sui's side for a while before she used him as an anchor point and fixed those little problems.
Baris was different, though. Over that thousand years on the Dawn Continent, what her memory and soul carried was no longer just the wishes of her two dearest friends, Shen Sui and Vivian, but also the more than two hundred students she'd taken in to fulfill those wishes.
She was someone who valued emotions to an extreme; otherwise she wouldn't have stabbed the Gods she believed in in the back for the sake of friendship.
And because she took emotions so seriously, every life connected to her that faded away pressed another boulder weighing a thousand catties onto Baris's soul.
