"Yes." His eyes had been very sad. He tilted his head at Jingyi.

"I was lucky. When Lord Gyousou was here, he remembered the same as me, right until the moment we came here. It would have been strange if he had come from a different time or a place where things had turned out differently."

A time before he was the king. Or a world where the gods had chosen differently. All of that would have been far too strange.