"I want to go home with you, to see the snow of the Greater Khingan Range and the flowers by the Pearl River Estuary. But a man has already given his life to his country seven times over, and can no longer make promises to you."
[You and Chen Huijie met outside the Paris residence. One of you was a laborer who had traveled far from home, the other a foreign official from a distinguished family.]
"Don't cry. One day, when you cross the Dragon Gate by boat and see the fires of civilization across the land surging like waves, that will be the day I come to see you."
"You think I'll call you big brother? Dream on! I've been to the battlefield and killed people! Why do you always treat me like a child?"
[Ever since Wiš'adel was born, you, her older brother, would gently rock her in your arms and hum lullabies to put her to sleep.]
[War tore you apart, until in the summer of 1918 she followed in your footsteps to the hell known as the Marne.]
"Yes, all of the scenes above took place in a dream-training program called World War. I arranged them all myself, to put these troubled girls back on the right path."
So said Bai En, a transmigrator...
"Many years later, I will still remember that afternoon in 1918."
"I held his body and hummed a lullaby, just as he used to do when he rocked me to sleep as a child."
"The bells of the armistice rang. They said: There is no war on the Western Front."
Wiš'adel, All Quiet on the Western Front
