❝ I had no choice. I had to do this- bring her back. ❞ - hi, mk has no regrets
to say that sun wukong was angry was... an understatement. he has experienced anger, but not like this. in fact, he's not even sure if this anger. it's just... disappointment. the sage had been watching mk for so long before deciding that this was going to be the successor. it wasn't just some weird string of fate, but -- mk had proved that he was he was going to be greater than he was. that he wasn't going to follow in the rocky footsteps made by the monkey king. sun wukong made a bunch of mistakes that he couldn't take back.
which is why seeing the similar footsteps behind his shocks him. mk wasn't supposed to follow his path, he was supposed to be carving his own with the tools sun wukong provided. sun wukong dug his metaphorical grave and mk was digging his right next to it.
❝ that's not the point of this, mk ! you can't just strike people's names out of the ledger of death, that's not how this works ! ❞ people come and go, that's life. it was something that took the monkey king so long to learn.
there's a brief silence before he continues, ❝ we're going back... and you're going to fix this, kid. ❞