Rita Bernal

The only thing that surprised Thor was the girl who ultimately merged completely with [Phoenix] using half her soul—Rita Bernal.

After Thor approached the Newtype research facility where Rita was held, she actually sensed—or rather, foresaw—his arrival.

The key was that Thor still had his mental barrier protection skill fully activated, which should theoretically have blocked all kinds of external psychic detection.

Yet the frail, tiny Rita had not merely sensed Thor's arrival.

She even raised her index fingertip toward Ultimate DG Cells so minuscule that they were invisible to the naked eye, smaller than dust.

She lightly touched the direction from which they were slowly drifting toward her.

Then she asked in Thor's direction, "My lord god, did you come to see me?"

Startled, Thor simply accelerated the Ultimate DG Cells, letting them merge into Rita's frail body and using them to connect with her consciousness.

"If you're speaking to me, then yes, I did come to see you."

"That's wonderful, my lord god. It really was you."

Rita was not surprised in the slightest by the voice suddenly appearing in her mind. Instead, it seemed to invigorate her frail body.

Thor looked at the stitched scars across her head and body.

She was clearly already eleven years old, but after enduring long-term experiments and surgeries, she looked only eight or nine.

Thor could not bear to reveal his true identity. He feared that, just like before, she would lose the will to live and ultimately choose to merge with Phoenix.

Though weak flesh and mechanical ascension were not necessarily bad things.

It was still too cruel a life for such a young girl.

He could not bear it.

After chatting with her for a while.

Thor also felt that her Newtype perception level was above his own, at