In Beltira's secret laboratory, the atmosphere suddenly became tense and heavy. Bard said nothing for a long while, merely replaying his memories of the elf sisters and recalling the information he had obtained from the Divine Authority Council's internal public files and the former End of All Things system, trying to reconstruct and piece together the actions of two elves who might have suffered some form of "contamination" in the Divine Kingdom a thousand years ago.
As an ordinary Technical Personnel member, his clearance within Sorin Region's research hierarchy was not high. Yet as someone who had broken free of the Mind Imprint in the old era, as one of the End of All Things' rare "successful test subjects," a "nonbeliever," Bard had his own place in the Divine Authority Council.
After a long time, he raised his head and slowly said, "Do you think... the purpose of her 'creating' a body through some unknown technology after returning to the real world was not to 'resurrect' her 'sister' at all? What if she wanted to bring some 'thing' from the Divine Kingdom into our world, and that thing needed a vessel..."
He paused there, then spoke again only after a moment's thought. "There's just one thing I can't understand. If the one who returned from the Divine Kingdom back then had already suffered Mental Corruption and become some kind of obsessive lunatic, and that corruption continued for an entire thousand years afterward, how did she keep the ability to think rationally all this time?"
Beltira looked into Bard's eyes and waited until he finished before saying in a low voice, "Then I have an even bolder guess—one even more horrifying than yours—
"The Defiance Plan believed that the person who returned from the Divine Kingdom after the accident was one