Starlight spilled between the drifting white clouds, while an invisible pressure spread through the silent night.
In that instant, every hair on Lin Chichi's body stood on end. It was as if something even more terrifying than the metal giant before her was "awakening" beneath the quiet night sky, and invisible, frenzied whispers echoed through her mind.
Almost at the same moment, the enormous metal giant seemed to sense something. It raised its head and looked behind Lin Chichi.
An invisible wind swept over the girl's arm, through her hair, and across the metal giant's body.
Whether it was an illusion or reality, Lin Chichi suddenly felt that the "scythe" in her hand had become much heavier.
The scythe, which had originally felt so natural in her grasp, now seemed strangely unwieldy.
It was as though some invisible connection she had forged with the scythe during their fierce battle had been severed by a powerful external force.
Now, the scythe had returned to an "unowned" state.
As that unfamiliar sensation flooded her heart, the girl suddenly realized that the chains dancing before her, which had been about to tear her apart, had somehow "stopped."
Like her loss of control over the scythe, the owner of those chains seemed to have temporarily lost control over them.
Not only the chains, but even the enormous metal giant before her seemed to have lost "control." Its raised head froze in place, and like rusted machinery that had not run for ages, its movements became extraordinarily slow.
Lin Chichi realized something and Turned Head to look behind her.
The holy girl, like a sacred spirit, was hovering in the air not far behind her. Her exquisite long dress fluttered without wind, and her gray-golden hair streamed beneath the starlight.
Lin Chichi had countless times