144, Blood Bond? Lilith's Charge Is Officially Listed!

For some reason, the whispers by her ear seemed to grow clearer. Amid the nauseating, dizzying tinnitus, a soft voice occasionally called, "Lilith..."

"Lilith..."

The voice became clearer and closer, as though... it were right in front of her!

Lilith abruptly opened her eyes. In the murky crimson liquid, she saw the other person's exquisite yet slightly youthful face reflected.

Rimuru, in his true form, was desperately reaching out, seemingly trying to pull her out, yet no matter what he did, he could not touch her.

Rimuru was troubled—because this was a sea of consciousness, everything here was, in essence, a manifestation of concepts and the mind.

Lilith kept sinking, which meant her final consciousness was about to fade away. If he could not call her consciousness back, there was no way he could touch her!

In the end, he was not someone proficient in mental abilities! Even Great Sage could not break through the mental consciousness of someone who was herself Sequence 3 and forcibly awaken her.

Growing anxious, he could not help calling out to her.

Rimuru?!

As though startled awake from a dream, perhaps because Rimuru had absorbed too much of the aberration for her, Lilith blinked blankly. Her body suddenly seemed to regain some strength—if this was an illusion too... then for me.

It was still a pretty good ending.

Using the last of her strength, she reached out, wanting to touch Rimuru—but in the next instant, a strong, warm hand seized her palm at just the right moment... Lilith's eyes widened. The whispers at her ears suddenly receded like the tide, and her once-chaotic world instantly became clear. The sounds of her body churning through the sea of blood, of bubbles bursting, were so distinct that for the first time, she felt they sounded wonderful.