The once-crystal-clear image had now become a blur of static. All that could vaguely be made out was its original silhouette and those highly distinctive enormous wings. Even the lost Thought Entity angel had probably had a higher resolution than this projection. Looking at the blurry image, its edges constantly trembling as if it might lose power at any moment, Sandora curiously pressed on. "Was what?"
"Alaya—that was what I originally wanted to say," I said, scratching my head as I roughly explained what had just happened. "That's the situation. My sister and I think this is an image left behind a very long time ago, quite possibly by Alaya back then. But we don't know what recorded it. My sister even thinks it might have been this flower..."
"An image of Alaya?" Sandora looked astonished. Of course, she did not doubt my words, but the discovery was indeed unexpected. Her gaze then fell on the small pedestal in the center of the open space, and she studied the little blue flower thoughtfully. "This plant... Hmm, I remember it now. I saw it back in the Sky Tower! Remember? One level of the Sky Tower was an enclosed primeval forest. The plants in that forest all carried this pale blue sheen, and some of the low-growing plants had leaves like this too—deep blue, with a crystalline texture."
Sandora's reminder made me remember as well. No wonder I had felt a strange sense of familiarity when I saw this little flower—although I had never seen one on Earth, and Gaia did not have anything like it either. So I had seen its kin in the Sky Tower last time?
Angel Sister stood silently before the pedestal, facing the Old Day Phantom that had become so blurry it was completely unrecognizable from