Eden's Comfort and the New Goods from the Main God / The Shattered Saint Cloth After the Failed Holy War
An unofficial history once recorded such an event: before burying his comrade, a warrior chose to separate a portion of his soul.
He left it behind for his comrade.
Afterward, something unexpected happened. The warrior who had originally died opened his eyes once more and came back to life.
If what that unofficial history recorded was true, then...
At that thought, Eden blurted out,
"The stigmata only called forth Aili's consciousness.
It was only after receiving a portion of your soul that it completely stabilized.
And the piece of Aili's soul inside your body also grew from that portion of soul you split off?"
"If our previous speculation was correct, then this is very likely true,"
Gwen said gravely.
"But... this seems far too...
If your soul hadn't been strong enough back then, wouldn't you have faced the danger of your soul collapsing?"
Although that seemed to be the case based on the information they had now,
Eden still found it hard to believe, given what she knew of Alicia—
If Gwen's soul had not been tough enough at the time, the result would have been both of their souls scattering into nothingness.
"There may have been some kind of mechanism involved—
By then, it had been nearly a year since I fused with Mahamayuri's Hyper-Evolution Factor.
Perhaps that mechanism only activated once I was capable of bearing that burden?"
Gwen thought of a possibility and said casually,
"But no matter what exactly happened back then, it isn't a problem now.
What we need to think about now is where Aili's consciousness has gone, and... how to bring her back."
Though Aili, whose memories had synchronized with his, was no different from the Alicia he knew,
only by recovering Aili's consciousness could the sleeping soul within his body awaken, allowing