Compared to what the two Arbitrators who could not hurt him even by self-destructing were thinking, Gwen was more concerned with the changes currently taking place in Lavoce.
As she continuously absorbed the Psionic Energy Gwen fed her, the traces of METAization on Lavoce's body had completely vanished, and faint Psionic Energy fluctuations gradually began to appear around her.
Those fluctuations were even more... unusual than Yorktown's.
Gwen guessed that this might be related to Lavoce's rigging, Naked Sea Butterfly, which had been created to investigate the cause of the experiment's failure—
Since Lavoce's rigging was the result of investigating the reasons for failure, then after obtaining the correct sample, it was possible for it to steer the experiment in the right direction.
Whether for the hundreds of girls who had only just joined him today or for Yorktown, Gwen needed to determine what the Creator's intended evolution truly was, in order to reduce the risks the other girls would face during evolution as much as possible.
Then, beneath Gwen's comprehensive observation, Lavoce completed a transformation that he was unsure could be called "evolving into perfect Mental Awakening."
From Gwen's perspective, Lavoce's previously illusory soul, which had carried several traits of her rigging, Naked Sea Butterfly, had now become no different from that of an ordinary person—except incomparably stronger.
Moreover, because Psionic Energy surged through her body, a faint halo bloomed around Lavoce, making her seem like a Goddess descended from heaven.
However, perhaps because she had not been prepared, Lavoce failed to awaken immediately after completing her transformation and instead remained in a strange half-dreaming, half-waking state.
"Does this count as successfully undergoing what you call Mental Awakening?"
After confirming that Lavoce no longer needed his Psionic Energy, Gwen withdrew his hand and looked at Empress and Hermite before