Luliana's delight extended beyond the ether core. When she turned her gaze to Doros's shell, joy surfaced once more in her shattered-gold eyes—along with profound shock.
In merely a few minutes, a brand-new shell had been born in Angel's hands!
If it had been prepared beforehand, Luliana might have understood. But she had watched with her own eyes as Angel used the materials from the human-machine body to reforge it bit by bit!
This shell gave her an intense sense of familiarity and intimacy. That was also because it had been made entirely from human-machine materials. In a sense, it could even be said to have been born from her... child?
"It..." Luliana wanted to say something, but when she saw Angel intently examining the shell, she quickly stopped, afraid of disturbing him while he worked.
"What is it?" Angel was not working at the moment. Having finished reforging the shell, he was merely checking its integrity and airtightness.
"N-Nothing." Luliana covered her mouth, her voice slipping through her fingers.
Angel glanced at Luliana. He only felt that the current Luliana was rather different from the silent War Goddess Luliana of before. Her manner was coy, and her gaze had become somewhat clearer. She seemed more like a... young girl?
Perhaps this "Luliana" resurrected by Moon Eye had originally been a young girl?
The thought flashed through Angel's mind, only to be swept into the depths of memory by a flood of complicated thoughts.
Who had the resurrected Luliana originally been? Whether she had been a young girl? None of that mattered. There was no Wonderland Quest, so why think so much about it?
Besides, Luliana reacting like this was quite good. Compared to before, she had become more human.
It could also be considered a rebound after shedding her