(Miluno)
"Even if everything you said is true."
As I considered how to break the shell, I gave Aldebaran a perfunctory response.
"If it were the 'Great Will' from when its glory still remained, I could perhaps believe it was an existence capable of communicating and coexisting with Earth and humanity... But as for you, I had no interest in communicating, nor did I intend to let your ambitions succeed."
Despite what I said, Aldebaran's voice sounded somewhat pleased.
"Huh? So Miluno actually approves of the Past me?"
"Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not approving of you."
"It's all the same! You really don't trust me at all? Well, I was influenced to some extent by this magical girl called Aldebaran too... During the battle seven years ago, my consciousness seeped into this body. I've been acting in secret ever since, and now that the time is ripe, the descent of the 'Great Will' is inevitable. There's no reason to hide it anymore."
"What exactly are you?"
If my guess was right, she was at most some kind of Proxy Unit.
"The Great Will has already fallen asleep." That was also a universally accepted fact.
"The brain. Going by the naming conventions you people use, I should be called the 'Great Brain'?"
Oh. So she was a great big brain.
The golden flower crown on her head certainly was quite large.
"I'm responsible for the consciousness and thoughts of the 'Great Will,' so it's not wrong to say that I am the consciousness of the 'Great Will' itself, right?"
You couldn't take a single body part and call it a person. The Great Will was no different. She was merely a subsystem, yet she wanted to represent the whole? That was far too arrogant.
"Wasn't Aldebaran's body made of