(Miluno)
After leaving Jadeite Stone Prison, I was still thinking about what Extinction had said earlier.
[A key person was hidden by the will of the Earth Crystal, and it was someone we all knew.]
Who on earth was it?
Why had they been hidden?
Had they sacrificed themselves?
The Earth Crystal had erased their existence flawlessly. I had not the slightest memory of that person, but the place gouged out had left a blank behind. The hole inside me was too vast to fill. That person had meant something extraordinary to me.
As for that, Gong Ling's suggestion had been...
I climbed the stairs, several dozen meters high, and returned through the back door to the parking lot on the surface, then got into Yin Wei's little Beetle.
"Oh? You're planning to ask the people who took part in the final battle?"
After hearing my account, she propped her chin on her hand and replied:
"I wasn't there, so I don't know. If someone really was hidden by the Earth Crystal, anyone who spent time with her would definitely feel the same unnatural feeling you do. You might not be able to remember what she originally looked like, but you could sketch out a rough picture of her from the outlines of that blank."
I understood what she meant, but I still had little confidence in the outcome.
"Anyway, let's stop by Barbara's place first, then take me back downtown."
I had long since grown used to teleportation magic that let me come and go as I pleased. Life these days was inconvenient in a way I felt from the bottom of my heart.
"I don't know if Barbara's free during the day. Between that fundraising concert and the news that she bought Sacred Tree Park, she's something