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The original "Great Will"?

I knew what it had looked like.

A towering pillar of light had surged from the center of an enormous pyramid, spilling its holy, gentle radiance across the world and nurturing the lives it had created.

Those lives revered the Great Will, and the Great Will loved them in return.

Had that been a gentle world without malice?

Perhaps.

But it had also been unbearably fragile. Its highly advanced technology was nothing but a castle in the air. When the Great Will's radiance dimmed, the flame of civilization had gone out with it...

There had been no malice, yet it had given birth to the greatest tragedy.

"How can we make the 'Great Will' return to that state?"

"There's only one answer I can think of."

Aldebaran's face drew closer to mine. The pool was so small that I had nowhere to dodge.

"Become the Great Will! Miluno, don't be a shell for the Great Will to possess-turn the tables and become the one in control! Overcome despair with your own will, and turn darkness into light!"

"No, even if you put it in such hot-blooded terms, I still don't think that's possible..."

I couldn't fight the "Great Will" on my own. Hadn't I already tried that once?

"Don't be so quick to decide. Haven't you already seen examples of darkness turning into light?"

Examples of darkness turning into light...

"Sophia and Locust?"

I thought about it, then realized something was off.

"Wait, how do you know about them? Aren't you inside the dark seal?"

"That's what intelligence gathering is for~ Miluno, don't lump me in with a brute like you who only knows how to do everything herself... whoa!"

The bottom of the pool was slippery. Aldebaran lost her footing and plunged headfirst into the