From the underground catacombs... Cough, cough!
After returning from the World Center to the Second Research Institute, I spat out the "Light Soldier" I had swallowed in front of Aldebaran, and she was immediately stabbed through the stomach by a Light Hand Blade.
"Mi-chan, do you think this is funny?"
With a smile that did not reach her eyes, Aldebaran quickly locked me and it in the same cage.
She even asked, "Where did this come from?"
"The lowest level of the World Center!" Mono answered.
"Then you really did bring back something extraordinary."
Aldebaran clutched her stomach, yet her brows shot up in delight.
"She is also a child of the Great Will, just like us. The difference is that we were born after the Great Will fell into darkness, while she was born before that. By seniority, she would be my older sister? She is a rare Child of Light... perhaps even the last one.
What a surprise. I never imagined the World Center was hiding something like this."
That was what Aldebaran said. As for whether she truly had not known, I had my doubts. After all, she had said she retained the memories of countless cycles.
This thing was also a Proxy Unit of the Great Will—a backup system.
"She was activated by the light you brought over, wasn't she? But after lacking light for thousands of years, she has completely lost her intelligence and been reduced to a counterfeit roughly on the level of the Shadow Soldiers."
If that was the case...
Then this rabid dog that bit anyone she saw had originally been a rational being?
Pinning the "Light Soldier" beneath me, I asked again:
"Is there any way to restore her sanity?"
"No chance~ Even if you stimulated intelligence again, she would no