A dream.
I had no idea when I had fallen asleep.
It was my own dream, yet I felt powerless to control it, as though I were suspended in an ethereal, weightless void, unable even to move.
"Trust Mi Xue."
A voice reached my ears. Whose voice was it?
So far away, yet so close.
There was no one in sight, but her voice was right beside my ear.
So familiar, yet so unfamiliar.
I was sure I knew it, but I couldn't remember.
"I am a consciousness fragment you absorbed."
Back in Zodiacal's core chamber, I had followed SpiCa's suggestion and tried to merge with the Avatar of the Great Will again, hoping to free my other self and the Proxy.
Although I had failed in the end, we had briefly merged. Was this something foreign that had flowed into me then?
Whose fragment?
Mine, or the Proxy's?
Or that avatar's?
"That doesn't matter. I am the product of that merging."
"My existence cannot affect you in any way."
"As a fragment, I am harmless."
"Mi Xue is not that Great Will."
"She is our child."
That "our" probably doesn't include me, right?
"Under limited, almost impossibly strict conditions, we found the best solution for allowing both worlds to coexist: a grand plan to unite the two worlds by combining the Earth Crystal and the Great Will."
Enheria's ultimate ideal.
After absorbing the Proxy, was Mi Xue planning to take up that goal?
"She is carrying out that plan."
"Trust Mi Xue."
The voices were terribly jumbled. More than one person was whispering in my ear, but their message was still fairly clear.
Mi Xue...
In other words, the Great Will. She was working on a plan to let the two worlds truly coexist.
It sounded wonderful.
But she