He still clearly remembered the account of their experiences he had heard in the Colossus Brain's consciousness space. When they fell into Hell, everyone except her-her Queen and her subjects-had shattered their own consciousness in the void to spare her the effects of the curse and allow her to soar into the sky again.
Just like Zuo Zuo.
Although she really had become brain-damaged, if she was willing to accept her memories from her time as Queen, she could still become one of the former twin stars of the Colossus at any moment.
There was Big Tongue, too, along with the countless consciousnesses of her subjects that had appeared when Brain summoned them.
They had all been reborn within the flesh.
"That's because their information is engraved in the flesh. After every death, the information left in it lets them be reborn again and again. So, in a sense, the Colossus really is hard to kill..."
He slowly brought the piece of flesh in his hand to life.
"It's actually the same for her. That girl really did die, and all she left behind were these lingering thoughts that turned into a curse. But I wonder... if I made her part of the Colossus as well, and fused those lingering thoughts into the flesh..."
A smile appeared on his face.
"Could she, too, be reborn little by little over the long river of time...?"
In the pitch-black room, a breeze blew outside the window.
Only the mass of flesh in his hand gave off a faint glow, illuminating the surrounding night that would never melt away.
Perhaps this was life.
Sometimes, things really could not turn out perfectly. Perhaps a broken mirror really could not always be made whole again...
But...
Under Lynn's control, the black threads of the curse,