"Then, let's begin."
Lynn gazed at the countless masses of the Old Gods' flesh climbing out of the sea, closing in around him in a dense swarm, and a gentle expression appeared on his face.
"Let me take you to that starry sky."
Across the distant, vast western waters, the fleet of countless destroyers looked as though it had fled a great catastrophe.
Every ship deployed by the participating nations was here.
The devastating effects of the Old Gods' upheaval had severely disrupted wireless communications across almost the entire globe. Even Blue Star's magnetic field had shown enormous disturbances in the monitored bands.
But...
The dark clouds in the sky had dispersed.
Nature's raging waves had also subsided not long before. Everyone on deck felt dazed, as though they had been dreaming.
But they still dared not look back.
They were still waiting for Mr. Lynn to give them his final orders.
To tell them that everything had ended well.
Only when a captain caught sight of a figure in familiar clothes through his telescope, far away at the edge of the horizon, did everyone brighten with surprise.
"That's!! Mr. Lynn! He's back!!"
At that moment.
As the news spread through the fleet, excitement lit up everyone's eyes.
But soon.
As the figure drew closer, they quickly realized it was not the Mechanical Body they knew, but a little girl bounding across the sea. She wore Lynn's tattered clothes, her long black hair streaming behind her. She looked like a little sprite, her bare toes touching lightly against the surface as she raced toward them.
"That's..."
Everyone stared in surprise.
But Messiah and the others on deck soon recognized the little girl's voice and rushed to the railing in delight.
"It's Lynn's little maid!! I've seen her before!!"
"Here!!