Whoosh-
Under the gazes of Silver Fantasy and the Mother Tree of Desire, the pebble he threw passed straight through the enormous eye of the Old Days as though nothing were there, raising a tiny splash far out on the sea.
The pebble fell, and ripples spread.
At that moment, silence fell over the battlefield.
All the machine consciousnesses stared stiffly at the pebble that had fallen into the sea.
The eyes of Silver Fantasy and the Mother Tree of Desire went blank in an instant.
The surf rose and fell.
The enormous phantom of the Old Days slowly faded into nothingness.
Like foam on the water.
Lynn stretched his arms, then sat down cross-legged with a smile and said:
"There was never a third Origin here, everyone. This was nothing more than a countermeasure against you. One of you was the mantis stalking its prey, and the other was the oriole waiting behind it. One wanted to kill me, and the other wanted to force Dark Night City into the fray. But you need to understand something... you can't outmaneuver me."
"I could wrap you around my little finger months ago, and I can do it even more easily now. You're nothing more than opponents I've already defeated."
"And now that I, Lynn, have come to this land..."
He slowly adjusted his Monocle, its lens refracting the glow of the Deep Sea.
He pointed at the ground beneath his feet.
"I'm the only one who gets to dictate what happens here."
He smiled faintly.
And in the very next moment.
Just as Silver Fantasy furiously kicked off the ground at an unimaginable speed, charging over to kill him, the waters behind him, riddled with erosion marks, churned into towering waves. An enormous surge rolled ashore, swallowing his body at