Rumble-
The ground shook ever more violently. Huge quantities of fragments peeled off the forcibly opened Boundary Gate, and the turbulent spatial currents sliced through the surrounding matter and space with sharp cracks. Even the black mist overhead was sucked into it in vast swathes.
"Blockhead!! Something's wrong with the Boundary Gate! That sword strike disrupted the energy here too much!! Something feels off!! It doesn't seem to lead to Dark Night City anymore!!"
Zuo Luo clung tightly to a branch of the Mother Tree of Desire, her whole body flapping backward like a flag.
She shouted.
Lynn carried the Mechanical Maiden over his shoulder, his mind a chaotic mush under the curse's backlash. That savage impulse almost drove him to destroy everything around him, but he still gritted his teeth, using his willpower to keep his last shred of reason from being swept away.
"Hahahahaha!"
Without warning, he began laughing wildly again, because this time he could clearly feel the Clown Curse taking advantage of his confusion to worm its way in.
Right now... he really was...
He really was high out of his mind!
"Blockhead!! Blockhead, snap out of it!! This isn't the time for an episode!! What are we supposed to do?! Half the Mother Tree's trunk is already being swallowed up!"
Zuo Zuo shouted a warning.
Lynn whipped his head around, his increasingly abnormal eyes instantly locking onto the distant sky.
But he still forced himself to hold on to that brief moment of clarity.
"Through the Boundary Gate-! Something's coming this way-even if we can't get back to Dark Night City-we can't stay here any longer-!"
In an instant.
He abruptly released his last hold over the Mother Tree's trunk.
"Go-!"
The Boundary Gate's immense suction surged forth. With Lynn's final roar as his reason