Silver Fantasy seized his collar and pinned him to the ground, staring coldly at him with eyes brimming with the Digital Current, her fist trembling without pause.
"I don't need your charity-"
Lynn looked at her, wiped the erosion marks from the corner of his mouth, and said:
"Then what are you still chasing? You already knew who he was, so why didn't you expose him sooner? You'd already guessed my identity. Why did you still come after me?"
"Because you took him away from me!"
She suddenly lost control and clenched her teeth.
A deathly silence spread.
Only the wind beneath the black mist remained.
Once again, her eyes held that heartbreaking look she had worn when the Purification Council forced her hand. Machines could not shed tears. Even with a human heart, she could only remain locked inside an iron cage for the rest of her life.
But her expression finally began to settle.
As though she had endured a cruel coming of age.
She looked at him and said:
"I'm not as fragile as you think-Lynn-you're just like the Intelligent Brain-just like the Purification Council-just like my father-you always wallow in how moved you are by your own actions-you all like forcing what you think is right on me-"
Scenes from those bygone days flashed before his eyes.
At that moment.
Once again, he saw that deep, impenetrable loneliness in her eyes, but it soon sank so far that he could no longer reach it.
"I begged you all-I begged you, too-leave me something-even if it's fake-but none of you ever cared-"
"You didn't want him to stay-the Intelligent Brain didn't-the Purification Council didn't-you all had reasons you thought were right-and then you acted on them-you never thought about what would happen to me-because you're all the