Without the slightest hesitation.
In an instant.
[Identity verification complete-frame upload access granted-matching you with a suitable Mechanical Unit-] [Match successful-you will be uploaded to a 051-Type Mechanical Humanoid Combat Frame-good luck-]
Vmmm-
Streams of digital light flickered across his body.
In that instant, Lynn's consciousness left the Hive and entered a frame in the real world through Bio-Armor.
Only that figure remained, gazing silently.
At the endless fields.
Like a heart that could no longer stir.
After leaving the Hive.
Lynn piloted the humanoid frame, bursting out of the thick, lingering black mist almost instantly amid the roar of its engine and its tremendous thrust.
His gaze remained fixed dead ahead.
He pushed the frame's power output almost to its limit.
And pressed onward.
Until its energy ran out and it crashed heavily onto the deathly silent earth.
He climbed to his feet.
And took his damaged Trinity Frame out of his system space.
Once again, he forced its engine to start.
As though driven by some reckless obsession, he raced desperately in that direction.
Across the wasteland, through mountains and ravines.
Only when the frame finally sounded an alarm, unable to bear the strain any longer, did he reach his destination.
[Ding! You have discovered an area: Doll Manor]
He jerked his head up.
Beyond the sprawling thorns and roses, the manor nestled among them appeared before his eyes like a secluded paradise.
He hurried along the muddy path.
Racing toward it.
The rose bushes lining the road seemed not to have been pruned for several days, and dewdrops still dripped from the barbed thorns.
The entire manor was silent.
It was as though no one had ever lived there, as though everyone had gone and left it cold. All he could hear