The wind of Dark Night City brushed Lynn's cheeks. He stood there in a daze for a long time, as though nothing remained in his ears but that hollow echo.
The Feather Pen in his hand dimmed once again.
The interference of fate receded from him like drifting mist, as though it had never appeared.
But he knew he had not been mistaken.
The figure who had appeared at the very last moment was his missing Feather Pen. He had once seen her true form in the Vision Realm. Back in that ancient Shattered World, when she was still a Rules God, her beauty had already been unrivaled.
In an instant.
Lynn spun around.
With almost no hesitation, he moved to open the Boundary Gate again.
"Lynn!"
Sir Awen's arrival immediately interrupted his attempt to reopen the gate. He seized Lynn's wrist.
The girl the Colossus had become and Titan's family also leaped out of the Black Fortress and landed beside him. The Origins of Dark Night City gathered around him once more.
Sir Awen's gaze was grave.
"Calm down. We still don't know exactly what happened, but you saw that terrifying power too. If we rush back now, you know what the consequences will be."
Lynn opened his eyes, which were slowly becoming bloodshot.
"Was it the Feather Pen?"
Sir Awen said nothing, but his gaze had already given Lynn the answer.
After the collapse of Dark Night City.
Everyone had returned.
Yet the one person who should have returned most of all had not. All this time, there had not been the slightest news of her. It was as though she had never existed in this world, as though all of them had forgotten her.
Lynn's emotions surged violently, and the figure he had just seen kept surfacing