Lynn: "Are there really degrees of being a bastard...?"
The Colossus Brain walked toward him, step by step.
She finally stopped before the Throne.
She raised her head.
She was so short that even standing like this, she was still below Lynn as he sat on the Throne.
She reached her fingers out toward him.
"There is actually a way to verify it, and that is why I explained so much to you. Perhaps you don't remember anything, but since you've admitted that you are Raven, you must also admit that you are far older than anything you've experienced."
"Because that raven was the Father of Genes of our entire civilization."
"And there is only one way to determine whether you are our raven. If you can safely accept the Authority I transfer to you, then you must be him, because our flesh would never reject its father."
Lynn stared blankly.
The Colossus Brain's eyes were utterly still as she said:
"Take my hand."
"I'll give you one percent. If you can receive it, then you're the raven I've been looking for."
The entire Colossus Network fell into a brief silence.
At that moment.
It was as though all the points of light scattered throughout the Dark World held their breath and focused. Even Zuo Zuo gaped in bewilderment.
Lynn's gaze grew solemn.
Finally.
He reached out.
He enclosed the small hand the Colossus Brain offered him in his own.
"And what if I can't accept it?"
He asked.
The Colossus Brain said softly:
"Then it means I've found the wrong person."
In an instant.
An unbearably dazzling blood-red light burst from where their hands clasped. Her entire body seemed to blaze with the Colossus's might, a bloody radiance shimmering all over her, as though her whole body, every last