The blonde girl curled up in the deepest reaches of the icy pool, wrapped in countless layers of hatred and malice-and the kind heart she had never abandoned!
"Alice!"
Lynn let out a roaring call and stretched his hand toward the girl with all his strength.
At the bottom of the freezing pool, amid the frenzied hatred.
The girl raised her head in a daze.
"I'm your doctor!"
"If you trust me."
Lynn's face twisted fiercely as he plunged deeper and deeper through that sea of consciousness, reaching ceaselessly toward the girl.
Behind him came a raging surge of black vines, the Vengeful Ghost's savage hatred, and shrill, terrifying howls.
"Then let me!"
At last.
In that final instant, Lynn managed to reach the girl.
His face reflected in her eyes, along with the sliver of kindness hidden deep within his fierce gaze.
Just as, once upon a time.
Her departed family...
What she had longed for...
A gentle, friendly hand reaching out to her once again...
"Let me heal your wounds!"
Buzzz-
The vast darkness and hatred swept over his entire body like a surging fountain of blood. Dense black capillaries crawled across his cheeks in an instant.
The right hand he had thrust into the Vengeful Ghost's body snapped off, and his body was hurled far away like a kite with a broken string.
Black blood steeped in hatred scattered across the sky.
His body slammed into the ground dozens of meters away, dragging a long crimson trail behind him.
[Ding! Your health is rapidly decreasing!] [Ding! Your body is suffering extensive erosion from ghost energy!] [Ding! Current ghost energy erosion: 67%] [Ding! Current ghost energy erosion: 75%] [Warning! Warning! Warning!]
But Lynn paid it no mind. He raised his head, a crazed grin instantly spreading