"Because I was never a good person to begin with! Ahahahahaha!"
Under Zuo Zuo's exasperated stare, Lynn planted his hands on his hips and burst into smug laughter. One look at him was enough to tell he was no respectable figure.
This... this bastard...
Her fists were already clenched rock-hard!
Outside, in the Data Cage.
Crack-
An arc of psionic light swept past.
With his psionics, Lynn easily broke the Data Chains binding her, freeing the imprisoned girl from the Terminal.
He adjusted his Monocle and said slowly:
"Don't worry. Before cutting the chains, I blocked the surveillance equipment from watching you. You're free for now."
Inside the cage, the girl with lacquer-gold hair rose slowly, freed from her chains. Her expression returned to what it had been before, and her long hair, like golden lacquer, made her look like an imprisoned woman.
She studied the mysterious man before her.
Lynn, the enemy whom their Mechanical Church had placed at the very top of its wanted list from the moment he appeared.
And now.
She was standing on the same side as someone like him.
Light Banquet turned and surveyed their surroundings.
"This is the Information Terminal they built specifically for me-after awakening my self-awareness-from what I know-at least two hundred versions of me are currently imprisoned in devices like this-they need the computing power I possess as one of the Seven Gods-to make up for the severe shortage of computing power facing the entire base-"
Lynn looked the slender Machine God over, a questioning look in his eyes.
"You must know something. Since you're a Terminal now, vast amounts of information pass through you every moment. So what exactly are you plotting?"
Light Banquet raised her head, exposing her smooth neck, and said:
"My clearance is insufficient-but