Aboard the Giant Ship at the Border.
"Help me up."
Lynn's eyes flickered. With Silver Fantasy supporting him, he struggled to rise from the ground.
He turned his head.
His gaze moved toward the rotting cabin.
Creak-creak-
Footsteps sounded on the rotten planks. He saw the towering captain emerge from the cabin, step by step, his pitch-black eyes meeting Lynn's gaze.
Silver Fantasy stared blankly at the captain.
Thinking back, she realized she seemed not to have seen him since the battle began. He hadn't been fighting on the front lines alongside Sir Awen and the others, either.
"Did you find it?"
Lynn spoke quietly.
Captain Constantine clenched his fists, his voice heavy with weariness and reluctance.
"No. We need to dilute him further."
"How many?"
Lynn looked up as he asked.
Constantine looked at him and said:
"At least two, operating simultaneously."
"Only then will we have a chance."
Lynn raised his hand and wiped the corner of his mouth.
"All right! Understood."
Lynn looked up at the open gate to the Strange Otherworld above him.
He spoke to Silver Fantasy.
"How many new Megastructures have you built?"
Silver Fantasy looked at the man's profile, at his resolute expression, and answered instinctively:
"The third is still under construction... what exactly are you..."
"All right!"
Lynn turned, cutting her off, and gave her a faint smile, his eyes gentle.
"Activate two Megastructures at once. We'll do it together."
Silver Fantasy's body gave a violent shudder. She immediately raised her head and stared straight into Lynn's eyes.
"I don't know what you two are doing!"
Her fists clenched.
"But you'll die. You won't survive this."
Her eyes wavered, no longer filled with cold, rational numbers, as though she had returned to that moment in an instant.
Lynn reached out.
He rested