"You... aren't illusions he created?"
The girl with long black hair woke up and abruptly backed away, breaking free of Sir Awen's psionics as she stared at them, her face pale.
Sir Awen, and that Miss Machine Intelligence.
The psionics Sir Awen had just poured into her body felt nothing like something simulated by Ether.
More importantly...
He had no reason to pay any attention to her now. After that part of Brain's soul had agreed to his demands, he had casually dumped her here and never spared her another glance.
Sir Awen's gaze settled on Zuo Zuo's face. He crouched down and said,
"It's us, Zuo Zuo."
"We used some special means to infiltrate his consciousness. We just never expected to find you here."
Zuo Zuo's face was pale as she asked,
"Where's Brain? Where's Blockhead? Is he all right?"
All she remembered was that, before Ether swallowed her, a force had drawn his consciousness out of his body. After that, she knew nothing.
It was only later, when she woke up here, that she encountered the soul fragment of Brain that Ether had swallowed.
But she knew.
Her Brain had been fighting out there all along!
Sir Awen fell silent.
At the sight of his expression, Zuo Zuo seemed to understand something in an instant. Her lips moved, but she couldn't get a single word out.
"He... he's still alive, isn't he?"
Sir Awen opened his eyes and said,
"There were some complications, but don't worry. He has his own ideas. That fellow calculated everything from the start, and our infiltration of Ether's consciousness is part of the plan he laid out beforehand."
"Everything will be all right."
Zuo Zuo stood there, stunned.
But at that moment...
For some reason, her gaze instinctively drifted toward the dead raven