In the storm, Zuo Zuo hauled herself up over the edge of the cliff. Panting, she gazed at the boy bound in heavy chains.
His consciousness was muddled, but he still seemed to sense the girl's presence.
"Zuo Zuo... what... are you doing here..."
He opened his mouth, letting out a faint, indistinct murmur.
"I already told you..."
"Just stay there... you don't have to worry about any of this... all you have to do is stay safe..."
But before he could finish, the girl broke into a run toward him.
She gritted her teeth, tears welling in her eyes.
"Because!"
"I'm the one who brought you here!!"
There were no more obstacles. Across those few dozen meters, nothing could stop her now.
Amid the wind and snow.
Her tears swept away on the howling gale toward the sky beyond the cliff.
At that moment.
She slammed into Lynn's chest. The massive chains rattled and trembled, and that fragment of Lynn's soul jerked his head up, his mouth falling open as his pupils dilated and contracted.
The girl clung tightly to his chest, her tears flowing without end.
Against his chest.
The raven's corpse pierced his chest like a sharp dagger.
"If you've already planned all of this! If this is the only way you can defeat Ether! Then don't give in anymore!"
"Show them!"
"Show them that you, Blockhead, can become a leader who turns the tide and makes them see you in a whole new light!"
Zuo Zuo's cries pierced his ears like the howling wind.
A dazzling light also burst from the eyes of the raven's corpse embedded in his chest. Like the corpses of the two ravens he had devoured before, this one gradually dissolved into motes of light and fused into his body.
At that