Zuo Zuo shouted in that direction, her little body vaulting over the railing as she started to run toward it.
Tears spilled from her eyes again.
"You jerk! Stop scaring me like this! If you're not dead, crawl out here for Zuo Zuo!!"
"If you do this again, I'll scatter every last coin in your secret stash when we get back to Dark Night City!! Zuo Zuo means it!!"
She shouted.
Silence surrounded her.
But just as her eyes gradually began to grow vacant...
A familiar, helpless voice suddenly rang out in the sky.
"There's no need to be that cruel... It's only been two minutes since I sealed him. You have to give me a little time to get ready."
The moment that voice rang out...
Everyone present jolted.
"Lynn?!"
Silver Fantasy's eyes filled with urgency. She swiftly vaulted off the Giant Ship and floated high into the sky.
And there, under their gazes...
High in the sky, where Ether had just been sealed, countless points of light gradually began to flicker.
The next instant...
Those points of light abruptly converged at the center!
At that singularity, a matrix shimmering with golden light expanded from a tiny speck with a rumble, rotating as it emerged into the physical world.
Machinery was forged, flesh was cast, and those countless points of light seemed alive. Within the dazzling radiance of the matrix, as though inside an immense furnace, they gradually forged a humanoid outline.
Faintly...
They seemed to hear the first gears of the Great Industrial Era mesh.
They heard the mighty gurgling of blood flowing through a body.
They felt psionics tempering the mind.
"That's..."
Sir Awen's face was filled with shock and disbelief.
Bzz-
In an instant, all the light dispersed.
A body melding machinery and flesh abruptly opened