"Lynn! What happened?"
Sir Awen and the others sent voice transmissions, asking him what had happened.
Lynn staggered back onto the Giant Ship, gasping for breath. Though his body had now reached the rank of an Origin, the overwhelming pressure of that single glance still made him feel as insignificant as an ant before an impassable gulf.
Just as I thought...
Just as I thought...
"His target is still me."
Lynn's eyes flickered wildly.
Everything, absolutely everything, had been for him!
Just like that time in the North Sea, just like that time in outer space above Blue Star, that Calamity and everything he had done had all been to find him and kill him!
The prophecy the Feather Pen had deciphered had spelled it all out long ago.
Something was protecting him. Something was searching for him.
And now!
He was here!
But why?! If I really died, what would happen?!
"Or perhaps he isn't actually trying to kill me."
Lynn gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
Is it that Great Lord instead?
That supposed former self of mine, my True Form?!
He could only guess.
He already knew he was the last Raven left in this world. But countless Ravens had died, and what had all their deaths been for?
He was only a insignificant human, a Night Doctor. He did not consider himself some pivotal figure capable of holding up the heavens.
But he knew.
He wasn't, but that Great Lord was!
As the last Raven that Great Lord had left in the Main Universe, did that mean that if he died here, the last trace of that Great Lord's existence in the Main Universe would be erased along with him?!
Was that it?!
Could that be it?!
Lynn gazed out of the cabin at Dark