"Turn back... to how you were a long, long time ago..."
Xiao Xiao stared blankly at her Doctor Big Brother.
"A long time ago?"
"Yes, a long, long time ago..."
The night wind swept across the silent wilderness.
Lynn suddenly smiled and raised his hand. Just as he had on that night so many years ago, he held out a finger to the child before him, who was many times larger than he was.
Just like that promise from so long ago.
Xiao Xiao stared in a daze as those chaotic fragments kept surfacing. At last, without knowing why, she slowly extended one of her tentacles.
Gently.
It touched his finger.
A breeze brushed their cheeks.
The dazzling white light bloomed over them like a magnificent miracle, illuminating the pitch-black night.
As the white light enveloped her, her pupils widened slightly.
Those fragments from three thousand years ago.
The blood and fire while she slept, the scarlet blood that splashed onto her face when she still understood so little.
It was as though she had woken up once again to find that she had already fallen into this boundless darkness with her father and mother. Her father was roaring in furious hysteria, and her mother could not stop letting out shrill howls. They had both changed. She was afraid. She wanted to cry. But when she looked at herself, she had already become just like her father and mother.
The white light gradually faded.
The child who had once understood so little, whose memories still lingered in that final moment, appeared before him once again.
She still wore the pajamas from that time, her soft golden hair cascading down. She was still so big, but among the Titan Tribe, she was still only a very, very small child, at an