That figure gazed into his eyes for a long time.
Then she smiled.
"You really are just as interesting as you were when I first met you."
Her mirrorlike figure seemed to reflect the person you most wanted to see, while her smile seemed to bloom across countless faces at once. The elderly, young adults, children-all shifted endlessly across her form, revealing her immensely powerful psionics.
"Then let me answer you with the words you once said to me. I'll give you a chance. If you can defeat me, I'll hand him over to you, and I'll tell you everything I know."
"And if you can't, it means you aren't worthy. But you still have endless years to pursue it... Remember those words, please, because you once said them to me."
At those words, a sharp light flashed in Lynn's eyes.
And that single word, "once,"
had practically told him in an instant that he had met her at some point in the distant past.
But not his past self.
His future self!
"Then come on!"
Without the slightest hesitation, almost the instant she finished speaking, Lynn tore through space and appeared before her. The Trident in his hand swept down toward her face with crushing might.
He held nothing back.
Lynn knew that her sudden arrival could not possibly have been solely because of Sir Awen. She had come to test him.
Lynn was equally interested in the secrets hidden within this mysterious being, this ancient Controller of psionics who alone had escaped suppression during the Battle of Heaven and survived to this day. More importantly, countless clues suggested that she also held an important place in the schemes surrounding his fate.
He even strongly suspected that she had been involved in the aftermath of the Battle of Heaven,