"Don't tell me where to go. Just talk to me a little longer."
She spoke softly.
Right now, she was neither Silver Fantasy nor the God of Ten Thousand Machines, only that lonely girl in her room.
Lynn said nothing. His gaze softened again, and he nodded, reaching out to gently take her wrist.
But she suddenly interrupted him, saying quietly:
"About Colossus... I should have held her back. Or, back then, I should have rushed over without hesitation, just as she did... but I hesitated. Even though I kept making excuses afterward, telling myself that you would surely need my help in the future, that I could still be useful elsewhere, that I still needed to monitor the Corrupted Ones for you, I thought of so many things... but none of that can hide the fact that I hesitated."
Lynn stared at her, at this girl, in a daze.
He had never expected her to suddenly tell him all this.
"The Trinity can only undergo Ascension once all its parts are complete. You've only devoured one part of Ether, and there are still two parts you don't have. Painter should have left you the most important part of Ether's Primordial Source. The last remaining part is here, with me."
She lifted her head, revealing reddened eyes beneath her silver hair. Though she bit her lip hard to keep those emotions from slipping out of control again, her anguish was almost impossible to conceal.
"You should have devoured me back then."
The way he had looked when Painter brought him back from the Main Universe had almost become a nightmare for her.
And it was precisely that overwhelming guilt.
That had made her lose control completely back then, actually suppressing the backlash from Ether's Essence and breaking through to the