A long silence spread.
For a long time, Lynn could not utter a single word. With a calmness that bordered on madness, she had told him the decision she had made.
"Let that calamity devour you..."
Lynn stared fixedly at the girl before him.
"Are you joking?"
"I'm not joking."
The azure figure turned her head, and beneath the halo, her gaze met his.
"And that also means that from now until your final showdown with him, I won't be able to offer you any more help. You will fight alone, shouldering the burden of the entire Main Universe. Whether you can achieve an outcome both of us can accept will depend entirely on you."
It felt as though a boulder were pressing against his chest. Again and again, Lynn struggled to breathe.
Lynn drew a deep breath.
He believed her.
This was not a decision she had made on impulse, but a way of responding to this calamity that she had settled on long ago.
"You'll die."
Lynn fell silent.
The azure figure's gaze remained unchanged as she said:
"Whether I die depends on you. If you finish your final preparations before he digests me, then both of us can survive. But if you don't, I'm afraid there will never be another chance."
Because after devouring her, that calamity would swell to an unimaginably terrifying magnitude.
He would truly become the apocalypse barring their path.
And when that time came...
Even if all the Nightmare Demons of the Seventy-Two Pillars were destroyed...
As long as he experienced another moment of lucidity in his dream, everything would turn to ash in an instant.
This was a path to survival, and also a path to death.
Lynn had no choice but to accept this plan.
And for a long time