Planting a foot on the floor littered with shattered containers and slime, a stark-naked Lynn stepped out, flexing his wrists with a faint smile.
His Left Hand kept retching painfully, coughing up the strange slime that had filled her, much to her displeasure.
"Older Brother?!"
In the distance.
Alice, who had hurried over following the coordinates Lynn had given her, stared in utter shock at him emerging naked from the container. She could barely believe her eyes.
She rushed over, staring incredulously at his face as his sentient Left Hand rose weakly to wave at her.
"This... what on earth..."
Lynn looked up with a smile, cracking his neck as he said:
"A cunning rabbit keeps three burrows. What happened last time taught me that unless I'm absolutely certain of victory, I should never put myself in genuine danger for anything."
"So when it's time to hold something back, you hold it back."
This was his real body.
The Lynn who had gone to the First Chamber had merely been a puppet, hastily fashioned from Luo Shi's body and some of his own flesh with Miss Doll's help.
Because he had felt uneasy all along.
Because with that book still missing, he could be almost one hundred percent certain that it had fallen into someone's hands.
Originally, he had suspected the Mechanical Church.
After all, they were the faction most likely to have gained access to the book after he fell unconscious.
But they hadn't.
Because if they really had taken it, they would absolutely have used it without hesitation when the Flesh Plague struck, giving every observer in the Flesh God Cult a taste of the same treatment.
And if they possessed such a devastating weapon, he could easily have teased that information out of the Mechanical Maiden through