Lynn raced ahead, holding Zuo Zuo's hand, his wary gaze searching through the blood mist.
The appearance of the God of Ten Thousand Machines had confirmed his earlier suspicion: the Colossus Brain had indiscriminately dragged every creature enveloped by the red light into this deeper space.
And if that was the case...
Then the machine consciousnesses imprisoned within the storm by the Flesh Plague might well appear in this bizarre place too.
And if that was the case...
Then this space was going to get very lively indeed.
Without any hesitation, Lynn held Zuo Zuo's little hand and stepped over a small hill covered in ashes.
But the instant his foot touched down, he sensed an incredibly familiar scarlet pulse. Like a ripple, it spread toward him along the ground beneath his feet.
"Oh, no!"
Startled, Lynn reacted swiftly, pushing off hard and leaping into the air with Zuo Zuo, narrowly avoiding the terrifying scarlet ripple beneath them.
Almost at the same moment he dodged it, a familiar cry of mortified fury rang out from the distant blood mist.
"D-damn it♡-!!"
Lynn landed lightly, surprise flashing in his eyes.
Why did that voice sound so familiar?
Especially that sudden, loud "♡"-it really brought back those wonderful times bullying that Mechanical Maiden underground!
"Could it be...?"
Hesitant, Lynn swiftly approached like a cheetah.
At that very moment, his gaze caught a silver figure stumbling out of the distant blood mist. She held a Monomolecular Sword, her mechanical body sleek and streamlined, her eyes brimming with exasperated fury.
Who else could it be but the Mechanical Maiden?
Lynn was instantly delighted.
It was just as he had guessed.
Fate could bring people together across a thousand miles, bad luck could make you choke on plain water, and one left turn out the