What lay beyond Hell?
Why did this Dark World exist?
And what connection did it have to the darkness eating away at the Main Universe?
Countless mysteries churned in Lynn's mind, and as the Colossus pressed onward, the feeling of being trapped in a cage grew ever stronger.
The Colossus had yet to leave Hell. Lynn's consciousness remained within the consciousness space of the transdimensional link, part of the same system as all the Colossus consciousnesses. But Lynn knew that if the Colossus truly broke free of Hell, he, whose physical body was still in Hell, would immediately lose the link and return to the Dark World.
If that was the case...
Then he would be the only one seeing the Colossus off.
Through the link between their consciousnesses, Lynn gazed out through the Colossus's eyes.
Black mist roiled, falling farther and farther below as the Colossus ascended at tremendous speed. Lynn could no longer see the ground beneath it. The Colossus was heading for the boundary of Hell with everything it had.
But Lynn could distinctly feel it.
The higher they went, the thicker the black mist became, as though they were tens of thousands of meters beneath the sea, crushed under an immense weight.
Then, in the very next instant, Lynn heard a heavy clang from within the thick black mist, like chains stirring. His pupils contracted. Amid a rising clatter, he immediately saw countless pitch-black, snakelike chains whirling wildly toward them from the mist on every side.
"Here they come!"
His Titan Big Brother had once leaped upward in just such a fury, only to swiftly rouse the curse of Hell. Back then, the curse had likewise taken the form of chains and suppressed his Titan Big Brother!
And that went all the more for the Colossus,