Her gaze was utterly hollow.
She gazed down at the Colossus's crumbling consciousness, less than a tenth of which remained, and a despairing grief from the depths of her heart pierced her entire existence.
The string that had stayed taut for three thousand years seemed, at this moment, to have finally reached its limit.
Her entire figure seemed to collapse all at once.
It snapped completely.
"It's all right! It's all right!"
Lynn held her consciousness in a desperate grip, controlling the Colossus Heart as he said:
"I know you want to go home. You want to take your subjects out of this Hell, but nothing happens overnight! As long as you're alive, there's still hope of getting out. You've held on for three thousand years. You aren't even afraid of death, so how could you be afraid of waiting a little longer?"
"As long as you're alive, anything is possible! Once you're dead, everything is gone! You still haven't found that Raven, the Upper Realm hasn't truly been destroyed, and there are so many Origins searching for a way out. If they can all endure this torment, and you're stronger than every one of them, why can't you?"
At that moment, Lynn practically threw out every piece of motivational wisdom he had ever learned.
He kept telling her.
You can't die!
You have to live!
Because if you die now, I won't get my heart back!
Do you think getting this far with you was easy for me?! If that huge heart really goes back to its original owner and crumbles along with you, I won't even have any fragments left to pick up!
I'm risking my life on this crazy ride with you too!
"So it's all right. If everything really could succeed overnight, what would we need