Lynn lowered his head bitterly, his eyes slightly moist as he smiled and said,
"Because this is part of life, too."
"I think this is one of the few things I can do for you. Even if it really is awful, seeing that deity who's always forcing herself to keep going under the torment of her curse show anger and embarrassment like an ordinary girl... even if I really do get killed, that should mean something, shouldn't it...?"
"So I'm really happy. Really happy to see you like this."
"At least it makes me feel that all of this means something."
At that moment.
A gentle breeze brushed across the soft, caring smile on Lynn's face, tinged with quiet relief. It was as beautiful as a flower blooming in Hell.
She stared at him blankly, lost in a daze for a moment.
Even she herself had no idea.
It was as though, in that instant,
Her heart had suddenly given a fierce thump.
When she came to her senses, her gaze darted away as though she had received an electric shock. A little panicked, she avoided his eyes, her small hands reflexively clutching the hem of her clothes.
Her heart pounded uncontrollably.
Her mind was blank.
Although she was the unified deity representing the ascended consciousnesses of countless Colossus Civilizations, and had long been governed by the lofty divinity she possessed as the Colossus, the individual will that represented her own self remained a desert that had never been cultivated.
And Lynn was like a gardener.
On that blank expanse of her humanity, he kept cultivating and tending vivid strokes of color.
And this left her helplessly flustered.
It was as though everything he did was meant to turn her into an ordinary girl, and as she spent time with