[The End was not frightening at all]
The contents of this final letter told of the last days of GT World.
They truly had not feared The End.
And within The End unleashed by [Evil Heart], they had held on until the final second.
Some had chosen to flee, like the Researcher's Remnant Soul Ye Qiyan had encountered earlier.
But most had chosen to stay, dying alongside their civilization and world.
The final letter on the Light Screen gradually burned away.
Holding the Finality Core, Ye Qiyan murmured:
"What a shame. If GT Civilization hadn't been ended, perhaps it could have developed into the kind of civilization that transcends its own world and enters the Wasteland."
"Indeed..."
Messiah, who had not spoken for a long time, agreed with Ye Qiyan.
"When a civilization faces The End and thinks not of how to escape, but of how to face it, it has earned its ticket into the Wasteland."
"Oh, you're awake? I thought you'd already burned out back there."
Ye Qiyan picked up Messiah's core again, but suddenly frowned.
"You?"
"I'm coming to an end."
Messiah calmly said what Ye Qiyan had left unspoken.
"I already told you that my original self died long ago. What I am now is merely a duplicate intelligence containing a copy of my original self's final memories before death.
Unless I could enter your body and occupy your Sea of Consciousness.
Otherwise, I could only last a mere thirty-five short years.
But when I tried to analyze that card called the Blasphemy Card just now, it caused all my remaining power to overload and burn away.
And this is all the time I have left.
My only chance of survival would be to seize your body, but I am certain that, as I am now,