Chapter 469 - Sacrifice

Number 3 froze at the boy's last reveal. She couldn't properly react… no, she couldn't process or register the meaning behind Aiden's words. 

Did she evolve? H-how? What did that really mean?

Number 3 slowly turned away, looking at her arms, her hands, her body once again, looking for something, anything that she could lean on. Any hint, that could serve as support and assist her already befuddled, scrambled, chaotic state of mind.

Yet, no matter where she looked, how she looked, besides the crystal core humming inside her chest, pulsing and continuously, rhythmically releasing a surge of this new source of energy, nothing was amiss. Other than having an additional solid, hard-shelled organ working inside her body, fitting perfectly in place, she seemed normal.