Neo stayed still for a moment, eyes closed, ignoring the voice in front of him.
"Fine. Ignore me. But remember this: your daughter, Vivi Hargraves, is in the Shattered Horizon. If you choose to fight me, she will suffer at my hands."
Neo finally opened his eyes.
'I' glared back at him with a fixed, cold expression.
A small sneer appeared on 'I''s face.
"Don't forget what happened with your Avatar, Heavenbreaker. Stop being stubborn. Or do you want your daughter to suffer like your Avatar did at the hands of Tartarus because you refused to listen?"
Neo's expression hardened.
The mention of Elizabeth—his Avatar and the one he loved—hit him harder than he let show.
"I prepared for you long before this moment," 'I' continued. "Your daughter is only one part of that preparation.
"Why do you think I guided the events so you'd put people inside your Cosmos? It's so you can't regress the universe without destroying the universe itself."
