[ There's something about the way that Gilgamesh explains it that... just makes it a lot easier to understand. Just makes the knowledge sort of click.

So, she needs to figure out how to generate her own Bios, and she needs to figure out some kind of cooperative shorthand, something she can do with another person to symbolize partnership and synchronicity in order to generate Synthesis. If she understands things correctly, then Bios is now being used to fuel her pre-existing cybergear, but Synthesis grants her the ability to do things she's not currently capable of.

And to do that, she needs to cooperate with someone. It's something of a foreign idea for Lucy, who's used to acting alone even while running with a group. ]

Maybe something did happen to the Bios inside them. Maybe it got... corrupted somehow, with a disease. Or they got exposed to a kind of magic that twisted them around.

[ She crouches down on the edge of the path, where she can see little shadows underneath the bushes. Her mouth takes on an uneasy slant. ]

And if that's true-- could it happen to people, too?