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Having the power to rewrite history, Maxwell simply rewrites his own defeat at the hands of the crew again and again. He offers Gran the choice of either giving up Lyria or Vyrn as a sacrifice to save the other.

Gran

...!

Maxwell

Rgh...

Maxwell

Ahahaha! How pointless!

Maxwell

You're fooling yourselves if you think you stand a chance against me, one famed even in the deathly Otherworld for being able to intervene in all existence and the past.

Maxwell

No matter how many times you defeat me, I can simply rewrite that fact.

Maxwell

As I've been alluding to all along, you can spend the rest of your lives killing me ad infinitum, and it will make no difference.

Katalina

Ngh!

Eugen

This is impossible... You guys got any ideas?

As much as I'd like to say there's hope if we just keep at it, we're not really getting anywhere here...

Rosetta

And we don't exactly have much time left either.

As the crew turn their sights to the building where Lyria and Vyrn rest, Maxwell's mouth curls into a grin.

Maxwell

Hm, how about this? I'm willing to make you an offer.

Katalina

An offer?

Maxwell

Yes. It is not our intention to delete the existences of both the girl in blue and the red dragon.

Maxwell

In order for Gran to lose the role of singularity, only one of them has to be displaced.

Katalina

You don't mean...

Maxwell

Yes... I'm willing to let you choose which one of them you'd like to sacrifice.

Katalina

Damn you!

Katalina cuts Maxwell down without a second thought, only to see the Otherworlder instantly resurrected.

Maxwell

It's a rather fine deal, if you ask me. You'd be minimizing your losses.

Maxwell

If you'd just calm down and use your heads, surely you'd be able to see the logic in my argument.

White Knight

You tactless vermin!

Maxwell

Oh, and don't worry about your life link with the girl in blue. I'll make sure to handle that as well.

Maxwell

Nullifying your demise would be as easy as rewriting the start of your journey.

Maxwell

We Otherworlders are akin to gods. Consider myself, a being capable of deciding your fates with a snap of my fingers.

Maxwell snickers in a derisive manner.

Maxwell

You have nothing to worry about. Release the King's Eye, and you'll quickly forget what you've lost.

Maxwell

You'll be left without any wounds and have one of them alive...

Maxwell

Or would you rather persist in this folly and see them both die?

Knowing full well that they're faced with an impossible choice, the aberration sneers at the crew.

With every passing second, Lyria and Vyrn are reaching their limits.

Tau'luk theorizes that Otherworlders require vessels in order to maintain their forms in the Sky Realm and that he himself is Maxwell's vessel. The former True King plunges himself into the Legion Void's hollow to protect the skies.

Tau'luk

Don't make me laugh. You Otherworlders couldn't be further from gods.

Maxwell

Oh?

Tau'luk

It is your vessel that allows you to disregard the laws of nature.

Maxwell

...

Vessel. The mere mention of that word puts Maxwell on alert.

Tau'luk

I always had my suspicions about your modus operandi.

Tau'luk

Why would someone capable of traveling through and rewriting time show himself before us?

Tau'luk

If you truly are as omnipotent as you claim to be, why do you not purge me and the venerable child directly?

Tau'luk

In fact, why don't we go step a further and ask why you don't just rewrite history itself so that you can forgo this whole invasion.

Maxwell goes quiet, opting to simply listen, as if testing Tau'luk.

Tau'luk

And you tried so desperately to kill the Violet Knight in the now-ruined "other sky."

Tau'luk

Why? Why not erase his existence outright? Given he was the last mortal standing, it should have been easy enough.

Tau'luk

What's more, the other sky was swallowed up by the void after the Violet Knight was taken away.

Tau'luk

Yet there was no glory to be had for the Otherworld's conquest.

Tau'luk

With his departure came a fracture that led to the entire world's collapse... Why did you not stop that from happening?

Violet Knight

Good point... Something doesn't add up.

Tau'luk

Putting all of this together, I arrived at a singular conclusion.

Tau'luk

You Otherworlders alone are unable to sustain the world's existence.

Maxwell

...

Tau'luk

In order to maintain your form here, you require a vessel that connects you to the Sky Realm.

Tau'luk

Since you cannot undo that connection, you are forced to leave behind a trace of it when you kill your vessel.

Maxwell

Humph... Quite the smart aleck, aren't you? This is why those in the world of the dead—

Tau'luk

Despite perceiving me as a threat, you've made no attempts to erase me.

Tau'luk

Which can only mean that to you, I am a vessel that must be "killed."

Maxwell

And what of it?

Maxwell

We simply need the vessel—dead or alive—or its remnants to be present.

Maxwell

To even do anything with this info, you'd have to—

Maxwell comes to a sudden realization.

Maxwell

Bloody hell!

Violet Knight

My lord, no!

By the time anyone can notice, Tau'luk already has a hand raised to the Legion Void's hollow.

Alliah

No! You do not want to put your hand in there!

Marinella

Tau'luk!

Maxwell

Fool! Do you mean to delete your own existence?

Maxwell

You'll become unable to leave anything behind! Where is your will to continue living! Where is your attachment to everything you've spent your life building!

Tau'luk

It's still there, all right.

Tau'luk throws himself into the hollow that seems to stretch on endlessly.

Tau'luk

(I leave the fate of my daughters to you, venerable child...)

Tau'luk shuts his eyes as the all-consuming void takes his body.

With his vessel no more, Maxwell crumbles into dust. Marinella finds primal beast Sibyl in her hand—a ring passed down from one True King to the next—and sheds tears without knowing why.

Maxwell

Preposterous beyond measure...

Maxwell

How could this happen...

Maxwell's body crumbles before fading into dust.

Katalina

Okay! Lyria and Vyrn should be safe now!

Eugen

Heheh! Guess those Otherworlders aren't so invincible after all!

Alliah

As difficult of an opponent as Maxwell was, he certainly went down easily.

Gran, bearer of the King's Eye, is the only one who realizes the meaning behind Maxwell's demise.

Marinella

...

Octavia

Viceroy Marinella. What might that be?

Marinella

Huh? Ah...

Marinella finds herself gripping a ring.

Marinella

This is...

White Knight

What is the primal beast Sibyl doing here?

Primal Beast? That ring?

Rosetta

It has the appearance of a simple accessory, but I do feel a primal's presence from it...

Octavia

Sibyl is a primal beast of the Istavion royal family.

Octavia

Along with the King's Eye, it has been passed down from one True King to the next over the generations.

White Knight

Why is it here? Or should I say... Where has it been all this time?

Gran recalls seeing that ring before.

At this point, Gran is the only one who remembers the previous True King wearing the ring.

Marinella

Whatever the case, this isn't something I should be holding onto.

Marinella

I believe this belongs to you, True King.

Marinella suddenly stops in her tracks as she respectfully offers up the primal beast Sibyl.

Marinella

...

Marinella

I recall handing the ring to someone else in this very same manner... But to who, I cannot remember...

Marinella mutters under her breath, trying to recall the details of a distant memory.

Marinella

I vowed to love him "in sickness and in health. Until death do we part..." That's when I handed him the ring...

Marinella

He was embarrassed for once—a rare sight from him...

Marinella

We laughed about how it's usually the other way around...

Try as she might, she cannot remember the man's face.

Marinella

Hrm? Why do I feel this way...

Marinella

Haha, I'm like a doctor who fails to follow their own advice. The tears won't stop...

Marinella desperately wipes away her tears, a confused expression on her face.

Marinella

What is it that I've lost?

As Gran struggles to find the right words, Katalina rushes back to them.

Katalina

It's no good! Lyria...

Katalina

While Vyrn has recovered, Lyria remains unconscious...

White Knight

She may have already been too drained by the time of Maxwell's defeat.

Gran is dismayed at the unfortunate turn of events.

Just then, the primal beast Sibyl gives off a faint shine.

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I won't give up on Lyria.

Katalina

Likewise... There must be something we can do!

Gran is ready to forge ahead, as if being pushed forward by the will of Tau'luk.

Though Lyria remains unconscious, by bringing her to the other Lyria resting in a coffer as suggested by Irotis and Mikaboshi, Gran is able to finally bring Lyria back.

The captain's resolve burns bright.

As if in response to that fierce determination, two figures appear.

Irotis

There might still be time!

Mikaboshi

Bring Lyria this way! Now!

Gran lifts up Lyria, then swiftly leaps into the darkness the two hail from.

They end up in the place where the coffer was before.

As expected, a different Lyria lies resting in the coffer.

Mikaboshi

Lyria is extremely frail right now from the Otherworld's interference.

Mikaboshi

But maybe we can bring her back by synchronizing the two Lyrias.

Presented with a glimmer of hope, Gran turns to Irotis for confirmation.

Irotis

Don't worry about me...

Irotis

I may have failed to save Lyria...

Irotis

But I trust you won't make the same mistake, Gran.

Irotis

Who knows... Maybe I was kept alive just for this moment.

Nodding in response, Gran places Lyria down by the other Lyria in the star coffer.

A blinding white light envelops their surroundings in the next moment.

The voice of a dear companion is the next thing they hear.

Lyria

Gran!

Lyria

...!

The two Lyrias have become one, allowing the crew's precious friend to regain consciousness.

Greatly relieved to see each other safe, Gran and Lyria come together in a tight embrace.

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