Gate of Memoirs/Ashes to Ashes

There are few things that can stop cosmic hunger.
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Music: "To Comrades"	Music: "To Comrades"
 	
*Battered and bruised, but unbowed—Such was the fight between a fading kami and an ages-old demon.
*The rain runs red with blood and ichor, and for a moment you can scarce be sure if you were really fighting a kami.
*At last, in a breakthrough, Hakuzo stumbles to a knee as you watch in horror.
 	
*Hakuzo: Come on. Do it.
*Hakuzo: I've lived long enough!
*Hakuzo: Finish what you started— What you let go of!
 	
*Lightning arcs about the kami as his will coalesces into a shining halo.
 	
*The will of a human made manifest—the defiance and ire of a deity.
 	
*Suizen was the sole link binding the fragments of their world together, sustaining its final semblance of being.
*Trapped in a spiritual immortality, until he was made to confront his fate head-on...
*...Just like Aoife.
 	
*It was to liberate him from these ashen wastes that Hakuzo offered his life.
*A kami's purpose, after all, was to strike down demons....
 	
*But a chill runs down your spine when you notice everything grinding to a halt as a dissonant silhouette carves itself out of Suizen.
*Someone who, like you, isn't supposed to be here.
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*The lightning fades, and all you see is a pair of hungry, starving eyes.
 	
*Hypaea: Your fate was already sealed the moment it all fell apart.
*Hypaea: Your cycle...
*Hypaea: Is over.
 	
*Suizen: ...No....
 	
*"It can't...be..."
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*Time seems to stand still.
 	
*You glance over at Hakuzo, whom you've never seen in such a state of shock.
Music: "Dead God's Law"	Music: "Dead God's Law"
 	
*Suizen's divine spirit seemed to crystallize, and subsequently shatter—
*Little more than whispers on a static wind, as all color drains from from the immediate area.
*The kami's face was frozen in a silent scream before he, too, began to disintegrate.
*So Suizen lived—ephemerally eternal, driven by the winds,
*and so the kami perished, along with the last semblance of his world.
*Before the entire husk collapses in on itself, Hakuzo snatches you by your collar, a wry smile on his weary face.
 	
*Hakuzo: .
 	
*Hakuzo: If we meet again...
*Hakuzo: ...You owe me a *big* one.
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*And everything in this old world, for the last time—
*fades to white.
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Music: "Dark Pursuit"	Music: "Dark Pursuit"
 	
*—Summoners' Hall, Noel's laboratory.
 	
*Noel's brows are knitted in concentration as he keys in several queries on the dimly lit screen before him.
 	
*Terminal: *beep*
*Terminal: [ No records found. ]
 	
*Noel: All gone.
*Noel: No, she wouldn't have.
*Noel: So it's an outside interference...
 	
*Noel runs a mildly irritated hand through his hair as he considers his options.
*Giselle had vanished, as he expected, and all of the evidence points to Kranus once again.
*Having worked with her for so long, Noel would be lying if he didn't suspect even the slightest thing about his eccentric lab partner.
*Treading out into dangerous territory all by herself and returning before the summoners do...
*Patching together hideous amalgamations with an alarming rate of success...
*An extensive knowledge on demonic rituals even he hadn't heard of...
*...And being terribly awful at any sort of cooking whatsoever, but that was more of a character flaw.
 	
*To say that Giselle Tyndalos was anything short of being outright suspicious would be putting it mildly.
*And yet... She was instrumental in all of the advances the Summoners' Hall had seen lately.
 	
*Especially regarding the Veil and its associated lines of inquiry.
 	
*Noel: I can't say for sure I know what she's doing...
*Noel: But I am at least eighty percent certain she's not out to harm .
*Noel: Not with how anxious she was, wanting to find them.
 	
*Noel returns to his prodigiously monitored terminal, and begins pulling up his data.
 	
*Noel: I suppose there's only one thing left to do for both of them.
*Noel: Tracking is one thing, but...
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*"I'm fairly certain I can track an anomalous star-spawn too."