Epilogue: A Tainted Spirit's Gamble

"Interesting… How greatly interesting for things to go to this point."

"…"

"Don't act high and mighty in there, Justice. You're burning a hole on my head right now with that gaze of yours."

"You think you don't deserve it?"

Inside the Great Hall of Caelestia, where the pure white marble thrones of the ancient Celestial Spirits is set, two of the few remaining Celestial spirits are seated around a giant orb that is showing the events and fights presently happening in Old Tokyo.

"I know, I know. I really do deserve to be stared at like that by you… but you know, out of camaraderie and stuff like that, can I not be stared at like that by you?"

"Don't liken me to you, Logos. Are you forgetting my warning that you blatantly dismissed when you directly interfered with the judgement of the child?"

"…"

"That was a promise made between Law and Cecilia. We shouldn't have been involved in that at all. But you really walked the tightrope to nudge that young one's perception of Law and his goals just to make things end up like this-"

"And it would make it apparent for the two sides that the Divine Challenge has commenced."

"What?"

Even through her crimson-colored blindfold, Knowledge knew that his fellow Celestial spirit was puzzled with what he just said.

"If I didn't do that thing, this war would drag on for decades as both sides try to find each other's targets. By nudging them into this situation with "coincidental" drops of information on each other's side, they are now right in front of the person they are aiming for."

"And how would this be of somehow of help to them?"

"Lowering the dead people and the lands that would be thrashed by their fights."

"…"

"Don't worry, Justice. I've got everything under my control. I am the Spirit of Knowledge after-"

Though he said those words, he immediately had to eat it all back in after he returned his attention to the orb which detected an incoming helicopter that has something attached on its belly.

"No… No way…"

"Logos? What's going on?"

"It can't be… how can this have been done?"

Much to her surprise, the usual confident expression on Knowledge's face was gone after he stared nervously on the thing being shown by the orb. She can even sense him wavering and shaking.

"Justice… the mortals have achieved the first part of what they aimed to do in the Tower of Chaos long ago…"

"This is-!"

A surge of pure energy, coalesced into particles of light, escaped from the inside of the helicopter and into someone being carried inside one of the buses.

"That aura… there is not a doubt!"

"Sister… so you have finally returned, huh?"

Known only to the two Celestial spirits, the essence of the dear sibling, friend and comrade has been given form once again, but now has to inhabit the body of a mortal as a Vessel.

"Love… why now of all times?"

Truly, this is the continuation of the chaos that happened in this world thousands of years ago. All of the pieces has again, fallen to where they should belong in this grand war of world-ending proportions.

It was at this moment that the Spirit of Knowledge found himself speaking these words.

"May the heavens have mercy on this world, for this war will not."