This isn't the sound of the end.
It's the sound of the next battle starting.
This is me
My hair flutters around my cheeks, red from the cold
I'm me
When I found a tiny bit of determination, all this began
If even hope and despair hold the potential
for a future where darkness holds no sway
then the pain I can never forget is our promise from days past
At night I hold on to my hopes and prayers, unreasonable as they are,
and once I awaken
I take the chains I call my reasons and simply take flight into the endless sky
Yes, simply that
So that is...
our...
God...
Were you able to get a good look at our triumph,
Tempest Hoof Fecor?
Now, let us go.
To see our God declare his Grand Order.
Raise your head and behold.
I am divine, beyond your comprehension.
Let your joy burn like fire.
Quiet your terror.
For those who walk beside me, the time has come.
My heart is renewed, and my power restored.
I now declare the Grand Order's final stage.
Creation's second coming, once halted, and a still greater deed.
That is...
In the rift between worlds, I shall create a copy of this one...
Xanadu!
Xanadu?
It will be the manifestation of your desires.
It will exist for you, and it will welcome you.
Those old enough may remember this.
Millennia ago,
I attempted this creation.
But I was sent to the rift between worlds
by the secret treasure of the hunters I had invited.
However,
I realized as I wandered
where this new creation should be made.
That is, in the very rift where I was banished.
And also, I saw how this new creation should be performed!
That is, not sealed away, in a small corner of this world.
Rather, I shall recreate all creation itself.
That is Xanadu, a complete copy of this world.
It will mimic this world, and it will bear life.
A complete world!
A paradise for you, with Power of Existence coming forth endlessly.
After these thousands of years,
I shall again attempt a Grand Order of creation at your behest!
So I may answer your prayers as your God of Creation!
Declaration of the Grand Order
Hey, Balar, what did he just say?
He'll make another world between the Crimson World and the human one.
A perfect world for Denizens...
That is wrong.
Focus now.
That declaration...
...decided the battle.
The God of Creation's revival, the very thing we tried to prevent, has occurred.
There's no point in attempting to salvage the fight.
Supreme Commander,
what should we do?
Is this Yuji speaking?
Or the Snake of the Festival?
So he'll alter the underlying structure of the very world.
And this time, within the rift between worlds?
We cannot win here.
Indeed.
First, we should withdraw.
Yeah, to fully grasp what's happening,
we should meet with Commander Sophie Sawallisch.
All troops, save those fighting on the plains, have gathered.
You know most of what's occurring in the battle, right?
To call it a disadvantage would be an understatement.
Indeed.
It's quite the embarrassment
that our only option is to withdraw.
If it's our best option, we must take it
regardless of whether it's embarrassing.
It is too late to discuss that.
So...
You speak of withdrawal,
but given your small numbers and disadvantageous situation,
it won't be easy.
Do you have any plan?
One of the Four Gods of Earth, Centerhill, the Beckoner of Brightened Dew.
Do his words mean we may expect his participation?
Along with that of the other three?
No.
It's too soon to say for sure.
Yes, of course.
We prepared this as a contingency.
The operation is designated "Ebb."
And where it leads is
to the east, where the Heaven's Road Palace is hidden.
Our objective is to gather as many troops as possible
in the Heaven's Road Palace, and then to withdraw.
The Heaven's Road Palace is located here, east of the plains.
It's far away.
We need to get there as the enemy pursues us?
And from this location,
Samuel's squad will need to fend off all the forces coming from the west.
That is fine.
My squad is ideally positioned to support a withdrawal.
We shall hold the enemy until you reach the eastern mountains.
A losing battle, huh?
It's simple.
We need to only stay on our feet until death.
We shall raise a mountain of corpses from these fools, overjoyed with their Grand Order.
Our operation's success depends on our movements being quick and well executed.
Once we're outside the castle, Khamsin and Rebecca,
you will be the rear guard.
And...
Understood.
We shall intercept the Guardian of Steady Passage and aid the withdrawal.
We now begin Operation Ebb.
You two, wait.
Was there something else?
No, not about that.
A more personal matter.
Please take a moment and change your clothing.
If their reinforcements look beat up, it will affect our army's morale.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Attack! Attack!
We shall deliver our master's victory!
Proffer an even more perfect victory!
Take this!
Explode!
Sorry to keep hogging all the good scenes, but...
I suppose you're simply the correct person for the job.
We must've arrived pretty quickly.
I see no real reinforcements.
We can handle this ourselves for a while.
Understood.
All troops, head east!
Double time!
This body...
It's still unstable, having only just returned from the rift.
How frustrating.
None now recall who wished for him.
Three thousand years ago, he heard the Denizen's voices, and their prayers drew him here.
Professor, I was wondering, who the heck is that Rofocale guy?
He follows the Trinity, like their equal.
And he even went to the Path of Pilgrimage...
Is the data transfer from the Excellent 252546 Logical Pilgrim's Box finished yet?
You weren't even listening?
The amount of data we gathered from the rift was so huge...
He is also a servant of the god.
A servant?
Of the God of Creation?
The Trinity is the perfect system. They protect, strategize, and activate!
There is no seat at their table for any other.
But you aren't a servant, and you still—
Forget that!
When asked what they desired, they said they wished for full bellies.
Thus was their wish decided, and they gathered for their god's ceremony.
To have inflicted this much damage, the enemy is impressive.
But what we got was sufficient to justify our sacrifices.
Rather, we constructed our entire organization to achieve this.
The greatest of hunters gathered to fight against them.
And they sacrificed themselves to plunge the god who invited them into the rift.
That ceremony we held once...
We learned our lesson during the battle that saw our master banished.
An organization to work our will...
Strength in numbers...
Time passed, and time flowed onward.
And now, 3,000 years later,
at the end of the end,
upon your return, you grant the masses' wish.
Your name is...
So that is the Snake of the Festival.
The real thing, here in our world...
Enemy wave 14, incoming!
The lives on the entire army depend on us!
Don't let a single one through!
Soaring Flame!
I am the Flame-Haired Blazing-Eyed Hunter, Flame Haze of Alastor,
the Flame of Heaven, Shana!
And I am the Flame Haze of Tiamat, the Crown and Sash of Fantasy.
The Manipulator of Objects,
Wilhelmina Carmel.
We are grateful for your aid.
This fortress is crucial to Operation Ebb.
Naturally, we came.
We'll just buy a bit more time!
Two new birds have been caught by the snare.
Attack team, fall back.
We're doing it.
They're withdrawing?
Why? They should press the attack now.
All forces, ready!
Rinne artillery sighted!
To the west, in the center of the plain!
There are so many...
If they all hit simultaneously....
No, fear not.
To the west!
Concentrate your power!
Prevent from passing.
Prevent from opening.
Stop them.
Thy name is shame..
Zikmund's Gate!
An unrestricted spell unique to the Guardian of Steady Passage, Samuel Demantius.
Stay on your guard!
He can add others' power to the structures he creates.
His skills have not lessened at all.
Impressive talent.
Okay, we've separated them pretty far.
Yeah, they won't let us escape this easily.
Indeed.
The main forces that launched that vanguard have finally arrived.
We're ready for 'em.
Explode!
Supreme Commander, there is artillery fire on the plains.
We're counting on you.
What a sight...
A battle where bodies and souls burn alike, leaving not even a fragment of their corpses.
Even so...
No, for that reason, I must do this.
To protect everyone...
To protect her...
Even right now, someone is being devoured and disappearing.
With no one to ever know or realize...
As if they never were.
And it continues to happen.
What is the point of protecting such a horrible world?
If I have the power to change it, then I shall change it.
No, I must.
This will end your battle.
So...
So do not stand in my way, Flame Hazes!
Hear me, Flame Hazes.
Lords who would slay their comrades, and the humans they use as blades...
Why do you resist?
Executing the Grand Order will bring peace to the world.
What do you fear?
Are you still enraptured by the fantasies of the strain it will place on the world?
When the paradise Xanadu is complete, you will find eternal peace
because...
the paradise Xanadu will exist between both worlds.
If you still fear, I say this with certainty...
The creation of Xanadu in the rift will not affect this world whatsoever!
No...
You must not listen.
Over thousands of years in the rift, I refined the process of creation on the Path of Pilgrimage.
And so I say this with certainty,
the creation of the paradise Xanadu will not cause the previously feared disaster!
Further, I shall speak to all the world's Denizens and bring them with me.
With the paradise Xanadu at hand, we shall leave and never return.
And then, a world will be born in which none are eaten, none disappear, and none die.
Watch us, as we Denizens leave.
That alone will bring peace to your world.
Yuji!
You needn't fight.
You need not struggle, Flame Hazes.
Your battle is over.
It is over.
Calm down, François!
But... But...
The God of Creation has returned, and we lost.
And then there's no point in even continuing to exist.
The battle is over!
And if the battle is over, what do I—
We are still in the midst of battle!
G-Grogach?
Is it over?
Why should we fight?
Are we no longer needed?
No!
You help me!
And you, as well!
Wake as many of them as you can!
If we break rank, the enemy will tear us asunder!
What genius.
They won the battle and destroyed the reason our army...
No, all the Flame Hazes fight.
Yeah. Now then...
Dammit...
Any kind of plan is impossible now!
Pure chaos.
I never expected us to be routed this easily.
Our reason to exist as Flame Hazes has vanished.
It's understandable.
But as we can't just sit and await annihilation...
Of course!
Win or lose, for better or worse, regardless of form, the result doesn't go to waste!
All we need to do is think of how to use the result in the next battle.
And first...
We save as many as we can and head toward Sophie!
It seems that this will be an unexpected victory for us both.
No, a flawless victory, Sirotci.
At this point, I doubt we'll see each other again.
I leave you this cannon salute, in tribute.
Die in peace.
Fire.
Withdraw!
Don't think. Just run, comrades!
Head east!
Run for the east!
I couldn't do anything.
I...
I didn't have anything...
that would've let me face Yuji.
But what is this?
I still have...
And I don't understand.
I still have something here.
Flame Haze morale is destroyed, and they fall into utter disarray.
Rain falls on their heads.
Whom will it save? Whom will it let survive?
Next time on Shakugan no Shana Final:
Rout in the Rain
Rout in the Rain.