You are...
...not needed.
Now set free
Your hidden feelings
So that you may sever
Reality that returns to nothingness
Even if fate is inevitable
Nobody can predict what will happen
Defy it with all you've got
Grasp the future reflected in
Your eyes with your own hands
Shout out
Your existence
Cry out
Shout out
No matter what hardship
Awaits us down the way
Light my fire
Impressive, my Priestess.
You have done well to guide the Palace of the Stars
to these coordinates.
Is something here?
How many dozens of times have you questioned me?
If you wish to collect information, you're being too obvious.
It is nothing complicated.
Now, we simply make the gate.
Impossible.
When one is banished by the Eternal Abyss,
there is no return.
As a Crimson Denizen,
not even the Creator God can escape this fate.
No. It is possible.
It is entirely possible, Flame of the Heavens.
My servants and I have gathered here with a plan.
Yes. Ever since that moment, millennia ago...
Just before the Eternal Abyss caught me,
I took a portion of my Strategist's life, the Insignia, from her.
"The Divine Gate"
What do you mean that I'm not needed?
The General, Thousand Changes Sydonay,
said your role in all this was mere entertainment.
The Strategist and Judge of Paradoxes, Bel-Peol,
is aware of our master's naïveté and inexplicable ways,
and she has set for herself the task of overcoming them.
Why doesn't she set up a Seal and then devour me?
However, my opinion differs from theirs.
You are unnecessary for the completion of the master's Grand Order.
No...
You are nothing but a threat to it.
I see... She's here of her own accord.
I had my Priestess withdraw this insignia from the rift.
And through trial and error, I gave her the Unrestricted Method
to craft a vessel able to enforce my will and wield my power.
The name given to this spell was the Grand Order Psalm.
The Grand Order Psalm...
I constructed a path within the rift,
and awaited completion of the vessel.
In this world, it would harness the Creator God's power,
and create a gate, leading back to that path.
Thousands of years passed,
and the body was completed,
despite some deviation from the original plan.
So you will travel through this gate, follow the path,
and regain your original body?
Just so.
By my command,
let the Divine Gate come into being.
This is the place closest to my body,
where the distortion created by the Eternal Abyss settled,
as the endless eons continued to pass.
It is done.
Let us begin
the journey to recover my body.
I shall excise the threat.
You...
It's all right.
I-It is not...
It is not all right!
That Flame Haze is the
Flame-Haired Burning-Eyed Slayer!
She is the avatar of the god who slays even gods,
bringer of the dark god,
the God of Atonement!
We must get rid of her... We should kill her!
I believe she's taken a dislike to you, Flame of the Heavens.
My Priestess, I commend your loyalty.
But you are the one who underestimates the dark god.
I chose to capture the Flame-Haired Burning-Eyed Slayer
due to the love that Yuji Sakai, the Mystes, bears for her.
But that was not the sole reason.
If I were to kill her here,
what do you think would happen?
Would the dark god, the Flame of the Heavens,
use his last option and materialize,
attempting to destroy me instantaneously?
No...
This Lord remains intensely loyal to his perceived fate.
Thus, he would never choose something so rash and self-destructive.
Without question, he would go back to the Crimson World.
And upon returning, he would form a third contract immediately.
Then, alongside his new contractor,
he would appear before us at the worst possible moment,
and perform the Tenpajyosai.
We're fortunate to have the Flame-Haired Burning-Eyed Slayer.
We shouldn't waste the chance.
We mustn't squander our luck in having the contractor closest to me
be the one with the dark god
who could ruin all our plans.
My, my...
What a terrible job you've done, Hecate.
I am overjoyed at this great destiny.
What a convergence.
What a journey... What a trial.
It's as if one had asked,
and everything requested had been granted.
I see... So, Margery-san is overseas on work.
I thought we could have a study group, like we did during the summer.
Tanaka and Sato haven't been at school in a while, either.
It's kind of lonely.
Yeah.
Well, I guess it's okay!
Once everyone comes back, we can have a party.
Yeah. Let's do that!
Once everyone comes back...
Shana-chan protected this place.
Sakai-kun is also trying to do something to protect it.
I...
I've been left behind here.
Isn't there something I can do?
I see.
I grasp the basic concept.
Dantalion...
Hmm?
If I confine myself to the footage here,
may I make some changes?
I have a backup in the Conloquium.
Do whatever you like!
I shall, then.
Does something bother you?
I felt that the harmony among systems was, in part, unnatural.
There are signs to suggest that
this Unrestricted System, Absorption, was functional prior to unification.
Hmm?
Only the second Tyrant, created several hundred years ago,
should have required the Unrestricted System, Absorption,
to gather fragments for its personality.
That is correct, Sir!
However, the two Tyrants function as a single unit.
So the same systems are embedded within the first Tyrant,
which Sir Sabrac placed in the Midnight Lost Child.
But that function should have been deactivated!
But you say it was active before the unification?
Most likely, it was a malfunction due to an incompatibility
with the Keeper someone placed on the Midnight Lost Child.
I will continue to investigate this, as I look into your other concern,
the uncertainties concerning the Treasure.
How long has it been since you last drank here, General?
I couldn't say.
The drinks are bad as ever.
I've been here enough to remember that.
They're excited.
And uneasy.
Uneasy with the coming battle,
and over the change soon to be visited on the world?
I apologize.
I am your general, but I must be the first to leave.
Do not concern yourself.
Then we shall remain and do as we must.
The Servants will go to that land and achieve the goal. That is all.
As valiant as you are, we regret that we
may send only one.
We who shall fight here
are a shield, guarding the Trinity's back, as they execute the Grand Order.
We are honored, not angered, to fulfill such a role.
Do you need something, General Thousand Changes Sydonay?
No one can predict what may happen in a war.
I've said this before, but be careful.
I am well-versed in our strategies.
So long as I lead, you needn't worry.
Don't waste any of my soldiers' lives.
Offensive formations on attack.
Defensive in anticipation of counterattack.
The sole concern is to keep them from reaching the Palace of the Stars.
That's correct.
Your job is to hold out until our return.
Yeah. I heard about what happened here after we left.
We're going now.
I thought you might have something you wanted to say to them.
No, nothing.
I'm sorry.
I see.
Perhaps I was wrong to ask.
Oh, yeah...
You know we're headed out to fight him, but you don't seek to stop us, do you?
I'd thought you might ask us to save him.
I can't ask that.
Everyone believes what they're doing will protect the world,
and they'll risk their lives in the fight.
So I don't have the right to stop you.
But back there...
Where he told me goodbye...
Sakai-kun was there.
That was definitely Sakai-kun.
And if he was himself, and he's trying to do what he thinks he should,
then I can't be so arrogant as to request that you save him.
Oh, I see.
Then I guess I was simply being nosy.
Did we underestimate her?
It seems so. Humans can change overnight.
Khamsin-san? Behemoth-san?
May I ask you something?
Yeah. What is it?
It's about this Treasure.
I'm coming in, Shana.
Are you well?
I'm fine.
You look good.
Shana.
Come with me.
Where?
Just upstairs for now.
Okay.
Shana, I am about to begin a journey down a long path.
A long path?
The Eternal Abyss...
I'm retrieving my body
from the rift between the worlds.
If the Creator God's body is recovered,
what happens to Yuji?
Don't worry.
The Mystes Yuji Sakai's usefulness
is not limited to his possession of the Treasure,
the Midnight Lost Child.
He is too valuable to simply discard.
Oh, and I'm not interested in sacrificing myself for the world,
so don't worry about that.
Walking with you is my only wish.
Yes, I'll do as I must do.
Why do you think, Pheles-san,
as a Flame Haze, gave me this?
Shana-chan tried to help Pheles-san,
to recover Johann-san.
She gave this to me for that.
But...
She said if I ever use it,
I'll disappear, without getting my wish.
But beyond that,
if Sakai-kun didn't choose me,
I'd become saddened and lose the feelings required to use it.
But Pheles-san gave it to me anyway.
So, basically...
Yes...
You don't understand why the Colorful Wind
would give someone an item, which could save the one she loves,
if she didn't know they could use it.
Yes, I want to know...
What it meant when Pheles-san gave this to me.
Right now, I doubt I could use it.
Not because I'll disappear or anything...
But back then, Sakai-kun's joy and my joy
became different things.
I wanted for us to share our joy.
That was all, but...
If you can go back, you should.
I can't go back!
The fact that I'm here...
That all this happened...
It's what I chose.
It proves my existence!
Even Sakai-kun can't...
So for now...
I want anything that will help me understand Pheles-san!
Humans are wonderful creatures, aren't they,
Steadfast Sharp Peak Behemoth?
And that is why our fight has meaning,
Khamsin Nbh'w.
Okay, Kazumi Yoshida-san.
A terrible old story goes like this...
Once, in a hot land,
there was a prince, known as a prodigy.
One day,
a monster who consumed the power of existence attacked the country.
To protect the king, the prince fought the monster.
The prince knew the king hated him.
But even so, the prince battled the monster.
Naturally, the prince lost.
When all that remained was for the monster to eat him,
he heard a strange voice.
"If you abandon all you have as a human,
and become my vessel, I will give you great power."
The prince gained a great power,
and drove away the monster.
But though he'd risked his life for the king and his retainers,
none of them remembered him.
That was what it meant to abandon all he had as a human.
The prince went out, into the wide world,
following the monster.
Hundreds of years later,
he found the monster again.
After a long, long time,
he'd finally found someone who knew him as he truly was.
The prince hated the monster for having driven him to this fate.
But at the same time, the prince loved the monster,
and the monster loved the prince, too.
Why?
It was the prince who killed the monster he loved,
as it lay in his arms.
And it was the monster who inflicted a wound that was almost,
but not quite mortal, on the prince it loved.
Both thought that this was what they should do,
and both knew they would regret it.
And both knew they loved one another.
But both killed the other anyway.
That was love, in a sense.
For those who love another...
To disobey, to rage, to curse, to fight, to kill...
None of these disproves that love.
A love that's too strong may even make those more likely.
Love isn't just what the other person wants...
Everyone awaits your words.
Very well.
There are so many!
Do you feel it in your heart?
Does your body shake?
That is proof that you are to walk with me.
I move us now to the second stage of the Grand Order!
Above us!
I shall travel through the gate,
to recover my other self,
the body of the Snake of the Festival, beyond the Eternal Abyss.
I issue this order to you who will remain...
Protect the Palace of the Stars until my return!
Wield sharpened blades,
bare fangs and claws, and howl!
Burn your flame brightly!
Use all your wit and wisdom!
Existence!
Give everything you have
to prove that you exist in this world!
Fight! Fight!
Fight!
If you do, I shall reach the final stage
of the Grand Order.
And change the world.
This time, we'll succeed!
Hail the Snake of the Festival, the Creator God!
I'll be back, Shana.
I shall show the entire world
my desire for change!
If the luster that made you shine
Is also inside of me, (then I'm sure that we can go)
I will go and prove everything
It is the reason why I continue to exist
Inside of Kaos I say
Where can I get the real love and fate, right now?
How can I make you know my heart is with you hey?
All people, everyone, forget things,
Even their aching scars
Each time I see the passage of time,
These emotions fade
But I don't want to overlook things any longer
Back and forth, the screaming in my heart won't stop (time over)
The vanishing afterimage, that is you in and of itself
So now that you & I
I can't live life
Without you by my side...
"I'll believe..." Even in the fatality of solitude (Yeah, yeah)
The fragments of the burning records
Reflect tomorrow's brightness (Can see your light)
If the luster that made you shine
Is also inside of me, (then I'm sure that we can go)
I will go and prove everything
"I'll believe..." in a tomorrow where we coexist, (Yeah, "I'll believe")
Wilhelmina tries to raise the Palace of Heaven's Road, to recover Shana.
And Sophie Sawallisch, Commander of the Flame Hazes, has plans of her own.
Next time, on Shakugan no Shana Final:
"The War Begins."