Loge: Haa, haa, haa...... Crafty, impudent fools!
Having endured an all-out war against him, Loge, who has dominated this battlefield
with his enormous magical power since his appearance, has begun to run out of breath for the first time.
The battle against the ones who have inherited the fragments of Fermata's power has slowly but surely begun to open up a path through the historical record of Loge's victory.
Sakura: Incredible, everyone! With this, we may be able to do it now...!
Through her link with Reiji, Sakura can feel a definite light of hope from her friend's efforts even as she continues to pour more magical energy to her Master.
Reiji: Thank you, everyone! I'm almost there... Just a little more!!
Fermata: ............
Fermata's efforts at charging together all of his remaining magical power are almost complete as well,
his swords glowing mightily with his power and magical energy in preparation for a blow at maximum power far past his body's limits.
The magical power of these two mighty heroes shakes the fabric of the universe itself as they prepare to unleash it upon Loge, an enemy that they cannot underestimate.
Momiji: Now is the time of your reckoning, Loge!
Sayuki: There is no good or evil, but for the things we must protect...
Ryuichi: We won't let you push past us to reach Reiji and the others!!
Alicia: Now give Freya-san's body back!
Faust: For the crimes that you have shoved onto our comrade... the only acceptable act of compensation is your defeat.
Irmfrid: Loge... Your ambition ends here!
Loge: ...Silence.
Loge: Silence, silence, SILENCE, SILENCE, SILENCE!!!!!!
Reaching the peak of his rage, Loge's vast magical power explodes as he roars angrily at the fighters who have inherited Fermata's power.
Irmfrid: What is this magical power...?! He still had this much left?!!
Momiji: This is bad, isn't it?!
Sayuki: Khuh...! Everyone, be careful!!
Loge: I had thought to leave you all be while I destroy humanity, but my generosity ends here. Bear witness now!
Even crowded together as you are, none of you can hope to match true despair!!!
Loge: I'll burn you all to ashes together!!!
Loge: DISAPPEAR, ALL OF YOU WHO WOULD HOLD ON TO YOUR FOOLISH HOPE!!
Loge: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Faust: GUUUUAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH?!!!
Irmfrid: GUUUUAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH?!!!
Sayuki: KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!!!
Momiji: KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!!!
Indeed, the Warriors of Fate that stand for hope find it swiftly dashed as they are collectively swallowed in an erupted sea of flames and despair.
The full force rain of hellish flames fueled by Loge's rage fills the vastness of space, transforming it into a pitch-dark and empty blackness...!
Loge: Haa, haa, haa... With this, all of the nuisances are gone!
Reiji: Everyone!!
Camellia: No life signs have been lost! Everybody is alright!
However, they won't be able to stand back up anytime soon...!
Loge: Haa, haa, haa...
With this, there are no longer any Warriors who can protect your last ditch strategy.
Reiji: Geh...!
Sakura: Master...!
Reiji: Not yet...! It's still not...!!
Camellia: Master...! If we use any more of your power, then both of us will...!
Fermata: ............
Vanish. Yes, even though I might be able to open up the doors of fate to crush Loge's absolute history of victory, I can't do so without a cost.
It's true, if I release the power I have gathered I might be able to defeat Loge.
...And, I might be able to save Camellia somehow as well.
However...
As to whether I have gathered enough magical power to definitively say that I can defeat Loge... The answer is probably not...
Loge: Your tricks end here! This time, I will be sure to erase you with my own hands...
Farewell, Fermata!!
Loge: THIS IS THE FINALE!!
Loge: MIDGARD WOLF!!!!!!
As Fermata hesitates, Loge dashes forward in a flash, swinging his sword wreathed in the flames of despair with all of his might to annihilate the light of hope!
Mikoto: SHIFT: YASAKANI NO MAGATAMA!! (Jeweled Bead)
Mikoto: I won't let you do that... LOGE!!
Loge: WHAT?!!
The moment just before Loge's strike would have pierced through Fermata's armored body...
the blade that would destroy hope has its momentum stopped by the explosive flames of passion.
Mikoto has been quietly using her power behind the scenes, keeping everyone from being burnt up by Loge's flames
while resting and gathering the last of her strength to unleash the power of her explosive flames at just the right moment.
Loge: Impossible... Why are you able to receive my flames without being affected?!
Wait, you can't be...!
Mikoto: To use the body of my friend to wield your flames as you like...
There's no way I'd ever lose to something like that!
Mikoto: This... is not the 'Justice' that you aimed for... FREYA!!
Loge: WHAT?!
Mikoto: TEEYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Then, Mikoto hurls Loge and the blade that she had stopped with her bare hands, blowing him away!
Loge: Nngh...!
Mikoto: FREYA YOU... DUMBASS!!!
Loge: GUAHHH!!
Mikoto's explosive use of her remaining magical energy is directed towards Loge, who is still unable to process what has happened,
and her devastating fist of explosive flame connects squarely with his face!
Mikoto: WAKE UP ALREADY! YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE SEVENTH CODE JUST LIKE US, AREN'T YOU?!!
Her cry is indeed that of the roaring of her soul.
Loge: Nngh... Ah... A, Ahh... AHHHH!
Mikoto's straight and powerful words awaken the holy flame slumbering within Freya, and it begins to burn the darkness eroding her body.
Freya: Mi... ko... to...!!
It is a miracle created by the flames of the sun that causes her to awaken.
Freya, whose soul should have been devoured just as her body had been by Loge and his dark flames of despair, faintly regains her consciousness.
Loge: Im, possible......
Freya: I......
Loge: Nngh... This, can't be...!
Freya: I... am not... Loge...!
Freya: I AM... SCHWERTLEITE...!!!
Freya: Haa, haa, haa......
Mikoto: FREYA!
Responding to Mikoto's words, Freya regains her mind, as well as her body from Loge's soul.
Freya: Mikoto...
That really hurt, you idiot...
Mikoto: Shut up! That was just a love tap, Baka-Frecchi...!
Thanks to Mikoto's strong and soulful words, Freya's heart that had been slumbering begins to awaken.
And... Finally, the true body of the mastermind and the most malevolent Magi to ever exist materializes in front of Fermata and the others.
Loge: Haa, haa, haa... Nngh! Impossible...
To think that I would be pushed this far!!
It is a 'conceptual existence', a figure embodying the soul of Loge.
Like Fermata, the entity has no physical body, and he is in itself a 'phenomenon' where his flames have given him life.
Camellia: Master!
Convinced that the final door of fate against the abyss of despair has been opened, Camellia quickly cries out to Fermata.
Yes... It's true, there is no method of attack that will work against a 'conceptual existence'.
However, such a fact only applies if Fermata does not use his power to change that rule.
For the Knight of Hope whose blade has the power to throw open the doors of fate, all manners of despair will be rent asunder by it...!
Loge: Ghuh...!
After losing the 'vessel' he was dependent upon to stay materialized, Loge begins to rapidly diffuse into magical energy and disappear.
In that case, his next aim... will be to once again take possession of a 'vessel' to serve as his body...!
Loge: My daughter! Give me your body to use as my 'vessel', so that I might use it to save this universe that I love so dearly!
Freya: !!
Loge uses the fact that Freya has still not recovered to the point where she can move, and pours forth with his dark flames to once again engulf her in a darkness of despair!
Julius: Watch out, Freya!!
Freya: Brother?!
Julius: GUAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Julius, managing to stand even with his broken body,
immediately jumps in front of his sister and becomes the sacrifice in her stead as the dark flames devour his body.
Freya: BROTHER!!!!
His younger sister's heartbreaking cry is also in vain, as Julius sinks into the pitch-black darkness.
Loge: Haa, haa, haa... Nngh! Why do you interfere... Julius?!
Although he manages to successfully possess Julius, Loge is unable to completely possess all of Julius' sense of self in his weakened state.
Loge: Nngh...! You continue to... resist me?!
Unable to move as he wishes thanks to Julius' will that is resisting him, Loge has left himself exceptionally vulnerable.
Julius: Loge... I won't let you... do as you please...!
Julius: Now... Fermata...! Pierce my flesh, and finish Loge!!
Reiji: Although this isn't the opportunity I was hoping for... Julius.
Your resolve... I've certainly received it.
Reiji: Fermata! We have to do it now! Now is the time... This is our only chance to defeat Loge!!
Camellia: Master...!
With such a golden opportunity before them, Reiji and Fermata no longer need to keep charging their magical energy!
Freya: Brother......
However, a voice full of sorrow echoes from Fermata's side.
It's true, killing Julius will also mean killing Loge...
But that is the ending she wanted to prevent so much that she was willing to sacrifice her life to keep it from happening.
Fermata: ............
There is no time left.
There's only two options, and I have to make a decision.
Should I save this world? Or, do I answer her wish?!
Top: Answer Freya's wish and stay my blade. Bottom: Open up the doors of fate for the sake of this world.
Camellia: Master...!
After Fermata makes his decision, Camellia follows through as well.
Julius' feelings cannot be wasted... Now is the time to bring this hell to its conclusion!
Loge: I won't... let that happen...!
Loge: For my longstanding desire... BEGONE, FERMATA!!!
Reiji: We won't let that happen! Let's go, Fermata!!
Camellia: Now is the time for us to sever this eternally cruel fate!
Camellia: ASGARD WOLF!!!!
Reiji: Witness the power of Miracles and Magic!
Reiji: WITH THIS, IT'S OVER... LOGE!!
Reiji: FENRIS LAEVATEINN!!!!
Together with all of their friend's thoughts and desires...
Fermata and Yoshino Reiji deliver two blows filled with all of their heart and soul at Loge!!
Julius: That's right... This is how it should be...
Freya's piercing cry of grief echoes across the universe. And...
it also serves as the word that indicates the end of this eternal battle.
Without Loge's soul to sustain it, the dimension that he created disappears, returning everyone to the white world inside of the sunspot.
Freya: Brother!
Finding her older brother fallen on the ground, Freya instinctively runs up and crouches beside him.
Julius: Freya...
Freya: Brother...! BROTHER!
Julius: I'm sorry... If I done so earlier... For your sake, I should have told you the truth sooner.
Julius: But, no matter what... Even though it could only last just a little longer...
I wanted to continue living a normal life together with you...
Freya: It's alright now, brother... We can still do those things!
Julius: Haha... Why are you looking at me with such a face...?
Freya: Because... because...!
Julius: It's alright, Freya... There's nothing for you to be sorry about...
This was my choice... My, decision...
Freya: But...
Julius: Don't cry like that... I can't be relieved if you keep relying on me, you know...
Freya: Yes, that's right! I can't do anything without you, brother! Therefore...
You can't die here, brother!!
Julius: Nngh... that's no good, Freya... I, this body...
I had to seal our father's grudge within me... otherwise, the world will perish...
Julius: You must understand...
Freya: Brother......
Julius: Please, carry on my sense of 'Justice' for me...
Julius: For all the beautiful lives that inhabit the Earth...
The world will never have a happy future... without them...
It is Julius' first... and final wish.
Freya: I promise you, brother...
Freya: I... We... will always show that we can protect it...
Freya: The peace that you brought to this world...!
Julius: Yes... that is a good 'decision'...
Julius: Freya...
Julius: You are... my pride and joy, my one and only little sister...
Freya: Brother......?
Freya: This isn't real, is it...?
Please, open your eyes, brother......
Freya: Bro...ther......
Freya: BROTHER!!!!!!!!!
The death of one man... While tragic, it was a necessary sacrifice in order to regain the light of hope that shines down upon humanity.
The tragic clan that was made to shoulder such a cruel and violent fate because it had too much love... is finally granted the peace of eternal sleep.
That is why people will know of their fate, and pray for him.
That Julius Chariowald's slumber... will hopefully be a peaceful one.
Camellia: Master...
While floating in the sea of consciousness, Fermata once again makes contact with Camellia.
Yes. In that last moment, thanks to the very small amount of magical energy that was left behind,
the two of them are just barely able to maintain the connection between themselves.
Camellia: At that time, because you didn't use your power to it's maximum limits...
Miraculously, we are able to talk with each other again, Master.
Camellia: Thank you, Master...
Camellia: It's true, there was a precious sacrifice... But, this is the ending that he desired.
Camellia: Freya will carry this deep sadness forward... But even so, I am sure that she will eventually overcome it.
Camellia: She carries the feelings and hopes of her beloved older brother now...
I think that she will live a straightforward life, and become much stronger than she is now.
Camellia: I may not be able to serve as your 'eyes' anymore, Master... But, I will happily wander about this wide universe.
Camellia: As long as you still have your power, Master, it will remain possible to keep this small connection.
Thanks to that, I won't be lonely.
Camellia: The days I spent together with you, Master...
I will always be able to recall those memories.
Camellia: That's why I am satisfied with this result.
Camellia: The only thing barely connecting us, is our last 'bond' with each other...
I'm sure that we can only use that power to affect this world one more time.
Camellia: With that, I can also return to the ocean of space-time,
and perhaps together we may be able to open up a path to another future, one with a different ending.
Camellia: But. Surely, there can not be many more endings than that.
Camellia: If we continue to use your power any more than what we did, you may truly disappear. Therefore, I...
Top: Even so, we must break through such a tragic fate Bottom: Accept this fate for Camellia's sake
Camellia: Master...
Camellia: So that is the 'decision' you have made, Master.
Yes.
I may not know if this is how this fictional story should end.
However, in reality, I wish for a future where everyone can hold onto hope.
One without a need for sacrifice, one where everything returns to the way it should be... Even if it is just a pipe dream.
Perhaps such a happy story is too optimistic to hope for.
Camellia: Mm... I too. I too wish to see such a future.
Camellia: Whatever anyone else would say does not matter...
To be able to create a future of hope where no one has to be sacrificed...
Camellia: Let's go, Master! We must dive back into that fierce battle against fate!
Fermata's pure and strong wish illuminates a new hope within Camellia's 'heart'.
This time for sure... we'll be able to obtain the best ending.
Camellia: I'm sure that together, we can open up a fate to a future where no one has to be sacrificed.
Camellia: That is why I will also believe in your strong will.
Camellia: I'm certain that somewhere within that final battle, that kind of possibly must exist. Therefore...
Camellia: Let's go, Master!
Camellia: This time, we won't allow anyone to be sacrificed.
We'll look for and obtain the best Happy End that everyone wishes for!
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