Saga ultimately killed himself.
To White Saga, after all the wrongs he had committed, perhaps death was the greatest comfort.
Saga's suicide instantly dampened Saori Kido's spirits. She had originally found this trip to Sanctuary quite easy and had even been rather pleased.
Before dying, Saga used his Cosmo to broadcast his confession throughout Sanctuary, thoroughly clearing the name of Saori Kido, the goddess Athena. The Gold Saints whom Saori Kido had defeated in the 12 Palaces soon came forward to pay their respects.
Yota quietly withdrew. After all, a group of Saints were kneeling there, pledging their loyalty to Athena! It would have looked rather awkward for him to stand there alone.
As for making him kneel before that little girl Saori Kido? Forget it!
With a new leader taking office, Saori was busy... though there was not actually much to be busy with. Sanctuary was a tiny dump, its technology was underdeveloped, and the Saints did not even receive wages. As long as they were fed, that was enough. Nothing much ever happened in all of Sanctuary.
Saori Kido was, after all, the daughter of a conglomerate family. As the reincarnation of the goddess of wisdom, whether her emotional intelligence was high or not, her intelligence quotient was certainly more than sufficient. Managing a rundown little place like this was complete overkill for her. It did not even have as much work as one department in her conglomerate!
This battle for Sanctuary had not caused many losses either. Apart from Saga, who had killed himself in the end, the other Gold Saints were all intact. Even the Silver Saints had suffered little damage.
To obtain the Saint Cloths he had yet to get his hands on, Yota had no choice but to bleed heavily. He took out a