After the meeting, everyone prepared to set out, following Vita to where the Ark was located.
Meanwhile, the little Vitas remained in Flos to comfort the disaster-stricken people. At the same time, they needed to tell them about the decision everyone had made during the meeting.
Blind protection would only make the people here lose their drive to improve. Their thinking would become rigid, and they might even come to believe that their comfortable lives were only natural, completely unaware that someone else was carrying the burden for them.
But the little Vitas had already made up their minds. They would personally break these rules and redefine the rules for fighting Honkai, because if this planet was defeated by Honkai, all beauty would cease to exist!
Vita led everyone beyond Flos, to what had once been the town of Qiming. Now, nothing remained but ruins.
"You're curious why there's an abandoned city here, right?"
"Because this city used to be called Qiming, and that's also why I didn't want to bring the little ones along."
"Because the little ones, along with these towns, were personally destroyed and reset by either Sosa or me several times."
"Because the development of civilization sometimes produces errors, causing things to head toward outcomes we don't want to see."
"Then Sosa would have me carry out the world-destruction plan."
"I would have the little ones activate the Holy Relic. The condition for activating it was that seven little ones had to be willing to sacrifice themselves and use their source power to activate it."
"Once activated, the Holy Relic would lift the seal underground. Countless bodies of seawater beneath the crust would burst through the surface, washing away every trace of everything so it could all begin again."
"That was the origin of the Great