Yao Guang—Chaldea Headquarters. All sorts of questions swirled through Professor Waver's mind, prompting the exceptionally intelligent man to push up his glasses.
"The architect of the planet's ecosystem... That is an identity the Goddess of Magical Beasts could never possess."
"Just as I suspected, that Goddess of Magical Beasts is very likely not the real Tiamat. She may not even count as a descended fragment of consciousness."
"And an existence capable of summoning and controlling Quetzalcoatl—how could it possibly be merely a member of the Three Goddess Alliance?"
"So the question is, who exactly is this so-called Goddess of Magical Beasts? And why does she exist under that identity?"
As he voiced the conclusions he had drawn from what he saw, the great detective Professor Waver seemed to have already seen through the surface and grasped the truth.
With his arms folded before his chest and the air of an exemplary scholar, Professor Kayneth said, "It is not only the truth about Tiamat. Quetzalcoatl mentioned 'Return.' So what exactly does this 'Return' refer to?"
"Does it mean Tiamat's Authority? Or does it contain something else as well?"
"Only 'Return' can oppose 'Return'—could that be related to the card named 'Return' that Fujimaru Tachibana summoned through the Heroic Spirit summoning ritual?"
His words gave everyone much to consider and inevitably brought their thoughts to that card.
Moreover, after seeing that card, Gilgamesh had said that Fujimaru Tachibana had summoned the trump card that would decide victory. Could there be another meaning behind that?
For example...
Could this card be the key to freeing Quetzalcoatl from Tiamat's control?
As that thought arose, Fujimaru Tachibana and the others in the Light Screen footage—having already left the jungle and climbed into the mountains to gaze at Ur City in the distance—had thought of it