At the same time.
At the black cliff where the other burning Meteor had fallen, Pal's remaining right half of a body dropped helplessly to its knees in the massive crater it had created.
His single arm hung limp, the flames on his body gradually dying out, while the illusory Crown above his head dimmed.
Pal looked up at the sky.
A faint breeze passed by, stirring his dry, lusterless fur.
That slowly dilating golden cat eye seemed to pierce through the spatial curtain of the Divine Homeland's "Corridor," gazing beyond the gray mist above the topmost "Temple."
He saw the master he had not seen again for over a thousand years—
The illusory sun "Noon Dawn," which retained only its spirituality, having lost its physical shell.
"Mr. Omer, kitty has missed you."
Pal's expression was no longer flippant or savage, but incomparably devout. He opened half his mouth, and a faint voice emerged from between his cracked jaws.
"'Pole Star' actually understood that you never abandoned us. You simply could never return... Kitty only wanted to return to your embrace and feel the caress of dawn one more time, sir."
"What a pity..."
Before he could finish, Pal's body gradually cooled and hardened into a cracked obsidian statue.
Then, with a bang, it turned to dust and scattered.
The illusory Crown above his head fell as well, striking the ground with a chime and spinning a few times before coming to a stop.
Just then.
A broad, sacred pillar of light tore through the dark clouds, shining down from the void upon this region of the "Corridor" and illuminating the black cliff.
Accompanied by the faint chanting of hymns and the playing of orchestral music, it fell directly upon the place where Pal the "Windmill Cat" had died.
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