"Thank goodness, we won..."
Watching the Final Angel's body vanish completely in a radiance like divine judgment, Shinji let out a long sigh inside the light space.
Though he wanted to celebrate properly and give Saberuno a piece of his mind using the language he had learned from Zero, he was already exhausted.
"You did an amazing job, Shinji." Zero's slightly weary voice echoed through the light space.
"I felt what was in your heart."
"If we hadn't become one in body and mind, I might never have been able to harness humanity's light and pass it on to Geed and the others."
Zero had been deeply moved by Shinji's resolve to give everything in this final battle to protect what he cherished.
Thinking back now, perhaps it was precisely because Shinji had given him his light that he had been able to absorb humanity's light.
Now, he respected both Shinji and the humans of this world.
Shining Emperor Geed flew up before Shining Ultimate Light Zero, admiring his golden body and six pairs of golden wings of light:
"Zero, how did you achieve this form?! It must be because you absorbed humanity's light!"
He marveled at how powerful and enduring Zero's Ultimate Shining Form had become after receiving humanity's light.
Before Zero arrived in this world, he had charged into Narak Space alongside Tartarus. That space favored the Absolutians, and with his Ultimate Shining Form unable to last long, Zero had suffered defeat.
But now, his Shining Ultimate Light Form seemed to have truly set one foot into the realm of the mysterious. Of course, the same went for Geed himself and Infinite Phoenix Mebius.
"Naturally. Humanity's light is never to be underestimated," Infinite Phoenix Mebius said.
"We really must thank them. They saved us all, and even the