["Do you want to live?"]
It was a question anyone would answer.
No one wanted to die, especially after being stabbed in the back.
[Bewitchment] drew out the deepest desires and truths in everyone's hearts.
At that moment, they were dazed, on the verge of death.
At that moment~ they followed their instincts and answered.
Having lost too much blood, his heart slowing toward a stop, Aien trembled as he took the photo of himself and his childhood sweetheart from inside his clothes.
Looking at his childhood sweetheart in the photo, he dropped to one knee and reached toward the pallid radiance before him:
"I want to live... I want to go back..."
Elsewhere.
The girl named Coilera, pinned beneath the rubble, heard the same question.
Live?
Of course she wanted to live.
She did not want to die, and she was terrified of death.
To her, death was the most, most, most terrifying thing of all, without exception.
She yearned desperately for redemption to come.
That was why, back in Solo City, she had idolized [Altos], who had saved everyone.
"I don't want to die... I'm so scared..."
[Demon Card · Redemption]
When those who yearned for redemption spoke their answers.
When the young man and young woman made similar choices.
The sacred demon came treading upon the equally sacred Skeleton Heavenly Ladder.
Ye Qiyan smiled faintly.
He spoke softly.
"The deal is sealed."
His mental energy began to drain.
Within that pallid radiance, Aien and Coilera's consciousness gradually recovered.
Black Inverted Crosses appeared in Aien's eye and above Coilera's lower abdomen, respectively.
Those inverted crosses flashed and vanished.
By the time they opened their eyes, the grievous wounds inflicted by Fujita Hiroshi's ambush and betrayal had disappeared.
Death was driven away by redemption, and they instinctively looked in