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"What?!" Rachel demands. "But beyond the gaze of Takamagahara, you should nary exist!"

"I know, right?!" Hazama asks sardonically. "Ragna here did me a real solid. He could've killed me; he had me on the ropes, that's for damn sure. But he couldn't be bothered. Had to go save a vamp tween–nudge, nudge. Maybe he figured I'd pack up and call it a day. Of course, I would've had more time if he'd just killed me then and there..."

"Impossible..." Rachel insists.

"And, yet, here I am!" he answers. "Everything's comin' up Terumi! I couldn't have planned it better!"

The question as to what he did when he beat you around with Ouroboros becomes that'd been gnawing away at the back of your mind becomes all the more troubling for it.

Rachel's expression of shock slowly turns into a glare of horror.

"If that is the case," the Sankishin inquires, "why are you here?!"

"Why, because all of the interesting phenomena are here!" the Captain states. "I have to admit, Rags, all the credit on this one goes to you! Come on, everyone! Let's get a round of applause for our man of the hour!"

"Gah... Damn you...!" Ragna snaps back.

"Oh, my sweet little Ragna..." he muses in the most faux-endearing tone. "I've only been away from you a short time, and you've already become a man! And Noel..."

"I... will no longer... obey your orders!" she replies.

"Aww; I got dumped. That hurts me, Noel. Right here." Hazama drones on. "Well, the truth is, I don't really need you anymore..."

"So, now that we're all caught up... WHY DON'T I PAINT THE WALLS RED WITH YOU?"

"God... damn... bastard!" Ragna throws in, charging forward with his right hand heaving his already-oversized weapon.

"Look at all that delicious resolve down there!" Hazama replies.

"Makes it more fun to KILL YOU!" he goes on, bursting into laughter.

"Hazama, that's enough," a massive, blond man wearing an opera mask interrupts, appearing out of nowhere.

Presumably Carl's father.

"Shut up! You're not the boss of me," Hazama responds with unamused bitterness.

"The Imperator Librarius..." the malevolent masked man comments, "has arrived."

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"Begone, Terumi," a bizarrely mature, English voice from what appears to be a girl roughly the age of 20 with crimson eyes and violet hair reverberates throughout the room.

"You must excuse me..." the scoundrel answers, removing his fedora again and bowing before her. "Guess I went a little crazy there."

"What?!" Ragna demands.

"There's no way..." Jin adds. "YOU'RE the fucking Imperator?!"

The girl shoots him a death glare, then sets her eyes on the Cauldron.

"So this Cauldron... is not yet dust?" she demands, giving an aside glance to Ragna at the beginning of the sentence.

"Saya..." Ragna demands in turn. "Saya, what the hell?!"

It suddenly registers in your mind that she's Jin and Ragna's sister.

It makes sense when you consider how heavily she bears a physical resemblance to Noel and Lambda.

The Sankishin charges headfirst at the Imperator, unsheathing the 6th Nox Nyctores, Ookami...

Only to be met by Tsubaki–accompanied by some Chinese woman with a panda in her hair.

"TSUBAKI!" Noel and Jin beg.

"Takamagahara sits in the palm of my hand," Saya declares, ignoring all interruptions. "All phenomena once random are sequential. I have brought the Day of Ruin to the Master Unit and made history forever the past. The world will once again be as it should."

"...A world of death."

"We depart, Relius," she mutters, conjuring a teleportation ars.

She turns to Rachel, adding, "Rachel Alucard. Your efforts are for naught."

"Are you quite sure?" she retorts. "Do you really think it wise to assume you are so thoroughly in control?"

"A man at death's door can do little–save knock," Saya replies.

Rachel's typically stoic demeanor breaks, revealing a frown.

The Imperator goes on to finish, "Your existence, Cauldron, irks me."

You get the impression she was referring to Ragna.

"As do you," she adds, facing you with a visage of dissonant joy.

"Would someone PLEASE let me know what the hell's going on for once?" Noel requests.

"I'll be seeing YOU again," Hazama states as he paces off.

"Jin... Noel..." Tsubaki pleads...

Before going on to say, "I am first and foremost a servant of the Imperator. Submit or be annihilated."

She turns and looks down at you with unimaginable disdain.

She's evidently had her vision restored.

But what of her memories?

And, with that, they fled.

"Damn, damn, damn, DAMN! I knew it. I KNEW IT!" Ragna interjects.

"...Brother," Jin demands, turning his attention back to Ragna.

"Please, just stay still..." Noel asks.

"Brother, you've always wanted to know what happened that one time, right? Well, it's time I told you," Jin declares.

"The person who gave me the Yukianesa was... Saya."