[It really is a good thing the coralfam is easy to please, and that Zhirou is, impressively, more oblivious than his more sword-savvy counterpart.]

... Yeah. We had to be able to see beyond everything that was happening.

[And somehow, they've started to do that. Weeks ago, it had seemed like an impossible task, or not a task at all. As much as he dislikes the idea, it had taken enough of them dying to tilt the balance, and start bringing in more ideas from Sol's side. The dead. The Metaverse. For someone like him, who tries to focus on what he can still see and reach, it's been a bit of a stretch.

But they've all made it. That leap of faith.

Now they just need Red and Archer and perhaps Sol to make it too.]

Maybe the Lord was reaching out, for a long time. We had to learn to reach back.