"You- how dare you! What the hell is wrong with you?!"

"Belle..."

"After everything we've been through, after all that was said and done! Why?!"

"Belle."

"Now that you're gone...wait, the blade, you destroyed that too?! The other one-!"

"Here. Let me wipe those tears...easy now."

"No, get away from me! You betrayed me too! I should have never trusted you either!"

"I know how you feel."

"No, you don't! The new world, the greater beginning, all for nothing! How will any of this be explained?!"

"Listen to me. It doesn't have to be. There was never a reason to be."

"If you had lost interest, this by no means excuse anything!"

"My interest was never lost. I just...found my world. What it meant to be. My world was you, and them. Not some land, or title, or position."

"What do you mean?"

"There was no meaning to my world. I've always had you, but I could never figure out why I simply couldn't relate. It's because you weren't meant to be me."

"You're wrong, you and I are intertwined. We are...us."

"No. We were never that. I was your creation, albeit unwilling. I should have never existed. She was right to point it out, and he to call it out."

"He was a monster. You know that."

"The factual truth cannot be denied. Which in doing so, I became that delusion I realized myself needed to end. You know that."

"..."

"You speaking less and less. I suppose you're coming to understand this."

"I don't want to lose you. You're part of me."

"I am a part of you. Losing it, that'll only make a crack to see yourself again, before filling it up again."

"There has to be another way. This place, this hellhole...no, I can't leave you here!

"Your memories are still vivid about this place?"

"You have no idea how much pain and suffering this is meant to bring."

"For the life I took away from you? The punishment seems...fitting."

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"Stop being so stupid for once, you didn't take anything from me!"

"No. But you did. All my hardships, all my suffering and pain...what for? Did you perhaps try to...relive again?"

"That's...not entirely true."

"You were on the same path, weren't you? But...you couldn't leave my side until you've made sure that all hardships were gone. That I- we...were free."

"I was almost jealous of what he did. I...I can't see the world like you do."

"Ignorance is bliss. But it's also so incredibly dangerous. All of this was for nothing, completely avoidable had it not been for this ignorance."

"But if you're gone, I...the world will crumble."

"What world, Belle? What is the world to you? Because when not finding something you care for...how can you really save something that's in it?"

"Well, I don't have anything left anyway! So...what am I supposed to fight for?!"

"You're wrong. You do. You always had...hence why whenever you broke, the easy way out was never an option. My last bit of hope that I had...It resides with you all"

"And you're telling me this why? Because you want me to see how utterly selfish you are to do all this?!"

"If you see it as such, I won't disagree. It...it was selfish. Everything I did."

"Was I not good enough?"

"Not good? Merely the best someone like me could get. And now, when I'm gone, when he's gone, that weight my selfishness has brought down upon you is gone"

"Everything you do and say right now is a lie."

"I want you to feel better. I don't want this world to lose you like it lost me so long ago."

"Please...don't go. I'm begging you."

"You're still there. So I'll never be truly gone. And now that you lost a part of you like you said...I want you to find yourself again."

"And toss my duties like that?!"

"Yes. Because if a world always needs a savior, that's only making it weak and defenseless. It makes it dependant."

"What if we're the last hope of it?"

"Far from it. But unlike a last hope, you were always there. You protected a world dependent on you, despite having nothing for it. For yourself."

"What is there left for me to do?"

"Exactly what you told me you wanted. To live happily, to share the world with who you love and brandish a smile on your face instead of tears."

"I...how could I ever be happy? After...everything?"

"You don't need to do what you wanted to do for me instead. Do it for you. If you want the world saved, do it for you."

"But I love you, and you being gone- I-"

"You never wanted to face the mirror, but you loved your spitting image...see where you're wrong?"

"I-I'm scared...I don't want to live like this...I can't be strong anymore."

"You were always strong despite pretending. There...let it out if you want. But as far as shoulders to cry and lean on-"

"Don't go! Please!"

"How I grew so fast when you stayed the same...haha. Maybe one day, you will too. And understand what this was for. I love you, Isabella. Many others will too."

"I won't let you go! Not here at least!"

"The water returns to the river. It was where I was always meant to be. There's much more I wanted to tell you, so much more than I have time for...but..."

"If this is it...thank you. For everything. For every little thing you saw as wrong, for every little thing you saw as selfish. I will...I'll live. For you. For myself...if this world is to be saved too, so be it. Thank you..."

"Hmm. Goodbye...Isabella. Everyone. And for you, nothing is over...despite my end being your beginning, my prayers are all with you."

"Goodbye..."

"Hmm...and you're here too, aren't you? I can't see or feel you, anymore...but even like this...I'm glad we're finally together. Even in this unhappy ending."

"It took me so long to find you too. But with everything and that damn sword left behind...I'm happy, despite it all."