Holly suddenly wakes up in her human form as she lies on a bed in a clear white space.

Holly: "W-what happened?"

??: "You really went crazy on the both of us, didn't you?"

Holly's eyes widen as she hears a mysterious voice. The voice seemed so mysterious yet sounded so familiar as she slowly turned to see an old man and an old woman.

Holly couldn't see them clearly, but she really didn't need to see clearly to know who these people were. She runs with all of her energy as she confidently jumps at both of them and hugs them.

Holly: "I'M SORRY, I'M SO SORRY!! WHAT WAS I THINKING?! ALL OF THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN?! I BEEN SO STUPID FOR THINKING THAT-"

The old woman puts her finger on Holly's finger before she can continue any further.

Woman: "It'll be okay honey, we're all together as a family now...that's all that matters!"

The old woman slowly turns her head to face the old man.

Woman: "Isn't that right, dear?"

The old man lets out a long and tired sigh.

Man: "Honestly, it's not we haven't done the same stuff as you, right?"

Holly falls to her knees with tears in her as she slowly raises her head to the old man.

Holly: "What did you say?"

Man: "I guess we're all just one big family of psychos, huh? hahaha"

Holly lets her emotions out she drops to all fours and lets tears run all over her face.

The old woman and man hug as she is on all fours.

Woman: "Let's all burn together, shall we?"

Man: "We'll never anything get between us both."

Holly raises herself to hug both the old man and woman.

Holly: "Yes, let's burn in love, mother and father."

The white space suddenly turns black as fire spreads all over till eventually burns away everything in the space, including Holly and her parents.

"I'll see you in the next life, everyone."

The giant red skull lets down a big bloody tear as the body decays away in piles of ash.

Cassandra gasps for air then finally calms down.

Cassandra: "We won...WE WON!"

Jacob takes off his black coat revealing his muscular body covered in small cuts and scars as he sits down on the stairs leading to a throne.

Irina: "WE ARE VICTORIOUS ON THIS GLORIOUS DAY!! NYAHAHAHAAA!!!"

Ashlyn's eyes come back to normal as her horns melt away into dust and holds her arms together.

Yuji slowly walks towards everyone as he falls onto the ground and grasps for air.

Yuji: "W-we won! hahaha...but at what cost?! Didn't we make a promise not to kill anybody?!?! WHY COULDN'T WE EVEN DO SOMETHIN AS SIMPLE AS-"

Jacob: "On the contrary..."

Yuji slowly raises his face, revealing it to be full of snot and tears to look at Jacob sitting on a set of stairs.

Jacob: "Honestly, we lost. That's all there is to it."

Silence fell upon the group as N and the little girl watched the room go silent in the small cage.

Jacob: "On this day, let's all make a promise, yeah?"

Everyone suddenly became anticipated about Jacob's confident statement.

Jacob: "Starting from now, we won't kill any more people unless the moment absolutely calls for it."

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Yuji suddenly gets a peak of adrenaline and anger.

Yuji: "HOW CAN YOU SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT SO CASUALLY?!?!? WE JUST FUCKING KILLED A PART OF OUR TEAM AND YOU JUST FUCKING-"

Yuji throws a pebble and the pebble sparks small pink flames.

Jacob: (Pink isn't your syn's color...)

Jacob swiftly deflects the pebble away to the side.

Jacob: "Well, how else do you wanna do this? As far as we're concerned, there are probably people out there who might just be as bad as her, hell, maybe even worse...this is how the world was made, the best we can do is defend against it."

Yuji suddenly calms down and realizes that Jacob might just have sympathy after all as he lets his head hang again and gets frustrated at himself.

Ashlyn comes over and comforts Yuji and she darts her eyes to Jacob.

Ashlyn: "Not all of the people still alive out there are like this, right?"

Jacob: "I can't guarantee that. But I can guarantee that we just might meet her in a different form, at a different time."

Cassandra comes forward with Irina on the side.

Cassandra: "But what I'm wondering is...what'll happen to all of us? will any of this really matter? Will any of us have changed from who we were before the synvasion?"

Jacob: "Well, you're still standing here fighting, right? Plus, you haven't given up till now so I assume you want to go back to how your life was? or would you want to do your own thing? These are questions that, as much as I want to, I can't answer, and it's up to you on how you should live your life after all of this."

Jacob: "If nobody wants to follow me after this, then that's fine. I'll do this whole thing myself if I have to, but I don't know what kind of omen could be out there, and it could take me forever to figure out to find the source of all this...but a human being can adapt, right? if you don't wanna do this then...you can leave now and survive on your own, and I'm okay with that."

Jizzabelle: "NO!"

Everyone darts their eyes to Jizzabelle still holding up the roof of the church with her forcefield.

Jizzabelle: "I want to see the bright blue sky for what it is, without having to worry about getting killed by some creature, I want to taste food I've never done before...I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING I'VE WANTED TO DO BUT COULDN'T CAUSE OF THE PEOPLE THAT RUN THIS WORLD AND HONESTLY, THE SYNVASION WAS THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO ME BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN'T BRING BACK THIS WORLD WE LIVE IN INTO A PLACE OF PEACE AND FREEDOM."

Cassandra gets a sudden spike of excitement from Jizzabelle's out of nowhere statement.

Cassandra: "Yeah...YEAH! IF I'M GONNA DIE IN THIS SHITTY DIRT BALL OF A PLANET THEN I AI'NT GOIN DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT!!"

Jacob smiles and chuckles at the general mood within the group.

Jacob: "That makes 2, what does everybody else say?"

Ashlyn stands back up from comforting Yuji.

Ashlyn: "Honestly, I've got nothing else to do...Plus, I don't think a bit of change would hurt anybody, right? I mean we've already come this far..."

Jacob: (Heroes...)

Yuji stands back up from the ground and lets out a long exhale.

Yuji: "Honestly, It'll take me a while to get used to...this. But I know It'll all work out in the end!"

Irina jumps on Yuji's shoulders.

Yuji: "Woah! what the-"

Irina: "I MUST FIND MY OPPONENT, SOMEONE THAT CAN BE MY EQUAL!! NYAHAHAHAAAA"

Jacob: "Then I guess it's settled."

Jacob notices a bright light and turns around to see a radio next to the throne and grabs it to investigate.

Jacob: "What would they need a radio for?"

Yuji comes forward and investigates the radio.

Yuji: "This must be how they got all those victims."

Jacob: "Who the hell would respond on the other side?"

Ashlyn: "Maybe she created a bunch of them and used them to bait people in?"

Jacob puts his finger on his chin.

Jacob: "Maybe...she might have conjured one for her and another wherever in the world and baited into being transported into here...?"

Yuji: "Maybe we could use it! to you know...let people out there know that they can fight."

Jacob: "It could work...but the problem is having to connect it from different parts of the world...it could be that she used her cult member's syn to connect so far from Hestia...."

Yuji: "We could start small, start in Hestia, and let the word spread from there!"

Jacob smirks.

Jacob: "Haha, I like the way you think."

Jacob breaks the cage open to reveal N and the little girl.

Jacob: "Howdy, bud."

N: "Any longer and I thought I was gonna decay..."

Jacob: "Yeah well, this took longer than we thought..."

Jacob looks down to see the little girl hugging his leg.

Jacob: "Who's the little shit?"

N: "Don't ask me, I was thrown in here with her."

Cassandra burns the rope wrapped around N's wrists.

Cassandra: "Good work on being a good bait, edgy spike!!"

N: "You act like I did it by choice."

Jizzabelle starts to struggle to hold the church together.

Jizzabelle: "Very nice to see you again...but...COULD WE PLEASE GO!!"

Jacob: "On it, let's go!"

A rift appears next to Jizzabelle as Jacob runs at Jizzabelle.

Jacob: "Sorry in advance."

Jizzabelle: "What?"

Jacob spear tackles Jizzabelle into the rift as everyone else follows.

Everyone comes out of the rift and appears back in the cafeteria as Banishment and Mallory watch them come out.

Mallory: "Welcome back!"

Everyone recovers from the ground and stands still.

Mallory looks over to see everyone but sees someone missing.

Mallory: "Where's Holly and Tatsuki?"

Silence fell upon the room just from the mention of their names.

Banishment: "I see...they didn't make it. That's unfortunate...but at least all of you made it out."

Jacob: "Yeah well, I'll be back...I've got things to sort out."

Jacob opens a rift and leaves.

Banishment: "Does anyone want-"

Ashlyn: "Sorry but, I just need some time to...take in everything that's happened...I'll be in my room if you need me..."

Ashlyn leaves the cafeteria as everyone else silently follows.

Banishment: "hmm..."

Mallory puts her hand on Banishment's shoulder.

Mallory: "Best to let them sort it out...It's been a long day, right?"

Banishment: "I suppose so..."

Jacob enters the surveillance room takes out the book and slowly opens it.

Jacob: "So this is what you wanted me to see, Grandpa..."

Jacob turns the first page to see the contents.

Jacob: "What the...Hybrids?...kings of synder?...The overlord....Titans...what the fuck happened while you were around grandpa?"

"What are you doing?"

A flaming arm places its hand on Jacob's shoulder.

Ep 32-End