Xebek\’s Blog

Everyone heads back to Labyrinthos to rescue Shion who is being interrogated by Margulis and her father. After escaping, they rush to the church to save young Shion when they run into Blue Testament, Virgil. After a confrontation with him, they run back to Labyrinthos to save Shion’s mom from the same thing that happened to her in the past, where we learn of the true cause of the Gnosis.

Summary: 

• Shion is being interrogated by Margulis. He brings in Souu and Kevin to help as he thinks Shion in more then a petty thief. When asking questions he mentions Vector so she exclaims she knew Vector was involved with Ormus. Margulis seems shocked, asking where she learned the name Ormus as it is an organization not made public yet.
• Back on the Elsa, Allen talks with Jin. Jin says how he is worried about Shion and how she keeps passing out. He says their mother had the same symptoms.
• Febronia comes to the Elsa and tells everyone how Shion is being held prisoner. Jr. says they have to rescue her but the security is too tight. Jin calls them idiots, not really, and says they know what is going to happen, in just a little while the war will begin and they know the details of it from beginning to end. U-TIC will be busy fighting the federation.
• You go out to rescue Shion. As you head to rescue her, Souu goes into Shion’s interrogation room. He talks with Shion and she learns how the only reason that he is doing what he is doing, sacrificing his wife and family is so he can protect them. Eventually Souu lets Shion go, much to Shion’s surprise. However the door locks and Pellegri communicates to them, as she has been watching them.  She says how she will dispose of both of them and we learn that Souu didn’t really betray the federation, as he has been leaking information to him.
• Just then the others come into the control room to save them. Jin and Pellegri seem to have some history, apparently Jin seems to have had feelings for her but she went with Margulis which would explain a bit why there is such hate between them. After defeating Pellegri you escape with Shion.
• Eventually you make you way to the church, as Souu asked you to save Shion. We see the scene at the church, Virgil is still there with Feb and Shion. Just then combat realians appear. Feb stands in the way and tells Virgil to escape with Shion. She dies protecting him and he doesn’t want to run and tries to fight them off. He gives Shion the key to the Labyrinthos entrance in the forest and tells her to go there and be with her family. After she runs off Virgil continues to fight the realians.
• Shion and the others arrive and after helping defeat the combat realians there Virgil tells you to go off save Shion, as more realians may be after her. More combat realians arrive and Shion gives Virgil a code to self destruct them. She tries to escape with him but he pushes her out of the way and closes the doors, sealing himself with the dozens more realians that appeared. He then blows them up, supposedly himself along with them.
• Shion rushes in yelling no and you hear a laugh from above. Blue Testament is there watching all this.  He talks with Shion calling her a hypocrite because of all she does to try and speak for realian rights yet at that time she had a code to self destruct them and so on. You then fight him and eventually defeat him.
• A ghost image of Feb appears and after a long talk about hate and how the reason he became a testament was because he wanted to return to this place that proved who he was. There is a bunch of talk about feelings and so forth and eventually the ghost image of Feb leads Virgil to the afterlife.
• You go to find young Shion and with her you make your way back to Labyrinthos to save Shion’s mother. Along the way Shion runs ahead and we see a shot of Souu arriving at Shion’s mom’s room, with young Shion trying to get inside. Souu sees the super crazed combat realians and pushes Shion inside to save her, getting killed by the realians. The realians get inside the room however and Shion hides under the bed as they kill her mom.
• The older Shion and everyone make their way and eventually get to the room. After defeating the realians Shion stares in disbelief that she didn’t make it. Young Shion is by the bed side crying. She yells out no and we see the Zohar activating because of this. Because of this activation it causes a portal to appear, bringing the Gnosis into this world.
• Shion is in utter shock, not able to believe or want to believe it. She called the gnosis into this world. She herself now yells no, causing herself to glow and a huge beam of light into space. From the beam of light, Abel’s Ark appears.
• Everyone, being really calm headed for some reason, wonder what’s going on, this didn’t happen 15 years ago. chaos says that that is Abel’s Ark. He says that’s why they brought Shion here, this isn’t the past it’s a reality constructed inside Shion’s mind. He says that they are using Shion to correct in the present what they were unable to accomplish in the past.
• Red Testament appears saying how indeed the Gnosis were called by Shion when she was a child. Red doesn’t have his mask on or hood, revealing to everyone he is Kevin. He says how he took this form to get more power, but it’s still him. Kevin asks for Shion to come with him. Jr. interrupts asking who the hell he thinks he is opening up old wounds and asking her that. Kevin says silence; none of you can save Shion. Kevin says how Shion is suffering from the same illness as her mother. He says Shion has a power that no one can understand, but it will one day cost her her life. Kevin says that all the people with this illness have the same ability, of communicating with U-DO He says the people are unable to stand the stress of direct contact with U-DO. Kevin continues saying how he became a Testament to save Shion. He says the only ones who can save her are him and T-ellos. Allen asks then what the hell about KOS MOS. Kevin says she is just a prototype to collect data for T-ellos. Kevin says the source of KOS MOS’s power comes from U-Do, by using the Zohar as a door. He says because of this connection, the closer Shion and KOS MOS’s wills come together, the greater the stress on Shion.
• Kevin tells Shion how he wants her to come with him. Jin however steps in the way, stopping Shion saying he cant’ let her leave here with him. He doesn’t believe that he can be trusted. We see T-ellos appear behind Kevin. Jr. then shoots at him but T-ellos blocks the bullets and Shion stops Jr. Jin pushes Shion over to KOS MOS, telling her to take Shion and run. Kevin tells her no, to bring Shion to her. Jin says not to listen to him, and Allen yells out the same thing. KOS MOS tells Kevin that she is not programmed to follow his orders. He asks she is defying the one who created her. She says the KOS MOS created by him was defeated by T-ellos. She has new designers now; Shion and Allen.
• KOS MOS knocks Shion out and carries her away, and T-ellos chases after them, however she stops when Kevin tells them to. KOS MOS boards the Elsa which then heads to Labyrinthos for the others.
• We see Joachim working frantically. Sellers asks what he is doing, that if the does that they will lose control of the Zohar. Joachim says he has to save the universe even if it means destroying this planet. Joachim goes out onto the balcony, overlooking the millions of Gnosis around the planet. He says to himself, to MOMO how he decided to sacrifice this people and its inhabitants so she can live in a peaceful world. Joachim shouts out some words about hell and fire and the second death and so on. Then he sees something, asking who is there. There is an explosion and Joachim falls to his death.
• The Elsa arrives to pick everyone up and heads off the planet as the Song of Nephilim rises. It starts to glow and activate and there is a huge flash as the Elsa is escaping the planet.
• We see Wilhelm on some mecha, black surrounds around him with Red standing with him. There is a flash and a ball of energy appears. He says the first awakening has gone smoothly. Wilhelm says how the Vessels of Anima are the body of God divided by the Saint in ancient times to protect the universe from dissipation. He says they can’t allow the universes failsafe to activate, they must control the body of God with their own hands.

Impressions:

Ok, this chapter was absolutely amazing. It was huge and had so much storyline advancement that it just shocked me left and right. There were defiantly some things that I didn’t see coming at all.

One thing I want to say before I move to the important serious theorizing was that there was a moment in this chapter that made me laugh harder then I had ever laughed before. Seriously one of the funniest video game parts I’ve ever experienced. When everyone was running along and the giant piece of mecha came crashing down almost hitting them was hilarious. When Jr. looked up and saw Asher flying, the cause of the crash that almost hit them and he yelled up to watch below when fighting, then chaos laughed, that was just great. chaos apologizing because it was him who was piloting it. Although it doesn’t seem like that hilarious of a thing, it’s just in the moment and when I saw it I found it hilarious, especially the way chaos apologized for it when Jr. wasn’t directing it at him but at the…other him.

Ok, the main thing about this chapter that I felt was WTF! When I learned of the whole Shion being the one who summoned the Gnosis, I nearly lost it. I didn’t see that one coming at all. I mean, it’s so…wow, that one is just amazing. My best guess is that it has something to do with both her being a descendant of the Immigrant Fleet and also the fact that she can communicate with U-DO. Although, the U-DO thing could and probably is a result of her being related to the Immigrant Fleet.

Also, I was a bit surprised with how they concluded Virgil’s thing. Although I figured that they would eventually have to phase out all of the Testaments, because stories that usually have an elite group of mysterious people, like KHII, eventually have them die out until the last guy. So now we have three testaments left. Even though I suspected Virgil to die or go away at one point, his end was still a bit surprising. I mean, basically he went peacefully and they really delved into his feelings and reason for becoming a Testament. I had guessed that they would just kill him to defeat him, not have a ghost of Feb who he apparently had feelings for or something appear and take him to the afterlife. Although I did really enjoy his ending I have to say, I think it was interesting to watch how they described his character, about the reason for becoming a Testament was he wanted to return to his moment where he saved everyone because it defined who he truly was.

I liked how they showed Joachim’s reasons for sealing off Miltia. They showed that he wasn’t the one who summoned the Gnosis but he was still responsible of the likely millions of deaths on the planet by activating everything and sealing away Miltia. Although even though without the Gnosis thing, he did do something bad but it was for the greater good. Although, one thing that I think is left unresolved a bit is exactly how Joachim died. When he was standing on the balcony, before the explosion and him falling to his death he suddenly turned around asking who is there. So I think that the reason he fell had to be someone’s fault, and not just a coincidence that some fire from somewhere else coincidently hit the exactly balcony where he was.

On a smaller note, I was really pleasantly surprised with all the supporting character at the end of this chapter. I loved how Jin and everyone else stopped Shion from going to Kevin. I would have been so pissed if they just suddenly go from thinking that Testament equals bad, but since its Kevin he must be good. I was very pleased with Jin and Jr. for standing up against Kevin saying how they don’t trust him, Jr. even trying to attack him. Also, hurray for KOS MOS and not listening to Kevin’s orders.

The whole thing between Jin and Pellegri was also really shocking. I mean, although it isn’t anything crucial to the overall storyline it still was a little surprising to find out that they had a history with each other like they did, with Jin apparently having feelings for her.