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[ELA] "Kghr... Krrraaah...!"
'So, what was that about not wanting to be a hero?'
[ELA] "Ghr... foolish... witch...! You dare provoke me...?!"
'The thing is, Ela, you're right. Not everyone is cut out to be a hero. It takes courage to do something like that... and courage can lead to sacrifice. But in the end, above all else, what matters is that... you tried if you stood up to make a change! You could have avoided what you'd become.'
[ELA] "Am I being preached to?! You know nothing of me... NOTHING!"
'When you died, you did so heroically. You tried to face down the ultimate evil in his own realm. Not even Sarakha would have the guts to do what you tried to do on your lonesome with his fellow Trinity gods behind him. You died, but it wasn't in vain like you believe. You showed that... he can be faced... even in the heart of his own territory. You showed just how weak the Darkness really is, how vulnerable it is to true bravery.'
[ELA] "I almost... died to the gatekeeper alone! Ooooh! Yasomagatsuhi-no-Kami... terrible titan! Would have flayed my flesh had I not knocked it aside...!"
'But you did! And you carried on all the way to the end! You let your death destroy your courage then and there... instead of realize it was for something after all, and not for naught as you convinced yourself. If you had only known what you'd inspired in your deed, you wouldn't have fallen to Terror, your soul would have slipped out of the Hand of Evil and found rest. You wouldn't be a corpse.'
[ELA] "No.... NO! YOU... ARE WRONG! NOBODY CAN DEFEAT... HIM! Nobody... nothing...!"
I shook my head. He was far too gone. A sad sight.
[ELA] "Defeat me or not... even without me here, these Lunar people will still grow the urge one day... both Yutu and Nio will continue their rivalry even with me gone... they will mislead them, and fan the suffering. You have changed... nothing...!"
When the darkness faded and my sight returned to me, I saw Ela was gone. He fled, back to the Afterseas, running like a coward.
But something was left over, something that detached itself from him upon hearing my words...
'A remnant of his psyche...'
[MAJORDOMO] "Looks like his pride fell off. Literally, we have his pride now."
'I can taste memories untapped of experiences within this lukewarm information.'
[MAJORDOMO] "I say we take it. Even if the real one is in the deep end... there's nothing to say we couldn't replace him with a new Ela in the future using this. If a god dies, their concept will eventually spawn a new incarnation through human belief one day."
[JOCO] "Wew, we'd basically be rebirthing him, but not really!"
I obtained the [Ankh of Pride], fingerprinted by Ela's old life. I stashed it away to my hammerspace as a key item.
