>>5422711"And now, for the fall."
Guts and yourself accept your death, knowing very well that neither of you would live a fall from above the clouds.
Farnese, still intact from the fight, decides to use her spirit to become one with the Sylphs from Serpico's cape, uniting as they flew up to break your fall into a glide, making sure your efforts weren't laid to waste.
"You are so eager to die for me and the others, when my life thus far has been nothing but my absolute devotion for you..." Farnese is saddened by the sight of your scarred body as she holds you in her spiritual arms. I wish you would understand, that I want to live with you. To let me outlive you... would be to subject me to the cruelty all your loved ones have brought upon you thus far." Farnese wonders if you are testing her love for you, making her hold you like a baby so many times, a baby that would fail to fall asleep unless it attempted suicide at every waking moment. The internalized self hatred she had made her switch positions into the pacifist you were in your youth, while you have shifted into something else.
You attempt to form a sentence with your lips, but your body's energy is exerted. Could you blame yourself, Guts has already blacked out before you...
The last image you are able to see, are the invading apostles of Femto's army, and Griffith's eyes starting through your lids.
"It seems I will have to keep my word... This bastard always finds a way to twist my morals..." Barnham appears next to Farnese to drop Gunpowder and Violet onto the Seahorse, extending his hand to take Benny and Cindy with him.
"Yer not know to be very delicate, Ya sure you can handle these frail kids onto yer back?" Hyde ponders if Barnham is even capable of having empathy.
"I have created the means for them to be frail. The jester of the commoner's courtyard should have a right to see her family."
"W-Wait!" Farnese wishes to stop Barnham. To tell Cindy not to go, feeling like she failed her friend, her brothers, her family and her lover, she will have no one left to fall back on.
Though knowing how her decisions had no impact on the fate of the world, she merely showed Barnham the remnants of the flask of Mandragoran essence, giving her enough to last a few days as the crash and destruction of the Pegasus had greatly damaged their supplies.
"Well, I'll be off then. I'll try to eat Ganishka's carcass if I find him for good measure." Barnham rises from the sea as Roderick's ship finally takes off.
Somehow, somewhere. The new world was about to collide with the old one. You could only hope Sivir would wake up while still in the same world as yourself.
>Torn Battlefield: Chapter End. 