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"bla bla" - speak normal.

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"bla bla" - demonic speech, other different voices or narration of beelzebub.

english is not my main language - Speak in languages other than English.

19th century, Central Room of the Black Ark.

Allen had finally reached the central room of the Black Ark, the room where the millennium earl was, where Mana was, and where he would be able to gather the arks and put the heart back together, to finally end this war.

He turned the knob and opened the door to reveal the living room, completely surprised by the view he found behind the door, and not only was he surprised, Nea was as well.

The reason for their surprise was that the room behind the door was a replica of a large golden wheat field, it was possible to see beautiful golden fields as far as Allen's vision was able to reach, there was a clear path of the wheat field and passed a large tree that stood out in the midst of the plantation, as it rose above the wheat fields, and at the end of the trail there was the only visible building in that room, this building being a large old mansion, which was familiar to Allen and still more familiar to Nea.

This was the Campbell mansion, the mansion where Mana and Nea grew up with their mother throughout their childhood to adulthood, Allen had visited the mansion in the present day to get answers about the mystery of Nea and Mana's story, it being there that he found Lavi, but the house in front of him was different from today, as although the mansion was in excellent condition nowadays, it was possible to see that it had been painted and had been affected by time, while the house the front of it looked much newer and more alive, probably being the house as it was 35 years ago when Mana and Nea lived in it.

"Nea, is that..." Allen questioned his uncle, still surprised by the appearance of the central room.

"Yes, this is the Campbell residence, just as I remember it 35 years ago, everything looks like it was back then." Nea responded in Allen's mind, with surprise in his voice and other emotions as well, it being obvious that he was thrilled to see a scenario identical to the one he had grown up with.

"This is probably Mana's doing." Allen said watching the calming landscape, not seeming to be any trace of the previous wave of dark energy or consequences of it, Allen observed the landscape for a few more seconds before starting to walk to the trail that led to the house and starting to follow it.

"Probably, this room as well as the control room of the white ark can be molded according to the user's wishes, however while the control room of the white ark allows manipulating the laws of time and physics of the room, the room in which we are is more physically malleable, letting it change to a completely different setting, allowing it to take on the user's desired setting." Nea explained the operation and differences between the control rooms of the arks.

"I see, so you mean that once joined, the merged ark's control room should be able to shape itself both ways according to the user's wishes." Allen concluded as he walked along the path between the wheat fields.

"Exactly, you're getting the hang of how these things work Allen, as expected of my nephew." Nea said in Allen's mind, pride in his voice at his nephew's correct deductions about the workings of the arks.

Allen rolled his eyes at his uncle's words, "Well it's only natural since you kept talking in my mind nonstop about science and alchemy and a bunch of other stuff as we travelled." Allen said in exasperation, remembering how his uncle incessantly devoted himself to teaching Allen about various areas he had studied in life, from the scientific area to the field of magic and other subjects, Nea had dedicated himself to passing this knowledge on to his nephew after knowing that Allen had never received any formal academic education other than the basics from Cross, after all Allen's late master taught him enough to survive on his own.

Although Nea had gone to extreme lengths, trying to cram as much information as he could into Allen's skull, even when Allen was trying to sleep, not caring whether or not Allen was interested in such matters.

"You're welcome nephew, very few people have access to the information I gave you, some people would even kill to know about some subjects I taught you, you should be grateful." Nea said to Allen in an arrogant and overly snobbish tone.

"Yeah, Yeah, say that to my sleepless nights I spent listening to your lectures." Allen retorted Nea sarcastically, remembering wanting to slam his head into the wall hard enough to knock himself out and get a night's sleep without having to listen to Nea's lectures, Allen would admit he was grateful for his uncle's efforts and he genuinely woke up. an interest in subjects, but his uncle's enthusiasm for studies was exaggerated in the extreme.

"Such ingratitude, this current generation is lost." Nea said in an overly dramatic way, making Allen huff at his uncle's banter even in such tense moments.

"So dramatic." Allen commented in his mind as he shook his head with a small smile on his face, however that smile disappeared when Allen was able to hear piano notes of a song known to him and after a few more steps he finally reached the mansion's residence in end of the trail he was on, having a vision of the person waiting for him there.

In front of the great Campbell mansion there was a string piano positioned under the large tree of the residence, being a piano very similar to the piano in the control room of the white ark, with a bench positioned in front of it and on that bench there was a man sitting playing the piano .

"So the little infant fell into a deep sleep.

Among the gray ashes the flames exhibit life force...First one, then two ...

Making shapes of the profile of your lovely face.

The vast land filled with thousands of dreams, dreams" Came the song softly sung by the man seated at the piano.

This man was a man who looked to be in his late 30s or early 40s, however he might have looked younger if he took more care of his appearance, this man looked to be about 1.88 meters tall, he has hair dark slicked back, though slightly messy and he has a stubbled beard, his eyes were golden like the hallmarks of the Noah clan, as was the stigma on his forehead and his dark skin.

The man was wearing colorful clothes, with a gold suit and tie, with a green shirt under the suit and a purple scarf around his neck, he was also wearing black hoodies and brown shoes.

This man was known by many names, Adam, The Maker, The 1,000 Year Old Phantom and many other titles, but to the black order he was known as the Earl of the Millennium, the creator of the Akuma and the first apostle.

"On the night when the silver eyes were trembling, the shining you were born.

Across millions of years, no matter how many prayers have already returned back to the ground." The man continued to sing while playing the piano naturally.

But to Nea he was Mana D Campbell, his twin brother he'd grown up with his whole life, the same brother he'd watched go crazy with when his memories of Noah awakened, the man who'd accidentally killed his mother and who was later the cause of his death. your own death.

"I will still continue to pray.

Please bestow upon this child your love.

Upon our joined hands, leave a gentle kiss." The music continued to ripple through the air, being calming and serene, although there was a certain coldness in the man's smooth movements, as if he was lost in thought as he played.

And for Allen that figure was Mana Walker, the man he met at the circus and took him as an apprentice to his shows, even though he wasn't good at it at the time, the man who went out of his way to cheer him up when he was sad.

And for Allen that figure was Mana Walker, the man he met at the circus and took him as an apprentice to his shows, even though he wasn't good at it at the time, the man who went out of his way to cheer him up when he was sad.

The man who adopted him and was like a father to him, and a man that Allen believed died because of him and that he had turned into Akuma as a child, thus earning his cursed eye.

"Mana." Allen let it out in a whisper, feeling all of his emotions play out inside him, being able to see with his own eyes the true face of the Millennial Earl, seeing his father's face, finally getting all of his emotions hit.

"So the little infant fell into a deep sleep.

Among the gray ashes the flames exhibit life force...First one, then two ...

Making shapes of the profile of your lovely face.

The vast land filled with thousands of dreams, dreams."The man, however, continued to play his music, not seeming to have noticed Allen's presence yet or simply not caring about his presence there.

Allen was about to start walking towards Mana, guided by his feelings, not really thinking about what he was doing, just wanting to get closer to that person.

"Allen wait." Nea suddenly said in Allen's mind, causing him to stop in his tracks, "I know you want to talk to him, but right now he's probably out of his mind and you've got too many feelings to think coherently about, let me take control. of the body for the time being to talk to him." Nea said in Allen's mind, wanting to give his nephew time to compose himself.

"On the night when the silver eyes were trembling, the shining you were born.

Across millions of years, no matter how many prayers have already returned back to the ground." The song continued, with another verse being sung softly by the man at the piano.

Allen heard his uncle's words and stopped his steps, recognizing the truth behind his uncle's words, casting one last look at the back of Mana who was sitting playing the piano, before closing his eyes and giving up control of his body. for Nea.

"I will still continue to pray.

Please bestow upon this child your love.

Upon our joined hands, leave a gentle kiss." The musician sang the last chorus of the song, playing the final notes of the song on the piano, finally moving and getting mad in the piano chair, with his back slightly arched and still turned back to the only other person in the room.

For a few moments everything was silent, with the wheat field moving smoothly around them both in the gentle wind that passed through the room, while Allen's body stopped a few feet away from Earl, who was sitting at the piano with his back to the room. for him.

Slowly the Earl started to turn to look at who was behind him, making his eyes meet another pair of golden eyes, which were in place of Allen's silver ones, but it wasn't Allen who was in control of the body and the Earl knew he said. .

"Ah Nea, there you are, I was waiting for you, but as you were taking so long I thought I'd play a little piano, I really like this song, it reminds me of when our mother used to sing it for us, it was good times." The Earl said in a happy tone, but with a slightly unfocused look, perhaps indicating his state of mind at that moment, as he was once again talking to Nea as if they were 35 years ago.

"Yes, she always sang this song to us when we went to sleep, we gave her a lot of work all day but she never complained, she was an amazing woman." Nea responded with a genuine smile and affection in his voice, playing along with Mana's daydreams.

"Yeah, she sure is amazing, those were good times." The Earl said with a happy smile on his face, seeming to be lost in happy thoughts, "We should go visit her one of these days, she would be very happy." The man sitting at the piano continued talking happily, with the same glazed look as before.

"That would be wonderful, if that were possible, but unfortunately that can't be reality." Nea said, losing the smile on his face and looking into the eyes of the Earl, who looked back at his brother with a confused face.

"Why do you say that Nea? Don't you want to see our mother?" The Earl questioned with a confused face, his hand twitching and squeezing rhythmically, though he didn't seem aware of it.

"I would love to see her again, but that is impossible now as she was killed over 35 years ago by the Millennium Earl." Nea said with a serious face, seeing his brother's face change from confusion to shock and back to confusion, but now with a more crazed look on his face.

"What? but that's impossible, me!...the Earl! he- our mother, that!" The Earl began to babble uncontrollably, as he brought his hands to his face and clutched his head in his hands, seeming to have a very strong headache, while his gaze lost focus.

"Your memories are fragmented from your memories racing through your head, along with your attempt to forget everything when you made your own face, but over 35 years ago the Earl's powers awakened in you, but you refused to become the Earl of the millennium and because we are apart, the power of the Earl created an independent puppet, which has the appearance of your Earl mask, this puppet had the mission to make you the Earl of the millennium at all costs, and it was this puppet that killed our mother." Nea spoke to Mana, causing her brother to look at him with wide eyes and tears leaking from his eyes, looking completely shocked.

But Nea continued, "I knew something was up, but when I heard that our mother died, I couldn't help myself, I blamed you, the other Noahs who wished for Earl to fully return and wanted to get rid of me, I hated everyone and everything and that led me to make mistakes and hurt people i didn't want to hurt and in the end i killed the noahs minus you and road you killed me and then you attacked yourself to forget the pain." Nea continued to tell the story of the events of more than 35 years ago, causing Mana's mind to travel in several flashes and confused and fragmented memories, causing him to hold his head tightly as Tears streamed down his face.

"That's- I-Mana...The Earl..." The Earl continued babbling, seeming to be lost, as he began to emanate a dark aura from his body as he tried to contain his headache, caused by the repressed memories in his body. your mind, "Earl killed the mother, I killed our mother, Mana killed Nea, I killed Nea, but Nea will come back, I will find Nea if I follow Allen and Nea came back, how?" The Earl questioned amidst his confusion, questioning his brother of his back.

"I came back thanks to Allen, the Allen we knew over 35 years ago, he let me pass my memories on to him for me to come back and he somehow managed to regress his age, so you decided to go after Allen, but with your fragmented memories you distorted those thoughts and when you found a stray dog you named him Allen and took him with you, after that you became a street clown, traveling around looking for me with 'Allen'." Nea said cautiously watching the aura that came out of her brother, until he noticed that the room seemed to be changing, there seemed to be small details but the room seemed to move slowly and change along with the Earl's state, which was to be expected since he was the one using the piano.

"Allen...Allen will take me to Nea, I must keep walking, I must never stop walking." The Earl muttered slowly, repeating the same phrase he was repeating back then, the phrase Nea said to him and the one he said to Allen, a phrase that was linked to the three of them.

"Yes, those were the words I left for you, and you followed them until you found a traveling circus that hired you and by fate's irony Allen was there, but because of Allen's rejuvenation of 35 years ago, he no longer existed, he got together with an innocence and became a child, who worked in this circus with the name of Red and was taken in by you, Mana Walker." Nea told the story, expressing a sneer, with the irony of fate having brought them together in that circus, the Earl just looked at Nea with wide eyes, seeming to be going through another flash of memories.

"The child who adopted you and raised you as a son, although things got messed up when the Earl's puppet came back to chase you and Apocryphos was trying to destroy you using Red's innocence, yet even after all this mess you took Red with you. you, naming him after the dead dog, ironically giving him the name that was once his, and Allen Walker was born." Nea continued, revealing the origin story of Allen and Mana Walker, much to the Earl's dismay.

"Mana Walker...Allen Walker- little pierro..." The Earl uttered sounding like he was remembering something, sweat pouring down his face, but his words made Nea smile a little.

"Yes, something I definitely didn't expect when I woke up was that I would have a nephew, especially that I was inhabiting the same body as him, you definitely get me with this one, but the most shocking thing was knowing that Cross took him in as a pupil, it was certainly a flurry of information." Nea said jokingly, but the Earl didn't seem to be listening anymore, he had his head down and sweating, with his dark energy emanating from him, and now the changes in the scenery were visible.

The whole scenery in the room started to move and change, the wheat field, the mansion and even the tree, everything started to change with the exception of the piano and the bench where Earl is sitting, Nea had to crouch down to keep his balance. as the room moved, everything seemed to melt for a few moments as the scenery around them began to change and large walls seemed to rise around him, with the scenery changing to an enclosed place instead of open sky and after a few more Within moments everything seemed to finally fall into place and the new scenery was displayed around them both.

After a few moments the room finished changing and Nea quickly looked around to identify the new scenery around the two of them and widened his eyes when she saw the new shape of the control room. "That's..." Allen spoke through their mental link, unable to finish his sentence, due to the shock he was going through with the sight.

The room was now different from before, there were big walls around both that went up to the sky, it was no longer possible to see the artificial sky of the room, these 'walls' and 'ceiling' were actually a large colored canvas, which had different colors interspersed, in the case of a large circus tent that was around the two, with both in the center of the circus stage, with seats for the audience positioned around the stage they were on, with the circus entrance being located behind of the piano which was in the same position, with Earl sitting on the piano bench.

Nea had not seen the circus in person, but was able to see it through Allen's memories, knowing that the setting around her was the circus where Mana met Allen years ago and Allen's reaction to seeing the setting around them was similar. the confirmation he needed to know that the setting was the same circus from his nephew's memories.

Nea then looked at the Earl who had his hands on his face, looking confused, but it was obvious that he was responsible for changing the scene in the room, which is to say that at least part of his mind could remember that.

"He remembers, at least part of him remembers, what I said must have awakened his memories." Nea said to Allen aloud, as the only other person in the room wasn't focused enough to hear.

"That means part of the Mana I've known is there...Nea let me take over." Allen said after a pause, sounding resolute in his decision.

"Are you sure you're ready for this Allen?" Nea questioned his nephew, knowing it wouldn't be an easy situation for him.

"Yes, I need to talk to him myself, if I get the chance to talk to the Mana I knew even once I'll take this chance." Allen said decisively, making it clear to Nea that he would not give up on his choice.

Nea gave a little sigh but cracked a small smile knowing his nephew wouldn't give up, "Okay, now it's up to you Allen, but I'll be here if you need to." Nea said before closing his eyes and starting to switch places with Allen.

"Thanks Uncle." Allen thanked his uncle, as he took control of his body again and opened his silver eyes again, looking directly at the figure of the Earl, who seemed to be fighting a battle inside his mind.

Allen then began to walk fearlessly towards the Earl, stopping a few meters from him watching him writhe lost in thought, Allen observed the man in front of him and took a deep breath before speaking.

"Manna." Allen said calmly, causing the Earl to stop moving, looking like Allen had successfully managed to get his attention, encouraging Allen to continue, "It's me, Allen, I know you may not remember me correctly, but I know that part of you remembers because you created this circus of your mind, this circus where we met." Allen said calmly, waiting for his words to reach Mana who was trapped inside the Earl.

The Earl stood still for a few moments, before slowly lifting his head and meeting Allen's gaze with his golden eyes looking calmer than before, "Allen...I...remember- but it's all blurry, I remember of a child...sad and crying..." Earl spoke slowly, with a conflicted face, trying to access his memories, the memories were blurry and whenever he caught a glimpse of them, he suffered a headache each stronger and stronger.

The man sitting at the piano was squeezing his hands very tightly, to the point that if he wasn't wearing gloves, his hands would already be bleeding, but he felt another pair of hands holding his hands, making him open them and look up, meeting Allen's gaze, who looked at him with calm eyes, trying to convey tranquility to him, but it was possible to see hope swimming in his gray eyes.

"That's right, that child was me, that was the first time we met, your beagle Allen had died and I was very sad, at that time my name was Red and you came to comfort me." Allen said as calmly as he could, feeling a spark of hope ignite inside him, hope that Mana could be recovered somehow.

The Earl seemed to calm down with Allen's words, "Red, yes I remember, the circus boy, I remember, but..." The Ear said slowly, seeming to be remembering the situation more easily, but he did. There was a pause in his speech, causing Allen to worry that something might happen, but the Earl's own words weren't what he'd expected, "You were red-haired, or you had auburn hair, now your hair is white like an old man's." ." The Earl said simply, causing the entire room to go silent for a few moments.

"...That's not what I expected him to say." Allen sweated comically at the Earl's sentence, not expecting him to talk about his hair and besides...

"What does he mean by an old man's hair? I know my hair is white, but there's a difference between the white of an old man and the white of my hair!" Allen questioned his father figure aloud, outraged that his hair was compared to an old man's, secretly hoping that Lavi and Kanda would never hear about it as they had both teased/ensulted Allen's hair before.

But they weren't the only ones he needed to worry about, "PPFFF! I don't know about that Allen white looks white to me in any hair, ha ha ha!" Nea laughed in Allen's mind, causing the exorcism to feel a headache on its way, but the Earl spoke again, catching their attention.

"But I remember you, your hair was different, after Allen died we met and we started walking together- but then...then..." The Earl started talking again, recounting his memories, but at the same time. At the end of his speech he started having another crisis with his memories.

"Calm down Mana!" Allen exclaimed trying to calm the man in front of him, but it didn't seem to be having much effect anymore, because the Earl's black aura emanated from his body again, making Allen worry about him again.

"Allen, he's getting lost again, we don't know how much time we have, we have to take this chance to unite the arks!" Nea said in Allen's mind, causing the young man to be conflicted as he looked at his father figure suffering like this, but he knew Nea was right, they needed to finish what they came to do.

Allen backed away slightly from the Earl, looking sadly at him as he moved closer to the piano and placing his hand on the instrument, "I'm sorry Mana, but I need to finish this once and for all." Allen said sadly, placing his index and middle finger on his forehead and starting to give the command of the white Ark to unite with the black Ark.

After this command was issued the piano began to glow slightly and its notes began to be played alone, with the sound of the notes being emitted and echoed throughout the room, seeming to start a song, Allen knew that this was the union song of the arks. , as he could feel that the piano on the white ark was now playing the same notes in perfect sync.

In a few moments when the song is finished the merging process will start and both arks will be merged, Allen was concentrating on guiding the song to speed up this process, but his focus was diverted when the Earl held his arm that was over the piano, making him turn to look at him.

The Earl was still bent over with his messy hair covering his face, but his dark aura had stopped emanating from his body, making Allen question his current state.

"Manna...?" Allen questioned eagerly, waiting for a response from the man sitting on the bench, completely unsure of Noah's situation.

"I remember you...the little boy saddened by his father's death, I remember his hair turning white now..." The Earl spoke in a thick voice, letting out a high-pitched laugh at the end as he squeezed the Allen's arm, causing Allen to widen his eyes as he noticed the change in Earl's tone, "I remember you, Allen Walker!" The Earl exclaimed raising his head and showing his face half covered by his Earl 'disguise', showing half of his smiling face and the other half with a crazed look and a trail of dry tears on his face.

"Allen get away from him!" Nea cried out in Allen's mind, causing him to widen his eyes and get out of his surprise, realizing that the hand the Earl was using to hold his arm had started to shoot purple sparks, Allen then started pulling his arm from the Earl's grip, however the changing Noah only tightened his grip.

"Not so fast! Now that the three of us are gathered here we need to put on a show worthy of this meeting~!" The Earl exclaimed excitedly, now completely covered by his disguise, before turning twice quickly and flinging Allen to the opposite side of the piano, sending the young exorcist flying through the air covered in purple rays, causing his impact with the ground to be greater than normal, generating a loud bang and raising a smokescreen resulting from the impact of the fall.

The Earl then looked at the piano that continued to play the fusion song,"Oh~ Let's see what you've got up to here~" he said as he put his hand on the piano and tried to send a command to him, but his hand was rebuffed. by the energy of the piano.

"Uh, now I see~ you planted a command to stop the process from being stopped until the song ends, very smart indeed~ but when the song ends I can issue the cancel command, although I'm curious with the reason you want to merge the arks~." The Earl said jovially, looking curious about the exorcist and his brother's plan, but it was possible to see an irritated vein on the side of his head, showing the irritation he felt with the situation.

He then snapped his fingers and created his signature top hat in his hands, wearing it over his head as he turned to where he had thrown Allen, watching the dust cloud settle over time.

After the dust lowered, it was possible to see the figure of Allen wrapped by Crown Clown's coat, which had cushioned its impact with the ground, although it was possible to see some sparks leave Allen's body as he stood up.

Allen could faintly feel the shock that the Ealr's attack had caused, although thanks to his Noah genes the dark matter didn't affect him that much and Crown Clown had cushioned his fall, he stood up and looked at the Earl, meeting the cruel golden eyes from the Earl, recognizing that look from his past fights with the first Noah, it confirmed for him that Mana was no longer there, even though he was there somewhere.

"It's true that after the music ends the command can be canceled, but that won't happen to me here." Allen said as he got to his feet.

"How confident of you to assume you'll be alive by the end of this song~ but you didn't answer my question, why do you and Nea want to join the arks now?" The Earl questioned Allen using his standard singing voice, although his gaze was completely cold.

"Of course he would suspect something after seeing that we want to unite the arks, but he won't deduce that it is because of the presence of the heart at the core of the arks." Nea said in Allen's mind, causing him to nod.

"The reason I join the arks is the same reason I'm here, I came to end this war, this ends here." Allen said aloud as he stared at the Earl, who had his big, disproportionate smile on his face.

"You'll play the secret game then~, well, that doesn't matter, since I'm going to eliminate him here, it's a shame that Nea also follows this path even after so long, but it's a necessary evil I imagine." The Earl said smiling as he shrugged and pulled out a scarf that was tied to the other scarves on his suit to wipe away his fake tears.

"It's really sad, but at least you're right about something Allen Walker." The Earl said as he finished drying his fake tears with his handkerchief, before pulling his handkerchief and the handkerchiefs that were tied to it out of his pocket, and like a magic trick he stretched the large handkerchief in front of him and pulled it out. an umbrella with its handle being a pumpkin head with a face carved into it, "This war will end today, with all the exorcists dead and then the human race you try so hard to protect. " The Earl ends up twirling the umbrella in his hand.

"Lord millennium! finally you got Lero out of There, Lero thought you'd forget Lero in your pocket again Lero!~" The Umbrella named Lero exclaimed with exaggerated tears on his face, his face carved into the pumpkin acting like an ordinary face, with his shrill voice echoing through the room.

After a few moments the talking umbrella stopped crying and looked around, seeing Allen standing there meters away from the Earl, "AH! Allen Walker! You're here again to disrupt the millennium lord's plans! Put him in his place! and give up exorcist at once, Lero!~" Lero exclaimed to the young man looking annoyed, quickly recognizing the exorcist who gave Earl so much trouble in the past and who along with other exorcists had 'kidnapped' Lero when they invaded the white ark, speaking his characteristic catchphrase 'Lero' at the end of his exclamation.

Allen couldn't help but huff at Lero's anger directed at him, "Hey Lero, good to see you again." Allen greeted the living umbrella in a joking tone.

"My brother still has the fertile imagination to create animated objects...eccentric from what I see." Nea said in Allen's mind, and Allen could imagine his uncle sweating comically as he said this, for apparently while they were both young and learning about alchemy and creating objects, Mana was good at creating golems and eccentric living objects, though Allen felt that Nea was not. had a say in this matter, as he created Timcamphy, who was flying close to Allen while growling at Lero.

Lero was apparently offended by the intimacy with which Allen addressed him, "Don't be so close Allen Walker! You are my enemy and the Millennium Lord, Lero~!" Lero exclaimed in his shrill voice, but before the living umbrella could continue to speak, he was grabbed by the Earl, causing him to immediately silence himself.

"That's enough Lero~, it's time to finally start the real closing show~." The Earl said holding the umbrella, making Lero silence himself before the Earl passed his other hand through the umbrella, transforming Lero and a large sword identical to Allen's, but with this sword being black, unlike Allen's which is white.

"Allen, if ever there was a time to use 'that', it's now." Nea said in Allen's mind, making his nephew nod, agreeing with his uncle about using 'that'.

"You're right." Allen said aloud, not clear if he was responding to the Earl's statement or Nea's speech, but he held his left arm with his right hand, pulling out his Crown Clown and invoking the sword of exorcism.

"Toraido commented that since this war started, there has never been anyone like me." Allen said, drawing the Earl's attention to him as he placed his exorcism sword on the ground, before continuing to speak.

"Someone capable of using innocence and controlling dark matter like a Noah." Allen said as he closed his eyes and a dark aura began to emanate from his body, contrasting with the white color of Crown Clown's coat and very similar to the aura the Earl emanated before.

"Oh~?!" The Earl pronounced it surprised, seeing Allen's ability to manipulate dark matter, he watched all the development with a curious and shocked look, never having thought of the idea of someone possessing the innocence using dark matter.

"It wasn't that simple to be able to reach a balance point to be able to use Crown Clown and Nea's powers, but we managed to get to that point." Allen said still with his eyes closed, as the dark energy emanating from him began to swirl around him and head towards Allen's missing left arm, focusing on the spot as Crown Clown's coat began to darken with dark energy. getting into the coat.

After a few moments Allen was completely covered by a dark sphere with a bright white dot at its center, with a stronger glow of this light the dark sphere dissipated, revealing Allen with a new form.

Crown Clown's coat was no longer white and shiny, as it now took on a darker shade, being in a shade of gray that was located between black and white, as if they were in balance, Allen's fair skin seemed to have taken on a darker tone, but not to the point of being dark like a Noah's skin, his right eye was a mix of silver and gold and his pupils were slightly sharp, while his left eye was red with his cursed eye activated.

Of all these changes in his appearance, the one that stood out the most was Allen's left arm, which instead of being empty because Allen's exorcism sword was drawn, there was an arm similar to Allen's right arm, which was covered by Crown Clown. , however his left arm was completely black with purple lines running through it and gave off a dark aura.

Even Allen's exorcism sword was different, as instead of the completely white sword from before, the sword now had a shade of gray, showing that it had been altered along with the rest of Allen's appearance.

The Earl watched the entire transformation with fascination, which turned into a look of shock upon seeing the complete transformation, mainly as he felt an energy completely unlike any he had ever felt before, as the energy that Allen was emanating now felt like a mixture of incense energy and dark matter, generating something completely unheard of even for Earl.

"What is it?" The Earl questioned aloud, losing his playful tone from before, keeping his eyes sharp on Allen, analyzing his transformation, before focusing his eyes on Allen's left 'arm', seeing that he was made of dark matter.

"This is what Nea and I managed to achieve after finding a balance between innocence and dark matter, this is the result achieved." Allen said raising his dark matter fetish left arm, closing and opening his hand, "I can use the dark matter to make up for the lack of my left arm while I'm using the exorcism sword, plus a few other tricks I don't know. I will reveal it now." Allen said smiling as he placed his finger on his lips.

"Oh, aren't you insolent~? you're really a headache to me Allen Walker, whenever I think about you I feel a tingle in my mind and now you come up with something completely unheard of, something that should be impossible to exist. , but you and Nea somehow created it." The Earl said gritting his teeth, increasing his grip and his sword, while his other hand scratched the side of his head in anger and although he kept his eternal smile on his face, but with veins of anger on his forehead, showing his true humor.

"That's apparently our specialty." Allen said with a smile as he picked up the exorcism sword from the ground and propped it on his shoulder, mirroring the Earl's stance with the sword, "Tyki always said I was a 'constant dance between white and black', I guess nothing it's fairer than honoring this form of mine as 'the gray man'." Allen finished with a cheeky smile, making the Earl even more irritated.

"I see, the name really fits, but it's a shame it will last so short, after all you will die before this song ends~." The Earl said emanating his dark aura around him as the scenery changed to the city of london with the artificial sky completely open and the moon illuminating the entire scenery.

Allen took on a more serious countenance as he faced the Earl and unleashed his own silver aura around him, causing both auras to meet halfway, causing a distortion in the very air around them and the cobblestone street breaking beneath them both, even with both being away from each other.

"Are you ready nephew?" Nea said in Allen's mind as he helped Allen control the flow of dark matter, to maintain balance between the powers.

"Yes." Allen said determinedly, causing Nea to crack a small smile.

"I'll be with you all the time Allen." Nea said in a definitive tone, causing Allen to crack a small smile at the corner of his lips, but keeping his face determined.

Then Allen's gaze met the Earl's and for both of them that was the signal to begin the final fight.

In a single instant both their auras expanded and glowed in pillars of energy shattering the ground beneath their feet, before they both darted towards each other at the same time, both slashing their swords simultaneously, almost as if they were mirror images of each other. other.

As the swords clashed, there was a flash of light, a flash of energy that lit up the night street of the city of fake London, followed by a mighty roar around both of them that came simultaneously with the destruction of the nearest buildings and glass. from almost every house nearby in the region, with now Allen and the Earl pressing their swords together, surrounded by a silver/gray and dark purple energy respectively, at the heart of the destruction.

At the center of it all, Allen and the Earl were facing each other once more, before pulling their swords away and clashing them again, causing a massive collision again, which was followed by several more clashes as they both started moving through the city while swinging their arms. swords against each other several times.

The Earl then released one hand from the sword and created an orb of dark matter and dashed towards Allen, who used his sword to deflect the orb away, hitting a nearby building, blasting the side of the building and causing it to collapse.

The Earl took advantage of the opening created and approached Allen's flank, striking with his sword, but he was grabbed by Crown Clown's coat, who grabbed the Earl's arms and held the blade, which was cut through the coat made of innocence, but the coat just wrapped around the Earl's blade.

Allen took advantage of the Earl's situation and aimed at the Earl with his left hand, releasing a blast of dark matter that collided with the Earl's chest and sent Noah flying, causing him to crash into the building behind him, causing him to destroy the wall that he collided.

The Earl was lying in what looked like a living room, he then did a lying jump and landed on his feet perfectly in a flamboyant pose, his plump form making his agile maneuvers funnier. He wasn't too affected by the ray that hit him, as it was made of dark matter, but he noticed that his suit had been scratched by the attack, which was impossible if the attack was only made by dark matter.

The Earl was snapped from his musings when the wall of the building he was standing in was pierced by a sword similar to his own, before it began to be dragged along the wall, creating a trail of destruction and slicing through the already damaged wall vertically, damaging the structure of the Earl. base of the building with dark energy splattering through the bricks, energy that the Earl instantly recognized and realized Allen's plan, causing the Ealr to narrow his eyes before the building began to shake and collapse on top of him.

Allen then finished cutting the base of the building, knocking the building down which resembled a four-story inn, dropping the building onto Earl, drawing his sword from the building and watching him collapse, "Do you think this is going to do any damage to him?" Allen asked Nea.

"No, but it's going to buy us time and that's what we need, when the song ends we can join the arks together, but we need to locate the piano first." Nea said, trying to locate the piano that controls the ark, as after the room change the piano's location changed again.

But from the rubble of the collapsing building emerged a large purple sphere, which grew rapidly and managed to completely consume the rubble of the four-story building that was falling on the sphere's creator, revealing a completely livid Earl who held a large sphere of destruction over his head. head.

"That was very impolite of you, Allen Walker, to use Nea's destructive power so soon, but if you wish to put our powers into play now, then allow me to return the favor~." The Earl said before hurling the huge sphere of energy at Allen, intending to destroy the Exorcist.

Allen looked at the huge sphere of destruction coming towards him and readied his sword of exorcism, imbuing it with the energy of innocence, causing it to take on a green glow around it, generating a ghostly shape around it, enlarging its size before to strike a blow with it against the sphere.

When the massive sphere of destruction met the tip of the Exorcism's sword it slowly slowed down as it pushed Allen backwards, until they both stopped with Allen holding his ground against the sphere, while the Earl continued pushing the sphere over Allen, keeping both of them in a stalemate. , as Allen held his own against the Earl's attack and the scenery around the sphere was destroyed by the raw power it emanated.

The Earl pressed even more power into the sphere of destruction, determined to erase the exorcist for good. Allen took a deep breath as he struggled to hold his ground under the pressure of the Earl's attack, focusing his innocence energy into the sword and from the sword into the Earl's energy sphere, causing the green energy to spread around the orb and generating spider webs. of energy on the surface of the sphere, containing the sphere's growth, though the dark energy struggled to destroy its bonds.

Allen could feel the sweat pouring down his face as he put his effort and focus to contain the Earl's onslaught, "I'm going to need help here Nea." Allen thought to his uncle.

"OK, hold on a little nephew." Nea said, starting to assist Allen in controlling his energy, taking care of the dark matter handling.

Allen then began to emanate dark energy through his left arm into the sword of exorcism, mixing both energies in the sword into one, then starting to spread the energy across the sphere of destruction, thus expanding the technique's area of action, beginning to transform the green energy from before into strong silver energy.

Allen gritted his teeth as he focused the silver energy against the Earl's attack as around the areas where the silver energy passed through began to diminish, not being suppressed but actually it felt like the energy was fading into thin air, and then began to emerge. silver spheres inside the sphere of dark matter and began to consume the sphere's energy, as if they were holes in space that destroyed everything they touched.

The Earl watched Allen's counterattack with wide eyes, shocked at the power the exorcist was using, before he had been suspicious, but now there was no doubt. Allen was using Nea's power of destruction, the Earl's shock was stopped by Allen once again.

"Destruction Balls: Cross constellation!" Allen exclaimed as he gave one last thrust in his attack, causing the silver spheres to glow brightly and a series of silver electrical beams connecting the spheres to each other, creating an image of a large cross of bright light, as if they were a constellation and that silver glow. it seemed to purify and destroy all the Earl's dark energy around him.

The Earl contemplated this glow for about three seconds, before he had to raise his sword to defend an attack by Allen who used his own sword to try to cut the Earl in the center of his chest, managing to block the blow with his sword, but the Earl was knocked back in midair by the force of the blow, with Allen pressing his attack with the power boost he had, leaving a silver trail behind him, thus causing both of them to fly higher into the sky.

In the distance, the figure of them both fighting for the sky, shining like bright stars in the sky, traveling like lightning and crossing the replica of the city of London, with a braided light charging against a purple light in the skies.

Up close, Allen was pressing the Earl as they both flew through the sky, swinging his sword and taking advantage of having managed to take the offensive because of the Earl's earlier shock.

Allen slashed with his sword from left to right without losing focus, feeling all the energy that passed through his body in sync, he quickly used Crown Clown on a building next to him as a platform to dodge a beam of destruction from the Earl, which was followed by several more lightning bolts that forced Allen to zigzag to dodge the attacks, taking advantage of the many tall buildings in the London setting.

Allen then launched himself above the Earl raising his sword and increasing his energy, regenerating the silver aura from before and the spheres around him, sending them to the Earl, "Destruction Balls: Cross constellation!" Allen exclaimed performing his attack again.

The Earl this time had a response to the exorcist's troublesome attack, landing on the ground and placing his right hand on his coat and pulling a colored balloon from his coat, he quickly filled his lungs more than would be possible for any normal physiognomy, almost like if he himself were a live balloon, before blowing all the air into the balloon, causing it to start to grow and deform impossibly, starting to assume the shape of Earl himself with a gigantic smile on his face, but on a scale giant.

The monster balloon then continued to grow and grow until it became the size of the two-story building on the Earl's side, approaching Allen's attack, before the Earl released the balloon's tip, causing it to fly away as if it had a life of its own. heading out towards Allen, colliding with the exorcist's attack mid-air.

The silver energy clashed with the Earl's giant balloon, which stretched out its hands and tried to grab Allen, but the silver constellation served as a shield for Allen, with the Earl's balloon's hands being disintegrated by approaching the energy, although the more he was consumed, more energy was lost Allen's attack and at the end with a great flash the attacks were destroyed in midair, generating a strong light that lit up the night sky and sent strong gusts of wind from all sides.

The Earl himself had to cover his eyes quickly, temporarily blinded by the strong light resulting from the collision of attacks, staying like that for a few more moments, before the lighting dimmed and faded, allowing Noah to withdraw his arm from his eyes and look at him. where Allen was.

However, he couldn't see the exorcist anywhere in sight, causing Earl to look around cautiously for Allen, not finding the exorcist or his energy anywhere.

"Where are you little clown of god~?" The Earl questioned jumping very high in the air and pulling a seemingly ordinary umbrella out of his bottomless pocket, opening it in midair and causing it to soar into the air above the surrounding buildings, trying to find Allen.

"Do you think hiding will work to buy time for the fusion song to finish? How innocent of you Allen Walker~." The Earl spoke with a huge smile on his face, creating another sphere of destruction in his hand and making it grow in his hands, "I can just wipe this city off the map no matter where you are." The Earl said to himself, preparing his attack.

However, he stopped when he felt a familiar energy coming from behind him, causing him to quickly turn to see a gray figure turning the corner and a large stone block coming towards him.

The Earl just raised his hand and fired the sphere that was in his hands at the stone block, destroying it completely before he hit it, the Earl wasted no time in using the nearby platform building and shooting towards the street where he saw Allen enter. .

As he reached the corner he saw once again Allen's silver orbs being hurled towards him as the gray coat disappeared down a street alley.

The Earl once again prepared his destruction spheres to nullify them, but the spheres exploded halfway in a big and beautiful silver flash, as if they were fireworks, exploding the buildings next to the Earl, causing them to collapse next to the Earl.

Of course, that wasn't enough to hurt the Earl, he just raised his sword and unleashed a wave of purple lightning that surrounded him and destroyed all the debris that fell on him before it got to him.

But even though he wasn't hurt, these attacks sure irritated the Earl, this being visible through his veins bulging in his forehead, his grip on his sword, his teeth serrated to the point of clattering and his eyes bulging in fury.

"These little games of yours are getting annoying fast, you know~!" Noah said through gritted teeth in rage, swinging his sword to get rid of the dust around him, wasting no time in heading for the alley the exorcist was entering.

He quickly walked over and grabbed Crown Clown's coat, widening his smile as he finally managed to catch the naughty exorcist who was giving him so much trouble, "I finally got you~, no more tag games!" The Earl broke off, his smile getting stiff on his face as he saw what he had grabbed.

He managed to grab Crown Clown's coat, but only the coat, as Allen wasn't wearing the coat, leaving only Crown Clown acting and moving on his own, surprising the Earl, "What?" The Earl let out in surprise, processing the situation, before he felt once again Allen's energy ending from his right.

Noah turned towards the energy source with his instincts ringing caution bells in his head and as he turned he found himself face to face with Allen's exorcism sword coming towards him at high speed as if it had a life of its own!

The first noah jumped quickly to dodge the sword, successfully getting out of his way, but before he could go any further he felt himself being grabbed by Crown Clown, with sentient innocence preventing him from going any further by clinging to him.

He quickly charged his sword with energy and swung his sword with the intention of slashing and destroying the irritating innocence, but his blow was blocked by the exorcism sword, which had been grabbed by Crown Clown as it passed them and moved along with the innocence to fend off the Earl's attack.

Innocence pressed back against the Earl as it enveloped itself in silver energy to resist Noah's dark matter, the Earl could see that the energy that innocence emanated from was weaker than what was generated before, likely from being away from it. Allen, however it made the Earl wonder where the young man might be, when a thought crossed his mind "The piano control!" The Earl thought widening his eyes before looking at the location where he placed the piano, on top of the Big Ben clock.

He however found no sign of Allen Walker near the piano, but that's when he felt a presence appear above him jumping from one of the nearby buildings, that's when he realized his mistake.

"So that's where the piano is, I should have guessed it would be at the most famous spot in London, but thanks for the tip." Allen said jokingly above Earl, causing Noah to turn annoyed to the exorcist, who was giving him a playful smile, irritating him even more, but Allen already had his attack ready in hand, carrying dark matter energy. in his hands and shooting from above Earl while Crown Clown pressed him attacking from below with the energy of innocence.

"Grey Bomb!" Allen exclaimed as he created the blast of energies mixed with the Earl at the center of the blast, generating a great boom and lighting in the sky, creating a clash between Crown Clown's golden energy and his dark matter, generating a sphere of mixed colors that came together. and formed the bright silver/grey color, making the Earl's form disappear amidst the glow.

Allen then propelled himself to the top of a nearby building, landing on the roof while breathing heavily and calling Crown Clown and the sword back to him, wiping the sweat from his forehead from the effort of sending mental commands to Crown Clown and keeping his energy suppressed. so that his innocence was the most striking energy.

"That was a risky move." Nea commented in his mind, causing Allen to nod as he donned Crown Clown and held his sword.

"Yeah, it took a lot of energy from me, but it was a success, having Earl worried about my disappearance while I wore Crown Clown was the bait, it made him worry about the piano and reveal its location and let his guard down." Allen said to his uncle on his mental link, as he looked at the Big Ben, knowing that was where the piano was.

"Actually a clever plan, impressive nephew, what gave you that idea?" Nea questioned impressed by his nephew's cleverness.

"Well, getting your opponents in poker and games worried always works to lead them astray." Allen said proudly as he unconsciously flashed his sly grin, remembering that he had managed to win several games thanks to this strategy...and cheat slightly.

"...I..will refrain from commenting on that." Nea said baffled in his nephew's mind, not knowing whether or not he should be shocked that his nephew had come up with such a plan because of his past gambling experiences.

Allen shrugged at his uncle's speech before walking to the edge of the roof to see where the Earl had probably fallen, knowing he probably wouldn't stay down for long, but part of him still remembers seeing Earl's face. Mana a little while ago and couldn't help but worry about him.

"We better go Allen, we know where the piano is, the song should be over soon and the ark will be ready to merge, we should go before he gets up." Nea said snapping his nephew out of his thoughts, causing Allen to shake his head and nod before turning to the Big Ben and starting jumping from building to building towards the huge clock, which was located halfway across the city of Allen, a distance that it wouldn't be much of a problem for Allen to go through even tired of the constant fights.

Now on the way to London's big clock Allen had time to focus on the black Ark's control instrument, something he was able to do now that he had the right region to look for, managing to lightly pick up the instrument's signal, feeling the music. that was played reaching its final stretch, having already passed its half for some time.

"We're almost there, it was to be expected that the process of preparing the merge would take longer than the download, after all the preparation process has to be done on both arks in sync." Nea commented in Allen's mind, rambling on the workings of the arks he'd endeavored to learn in the past.

Allen listened to his uncle's ramblings as he ran across the roofs of houses on his way to the Big Ben, absently listening to his uncle's words as he was lost in thought as he moved, something his uncle noticed.

"I know what you're thinking." Nea said on a sigh in Allen's mind, causing him to turn his attention to his uncle, slightly embarrassed at having been caught rambling.

"How do you know?" Allen questioned his uncle as he leapt from one building to another and then used Crown Clown to cling to another building and swing across the city towards his destination.

"Because I'm thinking about it too." Nea simply said before continuing, "I'm also thinking about Mana and everything that happened in that short period of time, and with the end getting so close it's impossible not to think about the more distant past, everything that happened..." Nea did not complete his sentence, as it was not necessary, Allen understood very well what his uncle meant.

"Yes, I know, pretty much all my life I was directly or indirectly involved in this war, actually more than just my life, my past life too, although 'old Allen' didn't like to get involved in the war. " Allen answered his uncle as he hoisted himself up and went on his way.

This made Nea chuckle amusedly despite the previous serious mood, "It's really ironic, he kept talking about how pointless this whole war was and that it was absurd that it lasted so long, and in the end he ended up causing one of the biggest impacts that ever occurred in any war when he decided to inherit my memories and found a way to rejuvenate himself." Nea spoke through the mental link, looking slightly annoyed at the end of his words before continuing.

"Because of me he ended up getting involved in all of this in the end." Nea ended up depressed because he felt responsible for his friend getting involved in this war and inevitably bringing about his own end to give rise to the Allen he knows today.

"Stop this." Allen said aloud, cutting his uncle out of his sad thoughts, "You know he did all this of his own free will and for the little time I've been able to interact with him in my mind, I know he doesn't carry any grudges or hurt feelings for you or any of the others, he lived his way to the end and wouldn't want you to blame yourself for anything." Allen told his uncle to comfort him about his 'past self' choices.

Hearing the words of his nephew Nea couldn't help but smile, being impossible for him not to see the similarity between his nephew and his old friend, "Yes, you're right nephew, I must be grateful that Allen helped me and the chance to end this war, and on top of all that I'm grateful to have met you nephew." Nea finished with a smile that Allen could feel through his mental link.

Allen smiled at his uncle's words, before taking another leap to the top of a building and finally reaching approximately one hundred meters from Big Ben, pausing to admire the view of the clock, knowing that the ark's control piano was there. , "We are almost there." Allen said seeing how close he was to the clock.

Allen was about to jump again to another building and move forward, but a shiver went through his spine and his instincts shot into high alert, making him quickly turn around to face the loud bang that followed the dark sensation that had him on high alert.

Several meters behind him, coming from the same direction he came, there was a big cloud of smoke and a trail of destruction, as if there had been a big explosion at that location, being possible to see that all the buildings around the place of the roar had been destroyed and the destruction seemed to continue as purple energy emerged between the buildings in the distance and began moving towards them, causing a trail of destruction in its path, with several buildings collapsing in its path.

"Looks like the Earl has awakened, and he seems to be more out of control than before." Nea told Allen through their mind link.

"Yes, his energy is more out of control than before." Allen said as he felt the Earl's energy, seeing that it was more erratic, almost as if it was out of control.

"We better hurry." Nea said to Allen, making him nod and jump to the next building, speeding up his run, finally being within reach of Big Ben, starting to use Crown Clown to climb the big clock.

"ALLEN WAAALKEEERR!" Came the Earl's voice completely distorted in the distance, causing Allen to look at the trail of destruction that was moving towards his at high speed, being able to see the dark matter leaving a trail of destruction in its path.

Allen continued to climb Big Ben faster than before, but his instincts warned him that he should dodge, making him jump away from the building to avoid the attack of several white tentacles that came towards him and pierced the large structure of the clock. where Allen was before.

Allen saw that the tentacles were coming from the Earl's direction and recognized that these were the Earl's ability, which he used to absorb the soul and energy of his targets, consuming their souls and pulling them out of the cycle of life and reincarnation, and Allen knew that he should not allow himself to be hit by this attack in any hypothesis.

He then used Crown Clown to grab hold of the untouched part of the watch and climb back up while swinging to avoid the new barrage of attacks from the Earl chasing him.

In the midst of this chaos Allen could see that the scenery in the distance seemed to move, probably due to the instability of the Earl as the user of the room, hyronically this instability of the room and the physics of the place that allowed the big clock to keep standing after the impact of the Earl's attacks that were destroying part of the building.

"ALLEEEN WALKEERRR!" The Earl exclaimed once more, appearing between the houses next to the clock, with the shape of his 'mask' completely deformed and gigantic, appearing to be out of the control of his Earl's 'suit'.

"He's completely out of control!" Nea said in Allen's mind, who was looking at the deformed and gigantic figure of the Earl.

"Yes, but the music is almost over, I need to get to the top now, I'm also not in a position to continue fighting him, using this form consumes a lot of us, if we take longer the sync will drop." Allen said, refocusing on climbing the clock as fast as he could while dodging the Earl's attacks.

However, the number of energy tentacles seemed to increase as the Earl's figure approached, with them becoming larger, now looking more like energy spears chasing him.

"I'm not sure we can make it to the top without playing our trump card, nephew." Nea said it in Allen's mind and the young man unfortunately knew it was true, but in the state they were in, using his trump card would be much more tiring than usual, but it would be necessary.

"Yes, let's do it." Allen said when using Clown Clown's threads to grab and swing by the clock that it now appeared to be breaking free of the ground and starting to float in the air in this insane scenario as gravity itself seemed to be being altered, though Allen was still apparently falling down. .

"Okay, but avoid getting caught as much as possible, in the state we're in we can probably only use this skill 3 times before we run out." Nea informed Allen, earning a nod from him.

"No need to tell me twice!" Allen exclaimed as he clung to the clock once more, now taking advantage of the strange gravity affecting the structure and running over the clock as it was a very steep hill.

But in the middle of his run Allen was attacked by the earl's spears that got in his way and came towards him at high speed!

Allen was about to jump out of the way of the attacks, but the ground under his feet broke, causing him to lose his balance and not being able to jump properly, getting in the way of the attacks that would completely pierce him, leaving Allen with wide eyes.

"Shit!" Allen exclaimed, seeing no other way out of the situation, "Time breaker!" Allen exclaimed with his eyes glowing brighter and a dark silver aura surrounding him just moments before he was pierced by the spears.

For an instant Allen could feel the Earl's energy spears hitting him and going through his body and he had the feeling of his energy being drained, but all reality around him seemed to crack with the aura that Allen emanated from his body, before the sound of shattering glass was heard and in the blink of an eye Allen was back in the position he was in three seconds ago when the energy spears started coming towards him.

Allen then started to move again, but changing his steps, being careful where he stepped and moving so that he passed exactly where the Earl's attacks would not hit, as he knew exactly how the energy spears would move.

He then maneuvered himself out of range of the spears and darted towards the top of Big Ben, breathing heavily, feeling the wear and tear of using Noah's ability.

The 'time breaker' skill consisted of using Neah's ability to 'destroy' the current time and make changes to events, in the case of this use Allen used his power to regress all time around him and in himself in a few seconds, but this was extremely tiring for Allen and Neah to manage, after using this ability only twice more.

Allen continued to run dodging attacks as he ran by the clock, however the big figure of the Earl grabbed the clock structure trying to grab Allen with his giant hands, missing his target, but grabbing the tower and breaking the structure in half, doing the top of the clock float further away along with several pieces of concrete as if they were floating in space.

"Things never get easier!" Allen exclaimed in frustration as he leapt from the lower half of the broken tower onto a chunk of floating concrete and used it as platforms to jump from chunks of concrete to another, without a single moment to breathe from the Earl's incessant attacks.

"Allen the music is almost over, we have to hurry!" Nea exclaimed in Allen's mind, a strain in his voice at the use of the time-affecting ability.

"Easier said than done!" Allen responded, using Crown Clown to balance his heels across the chunks of concrete and the changing gravity of the room.

However, Allen found himself once again surrounded by spears, constantly chasing him in an escape, forcing him to make several maneuvers to dodge attacks carried out by the Earl in his lack of control.

However, Allen felt a spike of dark matter coming from inside him and his instincts screamed for him to jump out of the way, making him avoid being hit by a large beam of purple energy coming from the giant Earl.

Allen had a few seconds to stabilize and process the threats that came his way, with the Earl's energy attacks joining with his energy spears that aimed to absorb his soul, picking up momentum to fire to the next platform to avoid being hit. by the spears that pursued him.

Allen charged energy in his exorcism sword and prepared his technique from 'Death Balls: Constellations' to block the energy blasts and spears that were coming towards him from various angles, but he left one of its sides open and this allowed one of the Earl's rays penetrated his defense and hit his right hand that held the sword, causing him to lose concentration and balance.

Allen was in midair when he saw the absorption spears coming towards him and a bolt of dark energy about to hit him, having few moments to summon his power once again "Time Breaker!" Allen exclaimed causing reality to shatter once more and regress.

Allen could feel the pain in his body turning into a phantom pain as his wounds had been 'healed' as they had never occurred to begin with, but the intense pain was still fresh in his brain, as was the sensation of falling.

Sensation that disturbed Allen's balance in mid-jump, making him have to quickly balance and tighten the grip on his sword that was back in his hands so it wouldn't slip.

"Only one more left." Allen said breathlessly, tired from using his ability one more time, but he gritted his teeth and gripped his sword and scrambled to his feet, knowing he couldn't be still.

With the attack coordinates in mind, Allen jumped ninety down the route he had previously taken, once again invoking his 'Death Balls: Constellations' technique to block the attacks but he kept the opening in his defense on purpose this time, but this time once he knew what to do.

By the time the Earl maneuvered his disproportionate body to fire a bolt of energy through the opening, Allen was ready, he swung his body in midair and used the weight of his sword plus his mind control over the weapon to hurl his sword towards the target the Earl's body, hitting the target accurately and piercing his defenses and hitting the Earl's main body.

"AARRGHH!" And with the Earl's bestial howl of pain, Allen knew he had hit his target, for the attacks ceased long enough for him to continue his advance, ignoring the discomfort of hearing Mana's voice in such pain, even if distorted.

Allen jumped over the rocks as fast as he could, just a few rocks left to jump and reach the top of the clock, where the piano control was finishing playing the music, which meant that the Arks are ready to merge.

Now without his sword Allen managed to maneuver more easily using his two hands and with just a few more jumps he would finally be able to reach his goal.

"AARRGHH" Though the maddened Earl's monstrous roar proved he wouldn't have an easy passage, he could hear the sound of destruction behind him, certainly a result of the Earl moving to capture him, though Allen didn't have the luxury of being able to look back, not now that it was so close.

And the closer Allen got to the tower, the more energy and dark matter rays passed through him, some reaching him, but not causing enough damage to slow him down or grab him.

Allen could feel his muscles burning and the pain coming from the small bruises that were starting to build up and wear him out, but he knew he couldn't stop, "Almost there!" Allen thought through gritted teeth as he leapt across the final rocks to his destination.

"AALLENN WALKER!" The Earl's scream came from behind him, looking anything but human at the moment.

After the first howl of madness Noah Allen could once again feel the change in the air around him as the entire area around him seemed to move once more distorting, including the blocks he was jumping and everything around except the top of the floor Big Ben that was his destiny.

What stood out the most was the tearing and twisting that was taking place in the sky of the Ark's control room, where it felt like space was spinning and bending like a whirlpool in midair, appearing to be at the center of the distortion.

The changes forced Allen to cling to the purple one he was currently in to avoid falling, just before the same rock rose to the sky even higher and began to climb to the top of the control room, towards the distortion that was brewing. in the sky.

For a second Allen could only watch the scene from a distance as he fell, for for a few moments there was a pause in the maddened Noah's attacks, but that pause seemed to last for hours as the alerts in Allen's mind went off to full blast in anticipation of what was to come.

And after the moment of silence came the chaos once more.

From the great mass of vines of absorption lines shot out dozens of glued lines that formed various shapes that resembled trees growing towards Allen, splitting along the way and aiming to hit the exorcist while constantly changing shape.

Allen quickly used his sword to deflect the first attack that hit him and change course with it, sensing the force behind the Earl's absorbing tentacles, which were now large enough to impale him completely.

And from the first attack Allen kept spinning through the air in his fall using his sword and Crown Clown to protect himself from the attacks.

The exorcist stabbed his sword into an energy stake and tore it apart using it to slow and dodge other attacks as he descended, but he was forced to back away from his support when the stake split into several different lines that shot towards him like spikes. .

Allen backed away from the spikes' path and fired a sphere of dark matter with his left slash to destroy the attacks that followed him, before quickly using his sword to deflect another attack.

He quickly used Crown Clown to grab a large energy stake that had missed its target and swung to get momentum and put himself towards the clock once more.

However, his route was disrupted when Crown Clown's coat came into contact with the absorption line for too long and fell apart from that part, causing Allen to lose control of his targeting slightly.

"Not good! Just a few seconds of contact seems to be enough to wear out Crown Clown!" Allen thought turning around and using Crown Clown to grab some rocks that were passing him and gathering them in front of him, using the rocks as a shield against the absorption structures.

He was finally close to the clock, with just a few more feet to go before he reached his target.

But that brought him closer to the Earl who was under the flying clock.

"NOOOO!" The insane Noah screamed, and once again the sphere of absorption lines moved, this time moving and shaping something different.

The clustered vines seemed to unite with the Earl's giant 'suit', binding them both together as if they were liquid, leaving the Earl completely exposed shrouded in dark matter energy as he floated in the air with his arms outstretched towards Allen with his eyes unblinking. focus and maddened.

"Don't leave me again..." The first Noah whispered to himself as tears streamed down his face, reaching out to try to reach Allen in the distance, seeing him heading towards the clock in the distance, reaching for him with his arms in vain because of the distance.

Yet his power responded to his desires above all else.

The mass of absorption energy connected to the Earl seemed to respond to his wishes, now taking the form of two giant arms that reached out to the clock, encircling the building and reaching out to grab Allen with giant hands, reflecting the Earl's wish to capture the exorcist.

Allen's eyes widened when he saw the two giant hands coming towards him and the situation only got worse when several small arms started to come out of the palms of these giant hands and came towards him to grab him.

Allen gritted his teeth as he saw another series of attacks coming towards him, increasing his grip on his sword and charging it with a great deal of energy fueled by his frustration.

"Get out of the way at once!" Allen exclaimed raising his sword above his head and bringing it down with all his might against the barrage of hands in front of him, generating a huge explosion.

From the smoke of the explosion came Allen, falling even faster than before thanks to the momentum of the explosion, sending him even faster than before towards Big Ben.

"Just a little longer..." Allen thought looking at his target closer than ever, just a little longer and he would reach the clock.

"NOOOO!" The Earl exclaimed once more in the distance seeing Allen almost reach the clock, and once again he stretched out his hands and his power responded, clasping both giant white hands around the exorcist, dooming the youth to be absorbed by the Earl.

Allen knew he was in big trouble, his body was tired, his energy was running out and his mind was on edge with every effort it took to keep his 'Grayman' form balance, and now so close to his goal he couldn't allow to be captured and absorbed.

He looked in front of him and was able to see the clock in its trajectory and its path being impeded only by the energy hands that came to capture it.

"Just one more time...is enough, just visualize the future I want...Nea, help me one more time!" Allen spoke wearily, making a final effort to cover his body with energy once more, getting his uncle's help along with his answer.

"Hold on Allen, you need your full attention on this case." Nea spoke calmly as he instructed his nephew, clearly trying to keep calm and guide Allen despite all the tension between them.

Allen saw all the big hands slowly coming together to grab him, along with several small hands that blocked his way to surround him, but he put that aside and focused only on his objective ahead, concentrating his power once more. time, before expanding it and activating its technique.

"Time Breaker: Time Skip!" Allen exclaimed once more, causing reality to shatter, but this time things were different for Allen.

It was as if everything around him lost its color and stopped in time, everything except Allen, who thanks to the situation around him was able to move, dodging and easily cutting through obstacles, clearing his way in about a second.

And with his path finally clear in the next second, he used the last of his energy to generate an explosion that launched him at high speed towards the clock.

And in the third second when Allen was out of range of the Earl's attacks, everything seemed to move again and both giant hands collided generating a loud bang coming from the clapping.

But the exorcist was already heading towards the clock at high speed, with his sword ready for the impact of the collision.

And when Allen finally reached the clock, he swung his sword and struck a blow against the clock, destroying the place and clearing his way into Big Ben.

As soon as Allen passed through the clock he managed to enter the room where the control clock was, falling and rolling on the floor several times until he finally stopped in a lying position, standing still and breathing heavily, with all the accumulated fatigue taking its toll and reaching the exorcist.

Allen lay still on the ground breathing heavily, before trying to get up using his arms, but he fell again when his dark material left arm fell apart along with his 'Grayman' form, causing him to lose his balance and fall again.

"Ugh!" Allen grumbled, using his strength to roll onto his back to make himself more comfortable, feeling the pain all over his body, as he returned the sword of exorcism back to his left arm and reverted to Crown Clown's base form.

"Considering everything we went through to get here, this landing earned a 6 out of 10." Nea said in Allen's mind, causing him to let out a silent huff.

"A bad landing for sure- Ugh! is not the biggest of our problems." Allen said as he grunted in pain as he moved to stand despite his body's protests.

Now that Allen wasn't rolling around on the floor, he was able to scan the room he was in, seeing the inside of Big Ben.

The room was large and had a metal barred floor, in the corner of the room it was possible to see a staircase that would lead to the lower floor, if there was still one at the moment, and the room had gears and chains that would serve to operate the clock. , which converge to the ceiling of the room, where were the biggest gears that were still whole.

More importantly, right there in the center of it all was the black Ark's piano control, casting a faint light as it played the final part of the fusion song.

Allen began to move slowly towards the piano, his left leg limping slightly and his body protesting the pain of movement.

However after reaching this point, there was no pain or fatigue that could stop Allen now, he was determined to put an end to it all.

The walk wasn't long, even with Allen's slow movements and his injured leg, but for him each step felt like an eternity, as if the weight of the end of the war was on his shoulders now more than ever.

And with a few more steps Allen arrived at the piano, the instrument of control of the white Ark, which would unite the Arks and the halves of the heart of innocence.

"That's it Allen, we're almost there." Nea said softly through the mental link, Noah's voice being light and carrying a weight at the same time, clearly feeling the anticipation for the moment.

"Yes, we're almost done." Allen responded in his equally soft voice, placing his right hand on the piano, making the light emanating from it shine brighter, illuminating the room.

Allen could hear all the chaos going on outside, along with the movement of the clock that floated through the air in the room as if it were space, as the music finally came to an end.

The exorcist took a deep breath when the music finally ended and the notes stopped playing, feeling that the Arks were ready to merge, and stopped for a few seconds feeling the weight of the silence given by the sound of the piano and the weight that this silence represented.

He began to focus on taking control of the piano once more and using his connection to the white Ark's control piano to give the merge command to both of them, finally sensing that both Arks were ready, he began to speak," Time to end it, fu-"

"...Allen..." But he was interrupted by a voice that came from behind him, a voice he recognized, making him turn slowly to find the source of the voice.

There, standing in the hole Allen had made to get in, was the Earl, standing, leaning against the wall to keep himself upright, looking tired and in pain, probably coming from the glowing wound he had on the right side of his body, which had several cross stigmas along the wound.

"It seems that that blow with the sword of exorcism hit the target, it seems that even he can't use that much energy and withstand this wound for a long time, but be careful Allen, he can still be dangerous." Nea said in Allen's mind as they both watched the Earl's condition warily.

"It's not like I'm able to fight properly either, I'm already out of energy." Allen answered Nea in thought, as he watched the Earl's state, meeting his gaze and seeing his tired and less crazed look. "And I also think he's calmed down a bit." Allen added softly, looking into Noah's eyes and softening his posture.

"Nea...Allen...don't leave me..." The Earl spoke again, his voice weaker than before, leaning against the wall next to him, looking at the young exorcist with a lost gaze, but not freaked out like before, making Allen relax his posture more.

"...Mana?" Allen called out his adoptive father's name, hoping he was in control of the body for the moment, achieving the desired effect when the Earl's—no, Mana's eyes focused on him, seeming to regain his senses a little.

"Allen, I...I can't think straight, my head is a mess..." Mana said to Allen, clutching her head in her hands, looking like she had a huge headache.

"He must be in control since the Earl was injured, it must be temporary, but he has taken control for now, we should take the opportunity now to merge the Arks" Nea spoke in Allen's mind, determined to move on even though Allen could see that he would like to interact with Mana longer.

Allen looked from his foster father to the control piano where he still had his hand, then back to Mana, feeling the anguish of having to end this now, knowing he couldn't miss the chance to fuse the Arks, but in the deep down he didn't want to miss the chance to talk to Mana one last time.

"Do it." Came Mana's reply, with his voice getting less distorted and more human, snapping Allen out of his thoughts, causing the exorcist to look at the older man with wide eyes.

"...What?" Allen asked weakly, confused by Mana's words.

"I'm not sure what you're going to do, but you're reluctant because of me-Ugh!" Mana spoke with effort, placing her right hand on her forehead in pain, before fixing her gaze on Allen.

"Do it Allen, I can get Earl in the back of my mind, trying to get back, but he won't make it for now, so do what you need to do, don't worry about me." Said the older man, making the younger man understand what he meant.

"But..." Allen started to speak, but he didn't know what to say, feeling his determination waver at the most critical moment, hearing the words of the man in front of him and knowing that at that moment he was the same Mana he knew when child.

And despite all the pain and confusion he felt, Mana managed to crack a small smile at the young man in front of her, "It's okay Allen, it's going to be okay, you know what you need to do, I'm glad to see you again ..." The man said with a soft smile despite himself, the same smile he used years ago to comfort the young man he was talking to.

Allen gripped his left hand grip tightly as he gritted his teeth, feeling his emotions churn inside him at his foster father's words.

"Allen, we need to do this." Nea said softly to him, guiding her nephew through the situation that represented a lot of emotions for both of them, but knowing she needed to end it now.

Allen stood with his head down, with his hair covering his eyes, before nodding and lifting his head, showing Mana a sincere smile despite having sadness on his face.

"Thanks dad" He said smiling, before nodding to his adoptive father and turning to the piano, turning all his attention to focusing on the fusion command, making the glow come back stronger.

Mana looked at her son's back once more, breaking into a sincere smile as she caught a glimpse of how he'd grown, but the heartache he felt along with the Earl's presence in the back of his mind were a reminder that he she couldn't speak to him any longer, but that glimpse of her son was a relief to her mind.

"Yes, he has grown a lot, I was blessed to be able to see him once more..." Mana thought with a small smile, before speaking once more, "I was also happy to talk to you once again Nea, thanks for take care of Allen." he said softly.

The man's sincere words made the young man's posture stiff again, but Allen didn't turn around this time, forcing himself to focus on the final command.

"Nea..." Allen started to speak in thoughts to Nea, but was interrupted by his uncle.

"I'm fine nephew, we have to finish this." Nea spoke with a soft voice, looking melancholy but determined to move on, encouraging Allen to finally give the last mental command to the Arks and initiate the merge.

And with the command given, the piano began to swell so that it lit up the entire clock, until the top of the clock began to look like a lighthouse, floating across fake London, before the whole London scene began to shift and shake. , starting to glow white and seeming to fade into brightness, until the whole room lit up and made it impossible to see anything.

Black Ark's First Room

The whole room was in chaos, with several signs of battle and destruction around, it was possible to see several pieces of wreckage that came from destroyed Akumas, with parts of the scenery burned, or with strange deformations and armor growing and with craters scattered everywhere.

And in the center of the room was the pillar where the exit door was, but now the pillar had several cracks and had destroyed parts, but managing to maintain itself, while close to this pillar it was possible to see the causes of this destruction.

On one side it was possible to see a strange figure that was standing bent over, looking bruised and tired, with wounds on his 'clothes' slightly revealing parts of a dark skin underneath, this figure being Maitora, the Noah of skill, who was clearly tired and apparently without strength to fight.

However, the members of the group in front of Noah also didn't seem to be in better condition, being visible that the group of exorcists that stayed to battle the akumas and Noah were also tired and worn out from the battle they fought.

Link was kneeling in the back of the group, with his uniform burned and torn in several parts, mainly his coat, which was now practically destroyed, showing his white button-up clothes, which seemed to be more intact, but the former Crow had small injuries, with a gash on his shoulder that appeared to have bled earlier but had been stopped, and a light scratch on his face.

But despite the absence of injuries, the blond man was clearly exhausted, with sweat running down his forehead and he was panting, fatigue caused by the use of his 'Atuuda' ability, which was floating around him, enveloping the young man who was in his arms. .

The young man in question was Timothy, who appeared to be dizzy and did not have any serious injuries, however his face was smeared with blood, coming from the green jewel that was on his forehead, which appeared to be slightly scratched, appearing to have been harmed and that was probably the reason for his dizzy state, however his wound appeared to have already been tended to by Link, resulting in the tired state of both of them these days.

And the one standing in front of both of them were Marie and Miranda, leaning against each other, with Miranda looking exhausted and with her left arm dangling lightly at her side, clearly injured and temporarily rendered useless, with her left glove apparently burned, while I right arm was supported by Marie, as it was possible to see that her right leg was injured, by the way she was golden to avoid putting weight on it.

Supporting Miranda was Marie, he was holding Miranda with his left arm hugging Miranda to support his while his left hand held his right ear, where his hearing aid on that side was destroyed, with his ear bleeding, as well as his fingers and hands, which they were injured thanks to the effort of overusing their innocence of wires in their gauntlets.

And at the moment the group of exorcists was facing Noah, with everyone present in the room unable to continue the battle, just staring at each other (although it was not possible to see Maitora's eyes), until Maitora broke this stalemate, giving way under his wounds and finally falling after a long battle, falling backwards to the ground, staring up at the artificial sky of the room.

The exorcists finally relaxed their guard, seeing that Noah and the akumas had been defeated, taking a few moments to recover.

"Finally it's over." Miranda said wearily, leaning more on Marie and finally turning off his innocence.

Marie didn't say anything, but nodded in agreement with a sigh, adjusting his grip on Miranda to better support his.

"How are you Timothy?" Marie said turning to Thimothy and Link, who had the young man in his arms.

"Ugh! My head is hurting but I'll be fine but I don't think I'll be able to use my powers again for a while." Timothy replied Marie, with his hands on his forehead, still feeling the pain coming from his wound, but Link held Timothy's hands.

"Don't rub your wounds so hard, Attuda managed to heal it, but if you move the wound too much it can reopen." Link said to the young exorcist, preventing him from touching his wounds.

"It's good that you're okay, we're done here, but we still have to move on to help others." Marie said to the group, causing them to nod and look at each other.

"Although in the condition we're in..." Marie continues, looking down at his right hand, feeling his wounds and the tiredness in his body, and he knew the others weren't in good condition either.

"We're going to be able to help them somehow, we're not going to give up now." Miranda said from beside Marie, squeezing the taller man's shoulder, conveying her determination in her voice, surprising the blind exorcist once again with how much she'd changed since the first time they'd both met.

Marie flashed a small smile at Miranda's words, before nodding and turning to his allies, knowing they were smiling back.

But when they started to move to the pillar and figure out a way to climb back up to the top to get through the door, the whole scene in the room shook, making the group have to hold on to each other so they wouldn't lose their balance and fall.

"What was this?!" Timothy exclaimed as he held on to Link to keep from falling, as he looked around the room, seeing that the entire room seemed to start to glow white, appearing to be changing shape.

Marie wrapped his strands around a large tree that was still standing to keep his balance, while hisother hand wrapped around Miranda's waist so she wouldn't fall, causing the female exorcist to blush slightly at her close proximity to the man.

"I don't know what's going on, but I can hear something, something big! like a symphony of a piano along with gears moving!" Marie exclaimed, transmitting to the others the sounds she was able to hear with his enhanced hearing, despite the injury to his right ear.

"That's probably Walker's doing then! He must have been able to unite the arks!" Ling said as he held Timothy and used his seals to stabilize them both.

Miranda looked like she was about to say something, but everyone in the group froze in place when they felt a strange energy start to rise, while Miranda's leaves, Marie's gauntlets and the crystal on Timothy's forehead began to glow green with intent, calling out everyone's attention.

"AH! my crystal gem is hot, it's like it's getting hot!" Timothy exclaimed, placing his hand over the crystal sphere on his forehead, which was glowing brightly.

"I can feel it, it's like a big wave of KI is emanating, like something is waking up! But I've never felt anything like this before!" Link exclaimed, feeling the strange aura that seemed to begin to emanate from all sides, that the ex-Crow could identify similarities with innocence, but it was unlike anything he had ever felt, even Apocryphos that was a pure living innocence was not. able to emanate a similar aura.

"I can feel it too, it's like my innocence is resonating with something!" Miranda exclaimed, feeling the sensation of her innocence resonating, as it did when Hevlaska checked her resonance rate with innocence, but it was much more intentional.

Marie was about to say something, but he stopped when he heard something coming from behind him with his enhanced hearing, turning to look at Maitora, who was still lying on her back on the ground, looking as shocked by the events as they were, despite to be in your last moments.

"That feeling...There's no more doubt...This is what we hate so much-Ugh!...it's ironic to think it was here all this time...ah, the irony of fate...I really hated it...if Nea has come this far to achieve what he wants, I hope it will be worth it..." The thirteenth Noah said his final words that were heard by Marie, before laying his head back against the ground and relaxing hi body, indicating that she was no longer alive.

Marie turned back to his allies after hearing his downed enemy's final words, lowering his head slightly in respect of hisfallen adversary, before speaking to his allies.

"That feeling is probably the 'Heart' of innocence being united, meaning Allen did it." Marie informed his colleagues, causing them to turn to the taller exorcist.

"That means Allen-nii did it!" Timothy exclaimed happy that his older brother was able to achieve everyone's mission goal.

"Actually, Walker did." Link said with a slight smile on his face, still concentrating on keeping him and Timothy steady.

Miranda also smiled as she hugged herself closer to Marie, feeling slightly nervous, knowing that whatever happened now would be a big deal. "Now we just have to wait for what's to come." She said slightly nervously, before feeling Marie hug her back, making her turn to him.

"Whatever happens now, we'll be together." Said the gentle giant, tightening his grip on Miranda reassuringly with a smile, making her smile back more relaxed.

"Yes, together." She said squeezing Marie's shoulder and turning to smile at Link and Timothy, who smiled back at both of them nodding.

And with those last moments, the whole room was filled with a strong light.

Black Ark's second Room

The room in question was not far behind the previous one in terms of destruction, although it was smaller than the first room, there was still a lot of room for destruction, being possible to see most of the books from the shelves lying on the floor, with part burned or destroyed. , the walls of the room contained several holes and cracks, as well as the ceiling, where the large chandelier that was there before, was now on the floor, with the part where it held on to the ceiling being destroyed.

The floor seemed to have taken the worst of it, having large craters and holes in several parts, with a large piece of floor missing, but with the debris that was scattered on the floor of the room, it was easy to guess where the piece of soil had ended up.

And on the floor of the room were both the only figures in the room, who were on opposite sides, down on their knees facing the figure on the opposite side.

Both figures stared deathly at each other for a few moments, before one of the figures began to emit a faint glow and split in two, leaving now three people residing in the room, now being able to see the injuries of everyone there.

The two figures that were once united were Jasdero and Devit, the twin Noahs, who together made up Jasdevi, and both were clearly injured, sharing the same injuries, the fruit of being injured in their fusion, with deep rips through their bodies and a large hole. in their stomachs, looking like their Noah healing factor wasn't able to heal from those wounds.

And in front of both Noahs was Krory, the exorcist who resembled a vampire, though his transformation was unraveling, making his features less monstrous.

The vampire exorcist was also not well, being possible to see several wounds throughout his body, mainly holes spread throughout his body, which seemed to have gone through the exorcist, which would be deadly for most living beings, if it wasn't for the healing factor itself.

Kroy was considerably more surrounded by blood than the Noahs, but this is due to his ability to manipulate his own blood with his innocence, being able to see an empty crumpled steel canteen next to him, being his last supply of akuma blood, and Krory being with light spots of dark stars on his skin, thanks to the akuma venom.

"Tch! I don't think it helps, you really are a monster, vampire!" Jasdero exclaimed from his slumped position, clutching his stomach, clearly in pain from his wound, with Devit at his side.

"Yeah! You're too boring to fight! hey." Devit completed, also holding his stomach with both of them leaning on each other.

Krory let out a weary sigh, before flashing a small sarcastic smile to the twins, "I told you the first time we faced each other, but you two are as stubborn as ever." Krory said with a huff at the end, before wincing slightly from the pain of his injuries.

The light interaction between the trio should have been awkward for all of them, but Krory didn't have the strength or energy to care right now, and honestly after so many clashes specifically against the Noah twins, Krory couldn't help but feel a certain closeness to his enemies, and after all, the battle was over and they all knew it.

The twins were in a worse state than Krory, this being clear from the veins that were starting to show through their bodies, being the effect of the 'poisoning' for innocence coming from Krory's innocence against both, and both had already accepted that they wouldn't have much more. time around here.

And Krory knew that too and part of him couldn't help but feel bad for them both, because as Allen had said, Noahs were still human in a way and the twins in front of him weren't much older than Allen, and that fact saddened him even more. the exorcist, who struggled to get up despite his injuries, desiring to move on to follow his friends.

The twins watched the exorcist slowly move to the wall for support and start moving towards the exit door.

"You're really going to carry on huh, you don't seem to be in a position to help your friends anymore." Jasdero said aloud from across the room, helping his brother lean against the wall to sit up.

Krory stopped in his tracks for a few seconds looking at his injuries, before cracking a small smile and starting to move again, with slow steps towards the door.

"I know I won't be of much help right now, but I want to be with my friends, it's just my nature." Krory replied with a smile as he continued walking.

The twins heard the exorcist's answer and followed him with their eyes for a few moments, before Devit started to laugh lightly, being followed by Jasdero.

"You're weird hey! Even though you're a monster you still say cute things hey!" The blond twin chuckled lightly despite his injuries, joined by his brother.

Despite the chuckles Krory didn't find Noah's words offensive, grinning wider as he continued walking.

"I think being a monster made me value my friends, after all, this monster fights for them." Krory said smiling, as he walked more quickly, his determination renewed.

The twins laughed harder at the exorcist's words before Devit spoke again.

"You're really weird ha ha- Ugh!" The blond-haired twin chuckled, before his laugh was smothered by a grunt of pain as he clutched at his stomach wound and the veins in his body swelled.

Jasdero held his brother closer to comfort him, feeling the same pain as his brother, but trying to comfort him, as of the two he always acted like the eldest despite the simultaneous emergence of both.

Devit looked at his brother and cracked a small smile seeing his brother worried about him, making his brother smile back despite the pain, they both knew they didn't have much more time.

Krory slowed his gait as he heard the twins' grunts, but he didn't look back, knowing he had to keep going despite the heaviness in his heart.

However, everyone stopped and turned their attention to their surroundings when the room began to shake and glow white, making Krory lean on a nearby bookcase to keep from falling.

All the occupants began to look around the room, watching her go through the process of changing form unknown, leaving Krory wondering what was going on and if it was connected to Allen and the others.

But before Krory could question further, he felt his teeth begin to heat up, feeling as if his innocence was resonating with something, just as his teeth began to glow too, as he felt the strange energy that began to emanate through the room.

And not only did Krory feel the awakening aura, but the twins were able to feel that aura as well, feeling their inner Noahs resonate with complete abhorrence of the energy emanating from them, but in the condition they were in, their inner Noahs were unable to affect their minds, but the sheer hatred coming from their Noahs towards energy made it obvious to them what it was all about.

"Well, that sucks." Jasdero let out a huff as he leaned back against the wall behind him, understanding the current situation.

"The 'heart' is here, this is really annoying hii." Devit added, understanding what the situation was about, before starting to lose strength and leaning back against his brother's shoulder.

Jasdero felt his brother rest on his shoulder and knew there wasn't much time left for either of them, he then turned his gaze to Krory once more.

"Hey vampire!" Jasdero exclaimed, catching the attention of Krory, who was feeling the strange resonance between his innocence and the 'heart' that was rising, before turning to the fallen Noah.

Both stared at each other for a few moments, looking into each other's eyes, knowing that the final moments were approaching.

"One of the most annoying things about humanity to me is that they seem to have forgotten what 'bonds' means, so your words better not just be a bullshit bluff." Noah said to the exorcist, looking deathly into the older man's eyes despite his current situation.

Krory's eyes widened slightly at Noah's words, recognizing their meaning, before nodding, returning the dark-haired twin's serious gaze, causing Noah to let out a slight snort and rest his head against his brother's.

"Hii, he's a Jas vampire, so he doesn't count." Devit pointed playfully, causing his brother to chuckle slightly as the younger twin closed his eyes, looking like he'd run out of steam.

"He, you're right Devit, I think he might be telling the truth after all..." Jasdero replied, feeling his brother lose consciousness on his shoulder, before he himself started to close his eyes as he rested against his brother.

"You better go to sleep Devit...we'll see each other when we wake up again...after all we are the bond, heh." And with those words he closed his eyes and leaned back against his twin, leaving them both leaning against the wall of the room, leaning against each other, appearing to be at peace.

Krory looked at the Noah twins and felt a strong thrill in his heart when he saw both of them stop moving and lie still against each other, almost as if they were sleeping.

But he knew that was not the case unfortunately, he knew that this war would not end so peacefully.

"Bonds... are really what makes us human after all, even a monster like me can form strong bonds after all..." Krory said to himself, thinking of his friends, seeing the room begin to glow brighter intention.

And then a great white flash of lighting filled the room and it was all consumed.

Black Ark's third Room

The third room of the black Ark was the largest of the three and was also the most destroyed of it, with the entire small town having swaths of destruction everywhere, with destroyed buildings and wreckage everywhere.

In the first part of the city it is possible to see a great destruction around, with several craters and burn marks, as well as buildings that seemed to have been melted by a kind of corrosive acid.

And in the center of the destruction it was possible to see two figures, one being Lavi, who was leaning on her crouched hammer to serve as a support for the exorcist and in front of her a few meters away was Fiddler, who was lying on his back and untransformed, completely defeated.

Noah had burns all over his body and signs that he had been electrocuted, his mouth on his belly was gone and he didn't seem to have the energy to keep fighting, even with his abnormal body.

Lavi also had heavy injuries, he was fully supported on his left leg and his hammer, indicating that his right leg was injured and out of use, while his upper left was also more clearly injured, showing heavy burns that he possessed. irregularities and appeared to be up to second grade, likely caused by Fiddler's acid, leaving the exorcist's shoulder and left arm visible thanks to his uniform being burned as well.

"Arrgh! That hurts..." Fiddler said from his lying position, feeling the pain coursing through his burned body, unable to fight any longer.

"That's the intention you know, but I have to admit you were a tough bastard-Argh." Lavi said, breaking off when he accidentally put too much weight on his left leg, causing him to feel a twinge of pain in his leg.

"Argh! I don't want to hear it from you redhead..." Fiddler complained from his lying position, with his voice losing its distortion along with his transformation and feeling his consciousness slowly slip away.

"Hey, I'm just trying to be nice and all, don't be a bad loser." Lavi said playfully to Noah, leaning on his hammer, before turning to the areas next to him, seeing that the sounds of destruction were diminishing, indicating that his companions' battles were ending as well.

He then started to limp towards the center of town where the arena was, being the closest battle site to him, but he stopped when he heard Fiddler's voice speak behind him.

"I could see through that exorcist...I could use my parasite to see and hear through him...I could see what you exorcists were like out of combat, in your order." Fiddler spoke aloud for Lavi to hear, not looking away from the sky in the Ark room.

Lavi turned to look at Noah, understanding he was talking about chaozii, drawing her attention to what Noah had to say.

"He was very fond of order, he admired you, he hated the Akuma and the Noahs, he was afraid of us, and when Allen Walker was revealed to be a Noah, he felt strange, he admired him, but he was afraid... jealous of him too, everyone around him worried about him, that exorcist was all confused, just like you humans... corroded inside." Fiddler spoke vaguely, maintaining his awkward manner.

"Why are you telling me this?" Lavi questioned Noah, trying to understand what he was getting at.

"I don't really know, it's strange to see through the eyes of a human with my parasites, especially that exorcist...he didn't like the white haired exorcist, but at the same time he liked him, it was strange...I think that in the end he would have liked to talk to him, that's what humans should do, but they're always too rotten for that... corroded like I said." Fiddle continued talking as he lay on the floor, feeling his body go limp.

"..." Lavi looked at Noah, processing his words about Chaoji's thoughts and how he viewed humanity, it being strange for him to hear the sixth Noah's point of view on humanity, but he somehow understood that the that the Noahs represent affect their personalities more than they appear on the surface.

"You're a weird guy you know, but I think I understand what you mean...Chaoji wanted to apologize to Allen then, but it seems like he never got the chance...I'll tell Beansprout that at least, it's good to know that , Allen is not the type to hold a grudge, he must have forgiven Chaoji for being an idiot a long time ago." The red-haired exorcist replied, thinking that Allen wouldn't hold any grudges against Chaoji, but the fact that he wanted to apologize was a good thing, but unfortunately they wouldn't have that chance anymore.

"Eh, I don't really care about that much, it was just weird, in the end... the most important thing is Earl and his goals~." Fiddler said softly, before closing his eyes and going still.

Lavi looked at Noah's body for a few moments, before feeling a tremor under her feet and noticing the change the room began to undergo, making him lean more on his hammer so he wouldn't lose his balance, noticing the strange white glow that the room seemed to be beginning to emanate.

"Wow! what's going on?!" He exclaimed to no one in particular, looking around the room, trying to understand what was happening, but his attention was drawn to his hammer as it began to glow and resonate, as if it was synchronizing with something.

"That...must be the 'heart' at work, Allen must have gotten it." Lavi deduced quickly in her mind, being able to connect the dots of her innocence resonating along with the change in the Ark room.

However, his attention was caught by a strong glow of a different color coming from the arena in the center of town, where the door was.

"Well, better go check on the others first." Lavi said to himself before using his hammer to move towards the arena, avoiding his injured leg.

While Lavi was finishing his battle against Fiddler, in another region of the small town it was possible to see a great destruction that was concentrated around a large crater in the center of a square, with all the buildings around being destroyed and with rubble on all sides. .

And once again in the center of it all, it was possible to see two figures in the center of the destruction, where the water fountain used to be in the center of the small town square.

One of the figures was recognizably Lenalee, who was standing beside a destroyed house, leaning against a wall of the house that was still standing, her legs clearly shaking and releasing a faint green light and releasing smoke slightly from her heels, more specifically on their heels where their 'Dark Boots' were located.

She was leaning against the wall obviously because of the instability of her legs, her uniform was torn and wrinkled, being worse on the right side of her abdomen, which there was a tear that showed a deep cut that appeared to have been staunched, but not before bleed and stain your uniform in that area red.

In addition to the cut on his side, there were injuries on his body on a lighter scale, with the exception of his head, which had a cut above his left eye, which had cut his forehead diagonally, slightly reaching his cheek, slightly marking his face. face.

The cut didn't seem very deep, but due to the area that was injured, the bleeding caused was greater, staining the left part of her face with blood, forcing her to slightly close her left eye to prevent the blood from entering, being possible dark marks. close to the cut, resulting from the poison of her opponent, which did not spread further due to the exorcist's natural resistance against the poison.

And in front of her was another figure, who initially resembled anything but a human, being similar to a great western dragon straight out of fantasy stories, with dark scales and golden eyes.

The great dragon was slumped in the center of the square, slumped over the remains of the square's fountain, and remained motionless for a few moments before it began to shift and shift, contorting its limbs and muscles so that they changed shape.

The huge dragon then began to shrink and change shape, until after a few moments, Lulubel's Noah form was left in place of the large creature, clearly being down, with injuries, scratches and bruises visible on its body, but different from the others, thanks with her shapeshifting powers, she didn't seem to have anything broken in her body.

However, there was one wound that stood out the most was the one that was located in the center of her chest, which glowed in a strong green and resembled the shape of a green 'X'.

This wound was the result of Lenalee's decisive blow, the sheen through her clothes and the lines that spread to her shoulders being visible, being the reason for Noah's defeat, since the shifter couldn't heal that specific wound.

Lulubell leaned back against a nearby rock and let out a grunt and pain from the effort, before facing Lenalee who was resting against the wall of the collapsed house.

"Bloody exorcists, you never know when to stop, you always get in the way of everything." Lulubell said, growling bitterly, completely frustrated by her defeat to the exorcist.

Lenalee stared back at Noah, looking deep into Lulubell's spiteful eyes for a few moments, before shaking her head and letting out a sigh.

"And you Noahs always try to end everything in the name of something that happened a long time ago, do you really expect us to sit back and let you end humanity?" Lenalee answered back, questioning Noah, returning his fierce gaze to her.

"As if we were the reason for all humanity's problems, when in fact you yourselves already destroy each other and you exorcists are no different, with your projects of second and third exorcists, in fact even the 'first' exorcists no longer receive great treatment from the order." Lulubell growled back, before squeezing her chest wound, feeling the wound burn again.

Lenalee grimaced at Noah's words, knowing the truth behind them, especially regarding the order and how exorcists were treated within the organization, remembering firsthand what it was like for her to spend her childhood trapped in the order by be compatible with his innocence and the hardships his brother had to go through to ascend the order.

She closed her eyes and let out a sigh before continuing to speak again, "You're right about that, humans hurt each other, and the order is no different." Lenalee said lowering her head further and making her hair cover her eyes, preventing Lulubell from seeing the exorcist's expression.

"Many times exorcists and other people have been used for the 'greater good' in this war, people I have known and many more people I have never known and will never know about were lost or put at risk, not just because of the Noahs or the Earl's akumas, but because of the order..." Lenalee continued with her head down hiding her eyes, making Lulubell unable to identify the female exorcist's feelings at the moment, despite her bitterness in those words.

That was until Lenalee lifted her head again and met Lulubell's gaze with a fierce glare, causing Noah to widen his eyes in surprise at the intensity of the young woman's gaze.

"But that's not why we're going to stop fighting! I fight for those who are dear to me, for the innocent people who have nothing to do with this war, even with all the evil that exists in humanity, that doesn't mean I don't there are good people!" Lenalee said looking fiercely at Lulubell without looking away from her as she continued talking.

"Each of us has our own reasons to fight and end this war once and for all and despite all the mistakes we've made, we won't be able to make up for any of this by letting it all end, so we'll fight together and end time! That's why we fight!" Lenalee finished, holding her gaze with Lulubell's.

Neither of them blinked or looked away, maintaining eye contact between Lenalee's fierce gaze and Lulubell's cold gaze, and they did so for a few moments, before Lulubell let out a grunt and squeezed the wound in her chest, which continued. glowing green.

"Tch, whatever, in the end things will be the same." Noah said bitterly.

"No, this time it will be the end of this war, once and for all." Lenalee said, causing Lulubell to look at her again.

And in that instant the entire room began to glow faintly and shiver, followed by the rising sensation of aura around the room, which quickly made Lenalee's innocence begin to resonate and Lulubell's eyes widened in shock at the energy she felt.

"What is this feeling?!" Lenalee exclaimed, feeling the strange resonance between her innocence and the aura that spread through the room, but she turned her attention to Lulubell when Noah let out a loud growl of anger, as he placed her hand on her forehead, looking like she had a headache. .

"So that's your plan!" Noah growled from his leaning position against the wreckage, holding his forehead with his right hand.

"Which?" Lenalee questioned Noah, causing her to turn her annoyed gaze on her.

"The 'Heart' of Innocence! you've activated that damn thing again!" Lulubell exclaimed angrily, before squeezing the wound in her chest again.

And with those words Lenalee understood Noah's reaction, Noah's memories were probably writhing at the presence of 'Heart', just as her innocence resonated with it.

Lenalee couldn't help but feel a relief in her chest, knowing that this meant that Allen had made it, he'd managed to unite the Arks and restore the heart, which meant he was okay...at least that's what she hopes.

"You don't know what you did do you?" Lulubell growled in a lower tone, feeling her wounds finally draining her strength, but drawing Lenalee's attention again.

"You have awakened something you don't understand, there will be consequences for that." Noah said, sounding almost like a warning or a lecture.

"What are you talking about?" Lenalee questioned Noah once more.

Lulubell looked at the young woman for a few moments before she let out a sigh and leaned back against the rubble she was leaning against.

"It doesn't matter now, you'll find out soon anyway, and when that time comes, I wonder if you'll be able to not regret it." Lulubell answered the exorcist, as she felt her body begin to lose strength.

Lenalee looked at Lulubell for a few moments before speaking again, "I know I won't regret anything here, as I trust Allen, and I know he will find a way to end this war once and for all, and I know that I will never regret trusting him." she answered definitively, before turning towards the city arena.

"We'll see when that time comes... exorcist" replied Lulubell, seeing the exorcist start to head towards the city arena, before she closed her eyes and felt her strength run out.

The city arena was undoubtedly the site of the greatest destruction, none of the pillars, which were there before, were still standing, having been destroyed in several pieces that were scattered around the arena, with the last two of them exploding into pieces with a huge shock wave caused nearby, sending several debris through the air.

And the origin of this great shock wave was nothing less than the clash of swords from the two combatants present in the arena.

Kanda and Toraido clashed their blades once more, causing the shock wave of both energies, coming from the collision of Toraido's greatsword imbued with dark matter and Kanda's red and black blade that emanated red and green energy, which at the same time collide created a shock wave around them both.

Both of them pressed both blades against each other, before jumping away from each other and finding room to breathe.

The two warriors had been fighting nonstop for deadly minutes, fighting with all their abilities, evident from all the destruction that existed around them and the wounds they both bore, yet neither of them seemed to let the wounds slow them down.

Both kept their postures firm and the grip on their swords even tighter, keeping their guards raised without leaving gaps in their defenses even at a distance, attentive to their surroundings even without owing their opponent's gaze.

They stood in position facing each other as the debris fell around them, not looking away, keeping the staring contest silent, until Kanda sheathed her sword and assumed a drawing stance, seeming to begin to focus, with her aura starting to emanate in a contained way.

Toraido watched his opponent and flashed a small defiant smile, before shifting his position so that he positioned his greatsword ready for a powerful swing, arching his legs and widening his base so that he was more solid for a charge.

"I agree with you, we better get this over with." Toraido said, as his own dark aura began to surround him.

"Tch." That was all Kanda gave, letting the corner of his mouth lift a little in a half-smile at the challenge, before fully concentrating on focusing all his energy on a single swipe as he had done before.

And for a few moments they both stayed in their positions, fully focusing their minds on delivering the decisive blow of the fight.

Their previously visible auras around both of them were now suppressed, just surrounding the contours of their bodies like a second skin, with their energy being condemned and concentrated for the next blow they would deliver.

And simultaneously both changed their postures to deliver the final blow, waiting for just the right moment, there being only an instant where they both stared at their opponent in the eyes in complete silence, with that instant lasting only a second, but seeming to be much more than that.

And the silence of that instant was broken when a large rubble from the destroyed pillars fell to the floor of the arena next to them.

And as if it were a signal to start the final contest, the aura of both of them exploded from their bodies simultaneously, an instant before they charged forward for the decisive blow, quickly closing the distance between them, with Kanda preparing his quick draw and Toraido raising his sword. for the investee ready to make the final balance.

And as they both clashed their blades, Kanda drew Mugen, who collided with Toraido's blade of judgment, and instantly there was a flash followed by a crash caused by the clashing energies of the swords, which destroyed the ground and debris that were around them. .

The clash of energies lit up the surroundings, on one side being the red and green energy of Mugen and on the other the dark energy of the blade of judgment, creating two sources of energy that clashed and stretched to the heavens.

Kanda and Toraido pressed their blades with all their might, clenching their teeth in order to win the confrontation, increasing the clash of energies, before they both collided and formed a great flash of light that was a fusion of both auras, before an of them outweigh the other.

And like a bomb exploding, everything around seemed to be pulled into the explosion just moments before the explosion occurred, destroying the surroundings of the arena already in pieces.

And when the explosion of energies ended it was possible to see the result of the confrontation.

The arena was now nothing more than rubble strewn across the floor, with only the throne that Toraido had been sitting on when the exorcists first entered the room miraculously standing, being broken and cracked in parts but still standing somehow, and in the center. from the burst of energy we could see Kanda and Toraido standing facing each other.

Kanda had Mugen raised having finished his cut while Toraido had his judgment blade lowered having done the same.

CLANG

But soon after it was possible to hear the sound of something metallic hitting the ground, and when the dust settled it was possible to see half of Toraido's blade broken and stuck in the ground, with the sword in Noah's hands being broken now.

And in a matter of seconds, the ground beneath Noah was smeared with blood that oozed from the wound that opened in his chest and began to emanate a green light, irritating Noah's skin.

Kanda lowered his sword with a weary sigh, letting his shoulders slump as he sheathed Mugen before placing his hand on the right shoulder that had been slashed by Toraido's blade before it was broken, grimacing as he felt the dark matter affecting his wound. and spreading.

He knew that his healing factor no longer worked like it used to, so fighting this wound along with all the others would be suicide, but luckily the battle was over and Toraido himself seemed to have accepted that fact when he looked at his broken blade.

"I guess that's it then" Noah said as he let out a breath and held the wound on his chest, staining his hands with blood.

"You look fine with how this is all turning out." Kanda stated, analyzing Noah's calm demeanor, he had to admit that he managed to keep his behavior under control despite everything that had happened in the short period of time.

"I recognize when I'm overpowered, I'm not going to be a bad loser, besides, I've already made my point of view clear about all this, I gave my best in the end and fought for Earl and what I believe, I have nothing to worry about. to repent." Toraido replied as he walked towards the broken throne in the arena.

"You had to fight Beansprout and me earlier, before we started fighting one on one, things could be different." Kanda spoke in a rare moment of defending his enemy's strength, but Toraido had earned the Samurai exorcist's respect despite everything.

"It could have been different, but before I was able to use my judging authority on you, after you used your critical point, somehow I wasn't able to use my power on anymore" Toraido said, shot back, with a small smile on his face, amused that his opponent was defending his strength.

"Tch, that doesn't change the fact that I barely won the contest." Kanda replied with a grimace, not accepting to lose an argument despite everything, after all some things don't change.

Toraido let out an honest laugh at the samurai's bad temper as he climbed the altar steps and reached his throne, "Now you're flattering me, but in the end you won this time, but on another occasion things might be different, but make no mistake, I would like a rematch, but I don't think it will be possible."

At that moment the room began to glow white and the strange aura began to be emanated throughout the room, making both of them widen their eyes as they felt that energy, soon after that Mugen, who was now sheathed, began to glow in its sheath, resounding. with the energy that was emanating from it.

"I see, so this is Nea's plan, to use the 'heart'...ingenious, I can't say that I would have thought this was your plan, much less the 'heart' we've been wanting to destroy for ages. it was so close..." Toraido spoke after identifying the energy that resonated with his inner Noah, being able to feel the inner disturbance caused by the presence of the 'heart' so close.

Kanda's eyes widened at Noah's words, quickly understanding the situation as she squeezed Mugen, feeling her innocence resonate with her 'heart' energy.

"So Beansprout got it huh...tch, good for him, if after all this he took longer to activate the damn thing, I'd have to personally go and cut him for being so slow." He said, sounding menacing, but the small smile at the corner of his lips betrayed his real mood.

He then turned to Toraido, who seemed lost in thought after feeling the 'heart' energy.

"Hey, what do you believe is going to happen now?" Kanda questioned Noah, snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Oh, I really have no idea what Neah is up to, I was just thinking about the irony of things, you know, with the 'heart' being so close." Toraido said with a huff, which turned into a small laugh, finding humor in the irony of the comical situation at this point.

But he stopped laughing when he felt pain coming from his wound in his chest, causing him to grunt as he squeezed the wound, before continuing to speak.

"Arrgh, but I can say one thing for sure-Ugh, the 'heart' is as mysterious as it is powerful, and whenever it appears, changes occur and a price is taken." he stated, making Kanda frown at Noah's words.

"What does that mean?" The exorcist asked.

"There is not much meaning beyond the literal meaning of these words, the heart is an unpredictable force, its power is divine of the highest degree being the main innocence, something direct from the power of God, and like everything of this nature, it is mysterious, and takes a toll, just like the innocence of you exorcists." Noah explained, gesturing to Mugen, who was glistening and echoing in his scabbard.

Kanda stared at his sword for awhile, before looking back at Toraido, processing his words, "Then we must be ready for the damn thing to be a danger." He concluded.

Toraido let out another small laugh, but weaker now, "Basically? Yes. But that doesn't mean it can't be used to your goal, it all depends on how Allen Walker does." Toraido finished his explanation.

Kanda processed Noah's words for a moment longer, before a smile tugged at the corners of his lips.

"In that case we don't need to worry about this war anymore, Beansprout will finish it, he's too stubborn to listen to any reason or impediment." He spoke aloud, convinced that Allen would reach the end of this war despite what appears in front of him, but expressing it as an insult to his 'rival', obviously.

"Pot, meet the kettle." Toraido said in a mocking manner, seeing the hypocrisy of Kanda's statement, considering the samurai's own behavior.

"What was this?!" Kanda exclaimed to Noah, a vein popping out of his forehead, as usual not enjoying being compared to Allen.

"Oh nothing, nothing-Ugh" Toraido spoke playfully, before squeezing the wound in his chest again, feeling his strength draining away.

"I don't think I have more time here, a pity, I would like to see the outcome of all this, but I think I'll be content to find out later." He said, leaning back against the broken throne, taking one last look at his adversary.

"Thank you for the great fight at the end, the conversation was also good, a pity that we know each other in the current situation, but it was fun, maybe in another life we won't have to take the fight so seriously." He spoke to his opponent, as he felt his strength running out.

"Speak for yourself in this last part, I'm tired of resurrections, I'll avoid it as much as possible." Kanda snapped at Noah's words, making him smile at his words.

"Yes, I could relate to the feeling." He said, taking his hand away from his wound and placing it on the arm of the throne, resting completely. At that moment the room began to glow white and the strange aura began to be emanated throughout the room, making both of them widen their eyes as they felt that energy, soon after that Mugen, who was now sheathed, began to glow in its sheath, resounding. with the energy that was emanating from it.

"I see, so this is Nea's plan, to use the 'heart'...ingenious, I can't say that I would have thought this was your plan, much less the 'heart' we've been wanting to destroy for ages. it was so close..." Toraido spoke after identifying the energy that resonated with his inner Noah, being able to feel the inner disturbance caused by the presence of the 'heart' so close.

Kanda's eyes widened at Noah's words, quickly understanding the situation as she squeezed Mugen, feeling her innocence resonate with her 'heart' energy.

"So Beansprout got it huh...tch, good for him, if after all this he took longer to activate the damn thing, I'd have to personally go and cut him for being so slow." He said, sounding menacing, but the small smile at the corner of his lips betrayed his real mood.

He then turned to Toraido, who seemed lost in thought after feeling the 'heart' energy.

"Hey, what do you believe is going to happen now?" Kanda questioned Noah, snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Oh, I really have no idea what Neah is up to, I was just thinking about the irony of things, you know, with the 'heart' being so close." Toraido said with a huff, which turned into a small laugh, finding humor in the irony of the comical situation at this point.

But he stopped laughing when he felt pain coming from his wound in his chest, causing him to grunt as he squeezed the wound, before continuing to speak.

"Arrgh, but I can say one thing for sure-Ugh, the 'heart' is as mysterious as it is powerful, and whenever it appears, changes occur and a price is taken." he stated, making Kanda frown at Noah's words.

"What does that mean?" The exorcist asked.

"There is not much meaning beyond the literal meaning of these words, the heart is an unpredictable force, its power is divine of the highest degree being the main innocence, something direct from the power of God, and like everything of this nature, it is mysterious, and takes a toll, just like the innocence of you exorcists." Noah explained, gesturing to Mugen, who was glistening and echoing in his scabbard.

Kanda stared at his sword for awhile, before looking back at Toraido, processing his words, "Then we must be ready for the damn thing to be a danger." He concluded.

Toraido let out another small laugh, but weaker now, "Basically? Yes. But that doesn't mean it can't be used to your goal, it all depends on how Allen Walker does." Toraido finished his explanation.

Kanda processed Noah's words for a moment longer, before a smile tugged at the corners of his lips.

"In that case we don't need to worry about this war anymore, Beansprout will finish it, he's too stubborn to listen to any reason or impediment." He spoke aloud, convinced that Allen would reach the end of this war despite what appears in front of him, but expressing it as an insult to his 'rival', obviously.

"Pot, meet the kettle." Toraido said in a mocking manner, seeing the hypocrisy of Kanda's statement, considering the samurai's own behavior.

"What was this?!" Kanda exclaimed to Noah, a vein popping out of his forehead, as usual not enjoying being compared to Allen.

"Oh nothing, nothing-Ugh" Toraido spoke playfully, before squeezing the wound in his chest again, feeling his strength draining away.

"I don't think I have more time here, a pity, I would like to see the outcome of all this, but I think I'll be content to find out later." He said, leaning back against the broken throne, taking one last look at his adversary.

"Thank you for the great fight at the end, the conversation was also good, a pity that we know each other in the current situation, but it was fun, maybe in another life we won't have to take the fight so seriously." He spoke to his opponent, as he felt his strength running out.

"Speak for yourself in this last part, I'm tired of resurrections, I'll avoid it as much as possible." Kanda snapped at Noah's words, making him smile at his words.

"Yes, I could relate to the feeling." He said, taking his hand away from his wound and placing it on the arm of the throne, resting completely.

Kanda looked at his opponent, who leaned back against his broken throne and plunged his broken sword into the ground, where it originally was, but now with the broken blade.

He knew the he of the past would have cursed himself to death for feeling any form of identification or compassion for an adversary.

But he was no longer the same.

His previous bitterness over his entire exorcist situation had diminished considerably, he had by no means forgotten or forgiven what the order had done, but he no longer let that bitterness corrode him.

So now he was able to nod to Toraido and make a slight bow lowering his head, in acknowledgment of the respect Toraido had earned in combat.

Toraido recognized the exorcist's gesture, and wordlessly he nodded back to the samurai exorcist, before leaning back against the broken throne and closing his eyes, letting his body relax against the throne, entering eternal rest.

Kanda watched his fallen enemy for a few moments, thinking about his words.

"Maybe in another life." He thought to himself, before he heard the sound of something approaching him, turning to see Lavi moving towards the Arena with her hammer, followed by Lenalee who came using her boots to run through the air.

Both had not very good 'landings', with Lenalee being dizzy from her head injury and Lavi with her injured leg, so they both staggered upon touching the ground, until they were able to stabilize properly.

Kanda walked towards them both, stopping beside Lenalee to help her steady herself, while Lavi had her hammer for support.

"You guys look like shit." Kanda spoke in his usual direct manner.

"Wow thank you Yu, you look good too, my whole body hurts and I think my leg is broken but thanks for asking." Lavi spoke in her usual playful way, despite her current state.

"Tch, don't call me Yu you stupid rabbit." The samurai exorcist fired back.

"I think he meant he's glad we're alive Lavi, right Kanda?." Lenalee said, stepping on Kanda's foot with the heel of her boots, causing the samurai to grunt in pain.

Kanda looked at the young woman with an irritated look as she gave him an innocent expression but with amusement in her eyes.

"Tch." was his reply, before he growled and looked away from the two, not disagreeing with Lenalee's words.

Lavi let out a laugh at her friends' interaction and Kanda's prickly personality.

"Awwn, no need to worry Yu, I might be hurt, but seeing how worried you are, I'll recover very quickly!" he replied, deciding to join in on the prank of pissing off Kanda, succeeding in earning an annoyed look from the blue haired exorcist.

Now it was Lenalee's turn to laugh at Lavi's antics and Kanda's outrage, making Lavi laugh harder as she leaned on her hammer and Kanda directed his annoyed gaze at her.

Kanda stared at Lenalee and Lavi as they both chuckled for a few moments, before letting out a sigh and letting the corner of her lips lift in a half smile, enjoying the relaxed moment.

But he couldn't keep it that way for long, as the room still glowed white and seemed to start moving and changing shape, making him go back to his serious face.

"Beansprout managed to start fusing the Arks." He spoke to Lenalee and Lavi, making them turn to him with more serious faces.

"Yeah, I figured that's what triggered all this." Lavi said, gesturing to the room around them.

"And the 'heart' seems to be resonating with our innocence, I imagine that's because it's coming together now." Lenalee said, looking down at her boots, which were emitting a light green glow that alternated between a stronger and weaker glow from time to time.

"Yeah, I can feel it too, it's a weird feeling." Lavi spoke, looking down at the hammer he used to lean on in place of his injured leg.

"You'd expect that when this thing awoke it would have some impact on the other innocence." Kanda said looking at his own sword, which was gleaming in its scabbard, before looking back at the others.

"But that's not all, the Noah I faced said that when the 'heart' wakes up, it will probably cause some sort of consequence." He told them both, making them look at him with worried faces.

"Lulubell said something similar, but she pretty much said 'we don't know what we wake up to' and didn't clarify anything further." Lenalee said, recounting what had been said by Lulubell before her death.

Kanda nodded at Lenalee's words, before continuing to speak, "He was more cooperative in that regard then, he said that one cannot know what will happen now, but there would be whenever the 'heart' awakens, something big happens. " Kanda spoke, gesturing to where Toraido's throne was, with Noah's lifeless body sitting on it.

"Well, that's to be expected, as even in the Bookman records there is no exact or detailed account of a 'heart' apparition, perhaps the old panda knows more about it, but I don't think even he knows exactly what to expect." Lavi said, with his hand on his chin in a thoughtful position, leaning on his hammer with the other.

Kanda nodded again, before looking at Lenalee, who was unconsciously squeezing the arm she used to support herself, seeing that she had a worried expression with a faraway look, probably with her mind thinking about something else, or in this case, someone, someone that Kanda had a pretty good idea about.

"Toraido also said that 'heart may indeed be the key to ending the war and achieving our goal, but that will mostly depend on Beansprout, so we don't have to worry too much." He said stoically, delivering an unspoken message.

But even without saying it directly, both of her friends understood the meaning behind her words, resulting in Lenalee easing the grip on Kanda's arm and cracking a relieved smile, as did Lavi who smiled more broadly.

"If that's the case this war won't go away from today, Beansprout is just as stubborn as Yu after all." Lavi said with a smile, earning a death glare from Kanda, annoyed at once again being compared to Allen,

"Allen-kun will make it, I have no doubts about that." Lenalee said with conviction in her voice, drawing attention from both of them, making Lavi smile and Kanda huff at Lenalee's positivity about Allen.

"Beansprout will do fine, especially now that he has his beautiful girlfriend's love with him, right Yu?" Lavi said playfully while teasing Lenalee, making the young woman blush slightly at his words.

"Hm, after all this time dancing around each other, it would be stupid if he didn't do his best now that they're finally together." Kanda said directly, making Lavi laugh and Lenalee widen her eyes as her blush grew stronger in her cheeks at Kanda's direct and unexpected words.

"Kanda!" She said embarrassed as her face looked like a tomato and she slapped the blue haired exorcist's arm, to which Kanda just shrugged in response.

"It is the truth." He said simply.

And that was the last straw for Lavi to laugh more, getting distracted and putting her injured leg on the ground, making her laugh turn into a scream of pain, but even that didn't seem to take away the fun of the red-haired exoricist.

Lenalee looked at her friend as he lightly rubbed her leg with one hand, before looking at Kanda who was keeping her face stoic despite her amusement being visible to her who had known him for so long, she then shook her head as she let out a I sigh, before cracking a small smile.

"I just wish I could be with Allen-kun right now." She said, unable to stop worrying about her boyfriend at the moment.

Kanda listened to Lenalee's words, before looking at the room around them, noticing that she was starting to glow brighter, as was their innocence.

"I think we'll see Beansprout soon, whatever happens, it looks like our time in this room is over." Kanda stated, making the other two notice the details around them.

"Looks like it," Lavi said, leaning on her hammer as she looked around and recorded it all in her memory.

Lenalee squeezed Kanda's arm, looking around, before looking at both of her friends, meeting their eyes.

The three didn't say a word and just nodded as the white glow began to fill the room.

"Allen-kun, wait for us." were Lenalee's thoughts, before the entire room was filled with white light.

Control room staircase

Road was mulling things over as she floated up the stairs between the rooms, thinking about everything she could remember like Noah and all the events of the last few years since every incident of Nea's happened.

She knew this time was when things started to go wrong in her family, when the Earl split in two and they had to choose which one they would follow as Earl, and automatically some started to see the other as a threat to the Earl, an oddity to them, a fourteenth Noah, something that had never happened before.

But part of her knows her family wasn't doing very well anymore, the situation with the inner Noahs seemed to get more intense with each reincarnation, with Wrathra being the one with the worst case, being the Noah of wrath, becoming visible in the state he was in, with Skin being one of the worst cases while he was alive

And at the end of all the confusion of the past generation and Nea, they ended up with all the Noahs besides her and the Earl dead and Neah passing her memories on to the Allen of that time, with Mana left with her mental state degraded.

She knew the status of her family with their inner Noahs better than anyone, as she is the Noah of dreams and was responsible for calming Earl and the other Noahs when they had problems with their inner Noahs, just like Tyki had after fight Allen.

And that state seemed to get worse, until he took on the Earl persona completely, leaving Mana Walker behind, forgotten in his mind.

Yes, her family hasn't been well for a while, and the incident from the last generation turned out to be just the trigger for the end of the war.

Road let out a sigh as she floated sitting on her sails, before looking at the door at the top of the stairs, where the door that once led to the Ark's control room was, but she could tell the door was no longer connected to the control room, some time after Allen entered the room, something happened inside that cut the room's connection to the staircase.

But despite not knowing what was going on in the control room, she had a smile on her face.

"At least of everything that happened, Allen happened, so at least it wasn't just trouble" She thought to herself, thinking of the young exorcist she had met years ago, taking some time before she recognized Allen's rejuvenated body, mainly because the boy who accompanied Mana had changed so much over time.

Over time, she can get to know this Allen and understand his goals and the type of person he was, eventually generating an affection for the exocist, which may or may not have become something greater for her (yes, she definitely fell in love with force).

Now she didn't worry about Allen, for she knew that if anyone would be able to put an end to this war once and for all, it would be him, and finally bring peace to his family.

She wished she could help, but the truth is that she was in no condition to interfere other than materialize in the Ark, as her powers were out of order and she knew what would happen to her if Allen achieved his goal...

But she knew it would be better this way.

And it was at that moment that the staircase started to glow white and she could feel that nostalgic energy that she and her family are so averse to.

And despite her distaste, she cracked a smile, knowing that Allen had gotten what she wanted.

"Now there's very little Allen left, just a little more." she said, before the room was consumed in white light.

Makeshift exorcists central.

Komui and the science division were monitoring the battles taking place in the city, assisting the exorcists and order fighters as best they could through the golems scattered around the city, taking care of sending finders after wounded exorcists and coordinating the movement of order forces. .

Komui was focused on his efforts to assist the order, in his serious way of branch director and in charge of the makeshift headquarters, as the generals were on the battlefield.

But obviously a part of his mind was constantly worried about the safety of his little sister and their friends who had been sent to the Ark, since after they sent them to the Ark that was in the sky, they couldn't do anything to protect them. help Lenalee and the group, or communicate with them after submission.

And so he found himself lost in thought in a moment of calm in the control room, looking at one of the order's various Golems' transmission monitors, but not paying attention to what he was transmitting.

"This is a beautiful statue, although I imagine it was even better when it was whole." A familiar voice came from beside him, calling his attention, making him turn to find Reever looking at him with a playful smile, although the weariness on his friend's face was visible.

Komui looked at Reever with a confused look, before looking back at the monitor in front of him, seeing an image of a square where a battle had taken place earlier, seeing a statue of a large dog? in the center of a city square.

It was difficult to know what the original shape of the statue was, as it was now in pieces, leaving only the legs of some quadrupedal animal.

"Oh that? I'm just thinking of a new idea for a Komurin, maybe one with more legs to give more stability would be good, of course they would need to be articulated so in case he falls on his back he'll be able to get up, I learned this lesson with the Ultimate Turtle Komurin Ninja." Komui responded to his friend with a joke, but really getting excited about the idea of creating a new Komurin.

But he was stopped from pursuing that thought when Reever's clipboard hit his forehead.

"I'll stop you right there, we have enough problems to deal with, your bizarre experiences are the last thing we need." Reever said berating his superior, something he was (unfortunately) used to, second only to Lenalee in this regard (bless her soul).

"Besides, why the hell did you put ninja in that robo turtle's name? it didn't have anything to link it to a ninja." Reever questioned after remembering the Komurin in question

"first: Ouch. Second: I don't really know, it was just an inspiration that came to me, I thought the combination of turtles and ninjas would be interesting, although I didn't take into account that when UTKN fell on her back, she would be unable to get up and go into self-destruct mode." Komui spoke rubbing his forehead which had been hit.

"Well it was based on a turtle, what did you expect?" Reever replied with a raised eyebrow, used to Komui's eccentricities after years of working alongside the Chinese man.

Reever however noticed that Komui was responding less wittily than usual, but he expected that, as he knew the reason for his friend's mood.

"You don't have to worry about them you know, they've been through a lot, they'll get through it too." He spoke to Komui, trying to calm the man with the glasses.

Komui let out a weary sigh as he took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes that had been tired of staring at the various monitors for hours.

"I know, but as a big brother I can never stop worrying." Komui said as he sat down on a chair next to where he was.

Reever leaned back against one of the nearby boxes as he nodded, "Yeah, I can understand the feeling, after all we who've been in the order longer have also seen her grow you know, she's probably been in the order longer than most people. " Reever said to his friend, remembering meeting Lenalee when she was just a young girl just over ten...maybe younger, he wasn't very good with exact dates.

Komui cracked a small smile at his friend's words, "Yes, time really does fly, everything seems to pass in the blink of an eye." He said in a nostalgic tone, as he remembered his sister when she was younger and explored the entire headquarters of the order, meeting all the people who passed through the headquarters.

"Now you're making me feel old." Reever said, with a mixture of playfulness and dismay in his voice.

Komui himself couldn't help but feel older as he remembered his younger sister as a child, and now remembering that she had grown into a young adult woman.

There was a moment of silence between the two, before they both let out a dismayed sigh simultaneously.

"All the work must be exhausting you, it's common to see Reever-san tired, but even he looks more tired than normal, and seeing the tired Komui boss is a rarer sight." Came a new voice approaching them both, making them turn to Johnny, who approached them with a mug of coffee in each hand.

"You'll understand when you're our age, brat, but thanks for the coffee." Reever said as he took one of Johnny's cups of coffee.

"Err Reever-san, I'm only about a year younger than you." Johnny said with a bead of sweat running down his forehead, confused as to why Reever was talking about age.

His words made them both look him up and down, making him sweat more under the gaze of his superiors.

"Tch, wait for your work to catch up with you, you're going to start your hair falling out so fast you won't even worry about it turning white!" Komui grumbled aggressively as he grabbed his own cup of coffee, earning a nod of agreement from Reever and a confused look from Johnny.

"Err, okay?" It was all he could respond to the grumpy attitude of both men.

Komui took another long sip of his coffee, before letting out a sigh of satisfaction at having his favorite drink.

"Thanks Johnny, I really needed this." Komui speaks in a more relaxed manner, feeling her nerves calm down.

"Yes, I didn't expect to get good coffee on this makeshift base, but this is a nice surprise." Reever said as he took another blissful sip of his own coffee.

"You're welcome, it's not really a big deal, I just thought you might want some extra energy after all that hard work." Johnny said as he rubbed the back of his head with a shy smile on his face.

"You nailed it, it's nice to be able to take a breather from all the chaos that is happening, although there are still battles going on around the city, it seems that the flow of Akumas is less constant." Reever said, signaling to the monitors that were showing different parts of the city.

Johnny nodded as he looked at the monitors in general, before he turned to the two of them, looking more serious before speaking.

"The truth is, I'm worried about Allen and the others, I know they can take care of themselves, but it's frustrating not being able to do anything else for them from here." Johnny said, admitting what was weighing on his mind to the older men.

Komui and Reever looked at Johnny for a few moments, before looking at each other, before smiling and turning to Johnny, making the man with the glasses look at them both confused.

And her confused face just made Reever and Komui laugh out good-naturedly.

"Sorry for the laugh Johnny, it's just that Reever and I were just talking about this before you arrived so we just found it ironic." Komui clarified, making Johnny understand the reason for the laughter, before smiling shyly and rubbing the back of his head.

"Sorry boss Komui, I should have known you were worried too." He said shyly, but Komui shook her head at his statement, holding up a hand to stop him.

"No need to apologize for anything Johnny, it's completely normal for you to worry about them, and we understand your feelings of helplessness as we're all in this boat together now, so we focus on doing our best to help those we can. here." Komui speaks, gesturing to the monitors that showed the city and battles still taking place, as well as wounded rescues being made.

Johnny looked at the monitors, now paying more attention to what some of them were broadcasting, before nodding, now understanding what Komui meant.

"I see, yes, definitely Allen and the others would prefer that we help as many people as we can rather than worrying about them." Johnny said, looking like his spirits were up again as he clenched his fists with determination.

Komui and Reever smiled to see Johnny's renewed energy.

"That's the spirit Johnny, besides, those guys up there have been through a lot, together they can take care of each other no matter what threatens them." Reever said, giving Johnny a smile and a thumbs up.

Johnny nodded several times excitedly, making Komui smile at Johnny's excitement.

And at that moment a monitor caught his attention, making him look at the monitor of the golem that was monitoring the Arks in the sky and noticed a slight change in both Arks, as if something in them started to glow.

BOOM

But before he could say anything, the brightness of both Arks quickly spread, before expanding the brightness until it was impossible to distinguish both Arks, with the brightness increasing to the point that the Arks in the sky lit up the entire city.

And in the next instant Komui, Reever and Johnny had to hold on to anything nearby to avoid falling to the ground, when the Arks in the sky released a HUGE wave of green and white energy, which spread across the city's sky, followed by an equally HUGE blast of energy that was released, causing a tremor throughout the city, being visible through the monitors the extent of the tremor, it seems that this earthquake had shaken the entire city.

"WOAAHH!" Johnny exclaimed as he stumbled and grabbed the wall next to him to keep from falling.

"Arrh! What the hell?!" was Reever's question as he held onto the boxes he was previously propping up for support, eyes wide, letting his empty coffee chicara fall to the floor and shatter.

Komui also dropped his cup on the floor, but the broken cup was the least of their worries after the chain of events that had just happened, holding on to the monitoring computer to keep the chair he was sitting in in place.

"What's up?!" He exclaimed, steadiing himself as the shaking began to stop, as he watched the Golems' monitors, seeing the images flicker as the Golems likely tried to regain stability after the energy surge.

With a little more time to recover from the shock and the shaking subsided, Komui was able to see the city again through the ammunition, and was amazed at what he saw.

The battles had stopped.

For there were no longer any Akuma in the city, or anywhere in sight.

"The Akumas, they're gone!" Johnny exclaimed as he adjusted his glasses again and stared at the monitors, his mouth open in shock at what had just happened and the Akumas disappearing.

"That's not the only weird thing, look!" Reever said pointing to one of the monitors that showed an exorcist and a group of finders.

What caught their attention the most was the exorcist, or rather the fact that his innocence, which was an ax he carried in his hands was glowing in intense green and white, while its wielder looked at it confusedly, showing that he it was not the reason for the state of innocence.

And this was repeated for all the exorcists who were visible on the monitors, with everyone having their innocence shining through, not understanding the reason behind it, with many recovering from the shock of the earthquake that had occurred moments ago.

"What's going on with the innocents?" Johnny questioned watching the innocence shining through the monitors.

"I don't know, but it sure isn't mere coincidence, and I'm sure it's related." Reever said, gesturing to the monitor that showed the Arks in the sky, which glowed and lit up the entire city.

Komui observed the Arks in the sky, before starting to mess with the monitoring computer, pulling up the recordings of the Golems.

"What are you doing?" Reever questioned the man with the glasses.

"I'm running the footage back to the moment of the energy surge so we can see what went best." he replied.

And with a few more moments fiddling with the computer, Komui managed to go back to the recording of moments ago, just a few seconds before the energy explosion, focusing on a recording of the exorcist with an ax fighting Akumas in the street they were on.

The three watched the recording pass, until the moment the explosion occurred, and the three watched as the vere energy passed through the street where the battle was taking place, passing through the Akumas and the exorcist quickly, and in the next instant the Akumas began to explode or disintegrate, as if they were destroyed by the green energy that came out of the Ark.

The exorcist's innocence on the other hand had another reaction, almost opposite, after the energy passed through it, it was as if it absorbed part of the energy and in the next instant it began to vibrate and start to glow.

However, this process cannot be seen in more detail, as soon after the golems lost their balance due to the shock wave and the recordings remained static until they recovered.

The three looked shocked at the recording, seeing that other recordings had the same pattern, the innocents began to glow and the Akumas were destroyed.

"That energy...it's like innocence, it was able to destroy all the Akumas!" Johnny exclaimed, watching the Akuma being destroyed, not a single Akuma left that could resist the energy that was emanated from the Ark, from level one to even level four, they were all destroyed in an instant.

"Yes, but the reaction of the energy with the other innocents is totally different from any other known reaction, it's like this energy resonates with the innocents, all of them, the closest we have to it is..." Reever began to speak quickly , but stopped when he reached a conclusion in his mind.

"Hevlaska." Komui concluded, thinking the same as Reever, making them both look at each other before Komui got up from his chair and Reever started to move too, making Johnny look at both of them with a surprised look.

"Where are you going?!" Johnny questioned both, starting to walk behind them quickly.

"We're going to check on Hevlaska, that all the innocents are reacting, all the innocents she guards are reacting, and she might know more about this energy than any of us." Komui spoke quickly as the three moved through the central halls.

As they walked Komui pulled a wire from his pocket and put it to his ear, receiving a communiqué as they walked, speaking answers and instructions as he walked.

After a few turns dodging the officials moving through the central Komui turned off his bug and turned to Johnny and Reever.

"It looks like it's not just outside that the energy wave has affected, the exorcists in the medical wards are also having their innocence resonating with the alien energy." The branch chief spoke as they moved.

"So this confirms that this energy is linked to innocence." Reever said as he ran a hand through his hair, confused by how things turned out.

"And surely this is connected to the group that is in the Arks at that moment, it cannot be a mere coincidence that this energy started to emanate from the Arks!" Jonny spoke hurriedly, clearly being the most nervous about the origin and reason of the energy wave that passed through the city and the fact that the Arks were shining in the sky like a super Christmas tree.

"Yes, if I had to bet, they're at the center of chaos for a change." Reever said, speaking the last part with a sarcastic tone, as chaos seemed to follow Allen and his friends wherever they went.

"That's something we're going to find out, and hopefully Hevlaska can give us some information about what's going on." Komui said as he led the trio until they reached a large iron door, which he promptly opened, revealing the room on the other side.

The room was large and spacious, but very empty, looking more like a large chamber, similar to Hevlaska's chamber in the branch of order, with the door leading to the platform that rose to normal ground level, in order to facilitate communication with the occupant of the room.

In the center of the room was a figure that easily towered over the height of any human being, being a humanoid female figure that was so tall that it was the reason the door opened directly onto a platform, emitting a white glow around it.

That was Hevlasca, an exorcist of the European branch, who is the keeper of the Cube that contains the instructions written by those who made the Innocence, she acts as the prophetess of the Black Order and guardian of the fragments of Innocence for about a hundred years.

The reason for his size and appearance was that his Hevlaska innocence enveloped his entire body and changed it dramatically, leaving him currently cemented into the shape it has held for the past hundred years, his body appears to be made of what initially appears to be tendrils, but later it becomes more refined, thin hair-like strands and its eyes are not visible, and the only parts of its face that are bare are its nose, lips and chin, all humanoid but much larger compared to normal humans. .

However, the normally calm figure of Hevlasca was contorted holding her belly, seeming to be in pain as her being emitted a strong white glow, stronger than her natural glow, but what caught the most attention was the glow that seemed to come from within, which glowed even more in a green energy.

"Hevlasca!" Komui quickly approached the edge of the platform, worried about the condition of the woman, who seemed to be affected by the great wave of energy that had occurred.

"Arrgh!" Hevlasca grunted as she clutched her stomach where the strongest glow was emanating, before taking a deep breath and trying to compose herself enough to speak.

"I don't know for sure! Argh! What's going on, but it's like all the fragments of innocence I've been holding back-Ugh! are resonating at the same time, along with my own innocence!" She said with a lot of effort, writhing with the pain she felt.

The trio was in a panic trying to think of a way to help the order's oldest exorcist, but before any of them could say anything, an elderly voice spoke from behind them, drawing the group's attention.

"You must release the innocence you've been holding back, all of them, it will be best for you, for now you are delaying the inevitable and only hurting yourself." spoke a elderly voice, which everyone recognized even before they turned to look at the source of the voice.

The man in question was a short elderly man, whose face is marked by wrinkles around the mouth and eyes, with only his right eye visible at the moment, as his left eye was covered by bandages and bandages.

The elderly man's hair consisted of just a lock of white hair on his head that stands up to make the curious shape of a question mark, and dark circles of makeup around his eyes, which made his face look like the features of an old man. a panda.

He wears earrings and has a strong nose and long, pointed ears, with his left ear being hidden by the same bandages that covered the left side of his face and covered his left eye.

He wore the standard exorcist uniform and had his right arm attached to a brace to keep it in place, presumably due to an injury.

That man was Bookman, Lavi's tutor and one of the oldest exorcists of the black order, being responsible for recording the history of the holy war between the order and the Earl.

"Bookman!" Johnny exclaimed in shock to see the old exorcist there.

"What are you doing here?! you should be resting in the infirmary!" Komui then exclaimed, alarmed that the exorcist was out of the infirmary after he had arrived with Lavi, being too injured to continue fighting.

"Staying in bed right now isn't going to help anything, especially with what we're in right now." Bookman said as he approached, ignoring the other three's protests that he wasn't resting.

"What do you mean 'the moment we're in'?" Reever questioned, giving up protesting the old exorcist being there, as he knew how stubborn he was.

"I'll answer that shortly, but first..." Bookman said to the trio, before turning to the other exoricist in the room.

"Hevlasca, release the fragments of innocence you've been guarding, it's no longer necessary and keeping them will only hurt you." The man with panda eyes said in a calm tone to Hevlasca, making the large woman look at him, before nodding slowly and starting to extract the fragments of innocence from her body.

As the fragments were released, her glow seemed to increase, before they began to float around the room, shining like stars across the room, leaving those standing there in awe.

"Amazing! the innocents are moving by themselves!" Johnny yelled in surprise, impressed by the beauty of the innocents moving on their own.

Reever was only able to nod in agreement, equally impressed by the sight in front of him.

Hevlasca was looking at the innocence as she sighed tiredly, but relieved that she no longer had to contain the movement of fragments of innocence.

Komui was also impressed, but he kept his mind focused on the situation they were in and approached Bookman, who was looking at the moving innocents with his usual calm gaze, taking in the information around him as usual.

"Bookman, what's going on?" Komui questioned with a serious face, giving up on making the old man go back to his rest, knowing he was probably the only one who could give them answers.

Bookman turned his gaze to Komui, looking at him with one eye intact, before looking at the other occupants to make sure they were paying attention, before nodding and starting to speak.

"As you may know, there was a great wave of energy that passed through the entire city and that energy affected the Akumas and the innocents it passed through." Bookman recapped for everyone to make sure they were aware of the situation.

The trio that had arrived just before Bookman nodded, with Johnny being the most excited of the three.

"Yes, that energy came just as the Arks in the sky started to glow! And right after that there was a big earthquake! But it stopped soon after, but all the Akumas had been destroyed and the innocents were acting strange." Johnny quickly informed, talking about everything that had happened a short time ago, with the adrenaline of the moment still getting to him.

Bookman listened to Johnny's hurried report without blinking, absorbing the information, before closing his eyes for a moment and nodding.

"I see, so that's where it was." The old exorcist spoke to himself, leaving the others confused.

"What are you talking about?" Reever questioned the older man, confused by his words.

Bookman opened his eyes again and faced the trio, before starting to speak again, "The phenomena that are occurring at this moment are present in the oldest records of the Bookman clan, there are reports of the behavior of the innocents reacting in such a way, only after awakening of great power." Bookman said as he raised his good hand and showed the innocence that was previously hidden in his sleeve, and was in his fingers, shining just like all the others, before looking at the fragments of innocence floating and shining around the room.

"A great power...?" Komui echoed Bookman's words, narrowing his eyes and trying to figure out what Bookman was talking about, feeling that somehow he knew what he was talking about, but it was in the back of his mind.

"The 'Heart' of Innocence." Hevlasca spoke in a soft voice, now that she was no longer fighting the pain of keeping the fragments of innocence tucked away.

Bookman nodded solemnly, causing the other three in the room to drop their jaws.

"WHAT!?" was exclaimed by the three, who were shocked at the revelation of the 'Heart' of innocence being awakening.

"Ho-How? How can the 'Heart' of innocence be awakening? It hasn't been seen in ages!" Johnny questioned in disbelief at what had been revealed.

"Until now, as we discovered that the 'Heart' was inside the white and black Arks, which are in the sky at this very moment, under the Earl's nose for all this time and close to the Order as well, without any of the ladsos knowing." Bookman said in his usual calm tone.

And for a few moments, silence reigned in the room, as everyone processed the information that had been revealed, until Reever broke the silence.

"But how has the 'Heart' been present this whole time but never been active?" The blond man asked, rubbing his hair with his hand.

"It was divided... I can feel it now, it's like two halves were uniting in the city's skies at this very moment, the 'Heart' was...separated" Hevlasca said calmly, concentrating on feeling the heart resonating with her innocence, just as she used to measure the degree of compatibility of exorcists with their innocence, but on a very different level.

"But then for it to be coming together now, it must mean that..." Reever started to speak.

"The Arks are uniting!" Johnny finished, understanding what was going on, before something else came to his mind, "But for the Arks to be uniting, it can only be done through the command of the Arks, and the only one besides Earl who could do that is. .." Johnny spoke, putting the puzzle together in his mind, before widening his eyes behind his glasses, coming to the conclusion of the only one who could do that.

"Allen-kun." Komui spoke bringing a hand to his chin as he continued to speak, "He must have been able to discover the location of the 'Heart' and why the Arks ended up in the city's sky to begin with, he and the others must have been able to unite the Arks and the 'Heart' halves." The branch chief concluded, a smile starting to appear on his face.

"I knew that boy would do something big for the end of this war, and Lavi is with him from what you said. Good, then he will be able to register the end of this war" Bookman said opening a smile of his own, thinking of his pupil.

However, he soon assumed a more serious expression before speaking again, "However, with the 'Heart' awakening again now, the end of this war may be final, but there are no guarantees that we will come out intact." The old man spoke as he took a cigarette from his pocket with his good hand and raised it to his mouth.

"What are you talking about?" Komui questioned once more, feeling like a broken record, but in the current situation, his doubts were understandable.

"I'm saying that according to the oldest records of the Bookmans, when the 'Heart' is awakened it brings with it great change, along with great destruction, just like that which gave rise to the Noahs." Bookman said, lighting his cigarette.

"What originated the Noahs...what do you mean?" Johnny questioned, feeling a chill run down his spine.

"This part of the story is practically public domain, as it is told in the bible, Noah created his ark for his family and a couple of animals of each species to avoid a great event that would occur." The old panda said, making Komui and the others' eyes widen.

"The great flood...But what are you saying...The 'heart is responsible for the flood?!" Komui questioned in shock at Bookman's revelation.

"That's something that can't be stated exactly, as not even the Bookman accounts are accurate about it, but the fact is that he was involved in some of it, and now with him waking up, we can only hope that Walker, my apprentice and others can prevent an event of such magnitude." Bookman said in a solemn voice, blowing smoke from his cigarette out of his mouth.

"B-but that's- that's...unfair, after we've come this far, in the end the 'Heart' we've been trying so hard to be the end of everything...damn" Reever said despondently, feeling bad for the prospect of the end of humanity because of something they sought so much.

The atmosphere in the room seemed to darken as all the members understood the risks that the awakening of the 'Heart' can bring.

However, everyone's attention turned to the innocents floating around the room moving at high speed through the room towards the exit, calling and startling the members of the room when the fragments began to leave their sight.

"The fragments of innocence without carriers are returning to the 'Heart', that means that its awakening is closer." The old man clarified, making them look at him.

There was a moment of silence as everyone understood what that meant, maintaining silence as everyone felt an inner unease.

"We have to believe in Allen and the others" until Johnny says those words, causing the others to turn to him.

"I believe that if anyone can prevent a catastrophe from occurring and still end this war, it's them!" The bespectacled man continued, lifting his spirits again, making the others smile at his enthusiasm.

"Johnny is right, we should do our best here while they do their best there, after all they never give up at all." Komui spoke smiling.

"Yes, we're not going to do any good by standing here and waiting, let's at least make one more cup of coffee, if the world is going to end, I'll leave with my cup of coffee in hand." Reever teased with a smile, making the others laugh at the scientist's joke.

"I guess I can support that idea, but I would feel bad leaving Hevlasca alone after what just happened." Komui said, turning to the giant woman.

Helvasca smiled at the European branch leader, before shaking her head, "No, you should go, I'll be fine now, don't worry." She said smiling, already feeling better from her previous pains.

Komui looked at her for a moment before nodding and starting out of the room with Johnny and Reever.

Bookman himself cracked a smile on his face as he watched the trio in front of him lift their spirits again, but a part of the old man's mind couldn't help but have a dark thought.

"Even if another flood is averted, I don't believe we won't suffer from the 'Heart' awakening being so close..." Bookman thought grimly, as he followed the scientists out of the room.

"I can only pray that you get well Lavi." He thought as he walked out the door.

?-Interior of the Arks

Allen didn't feel anything after the great beam of light took over the Ark's control room, or rather, he felt many things, to the point of not being able to understand his surroundings or what was happening properly, having to close his eyes when the strong light filled the room.

Gradually he opened his eyes only to find...nothing? it was strange to him as he felt that he was floating in a great white expanse, yet he could feel that he was falling and everything around him was glowing white and the only two that gave him a sense of movement was the bright green light that lay beneath him, as if it were the core of everything.

And he felt himself falling as he approached this green light, feeling Crown Clown resonating within him with this energy that came from this light, just as he felt his Noah side stir with this energy, but he was used to the presence of his innocence in your body.

"This feeling, it seems innocent, but the energy seems more...raw" Allen spoke while looking at his left arm resonate and glow, with white tendrils coming out of it.

"UFF!" However, he was taken out of his thoughts when he felt himself fall on a surface, falling face down on the floor.

"Arrgh..." He mumbled as he shifted on the ground, starting to slowly get up, before looking where he was.

Around him everything looked similar, with the only difference being the green light that was now emanating in front of him.

He then looked down at the ground below him, seeing the solid texture begin to sway, and this sway went through the entire length of the ground, gradually making everything around him more solid, until everything began to have a little color and Allen you can see everything around you quickly begin to transform into a large concrete room.

The room was round and had characteristics in common with the white Ark's control room now that Allen could see it better, with the floor and walls being similar, with the exception of the stairs in the room and the lack of mirrors in the room, the strangest thing. it was the familiarity Allen felt with the room, even though he had never been there, regardless of the similarities.

The main change was the arrangement of the room, Allen quickly could locate the control piano, but this piano looked like a mix of the white Ark's ivory piano and the black Ark's ebony piano, and next to the piano there was a large door that Allen that Allen could feel emanating that same raw energy akin to innocence, with a door on the opposite side of the room, which Allen somehow knew led downhill.

"I feel weird Nea, it's like I've been here before, but I'm sure it's my first time here." Allen spoke aloud to Nea in his mind, but at that moment he noticed something strange...

"Nea?" Allen questioned in his mind, trying to access his mental link with his uncle, however he couldn't feel their connection now that he was able to focus better in his mind.

"What's going on? Nea?" Allen questioned aloud, no answer again, he felt like his uncle was absent from his mind, feeling Crown Clown and his Noah side even without Nea's presence.

But at that moment Allen saw movement on the ceiling of the room, with the ceiling of the room starting to glow and move like the surface of a lake, before two figures fell from the ceiling of the room directly to the floor, startling Allen making him get up quickly.

After the falling figures Allen was able to quickly recognize who they were, but the recognition was what made his mind stop for an instant and his jaw dropped in shock when he saw who the falling figures were.

"Nea e...Mana!?" He exclaimed in shock seeing in front of him his uncle in flesh and blood with Mana in his arms, or at least Allen hoped it was Mana and not Earl, although the Noah in his uncle's arms was without his Earl 'suit' , with the exorcism sword wound on his chest glowing faintly.

"Ugh!...Please refrain from screaming too loud nephew, my head feels like it's about to explode with this energy so close." Nea grumbled to Allen grimacing from the headache as she kept his arms around his passed out brother.

Allen looked in shock at his uncle, who was there in the flesh, something that should have been impossible, even in the Arks' control room.

But the exorcist's attention quickly fell to the body in his uncle's arms, focusing his attention on Mana (Earl?), leaving aside questions about Nea having a physical body.

"Nea...is he..." Allen questioned his uncle, hesitantly approaching his uncle, wanting to get closer, but hesitating.

Nea looked at Allen, seeing his nephew's excitement, with his eyes focused on Mana, causing him to quickly allay Allen's doubts.

"It's him. Well, at least it will be him if he wakes up, because I don't feel Earl's energy around him, that must be because of the wound caused by his innocence." Nea spoke quickly, soothing Allen with her words.

Now calm, Allen quickly crossed the distance between him and his uncle, kneeling down beside him, looking intently into Mana's unconscious face.

There was no doubt, now being able to look at Mana's relaxed face, Allen could see her father's face, calm and serene as it was before, years ago, just as he remembered.

The sight made part of Allen feel happy to be able to see his father's face, but another part of him was saddened by what he would have to do next...

However, Allen quickly put those thoughts out of his mind, before turning to his uncle, seeing the man look around, being the first time he was able to touch Nea for real, without meeting with him in his mind, which reminded Allen of his questioning.

"Nea, how is it possible that you are here physically?" Allen questioned, now calmer than before.

"That...that's a good question nephew, one I can't give an exact answer to, but I have a few theories..." Nea replied, opening and closing his hand, testing his body, before invoking a little purple energy around his. around the same hand.

"This body is physical, but it's like it's..." He said still looking at his hand, before looking at Mana and then finally turning to Allen.

"Allen, try using your dark matter, tell me how you feel." Nea instructed, making Allen look at him confused, but choosing to follow his uncle's request.

He raised his right hand and tried to channel his dark matter, the familiar sensation of invoking his energy again, using what Nea had taught him about dark matter control.

But quickly the sensation changed, when the energy around his right hand increased rapidly, as if they had thrown fuel and a fire, scaring Allen in the process, making him quickly concentrate on focusing his mind on molding the dark matter, realizing that without With Nea's help, he needed to focus more on controlling the energy.

But something was strange to Allen in all of this, even without Nea to assist him, Allen wouldn't lose control over his energy like that, as he was trying to bring just enough to cover his right hand, it was almost as if...

"It feels stronger..." Allen said in a low voice as he looked down at his hand as the dark energy enveloped it like a flame, increasing its intensity slightly as Allen loosened his grip.

"That's why it is, just as I suspected." Nea said, drawing Allen's attention to him as he raised his hand which he had wrapped in dark matter as well.

And now Allen could see the dark matter that his uncle had concentrated in his hand move ever so slightly towards him, almost as if it was being sucked into Allen.

The white haired young man looked at his hand, feeling his uncle's energy flowing towards him, as well as the energy that he could now identify as Mana's, was also flowing towards him.

"We are merging with you." Nea spoke, drawing Allen's attention again, doing nothing to clear Allen's confusion.

"What?" The young man questioned.

"We are merging you, me and Mana." Nea clarified, making Allen widen his eyes in shock.

"What do you mean 'merging'?!" Allen questioned in shock, feeling his stomach drop, feeling a bad feeling about his uncle's next words.

But the next to speak was not Nea.

"We are becoming Earl again, but we are both joining you." came the weak voice of the man in Nea's arms, making both of them look in shock at Mana, who had just spoken weakly in his scratchy voice, as she seemed to slowly wake up.

"Manna!" Allen exclaimed, too shocked to see his father awake to process what he had just said.

Mana slowly started to sit up on his own, being helped by Nea, who was beside his to support him, followed by Allen who quickly came over to help the older man.

"Are you sure he's okay to sit down?" Allen questioned Nea, looking at the wound the sword of exorcism had made on him, but her uncle gave Allen a reassuring nod.

"That won't be a big problem for him here, we're not in the physical world after all." Nea said, drawing the attention of Allen, who was helping Mana to sit up.

This caught Allen's attention, his mind racing and understanding what Nea had said, finding the explanation for the strange familiar feeling in his mind.

"We are in the world of dreams." Allen stated, earning an affirmative nod from Nea.

And at that moment a familiar magic door appeared in mid-air, opening and revealing Road, who left the door running towards Allen, who held her as a reflection of the young woman's actions, bending over so as not to fall to the ground with the force of the young woman throwing herself at him.

"Allen!" jNoah screamed, burying her face in the chest of the young exorcist, who was still struggling to keep his balance, before stabilizing himself.

"Road!" Allen exclaimed as he held the girl, looking at her in astonishment but understanding that they were in a dream world thanks to her.

"I was worried about what would happen to you when the Arks unite! I'm glad you're okay!" She spoke, lifting her head from Allen's chest to look at him with a happy smile on her face.

Allen glanced at Road, still startled by the girl's sudden appearance, his mind racing over the revelations just made.

"It's good to see you in person too Road. yes, yes, no need to get emotional, it's only been over thirty years since we've seen each other face to face, but who's counting." Nea's sarcastic voice cut into Allen's thoughts and Road's happy look, which quickly turned a murderous glare in Nea's direction for interrupting her moment with Allen.

"I'm not talking to you! You meddler! BLEEH" Road spoke angrily as she stuck out her tongue and pulled her eyelid back in a childish grimace at Nea, who just rolled her eyes at the dream Noah's behavior.

"It's good to see you guys getting along after so long, but we better calm down, after all it's a short time we have- *COF* *COF*." It came Mana's voice who spoke with a serene smile, before coughing a little into his hand, lightly staining his glove.

This eased the animosity between the two as Allen released himself from Road and walked over to Mana to carefully check the status of his father, still feeling emotionally awkward to be around the man who raised him again.

But Allen froze after placing himself at Mana's side to support him and the older man turned to him, looking into the young man's eyes for the first time in a long time.

Allen stood with his eyes open and weights on Mana's gaze without the two saying a word.

Before mana's eyes sparkled with joy and turned watery, as a tremulous smile spread across his face, having a clearly emotional man's face and a brighter look.

A look that Allen recognized all too well, feeling his breath catch in his chest as Mana hesitantly lifted his hand before bringing it to Allen's shoulder, who didn't move a muscle for fear of startling the man.

"Allen...You've grown up a lot and..." He began slowly in a low, emotional voice, clearly not sure what words to use and Allen could feel his hand tremble on his shoulder.

"And I owe you an apology, I did terrible things, and you had to go through so much because of me, and I know my words won't cut it-!" He continued to speak uncertainly, only to be pulled by the white haired youth into a hug, interrupting the older man's series of apologies.

Mana's eyes widened in shock, but he quickly reacted, returning Allen's hug awkwardly at first, his hands shaking as they wrapped around the young man, shocked by his actions.

"You don't need to apologize. Not to me. It's already forgiven." Allen spoke softly with his face buried in Mana's shoulder, trying to convey what he felt to his father, not letting the chance he had now pass by.

And upon hearing these words, Mana's eyes quickly moistened, letting tears escape freely down her face, letting these tears fall on Allen's shoulder, as he hugged his son back, thrilled with his son's ability to forgive him. so easily.

"I...I...I don't deserve this. I did terrible things and I hurt you, I tried to kill you, II!" He began to babble, trying weakly to fight the hug, not considering himself worthy of such forgiveness, but at the same time clutching Allen's uniform, not wanting to lose contact.

"Shhh. This is something that cannot be changed, we just have to focus on the present and try to make up for everything, but now... now I forgive you, it may not fix anything yet, but I forgive you Mana." Allen says tightening his grip, refusing to let go of his father, his own hands shaking from the emotions he is feeling, but keeping his grip firm.

And with that all resistance abandoned Mana, who accepted the embrace completely, hugging Allen back, with his tears flowing freely now.

Nea and Road watched as the father and son embraced after so long, choosing to step back to give them both the space they needed and watch them from afar, both with a smile on their faces.

"I'm truly happy for them, you know. I remember when I watched them interact years ago when Allen first met Mana, seeing them now makes me happy knowing they could have that moment again." Road said with an emotional smile, discreetly wiping away a tear that threatened to fall from the corner of his eye.

Nea just grunted in agreement as he smiled watching his brother and nephew having their emotional moment, feeling that moment of joy warm his heart and letting himself enjoy it.

Even though in the back of his mind he knew this moment wouldn't last long and even though he felt his energy start to fade, he chose to enjoy this moment with a smile.

And so minutes passed while father and son hugged and murmured to each other words they wanted to say for so long, while Road and Nea watched and talked in parallel so as not to disturb the moment of both.

And after a few more words, Allen and Mana separated from the noose, wiping their tears from their faces and Mana pulling a handkerchief from her suit and blowing her nose, making Allen move away slightly to avoid getting dirty with Mana's sneeze, although when he stopped to think, he looked at his shoulder and saw that his coat was already dirty from Mana's crying, making him let out a small sigh, before opening a small smile.

"Sorry about the Allen coat, here, let me clean it for you." Mana said as he held out his handkerchief to clean Allen's coat, causing the young man to quickly jump away from his father to avoid the used handkerchief.

"That won't do any good if the handkerchief is already dirty!" He exclaimed as he backed away from Mana's dirty handkerchief, making his father look embarrassed at his carelessness.

"Ha ha ha! come on nephew, let him take care of you for a bit, what's a little snot on your clothes after everything we've been through? Don't upset your dad like that" came Nea's amused voice, who laughed at Nea's interaction. his brother with his nephew, earning an annoyed look from the exorcist, before Allen cracked a discreet smirk.

"You're right uncle, we should take advantage of this meeting to share our family love." Allen said looking defeated as he reached out to take the clean end of the scarf from Mana's hand.

"Ah, you're understanding things Allen, the important thing is the intentions of actions, you shouldn't complain so much~" Nea said as she held back a laugh at her nephew's misery.

Until the handkerchief in question was flung in his face, catching the fourteenth Noah off guard and catching his cheek, causing him to quickly scream and snatch the offending weapon from his face with a grimace of disgust.

"What the fuck?!" He exclaimed throwing the handkerchief away from him, before glaring at Allen as he wiped his cheek with the sleeves of his coat.

"I'm sharing our familial love Uncle, it would be unfair to keep you out." Allen said in an innocent voice and a mischievous smile, making a vein appear on his uncle's forehead, as Mana and Road burst out laughing at both their antics, with the female Noah rolling around on the floor at this point at their antics.

After a few moments, the laughter of both seemed to take the two of their 'fight', when Nea gave up attacking her nephew and ended up opening a smile on her face, followed by Allen.

"Your insolence would really give me gray hairs if I were capable of having any." Nea said with mock frustration, earning a chuckle from Allen.

"In my case, I'm sure my hair turned whiter after I started dealing with you." Allen answered back, earning an exaggeratedly indignant look from his uncle and more laughter from Road and Mana, with him and his uncle quickly joining in.

There was a small moment of peace as the members of the room calmed down, falling into a comfortable silence until Mana broke the silence.

"I'm happy, really happy from the bottom of my heart that we can spend these moments together, even if they don't last long, they mean a lot to me." Mana said with honest emotions smearing his words.

"For me too." Allen spoke looking at Mana and smiling as he placed his hand on his shoulder, conveying his own happiness in his own words and his expression, before his gaze changed to a more serious countenance and he turned to Nea and Road.

"But I need to know what you're talking about, because I know we're in the dream world thanks to Road's power, but I know something is wrong and you already know what it is." Allen said with a straight face, making his demand for an explanation clear.

And with that Nea's smile faded into a serious expression and the mood in the room quickly changed, with Mana and Road also getting more serious.

And so a tense silence settled in the room for a few moments as Alle looked at Nea without blinking, remaining that way until Nea broke this silence with a sigh.

"I could think of a thousand ways to try to explain what's going on in a less alarming way, but to be honest that seems impossible, so I'll be straight Allen." Nea said looking into her nephew's eyes, who didn't hesitate or make a move to interrupt her uncle, giving the signal for him to continue.

"We are being absorbed for you." Nea said raising her right hand and summoning her dark matter to it, drawing Allen's attention to the dark aura around Nea's arm, not seeing anything different from normal until he paid more attention and saw it.

Initially he thought the dark energy was dissipating, but soon he realized that it was moving, almost like the fire of a candle moving in the breeze, the energy moving towards Allen, being drawn towards him.

When Nea saw that Allen realized the energy movement he wanted to demonstrate, he started talking again.

"With the awakening of the heart and the union of the Arks, there are many energies being released at the same time, and with that we were caught in the eye of the hurricane, with the energy of innocence hitting us full on and with the condition that Mana was in, he probably wouldn't be able to withstand the energy released, after all innocence is like poison to us." He said to Allen, gesturing to Mana at the end, who gave a sad nod.

Allen's eyes widened as he looked from his uncle to Mana, and even to Road, who had a sad look on his face now, making the pit in his stomach grow.

"Wait, wait! That- that doesn't make sense right? After all, you and I were in the center too, but we're fine, right?!" Allen questioned his uncle, feeling desperate about the revelation.

But Nea shook his head, crushing his nephew's hopes, "We were at the center of the explosion and it affected us too, but thanks to his unique condition of possessing an innocence, his body withstood exposure to the 'Heart', but it still affected For me, mainly thanks to the fact that Mana is dying, we are coming back to joining our energies and you are the focus."

"But we're here now!" Allen said, refusing to give up.

"That's thanks to Road's powers, and even she doesn't have much time." Nea said with a grimace, not liking having to crush her nephew's hopes.

This had Allen looking at Road, focusing his gaze on the female Noah, with a desperate look, but Road just returned a sad look at him.

"He's right Allen, I was able to bring our minds together here before the union was complete using my last strength, but I can't keep it up forever." Road said, getting devastated inside seeing Allen's sad look.

Hearing this made Allen's shoulders sag as well as his spirit as he watched his uncle's dark matter energy move towards her, taking in his words.

He was lost in confused thought, until he felt a hand on his shoulder, turning around to see Mana looking at him with an apologetic a few moments, the laughter of both seemed to take the two of their 'fight', when Nea gave up attacking her nephew and ended up opening a smile on her face, followed by Allen.

"Your insolence would really give me gray hairs if I were capable of having any." Nea said with mock frustration, earning a chuckle from Allen.

"In my case, I'm sure my hair turned whiter after I started dealing with you." Allen answered back, earning an exaggeratedly indignant look from his uncle and more laughter from Road and Mana, with him and his uncle quickly joining in.

There was a small moment of peace as the members of the room calmed down, falling into a comfortable silence until Mana broke the silence.

"I'm happy, really happy from the bottom of my heart that we can spend these moments together, even if they don't last long, they mean a lot to me." Mana said with honest emotions smearing his words.

"For me too." Allen spoke looking at Mana and smiling as he placed his hand on his shoulder, conveying his own happiness in his own words and his expression, before his gaze changed to a more serious countenance and he turned to Nea and Road.

"But I need to know what you're talking about, because I know we're in the dream world thanks to Road's power, but I know something is wrong and you already know what it is." Allen said with a straight face, making his demand for an explanation clear.

And with that Nea's smile faded into a serious expression and the mood in the room quickly changed, with Mana and Road also getting more serious.

And so a tense silence settled in the room for a few moments as Alle looked at Nea without blinking, remaining that way until Nea broke this silence with a sigh.

"I could think of a thousand ways to try to explain what's going on in a less alarming way, but to be honest that seems impossible, so I'll be straight Allen." Nea said looking into her nephew's eyes, who didn't hesitate or make a move to interrupt her uncle, giving the signal for him to continue.

"We are being absorbed for you." Nea said raising her right hand and summoning her dark matter to it, drawing Allen's attention to the dark aura around Nea's arm, not seeing anything different from normal until he paid more attention and saw it.

Initially he thought the dark energy was dissipating, but soon he realized that it was moving, almost like the fire of a candle moving in the breeze, the energy moving towards Allen, being drawn towards him.

When Nea saw that Allen realized the energy movement he wanted to demonstrate, he started talking again.

"With the awakening of the heart and the union of the Arks, there are many energies being released at the same time, and with that we were caught in the eye of the hurricane, with the energy of innocence hitting us full on and with the condition that Mana was in, he probably wouldn't be able to withstand the energy released, after all innocence is like poison to us." He said to Allen, gesturing to Mana at the end, who gave a sad nod.

Allen's eyes widened as he looked from his uncle to Mana, and even to Road, who had a sad look on his face now, making the pit in his stomach grow.

"Wait, wait! That- that doesn't make sense right? After all, you and I were in the center too, but we're fine, right?!" Allen questioned his uncle, feeling desperate about the revelation.

But Nea shook his head, crushing his nephew's hopes, "We were at the center of the explosion and it affected us too, but thanks to his unique condition of possessing an innocence, his body withstood exposure to the 'Heart', but it still affected For me, mainly thanks to the fact that Mana is dying, we are coming back to joining our energies and you are the focus."

"But we're here now!" Allen said, refusing to give up.

"That's thanks to Road's powers, and even she doesn't have much time." Nea said with a grimace, not liking having to crush her nephew's hopes.

This had Allen looking at Road, focusing his gaze on the female Noah, with a desperate look, but Road just returned a sad look at him.

"He's right Allen, I was able to bring our minds together here before the union was complete using my last strength, but I can't keep it up forever." Road said, getting devastated inside seeing Allen's sad look.

Hearing this made Allen's shoulders sag as well as his spirit as he watched his uncle's dark matter energy move towards her, taking in his words.

He was lost in confused thought, until he felt a hand on his shoulder, turning around to see Mana looking at him with an apologetic look.

He was lost in confused thought, and felt a hand on his shoulder, turning around to see Mana looking at him with an apologetic look.

Allen looked into his adoptive father's eyes and could see in that look all the apologies and regrets he wanted to convey, but it only made him feel worse, knowing that he would lose his father after finally finding himself again, also losing Nea and Road.

He felt that this was too much for him, but before he could fall into those thoughts he felt Mana put another hand on her shoulder and pull him into a hug.

"It's okay Allen, we won't leave you, you won't be alone even if we leave, we'll always be with you, so it's okay to be sad, but you can't..." He started talking hugging Allen tightly, stopping at the end of your sentence.

"Never stop walking." Allen completed, returning his father's hug, before looking at Nea and Road, making a silent request.

And both quickly walked towards their family, joining the tight embrace.

"How much time do we have left?" Allen questioned in a whisper amidst the embrace.

"Enough." Road simply answered, and for Allen at that moment, that answer was enough.

The white haired young man just closed his eyes and enjoyed the hug with his father, his uncle and Road once more.

"We are proud of you Allen, you've grown so much." Mana said next to him.

"Yes nephew, you are young and you have already done great things, I know you will be even better in the future, we will always be proud of you." Nea spoke from the other side.

"You are the best Allen, I knew you were amazing as soon as I met you, although it could have been better I admit." Road said quietly, with a chuckle at the end, making Allen snort slightly through his nose with a small wistful smile, keeping his eyes closed and tightening the hug even more.

And so they stayed, as slowly Allen felt as if his awareness of him waned and left him, almost like sleeping, though more like waking from a dream.

And so it all disappeared.

?-Interior of the Arks

For Allen it was a strange sensation of one moment looking like he was sleeping and the next moment feeling like he was waking up.

Allen still had his eyes closed when he felt something poking his cheek, making him squint, before being hit again with more force, making him slowly open his eyes.

And when he opened his eyes, Allen found himself looking at the ceiling identical to the one in the room he was in earlier, but what most caught his attention was what had woken him up, managing to focus his vision on Timcanpy, seeing the golden sphere with wings flying worriedly in front of his eyes.

"Tim..." Allen spoke with his voice hoarse from having just cut and his mind spinning from everything just waking up from Road's dream world.

However, his mind quickly raced as he assimilated this thought, making him sit up quickly, startling Timcanpy who quickly flew to dodge Allen's movement, looking grumpy and worried about Allen at the same time, putting himself on Allen's shoulder and rubbing against his neck.

Several thoughts went through his mind, bringing a hand to his face to try to dispel his confusion, but he knew that what he had seen was 'real' as it was the product of Road's power, but even so he felt a spark of hope glowing through the despair that was building in her stomach.

"...Nea?" He spoke in thought, trying to feel inside and find Nea's presence, feeling a small spark of hope...

He felt his Noah energy still dormant thanks to the great wave of innocence and the presence of Crown Clown resonating.

But that was it.

There was nothing left.

There was no Nea's presence in his mind, his spark of hope was crushed and tears were now running down his face lightly, while the whole world around him seemed to be muffled, making him almost not notice the sound of a door opening and a heavy sigh.

"...Allen-kun?" Came a female voice very familiar to Allen, which managed to reach him even though he was barely able to register it in his current mental state.

And as soon as he felt a gentle hand on his shoulder he turned to see Lenalle crouched beside her with her hand on his shoulder and a worried look on her face.

"...Lena." Allen spoke weakly, his voice cracking slightly because of the lump in his throat, but that was enough for Lenalee to understand what he felt.

Lenalee quickly wrapped her arms around Allen and pulled him into a hug which he eagerly returned.

She might not know what happened yet, but she didn't need to know what happened to comfort Allen, she would be there for him no matter what, just like he was always there for her, she could question him later.

And so Allen hugged his girlfriend as he let his emotions out, grateful that she didn't question him as he didn't feel ready to speak at that exact moment.

And so they were together, just in the silence of the room, which Allen realized was identical to the one in his dream and that Lenalee had come from the downstairs stairs, and feeling the light pulsation of the energy of innocence that came from the 'Heart', but all that took a backseat to his mind as he focused completely on Lenalee and the comfort she gave him.

After a few more moments they broke the hug, but they didn't move too far, staying close, so that Lenalee could look correctly at Allen's face, placing a hand on his cheek to wipe the now dry trail of tears.

Allen could see Lenalee's eyes now, seeing the worry in her beautiful violet eyes and he couldn't help but feel lost in them, as he always did when he let himself look into them too long, instinctively pulling her closer to him, leaning against their foreheads together.

"Thanks." He managed to say, feeling much more relieved than before thanks to her, feeling his body relax as he let out a deep breath.

"I'm here for you whenever you need me." She replied as she caressed his face, glad she was able to make him feel better, before speaking again.

"But what happened?" She asked him, looking into his eyes and seeing them sadden slightly again.

"I-er-I...In the control room- Ma-O Earl was there and..." He started to try to explain, but clearly he was failing to speak coherently about everything that happened, fumbling in his words until Lenalee put a hand on his shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze, making him stop.

"Stop Allen-kun. It's okay, breathe, you don't need to explain everything now, just...tell me how I can help you." She spoke trying to sound reassuring, ending with a worried look.

And her eyes seemed to contain that infinite amount of care and affection, which immediately calmed Allen, making him take her hand in his as he wondered if she was even aware of the effect she had on him.

"You already help me more than you could ever imagine Lena." He said calmer now, taking her hand to his lips and kissing it, trying to convey all the affection he felt, before looking into her eyes, seeing her face slightly flushed.

"Thanks." He said softly, leaning their foreheads together again and looking into her eyes, with her returning the gesture and taking her other hand to his cheek, before they both closed the distance between them, kissing and forgetting for a few moments about the world around them, while closing their eyes.

"*COUGH* *COUGH*". Until they both broke apart in a startled leap at the sudden sound coming from the door, causing them to turn towards the source of the sound assuming semi-battle postures, only to find Lavi standing leaning against the open door, with his fist against his mouth. .

However, her hand did not hide the cheshire smile he sported looking at the couple now blushing for having been caught.

"Well, sorry to interrupt you, but when Lena ran off in front of all of us, we decided to follow, although now maybe I should go back and tell yu to wait for a few more minutes." The redhead said with his smile growing when he saw the red in the couple's cheeks intensify, especially Lenalee for having her moment with Allen interrupted and for leaving both exorcists behind.

"Shut up stupid rabbit!" He exclaimed trying to return to his neutral face, but his cheeks remained red, causing him to fail miserably in his attempt.

"Own, don't be like that beansprout, you've only officially been together so it's understandable that you're so cozy" Lavi said playfully as he watched the couple's awkwardness.

He was about to open his mouth again, but was interrupted when he was suddenly pushed forward by a bora coming from the door with extreme force, making him land with his face on the living room carpet.

"I said wait, stupid rabbit!" Came the voice of the owner of the boot that had kicked Lavi, it being none other than Kanda, who was now leaning against the door, breathing deeply, having climbed the stairs behind Lavi.

"Bakanda!/kanda!" Allen and Lenalee said at the same time when they saw the arrival of the exorcist swordsman.

Kanda looked at both of them as he leaned against the door, letting out a tired sigh after having climbed the stairs in the state he was in.

"You took your time beansprout, even going ahead of us we ended up catching up with you." Kanda said looking at his white haired friend.

"Well, I don't know if you noticed Bakanda, but thanks to me the chests are now fused." Allen said to Kanda, giving the samurai an annoyed look, but with no real anger behind it.

"Hey yu! why did you attack me like that!? I'm hurt you know?! that's very cruel of you!" Lavi exclaimed to the samurai after lifting his face off the ground.

"Well, at least you were able to fulfill your only job, for a moment I thought we would have to come here and solve this for you." Kanda said to Allen with a snort, completely ignoring Lavi's exclamation.

"HEEY! Don't ignore me!" Came the redhead's exclamation.

Allen rolled his eyes at Kanda and his sarcasm, already knowing they were classic samurai taunts, "I'm more surprised you got here, with your brain so full of soba, I thought you'd get lost on the stairs."

"Lenalee, they are being cruel again." Lavi said to the female exorcist, making her let out a light laugh with the group's return to the small moment of normality, happy that Allen is now better from his previous sad state.

Kanda scowled as he glared at Allen, but with no real anger behind his gaze, before turning to look at Allen with a more analytical look, before speaking again.

"And what happened to Beansprout? the energy your energy changed from some time ago before you left the previous room." Kanda questioned Allen, going straight to the point that was bothering him, as since he entered the room, he could feel the change in Allen's energy.

It wasn't something totally new, but it was like the previous noah energy he could feel was more...powerful, he still felt like Allen, but the intensity of the energy had definitely changed.

Allen looked at Kanda, before looking at his other companions, who were looking at him with a questioning look waiting for his answer, he then let out a shaky sigh, quickly understanding the reason for the change in energy that Kanda was talking about.

As he was lost in thought about what had happened before waking up in the room and how he should explain to his friends what happened, he felt a hand wrap around his, making him lift his head and look at Lenalee.

She was looking at him in a slightly worried way, before squeezing Allen's hand tighter and speaking. "It's okay Allen, you don't have to force yourself, breathe."

And so he did, breathing deeply together with her, squeezing her hand with his innocence, which still glowed softly just like his friends' innocence, finally calming down and giving Lenalee a smile.

"Okay Lena, you deserve an explanation." He said looking at her with a loving smile, before looking at the other two members of the room, "But before that, where are the others? I think it would be better to explain to everyone at once."

Lavi shook her head, "They were left behind on the lower floors along with Kro-chan, they weren't in a position to go any further."

Allen nodded after understanding the reasons his other friends weren't there, he just hoped they were okay.

"Well, then I guess I'd better start by explaining about what happened when I reached the ark's control room..." Allen began to explain the past events since his separation from the group, squeezing Lenalee's hand each time he the recounted moment moved him more profoundly.

And so it went on, with his friends listening intently to his words, interrupting Allen's narration to ask questions here and there to get better information, but leaving the white-haired exorcist to have more emotional moments for himself, knowing that he had right to that privacy, especially when it came to his family before the order.

But even though it was difficult to talk about it, Allen did not hide details, because in the end, he knew he could trust his new family, which the order had become. And so, Allen followed until the end of events, arriving at the current moment.

And when he was finished, the whole room was dead silent, with none of Allen's companions knowing exactly what to say to the exorcist, with Lenalee just squeezing Allen's hand tightly, who squeezed back and gave a weak smile of thanks. in return.

But Kanda's voice broke that silence, "Well that was a lot of shit going on huh."

And so the room returned to silence, but this time everyone looked at Kanda in silence.

"PFFF!" Before Allen let out a snort, putting his hand over his mouth to contain his laughter, followed by Lavi and finally Lenalee, having been caught by Kanda's simple and unexpected statement.

Perhaps the most surprising fact of the circumstances would be the fact that the samurai himself had a small smile at the corner of his lips, different from his usual frown.

"I didn't expect you of all people to break the ice like that Yu!" Lavi said while laughing and poking Kanda's side with her poke, making the samurai's eyebrow tremble slightly in anger.

"Don't call me Yu." He stated simply, as he poked Lavi's injured leg with his sheathed katana, making the redhead let out a high-pitched scream as he rubbed his leg to ward off the pain, while looking at Kanda with a hurt look, which was promptly ignored by Kanda.

Allen and Lenalee just grinned in amusement at their friends' interaction, with Allen being grateful that Kanda (of all people) was able to lighten the situation (although he would never admit it to him).

"So that means the 'Heart' is gathered and awakened just ahead?" Kanda questioned, turning his serious face back as he looked at Allen directly.

The white-haired young man looked at his friend and nodded, his face also taking on a more serious expression, before he turned his gaze to his left arm, which was resonating in an unsteady rhythm, having calmer moments and more agitated ones.

"Our innocence is reacting to proximity to 'Heart', the closer we get, the stronger the resonance." Lavi said as he sits on the ground resting his leg, with his hammer in its shrunken form in his hand, seeing the crystal-type innocence resonate just like Allen's.

"Well then, we don't have to wait any longer, let's get this over with once and for all" Kanda said, squeezing Mugen in his hands as he looked at the filly he would lead on.

And with those words, everyone turned towards the door as well, because at this point they wanted nothing more than to end this war and everyone knew that they were closer than ever to achieving that goal.

Allen and Lenalee exchanged a look, nodding, before helping each other to their feet, with Kanda pulling Lavi to her feet again.

And so the quartet walked to the door that revealed a staircase from where they could feel the energy of the 'Heart' emanating.

Everyone started to climb, with the last one being Allen, who before starting to climb the stairs, took one last look at the room they were leaving, with a weak and melancholy smile.

"Thanks for everything Mana, Neah." He thought, before turning towards the stairs, finding Lenalee waiting for him.

He gave her a smile and gently held her hand as they walked up the stairs, with Lavi and Kanda going up together.

The staircase at first seemed simpler than the previous ones, but the more they climbed, the more it seemed that it was strangely long where normally they wouldn't have the feeling of advancement if it weren't for feeling 'Heart' energy and the resonating of their innocence increase as more go up.

And the closer you got to the 'Heart', the more the staircase changed shape, starting to take on strange shapes, with ethereal white tendrils starting to grow through the kin like tree roots.

These tendrils spread across the staircase, seeming to pulsate green energy similar to the innocence they carried.

They got to the point where everything around them seemed to be resonating rhythmically with the emanated energy, emanating a natural peaceful energy, but at the same time, something in the back of the minds of the four of them kept them on edge.

They all knew well how innocence would indiscriminately cause collateral damage, especially in its crudest form, and what they felt was probably the crudest form of innocence there was.

Allen in particular could feel the Noah part stirring inside him, even in his slumbering state, but Crown Clown's resonance with the 'Heart' somehow seemed to suppress the Noah side, though it didn't seem to try to crush it, leaving Allen grateful once again for Crown Clown's help with his situation.

"Things are starting to get weird around here." Lavi said as she stepped carefully down the steps, avoiding stepping on the springing 'roots' of the excessive energy emanation.

"It's to be expected from the most powerful innocence in its raw state, if a fragment like Miranda's can envelop an entire city for so long, imagine what 'Heart' could do." Lenalee spoke alongside Allen while also avoiding the roots.

"Well, at least we got here without anything else happening." Lavi said looking at the goal they achieved.

And in that moment they reached the door at the top of the stairs, which would have looked like a wooden double door, if it weren't for the energy emanating from behind it, with green tendrils growing in and around it.

"Tch, you just had to say it huh stupid bunny. We couldn't expect it to be that simple, it never is." Kanda said clucking his tongue, already being tired of past struggles to go through yet another ordeal.

He then turned the doorknob, but before he could pull it open, he quickly took a step to the side in reflex, managing to dodge the door that went flying down the stairs, passing by Lenalee and Aleen who dodged in time, if ducking as the door flew across the staircase.

Kanda quickly readjusted to his feet, looking through the passage that was now without doors, fully seeing now a strong green and white light illuminating the staircase, now getting a view of what was inside the room.

"Well you could say that again Yu." Lavi said beside Kanda looking at the room in front of them, feeling her jaw drop slightly looking at the view in front of her.

"Shut up." Kanda fired back, not taking her eyes off the sight in front of her.

The scene in front of them could only be described as chaotic, the room ahead could not be compared to the ones before it, its interior was completely unstructured, great streams of concentrated wild green energy flowed through the air, swirling around the large room and generating strong winds.

The ground, as well as the walls that were not crumbling and recreating, seemed to recreate a very beautiful scenario, almost like a peaceful garden that stood out in that environment, however the plants and trees scattered around the room had white and green graviinhas that spread throughout everything. .

And in the center of the room flying in the air, there was a large orb of light and concentrated green and white energy, from which the energy trails passed through the room, rhythmically pulsing energy, seeming to be following a calm pattern, despite the enormous torrent of energy emanating from the room.

"It's never easy, is it?" Lenalee questioned as she surveyed the room ahead of the group.

The rest of the group could only remain silent, analyzing the room ahead, after all, they didn't need to confirm anything, everyone knew it would never be that simple.

"But this time we need to go through this just one more time, just one more time and we're done with this war." Allen spoke taking a step forward.

"Well, what are we waiting for then?" Lavi questioned as she stretched slowly, testing how far I could go with her injuries.

Allen takes a step forward, standing in front of the group, turning to look at them once more, before the final advance, seeing Lavi's smile, Kanda's serious face and stopping when his gaze met Lenalee's and her beautiful smile.

"Thanks for everything guys." He said, earning a smile of his own, before they all smiled more (which in Kanda's case was the corner of his mouth lifting slightly), before they nodded and Allen turned to the front, facing the core of 'Heart', turning back to her serious face.

He took a deep breath before exhaling and lowering his knees, activating the Crown Clown, which glowed even brighter than before, glowing in resonance with the 'Heart', which seemed to be awakening and becoming more violent, with the winds and energy released becoming more intense and erratic.

Allen could feel the rhythm of 'Heart' through his innocence or his Noah side bothered by the presence of innocence, but somehow he could time that rhythm, sensing that the core was close to getting more violent, but before that storm there would be a lull, like a heart contracting.

He then closed his eyes and prepared to run, while concentrating on feeling that small moment when there would be a better gap for them to advance.

badum...badump...badump

"Not yet...not...almost there..." He thought, concentrating, before opening his eyes as soon as he felt the right moment, taking in a breath and exclaiming from the bottom of his lungs.

"LET'S GO!" He exclaimed, taking off at a run, his companions following close behind.

And they all ran forward and as Allen had felt, there was a break in the constant flow of energy and destruction for a short period of time and at that moment the group took the opportunity to run as much as they could towards the core.

The core appeared to be about five hundred meters away from them and seemed to have grown quiet, but Allen could feel a pulse breaking through that calm just an instant after they broke into a run, catching his attention.

badump...baDUMP

"Get ready, the core is about to get violent again! Get ready to dodge!" Allen exclaimed, preparing himself to dodge whatever was thrown at them, as well as his friends.

...BADUMP!

And after those words, the nucleus contracted, and like the contraction of a heart, it released a huge wave of energy throughout the room, in a much stronger and more aggressive rhythm than before.

And so waves of energy were unleashed towards them, as if they were tornadoes and cutting blades of green energy, but everyone was already prepared and jumped in different directions to dodge the attacks.

Kanda and Allen went to the sides, with Kanda running to the right while using Mugen to cut his way through the waves of energy he couldn't deflect, while Allen went to the right dodging with Crown Clown's cloak and cutting the blasts using his claw.

Lavi reached out with her hammer and used it on the ground to lift herself above the blasts that hit the ground they were on earlier, which was blown to pieces by the energy's impact with the place, as the blast continued its path through the room.

But more waves of energy were sent his way, leaving no room for him to dodge upwards, making him widen his one eye and curse "Crap!"

But before he was hit, he was carried to the side at high speed, successfully dodging the energy blasts.

Lavi then looked to her rescuer and saw Lenalee carrying him out of the way of the gusts, running in the air with her boots, "Thanks Lena! that was going to be a nasty blow" He thanked her with a smile for the help.

"You are welcome!" She called back with a smile, before throwing Lavi aside, letting him get back to moving with his hammer, as she dodged more blasts of energy, "We have to help Allen-Kun get to the core!"

"Yes, but it looks like 'Heart' isn't reacting well to our approach!" Lavi exclaimed back, as he grew his hammer to block a blast of energy with a wind seal.

He did his best to stand his ground against the blast of energy, however he felt something tighten around his injured leg, causing him to temporarily weaken at his base, leaving him vulnerable to the blast of energy.

But before he could be hit, the gust in question was cut in half, sending strong winds to the sides, but leaving Lavi unharmed, with Kanda standing in front of him with Mugen drawn, having just cut the gust.

Seeing that the most imminent threat was eliminated, Lavi quickly looked at his leg and saw that white gravies had come out of the ground as if they were plants and clung to his leg, trying to keep him trapped in place.

He quickly pulled the gravel out of his leg, freeing himself from the grip of the living ground, quickly backing away before it went back to grabbing him.

"Phew, that was close, thanks Yu!" Lavi exclaimed as she went to the swordsman's side and they continued their run, "Careful guys! It's not just random bursts of energy, it seems like the whole room is being influenced to try and stop us! I think 'Heart' isn't too happy we're here! getting closer."

"Tch! I couldn't care less what this thing wants." Kanda stated clucking his tongue as he continued to cut his way now through creations of innocence that came out of the floor of the room, similar to General Tiedoll's ability, but clearly without any thought behind them.

He then reflected yet another blast of energy sent in his direction, deflecting its course to the side, before looking at Mugen, who was responding to his desires with no sign of excitement, even though they were going against the 'Heart's' apparent will." And the fact that we're able to use our innocence shows that it's not consciously stopping us, so it's not going to interfere with our synchrony."

"So it's more like an atomic defense system!" Lenalee concluded as she waltzed through the air and skirted the tornadoes of wind that swept through the room.

"So we need to be more careful, but our goal is still the same, I just need to reach 'Heart' before he freaks out even more, his rhythm is becoming more and more violent, I don't know how far this can progress!" Allen exclaimed as he maneuvered around the room dodging the blasts of energy and slashing with his claws a large tree with white roots that tried to grab him, blasting it with a wave of dark matter energy.

He immediately felt the difference in wielding his dark matter without Nea's assistance, though with all the practice he'd had to date, it hadn't become too difficult to use, just different from before, but he didn't have time to think about that now.

He then landed on the ground using Crown Clown's coat to break his fall, with Lenalee stopping beside him stepping into the air, while Lavi and Kanda caught up with them.

"Only about three hundred Beansprout masters to go, are you sure you can calm this thing down?" Lavi questioned while calculating the distance to 'Heart'.

"To be honest, I don't know exactly what it will be like to interact with 'Heart', but I know that I am able to synchronize with it through Crown Clown, as my parasite-type attunement has long since passed 100%." Allen said as he concentrated energy into his claw and created a cross-shaped shield to block slices of energy coming from the core.

"Uh, I hope you're right buddy, because I can't think of anything to stop this thing if it gets any further out of control." Lavi responded looking at the out of control core.

"Tch. there's no point in questioning now, it's do or die." Kanda spoke as he sheathed his sword and prepared to slash his way towards the core.

"Kanda is right, we're going to move forward together, we just need Allen to get there" Lenalee said before turning to Allen.

"You'll be able to find a way, I'm sure Allen-kun." She finished with a smile at the young man, making him smile back at her confidence.

"Come on then, give me some help getting there and let's finish this" Allen said, placing Crown Clow's cloak over his body along with the mask.

Everyone nodded, turning towards the nucleus and the obstacles coming towards it.

And so they advanced, with Kanda in front cutting through obstacles and energy beams with his own flying cuts, until a large white hand-shaped tree emerged from the ground heading towards the group, making Kanda stop and concentrate his power in a series of quick cuts in the shape of a lotus, cutting through the entire huge tree in the shape of an arm.

However, the cut pieces began to move in the air and gather together as white and green masses, before taking on strange shapes that resembled angels, similar to the creations of general tiedoll and level 4 akuma, but instead of having heads, they were spheres with strange writings, with wings instead of arms and several eyes around the spheres between the writings, appearing to have a life of their own.

"It looks like security is being updated!" Lavi exclaimed as she looked at the flying beings, which seemed to fly unsteadily seeming to learn how to fly, before quickly turning in the air and the largest eye in the center of the sphere looked directly at Lavi as did the other eyes, making the redhead's instincts kick in.

However, before he could act, in just a second the central eyes of the 'angels' charged a yellowish green energy and shot towards Lavi from several different angles, and Lavi only managed to retract his hammer and cover his face with his other arm to try to think of a way to avoid taking full damage from those shots.

"But not enough!" Came the scream coming from in front of him, making Lavi look properly and see Allen jumping in front of him, generating a large mystical circle with a cross in the middle, successfully blocking the rays that were fired.

Although the power of the impacts was enough to generate cracks in the shield and it was clear from Allen's body language that they were definitely not easy attacks to deal with.

But the shield can hold out long enough until the volley of shots temporarily stops, giving room for a counterattack.

"Get ready Lavi!" Came Lenalee's voice from above, making the redhead look at her coming towards her and get the message, preparing his hammer for a big swing.

"Okay! Get the shield out of the way Allen!" He exclaimed as he grew his hammer and channeled energy into it with the "wood" symbol appearing on the head of his hammer and Lenalee landing on the symbol.

Quickly looking over his shoulder Allen saw what was coming and quickly got out of the way deactivating his shield and using Crown Clown's coat to move through the air.

"Let's go Lenalady! Wood Stamp: Wind" Lavi said as he began to throw all the weight of his body to make a big swing, releasing his wind technique along with Lenalee who was quickly flying towards the 'angels' that were flying in the air. living room.

The exorocist flew like a bullet through the air, her boots glowing green and purple as she dragged a real tornado behind her, seeming to bend to her will as she charged towards the core's defending horde.

And as soon as she dodged the flying enemies and reached their midst and without stopping her fluid movements, she skillfully spun in the air in a circle, driving the giant gust of wind along with her legs, turning at her will and being propelled by her boots.

"Waltz: Mist Wind!" And as soon as the words were shouted, the swirling wind took shape, generating a giant wind tornado in the center of the defending forces.

The creatures tried to fight against the strong air current, but were swept away by the energized winds, spinning along with the tornado, which was thrown towards the remaining forces, which destroyed the defenses in the way, destroying the constructs in formation and destroying them again. with the force of the tornado.

"Better enjoy Beansprout now!" Kanda exclaimed as he ran down the path opened by Lenalee, with Allen doing the same, using his improved movement using Crown Clown and advancing through the air cutting down the few stragglers in his path between Lenalee's tornadoes, managing to see the 'Heart' pulsing energy closer. than ever, just a little more and it would be over.

Another roar similar to a roar came from the 'Heart' shaking the entire room while from the core itself came giant golden and green masses that came together in the upper part of a genderless human body, much larger than a level 2.5 Akuma.

The newly appeared figure already had a goal, extending its large hands towards Allen while opening its mouth and several ethereal eyes on its face spread across the eye region in a symmetrical yet chaotic manner.

"Woah!" exclaimed Allen widening his eyes as he wore Crown Clown's coat and punched a pair of disoriented 'angels' in the air who had taken damage from Lenalee's tornado.

He used the strength of the 'angels' fight to stay in the air as a boost and throw himself sideways to successfully dodge the closing of the hands that came towards him and climb onto the creature's right arm, stabbing his sword into the appendage for stability. .

He quickly got up and started running in time before the creature crushed him with its other giant hand, running quickly while avoiding being caught by the very 'ground' he was running on.

He stopped abruptly as the part of the arm in front of him moved and grew a series of spikes that went towards him, while the other arm came towards him again.

He quickly transformed his arm into the sword of exorcism and coated it with dark matter before swinging the sword at the thorns coming towards him, cutting them and the arm below him, causing an explosion from the clash of opposing energies and throwing himself into the air again. to get out of the way of the other arm that attacked him.

The loss of the arm does not seem to have affected the creature, as despite the dark matter attack, the severed arm was recovering, but Allen's concern was not the giant appendages, but rather the several eyes on the giant's face that turned towards him. him and began shooting beams of golden and green energy towards him.

"Balls of destruction!" Allen quickly concentrated his energy once more before swinging his sword and releasing several oscillating gray spheres into the air, creating a barrage of energy in front of him with their explosion as they collided with the lightning fired by the creature.

*BOOM*

With no time to breathe, Allen turned to face the giant arm that came out of the smoke screen created by the explosions, too quickly for him to be able to react this time.

"Damn it!" He exclaimed bracing himself for impact.

However, before he could hit him, the arm was cut in half, making Allen look at the origin of the cut and see Kanda with his two swords, having just delivered the saved cut.

The exorcist samurai shook his head at Allen, before he moved again and began firing more cuts at the creature, which recovered as it was cut, but Kanda didn't give the 'being' any rest (it doesn't seem to be exactly alive, but Allen doesn't have time to think about that right now!).

Allen did not need Kanda to give him any explanation, taking advantage of the opening given to him to advance using Crown Clown's coat and his sword to fly between the pieces of the being, going directly to the core of the 'Heart'.

He was so close that he could feel the energy that was being exhaled literally into his bones, providing a chaotic discomfort and comfort amidst the chaos the scene was in.

But once again he would apparently have one last obstacle in his path, as the severed masses of the giant creature came together enough to form the giant head again.

However, this time instead of the eyes shooting beams in his direction, the head created a kind of mouth that Allen could have sworn had a smile too big to fit on his face, before opening the gigantic mouth and began to concentrate a large amount of energy. energy between the being's sharp teeth.

The purpose of that energy was more than obvious to Allen, the last security measure to stop his advance, a last desperate measure to stop the approaching threat, but that meant that the 'Heart' felt his presence approaching and I knew he could be a threat.

Good. That assured him that he only needs one more step and it wouldn't be this death ray that would stop Allen now that he's come this far.

Instead of slowing Allen down, he took advantage of the delay to gather the being's energy and began to accelerate towards him as fast as he could, Crown Clown's coat tightened tightly around him as the mask covered his face with a simple thought as he traveled toward the creature's mouth, giving him one last moment to close his eyes and focus his own energy on his sword as he cast out a quick prayer more to himself than anything else.

"Crown Clown, Neah, Master, Mana...Everyone, one last time, please help me, just this one more time" He prayed inwardly as he thought of everyone he could who helped him get here, before opening his eyes in what seemed to have passed no more than a second, before it completely released its energy and accelerated its flight even further.

The energy had already coalesced behind the sharp teeth, which opened to reveal a massive sphere of energy that would be fired at Allen, surely leading to his end.

*KRAKABOOOM*

But in one Allen was faster, traveling through the air faster than his own thoughts could follow, he delivered his blow with all his might.

His slash instantly severed the giant head vertically, making it completely disfigured (if there was anything to be disfigured before) just from the shockwave of the clashing energies.

"Aarrgh!" Allen clenched his teeth tightly as he pressed his sword with all his strength against the large mass of energy that was still gathering to eliminate him.

He knew he couldn't win on pure raw power so he focused on guiding his energy into the tip of his sword, imagining it as if it were a sharp needle to pierce the wall of energy.

He could feel his flesh burn and his bones creak in protest at the energy coursing through him as he gave up defense for an all-out piercing attack.

The pain was practically no longer recognized in his mind, just his goal of getting through this last line of defense and ending this once and for all.

"aaaAAARRRGGGG!"Allen opened his eyes wide and let out a scream that ripped through his lungs, releasing all his energy in a single point, managing to pierce through the blast of energy with the decisive attack.

*BOOM*

And so Allen's concentrated energy broke through the dam in front of him, destroying the being's giant head and the opposite wall of the room, taking everything in its path with it, freeing Allen to head straight towards the core.

The white-haired exorcist almost no longer had the energy to guide himself in the air, but with the help of Crown Clown he managed to move between the floating remains of the last defense and catapult himself towards the core of the 'Heart', finally reaching his objective when contacting him.

The moment Allen's left arm made contact with the surface of the nucleus, he instantly seemed to react, with the nucleus appearing to allow his arm to sink into its surface!

"AHH! Damn! not so fast!" He exclaimed before placing his other arm on the surface of the core for support, bracing himself from being pulled into it, feeling the chaotic energy of the 'Heart' strongly affecting Crown Clown.

"It's like trying to interact with Sumam's innocence all over again, but much more violent!" and it was, it was much worse than having to deal with Suman's innocence while he became a Fallen, the core possesses much more raw power than Suman's innocence alone.

But quickly remembering that event gave him an idea, knowing that even though it was risky it was better than just trying to fight the core force alone.

He quickly located his inner Noah, who was unsurprisingly completely agitated due to his proximity to 'Heart', although he was not as rebellious as before, probably due to his constant proximity to Crown Clown.

He quickly pulled the rebellious energy from within and focused on letting it flow lightly down his left arm, making the core surrounding his arm shudder violently, clearly in displeasure with the energy surrounding his arm, allowing him to better pull it towards the surface, but unable to free itself completely.

"*Arf* *Arf* *Arf*" Allen breathed heavily as sweat dripped from his forehead, trying his best to connect with the core without being swallowed by it, using his dark energy to protect himself from being swallowed completely, while used Clown Clown to connect.

Her own Innocence did her best to stay true to herself and Allen, acting as the bridge between Allen's will and that of the 'Heart', showing her Innocence's passion and loyalty to her bearer after all these years.

It was as if Innocence itself believed in the dedication of its bearer, perhaps his speeches about saving everyone and his determination convinced the parasitic Innocence itself to join the rebel cause.

Truly Allen couldn't ask for a better partner in crime for his rebellion, the thought actually made Allen snort through his monstrous effort to communicate with the 'Heart'.

But focusing on what he felt going from 'Heart', Allen could feel many things, but nothing really organized, it was really a whirlwind of unorganized sensations, although Inocencias usually didn't express themselves in words, it was inarticulate even for that.

It really was like someone's slow awakening and Allen could tell that at the current rate if he couldn't guide that awakening, things wouldn't end well for anyone...

...It would probably end in another 'Great Flood'.

This thought filled Allen with concern, making him try even harder in his task of establishing contact, managing to send a message or a feeling directly to the nucleus, he could not fail in this task, however...it was easier to talk about it. what to do.

Thinking about everything that would be lost if he spoke here was certainly not doing him any wonders right now, pressing into the back of his mind as he concentrated on the task, feeling his arm begin to be tugged again.

"If I fail now...I can't think about it but.." He thought as he gritted his teeth.

His mind was beginning to become clouded with thoughts and sensations that were coming to him from the core, consuming his reasoning every second.

However, he still managed to hear the sound of something landing next to him and hear his name being called in the distance, but what brought him out of his stupor was his cheek being pulled hard and his face turned to the side, to meet the face by Lenalee.

"It really is an improvement to the scenery~" His clouded mind thought to itself, before Lenalee shouted something he couldn't understand and pulled his cheeks harder again, successfully waking him up.

"WHAAAW?!" He exclaimed as his eyes gained focus again and his attention turned to his girlfriend.

"Allen-kun! Wake up! I came to help, but we need you here!" She shouted, now with her words being understood by him.

He blinked hard, shaking his head and recovering his thoughts, as Lenalee's hands smoothed over her cheeks, giving him a pleasant breath of relief from her mind.

Seeing Lenalee's face soften, he managed to compose himself and give an awkwardly apologetic smile. "Sorry, looks like I got a little lost huh."

The young woman smiled back, seeing the albino's tired smile. "It's okay, we'll always help you."

"Whatever they're saying up there must be very touching and all, but they can rush things a little!" Came the voice of Lavi from further away, who was using his hammer to block the energy randomly leaking from the core.

"This time I agree with the stupid rabbit! Save the romance for later and do goddamn work now MOYASHI!" Kanda's unmistakable voice came from below, from where his cuts could be seen cutting through any defense formation that tried to form close to them.

Allen couldn't help but smile at his friends' energy even at this point.

"Ah, it seems like you can't be romantic and take things slow these days" He teased with a playful smile, earning a laugh from Lenalee.

He then turned to the core he was still connected to and returned to his serious face "Thanks Lenalee guys, I owe you everything so I'm going to return all the favor now!"

He returned to focusing on mastering the rebellious energy of the core and using it as a guide to form a path to the center, smiling slightly despite his tiredness as he felt Lenalee's hands on his back giving him the support he needed to not lose himself now. .

However...dominate was not the right word, he was navigating the constant and chaotic energy flow, but now he could discern the energy currents and insert his desire through Crown Clown.

Then he poured out his desire to reach the core, navigating the flow of energy, until he felt closer and closer to the core, every second seemed like an eternity and at the same time everything went by very quickly and when it seemed like he had blinked, he He felt like he was face to face with the nucleus, when a searing light took over his mind.

Suddenly Allen raised his head and opened his eyes, scaring Lenalee, but she noticed that something was strange when she looked at his eyes and saw that they were completely white and glowing, just like Crown Clown, who seemed to glow more intensely now.

"How are you up there, Lenalee?!" She heard Lavi scream below her as she fought against the core's defenses.

"It looks like Allen managed to connect to the core!... I think so!" She exclaimed back.

"You think?!" Came Kanda's voice this time, clearly more heated.

"It's hard to say! but something is definitely happening!" She exclaimed once again.

"Well, your guess is as good as ours! I don't know if it's a good sign, but the defenses seem to be more disoriented, so at least I think it's a good thing!" Lavi exclaimed again.

Lenalee didn't respond, but internally hoped that Lavi was right as she rubbed Allen's back.

"You can do it, Allen." She whispered to the white-haired exorcist.

Meanwhile in Allen's mind, he could feel himself floating amidst the energy flow of the 'Heart', completely devoid of clothes, appearing to be made of pure energy, while in front of him was the origin of all energy flow.

This core is a large greenish-white light from which energy flows leave and return, like a heart pumping blood.

Reflexively, Allen clenched and released his left hand to ensure Crown Clown was with him, feeling more comfortable with his partner there, but unable to look away from the blinding light in front of him.

"..." He opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out, feeling like he was trying to speak underwater.

'My voice doesn't reach this place' He thought in alarm, putting his hand to his throat.

*ROOOOOMMM*

Allem was forced to cover his ears to try to muffle the agonizing sound that reverberated throughout the space, but this did not stop that sound from penetrating his mind and his ears from suffering from that sound.

'What is that?!' He thought through the headache he was suffering from.

It was an immense pain, as if someone was hammering the inside of his head, but it was not an unfamiliar pain to him, in fact it was similar to the pain he suffered a short time ago when he came into contact with the core.

He opened his eyes in realization 'That's it! this is the core! he is...communicating! But I can't understand anything coming from this!'.

*ZUUUUOOMMMMM*

Once again a deafening buzzing filled the entire void in that place, as well as in Allen's head, who could feel his ears starting to bleed as he ground his teeth.

'I need to tune in to the core! even if it hurts! quite!' he thought as he concentrated once more to re-tune himself to the core in front of him.

And once again he managed to start tuning into the core, using all of Allen Walker's experience with parasite-type innocence and considerable time being a Noah, and used all of that now to send his desires to the core.

He knew better than anyone that in the end an innocence that had never interacted with a human, even more so for so long when the 'Heart', was something incapable of understanding human words, they communicate through its primordial form to all of them ( with cession of apocryphos), will.

Wills, desires, primordial forms of emotions, something that even a baby would be capable of generating, despite not being able to control or understand, and these desires were the main way for innocents to 'communicate'.

And knowing this Allen tuned in to the core, despite all the pain, sending his deepest will.

Allen may be humble 80% to 90% of the time, although with much effort and persistence (from his friends and Neah) he began to develop a sense of selfishness, but at his core, Allen Walker was always something.

A good person.

And in his own heart he had the desire, his strongest and purest desire that shaped his soul, he wished he could save whoever he could, from the holy war, from the exorcists, humans, akumas and even the Noahs, just as he promised himself For himself and for other people, he would not rest until he achieved this.

And so he opened his heart to the 'Heart', pouring all his will into the rebel core, with the aim of guiding him to fulfill his request.

'End this war, don't allow any more suffering for the Noahs, let the exorcists and innocents rest and let the world move on, without a flood or anything like that.'

Allen could no longer conceive of the effort he was taking to communicate, but he knew he needed to get somewhere with this.

And faintly he noticed the change in the core's state, the silence that took over the void they occupied, as the core seemed to absorb Allen's desires.

The Exorcist's soul was already too tired to even feel relief, but he refused to fall just yet, keeping his gaze on the core as his light wavered, waiting for a response.

Slowly the glow from the core returned, but not as dazzling as before, a soft glow took over him, as Allen saw that light approaching, or maybe he was sitting pulled towards it, it was hard to say.

As he got closer, the glowing sphere began to open like a flower, allowing Allen access to its interior, until he arrived at a small, ethereal, golden cube.

Allen couldn't be sure what action to take, but instinct kicked in, making him extend both hands towards the golden cube.

And it came towards him, until he was held by Allen's hands, his innocence and his human hand.

Allen couldn't even feel any weight in his hands and at the same time he felt enormous pressure on himself, feeling that his next actions would be decisive for everything he worked on so far.

Even so, Allen had a true and gentle smile on his face, bringing the cube to his lips, planting a swab kiss on the object, before whispering to it.

"Please help me wrap this all up, Amen."

And so he closed his eyes, before a light completely blinded everything around him.

In the entire city the battle seemed to have ceased, it was possible to see trails of destruction throughout the city, with no building or street left unscathed from the battle that occurred, but the exorcists were regrouping and helping the injured they could, taking them to the improvised base or medical tents.

However, everyone stopped to look up, at the giant Ark that was now flying over the city, which had begun to shine again, while everyone felt a strong tremor on the ground.

At that moment, Komui came out of the central doors, who lost his beret in the chaos of the rush to get there, accompanied by Reever, Jhonny and old Bookman.

They came as quickly as they could to the beginning of the tremors and the glow of the ark above them, to watch the developments that were coming.

They saw the ark's brightness increase, lighting up the entire night sky, acting almost like a night sun in the desolate city, practically being able to see the energy emanating from it and causing tremors in the ground beneath them.

"...Bookman, can you tell what's going on?" Komui asked, as sweat dripped down the side of his face, remaining as calm as he could while waiting for the elderly exorcist to respond.

"...I can't honestly say yes, but I have a hunch, which I suspect with the information I revealed just now, you should be able to guess as well." The old man with panda eyes said, as he used his good hand to puff on his pipe, looking at the ark in the sky with a serene gaze.

"So they managed to get to the 'Heart' right!? That's incredible! Allen is going to be able to put an end to this war now!" Jhonny exclaimed happily, smiling as he turned to his classmates.

Reever took a drag on his cigarette as he also watched the light show in the sky, before turning to the younger scientist, "Yeah, that's amazing though..."

"I guess in the end it seems like everything has a price, right Bookman?" he finished looking at the exorcist.

"There is always a price, boy, activating the 'Heart' can end very well or very badly for this war and all humanity living on the planet now, but regardless of that answer, the answer to our situation is only one." Bookman spoke calmly, releasing smoke from his lips in a calm manner.

Reever nodded, losing himself slightly as he stared into space, before letting out a sigh and massaging his neck tiredly, "Well, I'm not going to lie that it sucks, all this so I don't know what it's going to be like after the end of this war, But I don't think there's anything to do now, huh."

However he stopped when he felt a hand holding his, turning to the side to see Komui smiling at him while holding his hand.

"I don't think we need to see the later to know the result, we already said we trusted them, so it wouldn't be any different now, right?" The Chinese inventor said as he took off his glasses and placed them in his toothpick pocket, before looking up and seeing the light show that lit up the skies.

"That's right! We already know that Allen and everyone will make it, so we don't need to worry now." Jhonny completed while smiling slightly looking at the sky.

"...I think you're right, worrying about what's next doesn't make sense now, so I'm just going to wait for what's next to start making assumptions and come up with an answer about the next step, after all my curiosity as a scientist stops. " Reever said, as he smiled and looked up at the sky, squeezing Komui's hand in his.

Bookeman took one last drag of smoke as he absorbed the words he heard and his eyes roamed the city, seeing several exorcists reacting to what was happening.

Some did not stop their efforts to help those in need, despite everything around them, perhaps because they did not understand what was happening or because they had a strong conviction in their duty.

There were of course those who did not understand what was happening and despaired, being cared for by those who were helping.

And there were even those who seemed to have accepted their fate, kneeling and praying, whether in fear, faith or resignation, ready to follow whatever came.

He absorbed all of this and stored it in his memory, as a Bookman for so long, it was practically his main nature to store all the information around him until the end.

Finally releasing his last puff of smoke in a thin line towards the heavens, he gave a small smile as he looked and registered the glow in the sky, which seemed to increase by the second.

"I think maybe there would be no way things would have gotten this far if they hadn't gone the way they did, whether it was fate or mere chance, but in the end, I think it's a satisfying ending to close this chapter." The elderly exorcist spoke at last.

And so the brightness of the heavens took over the entire city, completely encompassing its entire area.

Inside the ark on the lower levels, the Exorcists who remained behind were resting, Krory, Marie, Miranda, Timothy and Link, gathered in the room where the battle against the twin Noahs took place.

Everyone was resting and trying to recover from the efforts they had made so far, having reached their limits in the battles so far, when the floor began to glow, as did the entire room around them, with everyone being able to feel the increase in energy around them. through their innocence and Link through his heightened senses.

They were amazed at what was happening, but a realization seemed to hit them simultaneously, making everyone exchange glances with each other.

Miranda and Marie looked at each other, despite the taller man's lack of vision, they both smiled at each other as they clasped their joined hands, with Miranda having the more emotional expression of the two, but just as resolute as her partner.

Krory smiled at the two before turning to Link, who was holding the sleeping Timothy in his arms looking conflicted, before looking up and meeting the vampire's gaze, who gave him an almost apologetic smile as he extended a hand to the former Crow. .

Link sighed and gave a small smile, as he reached out a hand to hold Krory's, while hugging Timothy with his other arm.

Krory smiled, as he extended his other hand to Miranda, who held it, creating a union between friends as the white glow continued to take over the entire room, with everyone understanding what that meant.

Miranda cast a sad look at Timothy's figure, speaking in a bitter tone, "He's too young for that."

"Indeed, this whole situation is a shame, but this young man would refuse to sit this one out if it meant not being with his friends, but still, a shame." Link said, grimacing bitterly at the end, acknowledging the cruel fate for the youngest member present.

Everyone remained silent, showing consent for the inspector's words.

Krory sighed, but kept a smile on his face nonetheless, "But even in this situation, I'm still grateful that fate allowed me to meet Allen and Lavi all those years ago, to know all of you, and to be able to fight for what's right...this made me happy, I can say I'm satisfied, so... thank you all." he concluded with a smile.

Everyone smiled at the Vampire Exorcist's words, agreeing with the older man's words.

"If it were possible...I would like to meet you again, maybe go back in time or fast forward to a better time, I know that in any time, I would like to be able to be with you." Miranda said, squeezing Marie's hand tighter, earning a comforting squeeze in return.

"Yes. I say the same, even with all the trouble I went through dealing with Kanda." Marie added with a small laugh.

The atmosphere was serene between them, despite the sadness that filled the room along with the white light that increased throughout the room and consumed all the furniture and books there.

Until finally only they were left, and with smiles on their faces, everyone was also consumed by the white light.

All Allen could see was darkness, feeling as if he was floating in the sea or flying peacefully.

Until he felt something touch him, once, then twice, before being shaken, almost taking him out of his trance.

"ALLEN!"

"WHA?!" The surprised exclamation made him wake up with wide eyes, blinking several times with the strong light that filled his vision, before he managed to focus his eyes on the view in front of him, seeing Lenalee there, looking relieved as she looked at him.

"Allen! I'm glad you woke up! We were getting worried!" The female exorcist exclaimed, hugging Allen tightly against her, with the exorcist still dazed from his recent awakening.

"And finally the sleeping beauty woke up, we don't have that much time to wait like this Beansprout." Came a voice to his left, making him look to see Lavi and Kanda also there, along with him and Lenalee in what seemed to be what seemed to be the core room.

However, all the bricks and surfaces in the room were shining in an almost translucent white and the core that was previously in chaos was now practically a star emanating an almost serene and constant light throughout the room.

That was what Allen managed to notice in his quick analysis of the room in question, feeling his mind clear a little after being knocked out by the core's energy wave, which by the way...

"I know this may be a bit strange for this question to come from me, but... what's going on?" Allen questioned his friends as he unconsciously (or not) leaned into Lenalee's touch.

...

There was a small silence between the exorcists, before Lavi let out an amused snort and Kanda rolled his eyes and his face contorted into his usual scowl.

"Tch, you have the nerve to ask us that, after you entered the sphere of brilliant light and then this happened, our damn guess is as good as yours." The irritated samurai spoke, almost mocking Allen's question, making a vein pop out on the white-haired man's forehead.

"Sorry for not having all the answers in the world about something I did for the first time, soba-samurai." Allen spoke in response, mocking the samurai, now making a vein pop out on the long-haired exorcist's forehead as well.

As lightning bolts began to fly between both angry exorcists, Lavi could no longer contain himself and began to laugh freely, while Lenalee laughed along and shook her head, satisfied with the normality of the interaction between her old friend and her new boyfriend (she wouldn't get tired of calling Allen by his title any time soon).

Allen and Kanda looked at their friends, before returning to stare at each other for a few moments, before giving up on the argument at the same time and sighed and smiled (well, in Allen's case it was a clear smile, Kanda smiled by the standards of... well, Kanda), enjoying the moment of apparent peace.

Lavi finished laughing, wiping a tear from the corner of his eye, before speaking to Allen while gesturing to the room around them, "So, what does all this mean for us?"

Allen looked around gathering his memories of the interaction with the 'Heart' Core before he was knocked out, thinking deeply before giving his answer "This...is a victory, at least I think so."

Kanda raised an eyebrow, silently demanding a further development in the younger exorcist's explanation.

Allen tried to continue, but clearly he was somehow trying to put his explanation into a more coherent form "I mean, I managed to send a command to the core, I'm sure I managed to 'convince' it to put an end to this war!" He exclaimed excitedly while gesturing, but he quickly lost his spirit before continuing his statement.

"However... I don't know if this is really a victory," he adds as he clenches his fist tighter, clearly frustrated.

However, Lenalee places her hand over Allen's, making him look at her and see her giving him a gentle and understanding smile.

"It's okay Allen-kun, we all knew there might be no turning back when we came here." She said softly, before looking at the others, making Allen look too and see Lavi smiling slightly at him while Kanda let out an amused snort and closed his eyes, the two looking at peace.

"Lena is right, our efforts were to get here and put an end to the war, we achieved that, so it's a victory for me, maybe as a Bookman I may have failed by not being able to immortalize the memory of this ending, but... as your friend and an exorcist, I'm glad I came here," Lavi spoke honestly, looking lighthearted despite the whole situation, definitely being the Lavi he chose to be.

""Tch. The stupid rabbit is being cheesy, but he's not wrong, we're where we wanted to be beansprout, don't blame yourself for anything, it's a victory and that's it, whatever comes from here we'll deal with it." Kanda continued, speaking with a small smile and in his usual stoic tone, although his eyes were clearly lighter than ever, being satisfied with finding an end to his life without regrets this time.

Lenalee smiles and turns to Allen as she squeezes his hand "In the end we'll be in this together Allen-kun and that's all I could ask for in the end, it's true that honestly I wish we could get out of here and enjoy a world without having to worry about the holy war, but I won't complain about an ending here, together with you at the end of the war... and maybe, who knows in the future we'll meet again, after all there are bonds that not even death can separate" she concludes smiling towards Kanda, who had been able to find Alma again despite death and the terrible conditions.

Maybe a new chance under better circumstances wouldn't be a bad thing... really, it wasn't a bad thought to have.

Allen winks at his friends, before smiling and starting to laugh lightly, making his friends laugh around him (although Kanda just snorts in amusement at the group's antics).

Allen then hugs Lenalee's waist and pulls her to sit closer to him, making the female exorcist laugh lightly as she wipes small tears from the corner of her eyes.

"Then it's a promise, no matter what comes, we'll see each other again in another life." Allen said smiling as he stretched his left arm towards the middle of the circle of friends, making his friends laugh before following suit, even Kanda didn't hesitate to join in the act.

"I don't feel like putting up with the antics of you and the other idiots of the order again, but I've learned to live with it" Kanda said placing his hand over Lavi's in the middle of the circle.

"Always grumbling, huh Yu! But we couldn't live without it no matter where, just like you can't live without us and you know it!" Lavi exclaimed playfully, as he placed his hand over Lenalee's in the middle of the circle of friends.

"I'm sure that wherever we are in the future, my brother will be there, so you'll have to deal with his antics for a while longer Kanda, but I'm sure he'll have a bigger target on Allen's head." Lenalee said as she placed her hand over Allen's and laughed at the scenario in her mind.

Allen shuddered as he imagined Komui sending his crazy robots at him, imagining what he would be capable of if he had access to more advanced technologies in an unknown future, making him shudder again.

"I can't say I'll be looking forward to facing an army of Komui's robots, but for Lenalee it's worth it." Allen joked as he sweated comically thinking about the situation, but sounded optimistic despite it all as he sent a smile to Lenalee, who smiled back at her boyfriend as she squeezed his hand.

"Stop being disgusting Beansprout or I'll kill you before your time." Kanda said making a disgusted face, making Allen stick his tongue out at him in mockery.

"We couldn't get through this without these two's relationship showing up again, huh, Lena?" Lavi pretends to whisper to Lenalee, making Lenalee laugh at the redhead's joke.

Allen stops fighting with Kanda and looks at their hands joined in the center of the circle and smiles.

"I really love you guys." He concludes as he tightens his hug on Lenalee and his grip on his friends' hands, making them smile once more at Allen's honesty.

And so the brightness of the room continued to increase until it overshadowed everything and left the group for last, letting them enjoy their last moments together in this life, before they also disappear.

They disappeared just like the ark that was flying in the sky, as well as the entire city below it and miles of land around it, with everything being consumed in a great flash along with all those who lived there, ending once and for all the holy war that had lasted for more than 7 thousand years.

For the few who remained who knew about what was happening in that city, all they could do was keep it a secret and hide the events of that day, with the name of the city being erased from history and the crater left behind being the target of theories and news that over time became increasingly crazy or unbelievable.

Ironically, sometimes one or another unbelievable theory came closer to the reality of the events that occurred there, but there was never any way to prove the theories, with more precise information being carried only in the blood of the Bookman family that remained scattered throughout the world.

And so time passed and passed, with the world knowing the peace of the lack of Akumas or the holy war that was taking place, not being entirely peace, because humans would always be humans, but there would always be those who would carry the will for a better world, a world that could continue thanks to the act of heroes from the past who were forgotten.

What may have happened to the souls of these heroes after what happened is not known even by those who knew the truth behind the incident.

But certainly the universe would always find a way to shake things up in its own way when the time came, especially with a certain clown encountering chaos along his path, which he would always continue to walk.

AAANNNNNNNDDDDD IT'S DOOOOONNEEEEEEEEE!

...

Well, I could say a lot of things to explain the disappearance of posts, but in truth there were a lot of things that happened, nothing really bad honestly that I remember, just life happening and I may have started procrastinating to write and finish it, which added to things like work and college eating up time.

To be honest, I think I spent a lot of time procrastinating writing the chapter with it close to the end and having to remember how I wanted to continue with it lol, but I'm very happy to have finished and posted this chapter, I still want to continue this fic and actually start others that I have in mind, not exactly about D. Gray Man, although I love the work a lot, I don't really know how to explain the reason for my love for the work so much, I just love it, I think it was because I got attached to it while I was growing up, I hope it reaches an official end the way the author wants.

I'm also happy whenever someone mentions D. Gray Man in their work, I always think that the work is kind of unknown, even Jujutsu has one or two mentions of the author of D. Gray Man.

But anyway, let me be clear, any other Fic that I'm going to do in the future about D. Gray Man WILL use this prologue that I ended up creating without any initial intention (it was just supposed to be a small prologue lol), but whenever I can use this prologue to serve as the end of D. Gray Man's story I will use it, warning if they need to consider that something happened differently, I should just say "Hey, to better understand the prologue of this story, read the first 4 chapters of 'THE WALKER DEMOM'", it may not be the most intelligent or organized way, but it will be another extra for those who want to know more about the prologue.

Anyway, I'm very happy to have finally posted this chapter. I hope that if someone stumbled upon this story and followed it before it was posted, they were surprised to see that the Fic didn't die and liked the chapter. If someone sees this work after the 4 chapters have been posted, I'm happy that you didn't have to wait and liked it too (just don't notice the time gap between the posting of chapter 3 and 4 lol).

But with nothing else to say, bye bye~.

Remembering that: I don't own Helltaker or D gray man, the game was produced by vanripper and the Manga is written by author Katsura Hoshino.