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The Promised Time

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Further on, I suddenly got a headache that comes with Asch's channel, and I saw Asch--no, I saw the world through Asch's eyes.

Asch's body was covered with injuries from fighting with the Oracle soldiers, and yet he kepts on battling. And just as it looked like he had taken care of them all, he relaxed for an instant, and in that instant an Oracle soldier ran him through with a sword. Even so, Asch pulled together the last of his strength, defeated the solider, and called to me... "the rest is up to you." Then I felt something warn flow into me. It was Asch...

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the same feeling I has when we lowered the Outer Lands, when we neutralized the miasma. So I knew exactly what has happened.
Asch had died...

Natalia was immobilized by the shock. And with the worst timing, we were caught in a fonic trap, and were about to be destroyed by it.

That instant, I felt power flow out of me, and it neutralized the trap.

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The power I used, the power Asch probably game be, is called "second-order hyperresonance." Sync appeared before us and called it that.

Sync attacked us, cursing his own birth. He has joined Master Van to help destroy the score which had led to his being born.

We defeated Sync.

Was he really empty, like he said? Or did he simply think he wanted to be empty? We can't ask him anymore, but I wish we

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I could have heard his answer.

Jade scolded Natalia for succumbing to shock at Asch's death, and she finally realized just how dangerous her actions had been. And she said to me that Asch was inside me. Even though she could have said that I should have died instead, and I wouldn't have been able to respond... I'm sorry, Natalia.

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We felt Master Van waiting ahead of us, an incredible strong presence. Once we go past this point, we probably won't be able to return until we've defeated Master Van.

And once we go beyond here and finish everything, I'll probably disappear. In order to defeat Master Van, in order to free Lorelei, I'll almost certainly have to use hyperresonance and the Seventh Fonon. By using that power, the fonons within me that have just barely been staying together will separate and vanish.

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Thank you all for everything.
Please lend me your power for this final battle.