I lost all track of time around the second year in the Great Seal. To me time has no real meaning anymore. It is an device that people with limited time used to measure their lives to make it meaninful. The reason why is humanity has to put an measurement to everything. Time, weight, volume, speed, the list goes on. It could have been days, months, or even years after I lost track of time. My mind drifts to an story that I read in my spare time. It was about an immortal kidnapped then put in an forgotten prison, he soon lost track of time and what seemed like days to him were actually decades.

I can not sleep, can not rest my mind. Forced into a state of continuous state of awareness that comes with exhaustion. One monument, the past monument and the next moment seem to blur together to form an delirious like state. Its like when you have an high fever and start seeing things, unavailable to tell fantasy from reality. Instead the crisp clear lucidity of an clear mind mine is stuck in watery soup of beings that exist in my mind, the sight that I is stuck looking at fixed by his stone prison and the ever numb feeling of loss form the fact I'll never see my friends and lovers again.

I am stuck in this state as my soul can not rest like my body could. I am in a type of hell one can be put through if they're locked in a dark room, chained and only source of entrainment is their mind. This hell is only something only the most insane live in, their life so warped and confused they can not live a normal live ever again. I begin to wonder what it is to be insane...I wonders if this is what insanity is. My mind wonders what would happen if an Persona user is insane, maybe they will lose the ability to contain them unleashing them during mental breakdowns trashing around destroying and killing those around them. My mind immediately goes to the euphoric feeling of summoning Helel and Satan side by side. The sight of every last thing not under my protection immediately dying painful in my opinion. I try to remember an time where an Shadow screamed as I killed it, there were plenty that screamed. The memories of those screams bring immense pleasure back to me and the pleasure of watching them disperse only for me to find them and kill them again and again.

The only sort of mental task I can do trapped in the Seal is try to count the amount of new stars that form and the old ones that die. Its an dull, repetitive task that soon grows boring but as my only source of entrainment I continue to do so reaching numbers so large I began to use my Personas to keep track of them.

During one of Elizabeth few visits she explained where Nyx actually laid, the plane of humanity consciousness. The Great Seal is in the place every humans mind or soul lays, each star is a human mind and soul. I love to watch as slowly space is filled with growing amount of stars, no matter if one dies another is born to replace them...Maybe for better or for worse. My mind wonders to giving each star a name and a story. Using those little bits of light as company and pets.

Sometimes the stars focus there malice into one spot, this spot is usually right in front of me so everytime i am given an display of how much hate is in the world, enough to form an towering beast set with one thing on its mind...To interact with Nyx and cause the Fall. It was all started with that one cult.

It was amazing to see how many people people joined the cult of Nyx, so fixated on the idea of death and "Freedom" from the world that hurt them, stole from them, taken from them in brutal ways. Those people with their wishes and prays made the Fall come so much earlier than what it would have been. That damn cult made Erebus rise so much quicker and gain so much power. Only if he came later, letting me make more bonds, train more in the tower and honestly to spend with my friends a little while longer. But no Erebus came when he did and i'm glad i just broke even. My only option was to protect Nyx form Erebus using my own soul as a barrier.

Over time I just watched there planet keep spinning i started thinking about my Persona's and what they meant and/or said about me. I just think about Messiah and me adopting that term to describe myself.

As their Messiah my body died for them to live longer and hopefully learn to stop bickering and realize that they're the same people, all borders are imaginary, all they're hating the one thing that can make them so great. The fact that there so vastly different from one and another. Having Messiah and him telling me things in a hushed whisper has helped clear my mind of thinking things of someone just because they're different. And as Thanatos says "They all burn the same" in that panty voice I have long gotten use to.

I mentally sigh looking down at the little blue marble that i gave my life to protect, for the people on it and so much more. My friends, the one i made in that year. So many different stories, so many trails they all had to face. I just try to think back to the time i spent with them. Some laughing at the arcade and others wrapped in a lovers embrace. I never spent a night alone if its sleeping with one the many girls i dated or if Aigis (creepily) watching me sleep to try to protect me from some danger only known to her.

It was a happy year for me, but i somehow knew it wouldn't last but now if i look back on it now it is blatantly obvious that fate has written this fate if it was when i first meet Pharos. There were so many signs that i could of seen but the one that seems to be the one wrapped in neon lights is when I got Messiah as an Persona. It is as if fate was preparing me for the choice to sacrifice myself while gaining the power of the Universe Aranca. The more thought about it the more i see that was my only choice to save the world but more importantly my friends.

But I must keep to my contract, accepting my results of my actions, not to run away from my problems.

So I wait here… In this prison of two… Waiting for time's end so that I may finally be granted eternity's rest.

I see mist cover the Earth whole…As the mist progresses, the stars turn black and start devouring and consuming themselves…That means the Shadows are finally killing people by the masses. Nowhere on Earth is safe now.

Humanity is dying. Continuously destroyed by its own demons and sins, finally succumbing to its own evils.

I look in front of him, where I see a black door appear out of nothing and walks out to some would-be-goddess. I know her as Elizabeth. The avatar of power that asked me for random requests, ranging from killing Death to "inviting" her to my room. When most see a drop dead gorgeous women i see a child with the power to kill armies.

"I'm sorry Minato. The new Fool was not powerful enough to stop the Shadows, the mist you see is the range of the Shadows and will blanket the world and the Shadows will consume everyone. But if that happens you can leave the Great Seal. I can find you a new world to live on! You can live on a world that is peaceful, or live in a world that needs you! You can finally choose your own faith again. You will keep your Personas, the items you had on you on top of Tartarus and the Velvet Key to open a door to the Velvet room anywhere you want. So what do you say?" He can see the hope in her eyes, her one quest...Her personal quest she set for herself is almost at an end. He can see how happy she is, how close to tears she is. Maybe because she'll get to talk to him again or maybe to see her siblings and Igor again.

I try to nod and she immediately understands smiling widely, "You will wake up in the Velvet Room looking the same as when you died." She starts to chant and everything goes black