"Hey Link, mind if I borrow that for a second?"

Paya seemed in unusually confident spirits about something. She was walking up a small hill just outside Kakariko Village along with Impa and Link. Her spherical Sheikah heirloom trailed in a small cart behind her. Her eyes were set on the Sheikah Slate in Link's hands.

"Uh, sure?" he answered absentmindedly, closing his map screen.

Paya snatched the Slate in a hurry and cast its Stasis ability on the Sheikah Sphere. She pulled a carpenter's mallet out of her cart and wound up her arms.

Link stepped a safe distance back and stood beside Impa. They both watched with uncertainty.

Paya darted back and forth between two corners of the cart, making high pitched grunts as she struck the ancient Sphere again and again with all of her might. She checked the Sheikah Slate's readouts between each swing to make sure all the arrows from her impacts were lining up in one particular direction.

"What is she doing?" Link asked Impa with a raised brow.

"Goddess Hylia only knows," the tired Sheikah elder shook her head and shrugged. She couldn't be bothered to guess whatever silly idea her granddaughter had gotten in her head this time.

The timer on the Stasis rune finally ran out. The ancient Sheikah Sphere blasted up into the air like a cannonball fired from a tiny wooden ship. Link and Impa slowly moved their heads like cats staring at a flying yarn ball as they followed its path hundreds of miles through the sky.

It was heading for the castle.

In the faraway distance, the Sheikah Sphere collided with the swirling boar-shaped clouds that formed Calamity Ganon's head. The orb exploded instantly into a spire of intense blue energy threads that washed over the Malice corrupting the castle. The entire city rumbled with a painful pig's squeal.

"What in Hyrule…?" Impa gasped. The distant blue explosion reflected off her frail old eyes.

The light faded. Central Hyrule had been completely cured of its curse and now slept only as peaceful ruins. No trace of the Calamity had survived.

"How did you…?" Impa blurted as she stared blankly toward the castle. "Without the Divine Beasts…? Without a Master Sword…? Without Zelda's…? But the prophecies... Gah. Blast it all."

She shook her head with a century of frustration.

Paya turned toward the Hylian Champion, returning to her usual anxious self. She blushed as she timidly spoke.

"H-how do you like my housecleaning, Master Link?"

Link was shocked, confused, and a little bit horrified by the things he had seen. But he was mostly relieved. He smiled at Paya and offered her a job well done.

At least now he could spend more time with Mipha's spirit.