Her Death Continued – Aqua Blue (Joshua's Arc)
- As the name implies, this piece deals with the struggles prince Joshua and his troops in the desert. When he deserted Roberto, he made the wrong turn and ended up nowhere.
- He had no idea where he was going, and there was no signal of course, so they wandered days without food, and sooner or later most of his men had died out of thirst if not hunger.
- Watching all before him die, he starts to implore why all this chaos had commenced. He knew it was because of her, but he refused to believe that such an insignificant woman had literally descended hell on earth.
- He held his hand into the sun and watched its rays filter through his transparent skin. There was a brief moment of silence,
- Water, that was why he existed. He walks, he crawls, he starts to hallucinate about water, and eventually he sees an oasis amidst everything. He had been so happy, and he nearly used all his strength to scoop up a handful of water to his lips…
- It was dry and muffled against him, the water tasted like sand. He couldn't believe it. He did again, but instead choked on the supposedly crystalline liquid. Coughing, he buried his head in the desert sand, his last breath hovering ethereally about his lips…
- Scene switch, Joshua's staring at the wall in Dres Van castle, and Jan and his psychiatrist are talking about further treatments. (he's become a schizophrenic)
- Joshua's faced with the possibility of never recovering, and Jan through his tears phones Prince Leonardo to commence the plan they had once formulated to overthrow the Lieben family. He cries, the first time he had for the past two decades, and Prince Leonardo reluctantly agrees to meet him.
- The two discuss briefly at Dres Van castle, Leonardo sees Joshua's blank eyes, and couldn't help but sigh heavily. He walks over and takes Joshua's hands, and for a moment he just stares, like that's his sole route towards salvation. Moments later he slaps Joshua across the face, tears streaming from his eyes as he laments how Joshua changed him as a person, and yet he had reversed back to a worthless infant. Jan tries to hold Leonardo back, but he shrugs him off and screams uncontrollably, insulting Joshua's weakness. He had exhausted his voice before he finally succumbed to his knees, and taking one last look at Joshua, he whispers breathlessly to Jan that he'll agree to take over Dres Van, and if there's any way to preserve the Lieben bloodline.
- Jan slowly shakes his head. Exasperated, Leonardo leaves, and Jan breaks down once more. After his tears dry, he asks Joshua, "I hope that wherever you are, you're happy." To his surprise, Joshua finally looks at him and smiles, the serenity of his smile utterly stunning
- Jan holds the emotionless Joshua in his arms before whispering, "Forgive me, Your Highness. Life needs to go on."