"VIARESU!" Too late! I am too late! He's dead, he's been killed, he's… he's alive! "VIARESU!"

"Y…Yotogi-sama? My arm… it's gone…"

"I'm coming, Viaresu! Wait for me!" Ick… ick… corpse… get out of my WAY! "Viaresu, are you alright? What happened?" He's going to die and it's all my fault. Somehow it's all my fault…

"I… I don't know. Illuser… cut off my arm… my arm…"

"Someone possessed the body, Viaresu!" Oh, my beautiful Viaresu… I don't know how to stop bleeding like this… it's too much. What am I going to do?

"Yotogi-sama, what are we gonna do?" This is Viaresu, who has never been unsure in his life. "What's gonna happen to me?"

I know what I must do.

"Viaresu. Give me your dagger."

"What are you gonna do?"

"I'm going to give you an arm."

"Yotogi, no!"

"Viaresu, you've got your whole life ahead of you. I have no future. Live chained to this filthy castle for all eternity?" Without you… "No, thank you." Finally, I can be free. I can do something for you, for a change. For the first time in my life, I can smile… I'm smiling. Thank you, Viaresu. Do you see what miracles you work? My life is no longer meaningless.

"Yotogi--"

"Here. It's done." No pain… I feel only relief. And joy. "Take the arm, Viaresu. Please."

"Yotogi! What am I going to do?"

"Listen, Viaresu! Get out of here! Be loyal only to yourself. Shydeman and Nadil are unworthy of your trust. Go out into the world, and make a difference. Be strong. Don't look back." Save yourself. Do what I could not.

"Yotogi, what'll I do without you?"

"Viaresu, as long as you remember me, I'll live on. You deserve better than this filthy place. Use my arm to do great deeds. Go."

"Yotogi, don't stop talking. What kind of great deeds?'

Everything's so dark now. I can't even see the filth. I can only see his face. He's staring at me now. Isn't it odd how our roles are reversed, here at the end? Him staring, and me not caring? Smile for me, Viaresu, please.

"I don't know… Viaresu… be a hero. Vanquish enemies. Find some beautiful princess to save and fall in love with or something. Go down fighting."

"Yotogi… I will never forgive the one who did this to us."

Smile, Viaresu. I want my last sight to be you smiling at me…

"Yotogi-sama! I love you! Yotogi?"