When Seiya opened his eyes, he was no longer at the steps of House of Aries though still at the Sanctuary.

"Seiya? Are you all right?"

It was Shiryu; Seiya climbed back on his feet and found Shiryu, Shun, and Hyoga before him.

"You are here too?" He asked.

"We sensed there's trouble in Sanctuary," Hyoga replied.

"Roshi told me to come here," Shiryu added. "He said he will join us too."

"Tatsumi tried to stop me," Shun told them. "He said if Saori-san wanted us away, then she has her reason."

Now Seiya remembered how Saori clung on him before he left to find his sister and that she gave him a large sum of money. Your happiness is mine, she said. Now it was obvious an act of farewell.

But why? If there's a new enemy, why didn't she tell him?

"I must see her," Seiya said. "There's a new enemy and I saw Mu battling them. She can't toss me away like this, not after what we have been through together-"

"But she has the Gold Saints on her side now," Ikki interrupted him. Like always, he reappeared from nowhere after a long absence. "This is no longer your war. Why waste your time?"

"What are you doing there?" Seiya asked, offended by his words.

"I'm only here to observe," Ikki replied. "Not here to fight. If Saori-san doesn't need you, then she has made her decision. She needs warriors, not boyfriends."

Seiya was about to attack him before Hyoga pulled him back.

"If we have a new enemy Seiya, then we need to go to Saori-san," Hyoga said. "No matter what she says, we make our own choices!"

"Yes, we must return to her side," Shun added, and saw Seiya already on his way to House of Aries. "Seiya! Wait!"

Seiya was walking in a very fast pace; and his face was solemn. Since knowing him at age six, Shun never saw him as thus. Clearly, he was mad.

"Seiya!" Shiryu, Hyoga, and Shun ran up to him. "You need to calm down."

"I am calm," Seiya said matter-of-factly. "We will head back and defeat the enemy. Then I will talk to Saori-san."

"And?"

"And I will show her," Seiya said. "No matter how she tries, she will never get rid of me."

Watching him, Shiryu recalled what his master Libra Dohko had told him before he left Five Peaks Mountain.

"Go to Sanctuary Shiryu," Roshi said. "Your friend needs you. Don't forget to come back. Shunrei is waiting for you."

Roshi said "his friend" needs him, not Saori.

He didn't know what she wrote to Roshi, but based on what Roshi had said and how Saori had sent them away, he guessed it.

A chill came to his heart.

He hoped that he is wrong.

In Pope's chamber, Saori brushed her hair. Her hands shook slightly. She tried to be as calm as possible. She looked at herself in the mirror and found herself very beautiful. She wondered if she was as beautiful the last time she saw Seiya.

"Shura! Capricorn Shura!" She called out.

"Athena," Shura came to her.

"Shura, do you know where Saga had kept his gold dagger?" She asked Shura.

"Yes, I do."

"Bring it to me," she said.

Shura looked at her and remained at his spot.

"What are you waiting for?" Saori asked.

With reluctance, he went and soon returned with a small coffer. Saori opened it and saw the gold dagger inside.

"Athena, must you do this?" Shura asked, hoping she'd change her mind.

"He's coming," Saori said, taking the dagger. Closing her eyes, she communicated with the Gold Saints through her cosmo.

Do not fight him. Make way.

Step by step, Shion - resurrected by Hades - made his way to Pope's chamber. Under Saori's order, the Gold Saints solemnly stepped aside. Their faces were dark.

"Athena," Shion greeted her. His face was young with two red spots between his browls, like Mu. "All grown up. You are your mother's daughter."

"Are you here to kill me?"

"Yes," Shion replied. "And bring you to Hades."

"Very well," Saori nodded. "If it will bring peace. Shura, guard the door. Don't let anyone in."

Indeed, Aiolia, Milo, and Aldebaran were already at the door. If it weren't for Shura, they would've bust in and stop her. Shaka and Camus remained in House of Virgo and Aquarius. Both tried to keep calm but tears fell from their eyes. Mu meanwhile stood by the House of Aries, using his Crystal Wall to bar any intruder's entrance. Through the Crystal Wall, he saw Seiya running towards House of Aries.

He closed his eyes.

She placed the gold dagger into Shion's hand. Unsurprisingly, his hands were cold as ice.

"If this were done, Zeus will spare Sanctuary," she said. "Unlike the war against Sea God Poseidon, there will be no more bloodshed."

Shion was silent but he didn't act either. Saori was still holding his hand.

In her mind, she reminisced her past. Her life as Saori Kido. Her grandfather who adored her. Tatsumi who took care of her. Julian who only cared for the ocean. The orphaned boys her grandfather took in. All of them ignored her except for one.

He refused to be her horse.

He was sent to Greece, and she had been waiting for him unbeknownst to herself.

Perhaps in the past sixteen years the only person who truly loved her was him.

Saori-san!

That he had called her since his return from Greece. If she had a choice, she'd rather be an ordinary teenager named Saori Kido who spend her days bickering with that boy who refused to be her horse.

Wait!

He's here.

Seiya.

Her body moved as if she wanted to run out of Pope's Chamber.

She would've had Shion not stabbed the gold dagger into her abdomen.

Coldness...

Wet...

Pain...

Her blood stained her white dress and dripped down to her bare feet.

Only now did Saori realize the nightmare she'd been having was the premonition of what's happening now. It was never a gold arrow, but a gold dagger. Silver Saint Ptolemy's cursed arrow wasn't even gold. She had falsely thought she evaded her fate.

Heavily she fell onto the the cold marble floor.

"Mu! Let us pass!" Seiya shouted, launching his attack. His meteor punch only bounced back at himself.

Seiya...

He saw Saori standing before him, in a beautiful satin white dress.

"Seiya, are you hurt?" She placed her hand against his heart.

He pulled her into his arms and held her tightly. "I'm a Saint, Saori-san. This is nothing."

"Seiya, I love you and only you," she whispered against his lips. "Your happiness is my happiness."

A loud sound of shattered glass brought him back to reality, and Saori was no longer there. Seiya found the Gold Saints gathered together before House of Aries. By their facial expression, Seiya knew what happened.

No...

He felt as if a dagger was stabbed into his heart. Without a sound, he collapsed on the steps.