It is dawn as the residents of Orario are busy cleaning up the mess caused by Yharnam's monsters, most notably those that left their corpses behind. At the Twilight Manor, the Loki Familia are no less busy.
Tiona stands there sighing lost in thought as tears trickle down her cheeks . . .
"Everything Loki told you was the truth because I was there too," Riveria verified after Loki explained what happened.
"Sorry, kiddo," Loki said. "But he's not coming back."
Tiona broke down and cried as she fell onto her hands and knees, crying out Jonah's name repeatedly.
"Are you still moping over Mister Theron?" Tione scolded from nearby.
"I-I wish he had at least come back here to say goodbye to me!" Tiona sobbed.
"Then you would've ended up grabbing him and bawling all over him, begging him not to leave," Tione sneered.
Tiona looks away sadly.
"Aww, still heart-broken over Mister Theron leaving you, Tiona?" Loki cooed upon walking up to them with Riveria and Lefiya in tow.
"H-He was my first love," Tiona sobbed.
"Riveria's too," Loki chimed teasingly.
"Loki," Riveria growled.
"But that was such an amazing set up!" Loki exclaimed. "In a story, it might seem like a cheap plot, but when done in real life, it was incredible!" Then starts mimicking. "Mister Theron managing to get in the right place at the right time! Then grabbing you when you were just a split second away from hitting the ground as he threw himself forward to do a somersault, cancelling out your momentum! It was so heroic!" Then with a sigh. "And then there was that movement when he cradled you in his big strong arms as if you were his newly wedded bride and you both lovingly gazed into each other eyes!"
"Of which I ended," Lefiya said icily.
"But that must've awakened some longing in you for him, eh mama?" Loki teased. "Perhaps it's a good thing he left or else he could've ended up with two females vying for his affections."
Riveria growls as her scowl begins to deepen.
"Jonah and Riveria sittin' in the tree," Loki begins singing, "K-I-S-S-Ow!"
Upon getting struck by Riveria.
"Well I for one am glad that he's gone!" Tione said firmly.
"Me too!" Lefiya stated intently.
"And I'm even more glad that bastard's gone!" Bete snarled from nearby.
"Aw, but he was kind enough to leave you that message," Loki teased.
"AS IF I GIVE A FUCK!" Bete bellowed.
Tiona starts giggling and smiles broadly.
"Why are you so happy all of a sudden, you goof?" Tione sneered.
"Hey! Hey! I just thought of something!" Tiona said cheerfully. "I kissed and cuddled Jonah and he didn't refuse me, and I even got him hard down there! But the Captain keeps refusing to do that with you, and you probably can't get him hard!"
"Watch it!" Tione snarled.
"And I didn't need BOOBS TO DO THAT!" As Tiona immediately lunges for Tione, grabbing her by the head, and shoving her face into her relatively flat chest.
Tiona shoves Tione away, causing her to fall to the ground, then runs away laughing, singing.
"Lumpy chest, lumpy chest, don't get you Captain! Lumpy chest, lumpy chest, don't get you Captain!"
"YOU'LL HAVE A LUMPY HEAD WHEN I CATCH YOU!" Tione screeched as she gets up and gives chase.
"Looks like Tiona's recovered," Lefiya noted with a touch of annoyance.
"And so will Orario," Riveria noted.
"You bet," Loki said. "What with all of the leveling up that will be going on. You having become a Level Seven, Lefiya a Level Four. Aisy-poo a Level Six. And it's a good thing you and the mages were able to break those being's hold atop of Babel."
"I suppose," Riveria mused.
"What do you mean by that, Lady Riveria?" Lefiya asked.
"What I meant was that the extra magic being added to our pool was not just from Hedin," Riveria clarified.
"Are you sure?" Lefiya asked. "Maybe it was just you or one of us finding that extra strength from within."
"No, or else I would've known who it came from," Riveria said. "Someone outside of our group added to our pool of magic and I don't know who it came from."
"Well whoever they were," Loki sighed with hands up, "let's just accept the fact that they were on our side and want to remain anonymous."
Down in Ouranos' throne room.
"We were fortunate that invasion from Yharnam was successfully repelled," Ouranos said.
"Indeed," Fels answered. "And it was all thanks to the mages helping Lady Riveria crushing those invaders on the top of Babel."
"An effort you contributed to."
"Oh. I guess you figured that out."
Fels watched from atop a nearby building as Riveria led the mages attempt to bring down those intruders who kept those gates into that nightmarish world opened to allow those nightmarish monsters to invade Orario, and by extension the rest of their own world. All he needed was an opportunity to contribute to their magic pool as they were attempting to use Vas Windheim at the top of Babel. Hedin was busy with more monsters but Fels could not play his hand just yet.
Hedin eventually dealt with the monsters and returned his attention to the group. It was the right time and Fels chanted as he focused atop of Babel, adding his own magic to it and causing the magic to grow stronger. Strong enough to topple those invaders and turn the tide of the battle.
"Who else could have subtly snuck their power into that pool of magic to help the mages," Ouranos said.
"What could I do?" Fels asked rhetorically. "I could not just openly come out and offer them aid or else that would've put me, and by extension you, in jeopardy because I doubt the world is willing to forgive Fels the Fool. I also had a run-in with some of those enemies that looked like me, so I did not want to get mistaken for them."
As he remembers having been confronted by three Shadows of Yharnam upon reaching the ground. But with a word, he blasted all three to ashes, then safely made his getaway.
"That invasion was a silver lining in a black cloud," Ouranos said. "For it had no doubt created a lot of Excelia for the adventurers to level up with."
"That is certainly true, Lord Ouranos. The One-Eyed Black Dragon will return and the adventurers must become powerful enough to destroy it."
Somewhere under Orario is Knossos. Somewhere within Knossos is a room. Within that room are Enyo and Ein holding council with each other. Enyo is dressed in a black billowing robe decked out in a multitude of colorful human face masks and wears a colorful human face mask on their own face and a hat. Ein wears a black cloak over a black robe with an intricate black and red patterned girdle and wears a dome-like mask covered in intricate black and red lines.
"The reason the Violas failed to sprout on Monsterphilia was because they were frightened into remaining dormant by those otherworldly monsters," Ein said in a voice that sounded like a legion of people talking.
"Indeed, those monsters were on another level from our world's monsters," Enyo said in a cold metallic bass voice.
"Our plans might be ruined," Ein said.
"On the contrary," Enyo said. "I was able to procure these." Holding up Fluorescent Flower stems. "These are the drop items from some of those invaders. The power I sense in them is alien but of immense proportions. And I have six."
"Ah, now I understand," Ein said in a eureka tone. "You will feed them to the Demi-Spirits to boost their power."
"You guessed correctly," Enyo said.
"That broken world might've actually been helpful to us after all," Ein said.
"And it's a pity that broken world never got to break our own," Enyo said in rising frustration. "Such an exquisite tragedy to have befallen that world. Its people must be wallowing in terror and despair, and indulging in the perfect orgia!"
Then sighs.
"But no matter," Enyo continues more calmly. "I shall bring that perfection to this world; for soon the Demi-Spirits shall sing, and they shall a sing a song infused with a part of that world's harmony to bring the perfect orgia to our world."
At the decrepit church, Hestia is sitting on Bell's back updating his status.
"There," she said. "You're updated."
She next places a parchment on his back and circles it to make an impression upon it then removes it. She gets off his back and Bell sits up to read it.
"I'm a Level Three now?!" Bell gasped.
"I know!" Hestia marveled. "Your battle with that freak on the rampart alongside Jonah really helped to boost you!"
"But that doesn't make any sense. I should only be able to level up like that by fighting that being alone."
"Maybe it has to do with the otherworldliness of your enemy and its overwhelming power?"
"It must, because not even the Lady Riveria could stand up to it. And it would've killed me if Jonah had not shown up when he did." Then puts his shirt on. "I'll be going down to the Guild."
"Okay."
Bell leaves and heads for the Guild. Outside, they are still getting rid of the corpses of the monsters they slew, at least those that did not disappear that is as their bodies are being lugged out of the city to be burned outside the walls as the smoke from the fires can be seen rising.
He arrives at the Guild where much activity is going on, with more adventurers than on a usual day since so many of them leveled up that they were letting their advisors know.
With a sigh, Bell waits. He has not long to wait when Eina waves him over and he goes with her to sit on a couch.
"Bell, did you get leveled up too?" Eina asked.
"Yes, I'm a Level Three now!"
"Level Three! That's amazing! So many adventurers had leveled up from that battle with Yharnam's monsters."
"Yeah, they did."
"Is something wrong, Bell?"
"It's about Jonah."
And he tells Eina the circumstances of Jonah's leaving.
"Yeah, I figured that it would be for the better," she sighed. "But it's strange that that lamp appeared there just for him."
"Apparently there was something that wanted him back," Bell said.
"But you and Hestia were lucky. You both got to say goodbye to him. I just wished that he had stopped by to say goodbye to me." Her tone glum.
"I suppose it couldn't be helped, Eina. He was eager to return. But I don't understand how he could be so eager to return to that nightmare world?"
"I think it's because he had gotten used to killing monsters." As she makes a pitiful expression. "After all, he did have a hard time adjusting to our world and got into trouble for it." Then gazes downward. "It's sad really."
"It is." As Bell also looks down sadly. "I just hope that he can find peace."
Back in the Hunter's Dream, Jonah was victorious over Gehrman for the moon suddenly turned red and he looks up to see the Moon Presence descending.
With neither word nor thought nor expression, the Moon-scented Hunter starts walking up to it.
Jonah stops just as the Moon Presence lands before him. It reaches out and takes hold of the Good Hunter, raising him to its face.
Then kisses him.