"Please! Anything but the Gnosis! I'll never... I'll never go back!"

The Harbinger cried out, his voice choked with anguish and desperation as he lunged forward, in a seemingly fleeting final attempt to grab the Gnosis back from Nahida. The tendon's attached in his back, connecting him to the Shouki no Kami slowly tearing the further forth he fell, before... they snapped.

He was sent plummeting to the ground, his eyes half-lidded. All he'd done, all he'd been through and all the pain he'd endured was for this moment, and he failed...