Everything is drowning in darkness. The air is thick, as if the very life has been sucked out of it. I walk through this dead cloud. The Oni world… my world… and yet I don't feel at home here. I see him. Lloyd. My son.

He can barely stand, his energy fading with every second. A fool. He always throws himself into the abyss, believing he'll save someone. But now he's the one who needs saving.

An Oni, one of the demons, emerges from the shadows. I feel its anger, its hunger—it's more than a monster. It's pure hatred. And it moves. At him. At my child, whom I recently disowned. But was it right?

I don't think.

I lunge forward, like instinct, like a shadow between light and dark. I strike. With all my might. I defeat the demon almost instantly.

Lloyd falls. He stares at me in disbelief.

Why? Why do I—the one meant to destroy—now protect? I don't know. Maybe it's a remnant of me, of the man I used to be. Maybe it's something more. Maybe... it's him. My son.

Lloyd is silent. I see the question in his eyes he doesn't say. I see... pain. Hope. Fear. And faith. Not yet. Not now. You won't die. Not you. Not while I'm still here.