Despite the fact that Rui had just killed the final Divine Mother, his expression was ugly. Even as he faded away, paying the price of the Transcendent Realm, his eyes were filled with reckoning.
He understood, better than most, the gravity of what had just happened. He had succeeded in the objective of killing all of the Divine Mothers before they escaped. But he had ultimately failed in stopping the underlying goal of preventing the arakai from learning the secret of Transcendent impunity.
He hadn't been able to stop the final pulse of information that the Divine Mother had released just before she died. His Verse had already shut down by then. He hadn't been able to interpret her message, but he didn't need to. He already knew exactly what information she had sent to the other side.
