Come on, you can do it.
Let's push on.

Hey... Hang on... This kind of
stuff gets to us old folks...

Come on, old man.

Yeah. You're gonna have to climb
back up when we're done.

He's dead.

Grrrr.

Someone's coming!

A person? Here?

You...!

Duke! Appearing out
of nowhere, as usual.

Thank you for
saving Yuri.

Why are you the one
thanking him?

...What are you doing here?

We heard there was
an Entelexeia here.

We came to ask it
to become a spirit.

A “spirit”?

A being that comes from
reincarnating an Entelexeia
through an apatheia.

We might be able to solve
the aer problem completely
with the spirits' power.

By converting aer into mana.

...I see.
That's why...

Duke...?

Reincarnation... Converting aer...
You are trying to remake the
world itself.

All to solve a problem that humans
themselves brought about.

Such arrogance.

But if we don't fix the aer problem,
the Adephagos will destroy the world.

Belius understood.

She became Undine, and
is lending us her power.

Phaeroh, as well.

He was reborn
as Efreet.

The proper form of
Terca Lumireis...

...is one in which all living
things, including Entelexeia,
live in their natural state.

You understand that as well.

But what about Gusios! He was
trying to control the aer!

But then he took too much and
became really dangerous!

Yeah. I don't want to think what
would have happened if we hadn't
reincarnated him as Gnome.

Aye. Humans and and Entelexeia, and all living
things are pushing their limits now. We'll find
a new way of life where we can all get along.

...Even so, I do
not accept it.

I will protect this world.

You said that before.
So just how do you plan
to protect the world?

...I will not interfere with you.
So do not interfere with me.

Ahead lies one of the oldest
springs in the world.
Pay it due respect.

So you won't answer the main question?

...

...Farewell. I doubt
we shall meet again.

Uh, hey!
...He's gone.

Such a...warm and fun-loving little fellow.

...I wonder what he's
trying to do?

I don't know, but I have
a bad feeling about it.

Maybe I should go ask. There's
no one who can deny the
question of a beautiful girl.

I'm tellin' ya, your beautiful
girl attack won't work against
a man that cold.

Rita, is something wrong?

Well...

I bet with his sword-with Dein
Nomos-we could focus the spirits'
energy on the Adephagos.

Should we chase him down and
ask him to lend it to us?

Yeah, I don't think he's in much
of a giving mood right now.

Me neither...

Well, whatever we do, we have
to get all the spirits first.

Let's focus on that for now.