This chapter is going to be a lot more serious than probably any other chapter, outside of the one that follows (depending on how long this takes).

"To walk this world alone, without him, is a curse I never expected to have placed upon me for my sins... Lucifer, be honest with me. Do you really believe that was him inhabiting this body?" Loremaster asked quietly, Subject 66 laying in front of them. The half-demon just collapsed into the aforementioned maid's arms. Lucifer stared down herself, a hand on her chest.

"I have no doubts. That was him. Still had me wrapped around his finger," Lucifer replied, a melancholy smile smile forming on her lips. Just knowing who was at fault for the mess they were in stoked her rage, though she was kept in check by the hope he would make a bombastic return. Set everything back to the way it was. She missed the times they were together.

"He was such a terrible cook..." Lucifer chuckled to herself, having lost herself in the memories. Loremaster did something that almost scared the former CEO of Hell. She began breaking down.

"I just miss him so much! He- he held us together! But we failed him! I SWORE! I swore on my divinity! On my place at God's side! I promised I'd get him back! And all I did was tear us apart!" she sobbed, dropping to the floor. Lucifer was quick to crouch next to her, hugging the demon overlord like a mother comforting her child.

"No... no this isn't on you. That horrendous Fly is to blame," Lucifer hissed, her anger seeping out for a moment. Not too long after they finished speaking and silence fell over them, a pair of arms wrapped around them both. Instead of the strangulation Subject 66 seemed to constantly threaten Loremaster with, he was instead comforting them both. Loremaster jerked up, looking at the big brute, and stared. Her design of the demon and human hybrids was no coincidence. Modeled after the one she had come to love more than God. The most crucial sin she'd ever committed. The first sin she wanted to perform.

"I think I know how to get your Y/N back." That voice. The hug. Everything was starting to make sense.

"I-I'm sorry! I never should have yelled at you! I shouldn't have left you!" she cried, throwing her arms around Subject Y/N. She could see it now. Well, between the tears at least. It really was a younger Y/N's soul.

"It's alright Lorie," he said, gently petting her. She shook her head violently.

"It's me! I'm Halo! Remember?! Remember the nickname you gave me?!" she cried, Subject Y/N recoiling slightly in surprise.

"No wonder I didn't recognize you. You fell." She just continued to weep, clearly focused on one thing and one thing only.

"Get Judgement here. I need her for this to work. Even if this body doesn't make it back, I'm getting this timeline's me back." The both of them were shocked, having only believed he was going to tell them how to do it. They both nodded and went about trying to contact Judgement. It wasn't easy given she was mistrusting of them both for good reason, but eventually, she showed up.

"WHAT IS IT YOU NEED ME FOR?" she yelled in the old, bombastic tone she had as the High Prosecutor.

"Well, that's one thing I didn't miss about you. We're getting Y/N back." Judgement froze.

"How?" she finally asked. Subject Y/N held out his hand.

"Give me one end of the chain. They can extend as far as you want right?" he asked, Judgement handing him one end. She took immediate note as it began burning his hand and yet he didn't even so much as flinch.

"Y-Yeah. You're seriously going to get him back?" Judgement asked oddly timidly.

"Of course! I mean, I'm just me from the past in a half-demon body!" he said, wrapping the chain around his waist as he stepped away from the group.

"I want you to wrap that around a support pillar if you can. While I don't think these chains will snap, I can't risk fucking this up and getting trapped in there without getting him back. This just has to work." Once he was sufficiently far away, he jammed his hands into the air. Lucifer and Judgement were both confused as to what was happening before they realized, Judgement finally seeing the full scope of what was happening, that he was just going to brute force his way into the Abyss.

The air screamed and hissed, steam and smoke coming off of Subject Y/N's hands. It was like the universe was trying to push him back and prevent such a feat. Yet as seemingly a response, his fingertips vanished and a dark, foreboding purple energy surrounded them as his hands sank further and further in. He rotated his hands and pulled them apart diagonally and opened a portal into the banishment plane. The half-human roared with effort and forced it open enough to step in.

"Good luck, Y/N." Loremaster had tears in her eyes, but for the first time in a long time, those same eyes had a light to them neither Judgement nor Lucifer had seen in them since he disappeared those... decades? Millenia? It had gotten hard to tell how long he was gone for them.

And so, Subject Y/N stepped into the portal. To fulfill the promise he made.