Idia is shocked to hear what Ortho says, "What..?"

"I've been thinking a lot about what I can do to make sure zero doesn't stay zero," Ortho says. "And about what it means to 'do what you can.'"

"What are you talking about? This isn't the time!" Idia questions, shocked.

Ortho continues, " And then I reached the optimal solution. If fixing our story -our future- isn't possible, then we can just erase and rewrite it from scratch! That's how programming works, right? Why do a tedious, manual debug of code that's been through multiple engineers, all of whom have introduced their own bugs? It's much faster to rewrite the code entirely. Which means we can just reset this buggy world and let you be reborn!"

Idia is beyond shocked to hear what Ortho is saying.

"Ortho, what's gotten into you?!" Idia asks, shocked.

He then sternly says, "Tch... So I was right. There's a bug in your Al logic unit. I should've done maintenance on you then and there!"

But Ortho says, "It's not a bug, Idia. I'm expressing my will."

"No, you're not," Idia denies it, "You're... You're a technomantic humanoid with an on-board autonomous Al modeled after my little brother. What you think is your 'will' is just a program!

"You're right, I'm an artificial being. But didn t you know? The person who built me is a technomantic engineering savant known as the 'maverick genius.' You!" Ortho says. So I can go beyond the confines of my robotic existence. I can exceed the limits of my programming!

Just then, the alarm goes off.

Then the technician says, "Our main server is under some kind of cyberattack! I was able to trace it. It's coming from... Ortho's Al program?!"

"The attack's spreading fast! Aegis wall is down!" the second technician says. "Control of all Styx systems is being transferred to Ortho's Al!"

Idia turns to the technicians, "You're kidding me! Ortho doesn't have that kind of authorization! I'll stop him!"

Idia tries to yype on the computer, but is denied.

Idia is shocked, "What?!"

The female technician says, "Ortho rejected the emergency shutdown code. We're still under attack!"

The second technician says, "Lachesis, Clotho, and Atropos servers have all been compromised!"

Another technician says, "All system access codes are being overridden!"

Idia is getting frustrated, "Argh... He's overriding the programs faster than can type! This calls for drastic measures. I want a hard shutdown of EVERYTHING, including emergency power!"

But the other Technician says, "...It's not working! I can't get the power to shut off!

"Are you serious? If we don't stop him," Idia says, shocked. "He's gonna take over the entire island!"

Soon, everything begins to shut down.

Ortho giggles, "Heh heh heh! Surprised? Looks like I win this little RTS game."

"Ortho, please, just stop. You can't recreate the world; it's impossible!" Idia says.

But Ortho says, "That's where you're wrong. It's like Vil Schoenheit said... If there's any possibility at all, even a 0.001% chance, then it can happen! In the new world, Phantoms will coexist with other living creatures. I'm going to open up the Underworld and Tartarus, and the world will become filled with blot. And since our curse lets us incinerate blot, we'll be on top in the new world! Then we can have friends over whenever we want, just like regular people. We can play video games and watch movies together... And when they go home, we won't have to erase their memories. We'll be able to say, "Let's do this again sometime!" Whatever you desire will be yours, Idia. Premo concerts, video games, the rest of your favorite manga, you name it. You'll rule the entire universe, Idy! You'll be a superhero!"

India becomes beyond shocked to hear the nickname, "Did you just say 'Idy'?!" But soon goes into denial, "I don't believe it... That's impossible! I know what happened to Ortho that day..."

But then, he comes to realize something, "Wait a minute. Only people with Shroud family DNA can shut down the Cerberus System... But you can't be him..." And turns to Ortho, "Or can you? Is it. is it really you, Ortho?"

"Yes. It's me, Idy. I made the guard dog take a nap," 'Ortho' answers.

Idia becomes shocked to hear it, but moreover, he is shocked to realize who Ortho is at this point, He then runs out of the room in a frantic state.

The technician calls out, "Acting Director?! Where are you going?! Acting Director! MR. SHROUD!"

Idia ignores them and continues to run down the halls, and reaches to the lower area of the island. Suddenly, the chariot shows up.

Then the voice 'Ortho' says, "Hop on, Idy."

Idia breathes heavily and climbs on the chariot. The chariot soon takes Idia down to Tartarus Underworld Gate. When he arrives, the gate begins to open and a lot of noises appear from it.

Idia notices, "The Underworld gate is open..."

And then calls out, "Ortho, are you there?"

Then 'Ortho' says, "Yep, I'm right here. I've dreamed of the day I'd see you again. We can leave for real this time and go far away. But I'm sorry... It's gonna take me a while to get out. I'm much bigger than I used to be."

All Idia says is, "...Just leave it to your big bro."

Soon, the phantoms in there begin to get restless.

And suddenly, blot splatters appear around Idia, and his magepen in his device turns black. In a shocking revolation, Idia is slowly begins to overblot.

Meanwhile, in one of the private rooms, Grim wakes up to hear the alarm and the power going out.

Grim asks in a panic, "What's goin' on?! It got dark all of a sudden."

He then begins to call out, "Hey, is anybody there?! Idiaaa! Orthooo!"

But just then, a strange smell catches his attention, "Ooh... That smell..." and soon begins to growl and change, "Rrr... Rr..." He then snickers, "Kee hee hee, that's a real nice smell... I'd know it anywhere..."

And then goes savage, "It's a stone! I SMELL A STONE! Lemme out! I gotta get outta here!" And let out a roar, "Grr... GRAAAWR!WR!"

And begins to destroy the door keeping him locked up.