“The path to victory comes swift with failure. Repetitive failure, continual failure, catastrophic and ultimate failure. To grow is to morph failure into some semblance of victory, only to sweep it up once more as it fails again.”

“The time has come for him to return.”

“Indeed, it would seem the True World calls for the Bloodstained Hero once more.”

“Only if he should fail. But will he?”

“Again and again, though only through persistence will we find the resolution ‘They’ call for.”

“‘They?’”

“Some may call them God. Others, the will of the universe. An entity higher than that of the True World’s order.”

“‘The boy with seven souls...’ The anticipation is near unbearable.”

“I can agree, old friend. But the question to ask... is whose blood will be spilled this time.”

“The innocent or the guilty... What say you?”