The crowd left and all removed their masks, including the Earl, Road, Lulubell, and Sheryl. Lilith was so nervous on how the crowd would react to seeing her, she closed her eyes. She felt the mask being taken off and when it was Tyki whispered in her ear and she opened her eyes. There were shocked gasps from the crowd, as well as appall and wonder.

Lilith smiled the best she could fake as she heard snippets of whispers like "I thought those eyes were part of the mask." "Was she born with them?" "They're amazing." "Aren't snake eyes the sign of the devil?"

She felt horrible at that last part, mostly because it was the one that was fact. She looked up at Tyki, who was smiling at her and had snuck his arm around her shoulders.

"Now ladies and gentlemen our night has ended!" Sheryl began, "I ask you that you have a safe ride home and that you enjoyed tonight's festivities." He bowed and the crowd clapped and started to leave the house.

Lilith felt so relieved when everyone was gone and she turned to the Noah and said, "I think I'm going to retire for the night, so if you'll excuse me."

Lilith was hugged by Road and Lulubell, Sheryl, and the Earl all nodded and waved. Lilith left the room and Tyki appeared before her, smiled and said, "I'll walk you back to your room."

Lilith nodded with a light blushing smile and said, "Thank you Tyki."

He smiled and offered his arm, which she took as they walked down the hallway to her room. As they got there Tyki took Lilith's face in his hand and gave her a light kiss on the lips before saying, "Good night Lilith."

Lilith blushed but managed to nod and say, "Good night Tyki." And she slipped into the room.

She removed her dress and hung it up into her closet and slipped into her night dress. She was still a bit giddy from the excitement but it was dying ever so slowly due to the whispers as she went into her bed.

~oOo~

A couple of weeks after that over the top reaction to Tyki and her own courtship the two have seen each other quite often. They would sometimes take strolls around the grounds, or have dinner with the other Noah.

Though another Innocence hunting mission came around and Lilith went along with a feeling that something would happen... she just didn't know what. Though she knew that all the Noah were going out from the mansion and out on this mission. Lilith really didn't want to go but she felt she had to, and not just because Snake-Lilith had to.

This time Lilith went with the Earl and Road to wherever they were going but it was because they had the biggest part of this mission. Lilith was looking out the window while Road chatted with her, and Lilith responded when she needed.

Snake-Lilith's voice then sounded in Lilith's head, "I can feel my master calling me."

Lilith nodded as a response to a Road and Snake-Lilith's statement, "What may I ask that means?"

Snake-Lilith was quiet for a moment but then replied, "It means I have to leave your body... and your soul will be forced to go with me."

Lilith's eyes widened and she whispered, "What?"

Road peeked over at Lilith's face, "I said that I hope I can meet Allen Walker."

Lilith looked at Road's face and then smiled, "I'm sorry, Snake-Lilith old me something that... wasn't exactly good news."

Road was about to ask but the Earl gave her a look that said Don't-ask-anything. Road looked a bit saddened and sat back against the seat and then the Earl said, "Is there anything pertaining to the mission?"

Lilith shook her head and replied, "The only thing is that I might have to leave early."

The Earl nodded and then asked, "Do you have any clue when?"

Lilith asked Snake-Lilith but the answer Lilith got she relayed to the Earl, "When he master calls her we'll have to leave. I'm sorry but we can't deny orders." Lilith was truly pained that she had so little control over her soul just because she had harbored Snake-Lilith's.

The Earl seemed to notice because he nodded and then asked Road about what she planned to do if she saw Allen. Lilith once again looked out the window but she zoned out as the two Noah talked.

~oOo~

When the carriage stopped the Noah and Lilith walked out and she saw that there was another town to which she had never been to, and knew she would never see again. It almost pleased her that her last view wouldn't be of something familiar or it would've pained her worse than that of knowing she would never see her parents again.

Lilith realized she was alone when she finally slipped out of her reverie and looked around. She started to panic but then calmed down to try to look for the two she had separated from. She didn't realize she was trying to take in every last detail of her surroundings until someone poked her shoulder and asked, "May I help you m'am?"

Lilith looked back and said, "Oh no! I just... got some inspiration from this wall here and thought I'd use its texture in a work of one of my arts." She laughed nervously, but the man nodded and then left her to her business.

Lilith let out a breath she was holding in just as something crossed her vision. She looked and a white dress and what appeared to be a pair of wings just turned the corner and there was only thing in Lilith's mind that it could've been; Emilia.

Lilith ran after the white and always just caught glimpses of it around corners, on buildings, and in shops. Lilith ran after it with an almost insane way and when she finally saw the figure turn into an alley way she thought there was no place left for it but when Lilith herself turned into the alley she was by herself.

Lilith let out a defeated and sad sigh and Snake-Lilith said, "What were you chasing after? All of a sudden you were talking to that man and then I couldn't see-"

But she was cut off when Emilia appeared in front of Lilith's view the latter took a step back from surprise. Emilia smiled at Lilith and said, "It's good to see you other than in dreams Lilith but I can't stay her long. I've come to deliver a message to you that I can't have the first Lilith to know." She stepped in front of Lilith and hugged her saying, "When the time comes to choose the only way to the one you so choose is if you follow the slight."

Lilith looked at her confused but Emilia put a finger to Lilith's lips to quiet her before continuing, "I have to go but I thought that my boss could have an equal chance at your soul that the first Lilith's equated to. Good bye my friend and sister. I will see you in limbo." And then she was gone.

Snake-Lilith than said, "And there it goes again. What happened?"

Lilith shook her head and replied, "I really don't know."

Snake-Lilith let out a sigh and then said, "Well I guess we should really find the Noah before they begin to think that we have left."

Lilith nodded and soon found the two who she were looking for, and that they didn't even notice that she was gone. Lilith really confused at the riddle Emilia left her with but she just ignored it for now in fear that Snake-Lilith would find out that an angel visited her. Though she didn't have to worry about not thinking about it for long when the deep sorrow crashed over her and she pulled out her dark matter gun blade.

The Earl looked back and smiled evilly, "I guess we are close to the Innocence."

Lilith nodded and Road grinned excitedly asking, "Can you tell who they are?"

The former shook her head and replied, "No but there are quite a few of them."

The Noah nodded and they were running to where Lilith's sorrow led them.

~oOo~

Lilith was breathing heavy as she slunk against a broken building and the Earl and Road were destroying the innocence. Road was laughing like the little girl she was supposed to be and the Earl was hitting the Innocence with Lero like he was playing baseball. Lilith looked up into the sky and winced when she felt a bit of sorrow coming closer to her. She looked in the general direction and said, "I feel more coming."

The Earl nodded and said, "Then our plan is falling into place. Road, Lilith, follow me." They both nodded and did as they were told but the pain didn't disappear even when the sorrow did. When the trio finally stopped Lilith was clenching her head and when Road noticed he asked, "What's the matter?"

"My master is getting ready to take us, but I am trying to convince him to let us stay until you can say one last good bye to your courtier. " Snake-Lilith stated.

"Apparently Lilith's master wants us to leave, and Lilith talking with him. When she's done the pain will go away," Lilith said but she knew that the pain will only go away when her soul was taken away, and even then she wasn't sure.

Road nodded and then Tyki came in and Lilith smiled in his direction. He smiled back and hugged her and kissed her for a good minute before the Earl coughed into his hand. Lilith blushed and Tyki laughed while wrapping his arm around her waist, "I missed you Lilith."

Lilith placed her head to his chest and she said, "I will miss you Tyki." He looked at her with a confused look but Lilith smiled, kissed him on the cheek, "I love you Tyki."

"I love you too Lilith, but what is this now? Expecting to lose?" Tyki asked.

Lilith shook her head but said, "I don't expect you to lose but I have to go." And with that Lilith felt an extreme pain and she fell back in Tyki's hold and was dead.

~oOo~

Lilith felt as if she was floating for a second, and yet for an eternity. She looked around and felt truly alone when she didn't even feel Snake-Lilith with her. She then remembered that she was dead and a melancholy smile adorned her face as she stood up.

There was nothing here except for the darkest light, and the lightest dark. It didn't seem to make sense but yet it made perfect sense. Lilith walked around a little bit before she sat back down again and thought of what Emilia had told her. She couldn't remember it at first but then it came to her when she decided to give up, "When the time comes to choose the only way to the one you so choose is if you follow the slight."

It didn't make any sense to Lilith but she decided to break it down and see what she could come up with. Though everything made sense except for the 'follow the slight' part; so that meant that Lilith had to choose what she truly wanted. Which was easier said than done.

Lilith wanted a lot of things: she wanted to go back to Tyki and just to live her days out with him; she wanted none of the Akuma, Noah or Snake-Lilith to have ever brought into her life; she wanted to help destroy those who destroyed Emilia; and many more.

Though the only one that actually kept repeating was to choose to live and love Tyki Mikk. Soon all of her other wants seemed to be not what she truly wanted and they simply disappeared, and what stayed was a life with Tyki.

And then something that could only be described as slight was in Lilith's view and she followed it. The feeling like that she felt when she first came to this place came back to her and when it disappeared Emilia appeared with a smile. Emilia hugged Lilith and said, "I think you've chosen wonderfully."

Lilith smiled and said, "Will I see you again."

Emilia laughed and said, "In a way you will but yet you won't."

Lilith nodded, not wanting to understand, and then Lilith felt an extreme love filling her heart and a soft light invaded all of her senses with its loving heat and Lilith disappeared into it.

Emilia smiled and started to fade away but she said, "I hope this wish gives you all the happiness you can imagine." And then she and everything else was gone.