" So we exist in a world with Multiple Timelines, Plural? " Raiden asks Kara as behind her, Aphrodite appears looking like her Stand (from JoJo) and meets Raiden in order to assure him.
"{ It is true, young Raiden, was it? }" Aphrodite asks showing her Spirit form in front of Raiden.
"{ You mortal all lived in our machinations of an endless repeat of time. }"
"{ Where all on your journey and efforts will be useless for you will all start again. }"
{ To repeat all of your happiness and sufferings. }" she says as she appeared before him.
" So it's true, 'he' was right that a 'dead' goddess would enter the Inquisitor "* Raiden says as he remembers his purpose of attacking Inquisitor Kara in the first place.
" The goddess who dies, an impossible feature when talking about gods. " Raiden says as he then roasts Aphrodite for being weak, mocking her for being the first god that dies, proving his current faith to the demons that the gods are fragile and nothing more than pretenders.
" Hahaha... so it seems 'he' was right that after a long time, the gods' era will fall as they will experience death for the first time!? "
" I first was uncertain about it, after being constantly intoxicated about gods being immune to death. "
" But now, it seems the truth is on our side... "
" Seeing a ghost of a god did really prove that the gods are constantly getting wea- " before Raiden could finish, Aphrodite immediately strike him with her lightning after hearing such words.
" God...dess..? " Kara was shocked after seeing such reactions.
"( Did it pisses her off? )" Kara thinks and assumes that she is angry with Raiden after he realizes that the gods can die or even be killed.
"{ Oh my, it seems one gets the wrong idea. }" Aphrodite says after striking Raiden with lightning.
As she does that, she explains her reason for being a ghost right now as she tells Raiden that she decides to be this way in order for her 'desire' to succeed.
" Let me tell you this, mortal. "
" Just because I'm a ghost of my former divinely self. "
" Doesn't mean that I am that powerless like you arrogantly assume," she says while gripping Raiden with her Thunder Chains.
" Goddess, please..! " Kara shouts worried about Raiden's condition as he is now powerless without his Sin Core, making him nothing more but a mortal human who had nothing inside himself, no Sin Core and Gift Core.
" Urgh you damn...ed goddess.... " Raiden says while suddenly having memories of being like this before.
" You're just like... her... "
" Like other Thunder Goddess with Fox Tails... "
" Using your thunder to... torture the ones they care and love about. " Raiden says to Aphrodite while the goddess immediately realizes what or who he meant.
"{ ( He's referring to 'her', isn't he? ) }"
"{ ( It seems his Previous Timelines' Memories are getting more unlocked after the trigger. ) }"
"{ ( Slowly but immediately remembers quickly right after giving a powerful memory trigger. ) }" Aphrodite says as she then tells Kara.
"{ Calm yourself, dear... }"
"{ I wouldn't kill him for your beloved sake... }" she says as she immediately releases him.
"{ See...? }" Aphrodite says after releasing him as she then decides to return inside Kara's body.
"{ Go talk to him or discuss your unlocked memories or whatever... }" Aphrodite says as she tells Kara that sometimes unlocked memories often affect a person's feelings toward another and it seems this is the moment where both Kara and Raiden felt it affects as their 'previous relation feelings' starts to grow.
While listening to the goddess, Kara then immediately helps Raiden stand which Raiden accepts as he accepts her with no worries. After that, the two then decide to talk things out.
" So, based on the 'Previous Timeline Memories', was it? "
" You and I are... " Raiden wonders.
" Yes... " Kara responds, confirming what Raiden asks even before he completes it.
" The memories were true, even the goddess confirms it," she says as she uses Aphrodite as her alibi.
" You sure you believe that ghost, she looks untrustworthy for ... aghh! " Kara grips Raiden's arm so hard as she somehow uses her power to hurt Raiden's nerfed body.
" Oh my the bloody thunder hell!!! "
" My arm!!! " Raiden yells at Kara for hurting him that hard which Kara doesn't reply anything for she doesn't feel it was wrong at all.
" That's what happens if you dare doubt the gods. " Kara says while still being an Inquisitor herself, doing her duty professionally despite being emotional at the moment.
While helping him walk, Kara then tells that after Raiden was hit by the collision of their power, she then tells that Raiden had now awakened the memories or even the knowledge of his previous lifetimes just like her, making him the third who has achieved so after her, making him the 'Third *Awakener' by the record.
" I see, but... "
" Did you say I'm the 'Third Awakener'!? " Raiden asks.
" Yes, does that confuse you? " Kara asks him back.
" Does it confuse me, you ask? of course, it is!? "
" If just like you said that I'm the 'Third Awakener', then... "
" And you're the second one since you're the one before me? " Raiden's mind begins to realize something.
" In that case? "
" Before you and me, there was another who had awakened these 'Previous Timeline Memories' before us, was it!? " Raiden asks immediately noticing that there was another before them who knows about all of this.
" Of course, you've already seen him before entering this Tower. " Kara responds.
" We did? you mean... "
" You and I already see that person, the First Awakener is the first one who knows about this fact before us and had already grown so much after learning all of the truth. "
" My goddess already told me everything about him and I've already suspected that something was off from him from the beginning. "
" For my goddess often help and meets him on some occasions, even asking me to look over him for a while. " Kara says as she then tells Raiden who the First Awakener is.
" Really? is he that famous? "
" Even the goddess favored him? " Raiden asks.
" Who is it, Park Ignis? the Battle Maiden? who...? " Raiden then wonders who the person might be.
" None of them, Raiden. "
" The person I refer to is the one who even has the balls to fight the likes of the Battle Maiden. "
" They fight before, remember... "
" Before entering the tower. " ( Read the Rendezvous title chapters, you know who it is.)
" Wait... " Raiden wonders for a bit.
" The one who fights the Battle Maiden? "
" You mean 'him'! " Raiden says as he immediately realizes who the hell the so-called 'First Awakener' is.
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Extra:
" So it's true, 'he' was right that a 'dead' goddess would enter the Inquisitor "*
He refers to what he means in Chapter: 92 Kill the Sinner about Adrian being right that there's a dead goddess that inhabits the Inquisitor's body.
*Awakener:
References:
- You can see the meaning of an Awakener in the Aux Volume Chapter 1: What is going on? Part 1
"Awakeners", are beings outside the Diviner Race that are able to have any memories from the Previous Timeline, beings that must be silenced quickly before they spill the Diviners' deeds back into the Previous Timelines.
That is why in the recent Timelines, the Diviners had tried many ways to reduce the rise of the "Awakeners" in any Timeline as possible by banning the pivotal elements that are known to rise the "Awakeners".