They were talking to a man, who takes off. Lord Aston is the most confused, but brushes it off, agreeing to forgive Asbel, because, idk, he had a near death experience and just wants to hug his family and make peace now.
We fight a boss and Sophie is very, very creeped out and wants to leave immediately something horrible is here something horrible is coming let's go let's go.
But Asbel is like "Whatever we already destroyed the monster" and goes on ahead -- but finds Richard's body draped over a step. Now we all have to pause to stare in horror, and Asbel runs over to try and wake him.
While we're staring, a creepy shadowy monster looms out of nothing behind Cheria and Hubert and smacks them into the wall. It looks like it might go after Cheria, but Asbel runs up and tries to attack it.
It runs him through! And now Sophie is super super pissed, and runs up to it and --
We can't really see because Asbel passes out. But when he wakes up, Sophie is hovering over him and smiling shakily and no longer glowing. The shadowy monster is crumpled over in the distance.
Sophie says, "I understand now why you were happy after we survived the fall off the cliff."
But the monster is not dead! And it attacks Sophie, running her through, I assume, thanks to cleverly manipulated angles that avoid showing any actual impalement. This just pisses Sophie off and she runs up to the monster and basically vanishes and turns into a nuclear explosion.
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