[BLIND LET'S PLAY]
In order to stop "Gladioul", Ayase has Takumi help her collect the Di-Swords of the other Gigalomaniacs, or "Black Knights", before going to confront Gladioul directly. Collecting the swords themselves tu…
[BLIND LET'S PLAY]
In order to stop "Gladioul", Ayase has Takumi help her collect the Di-Swords of the other Gigalomaniacs, or "Black Knights", before going to confront Gladioul directly. Collecting the swords themselves turns out to be a surprisingly easy endeavor thanks to the other Gigalomaniacs having been somehow incapacitated off-screen, including Nanami and Rimi whose exact fates are never even revealed, until eventually only Takumi's Di-Sword ended up being the only one that still needed to be collected, although since Takumi hasn't awakened this understandably puts a big wrench in Ayase's (admittedly unsound) plan.
Throughout their journey, Neo and Takumi catch glimpses of a terrifying world that looks like a twisted reflection of the one they inhabit, and it is eventually revealed that this very world is the world that Ayase perceives every minute of every day, shocking both Neo and Takumi. The only way to break Ayase free of such a world, along with saving all the other "worlds", is tied to the defeat of Gladioul, so if Takumi is unable to acquire his Di-Sword then the efforts of both him and Ayase would be all for naught.
Fortunately, helping Ayase deal with a manifestation of the negative delusions she was experiencing turned out to be the key needed for Takumi to awaken and acquire his Di-Sword, much to Neo's confusion. Although their celebration is cut short when a manifestation of Gladioul confronts them and gets ready to reshape the world, forcing Takumi and Ayase to quickly think of a method to counter it, and what they end up coming up with somehow manages to work.
At the end of their journey, Ayase gets to see the same sky Takumi sees, after seemingly putting an end to the villain's plot... although for Neo, he's left with more questions than answers as to what exactly was happening throughout Ayase's route, unsure of what to make many of the strange events and mysteries he witnessed along the way...
But with all that being said, Neo's go..
