“Nothing to lose and even less to gain. That’s how I was made to feel.”

-Nil

A hasty counter-command stops Isaac but Nil has already made a break for the theater. Without any other weapon Savio breaks a number of mirrors to force out the souls within. The souls have been driven mad by their deaths and the time trapped in the glass, causing them to transform into a screaming tempest that warps the very air. The Monad Grand Theater shrinks and expands as if taking breaths. Long red carpets lash out through the doors, seizing Nil and dragging him in through the main entrance. He dodges the décor aiming to take him down and runs past a number of stages playing out events from his past. 

Several years ago Savio and Rosalind Gennari were focused on the former’s work, so much so that they failed to notice their son was ill. Rebecca Ansolm nearly resorted to violence before they realized that Isaac had died. The devastated couple took his body to their former hometown of Turin and tried to bring their son back to life with the most common method known to man: the sacrifice of human lives. For this purpose the people of Turin were slaughtered by way of poison in their water wells. The ritual might have worked if they hadn’t tried to revive Isaac in a body that wasn’t his.