Captain burns tells the rest of the company that he intends to destroy the fourth pillar of the temple. He tells them that he has dedicated his life to God, but that when he experienced the adolla link, he began to doubt the divine. He says that he now devotes himself to the evangelists because he believes in the divinity of the message. But as someone who did not pledge himself to god, he cannot believe that what he is doing is righteous. He compares the white-robed fanatics to the cataclysts who tried to recreate the "Great Catastrophe" and says that destruction follows by rebirth. He also says that Captain burns has spent his whole life saving people of Tokyo, but now that he is involved in the battle, he is not the same man.