Now that the demon has been defeated, it's time for the narrator to thank the "woman in black boom" for saving the day. He's been living in the tabernacle since ancient times, and he's pretty sure that the woman in the black boom is from the same place as him. The narrator tells us that the tabernacle is just a "repaired monument" that was built 250 years ago. It's because of this mission that the forest has been "saved" . He says that shinra extinguished the demon, and that's a big deal. He also says that the narrator can't really hear the woman he linked with, because she's gone to sleep. He wonders if she went inside the tabernacle on her own, like she did in the previous chapter, or if she was part of the "evan gelist's plot" against the sol temple. He doesn't know. Either way, he says, the narrator is getting a clearer picture of the plot. He knows that the evangelist wants to sacrifice eight pillars of the tabernacle and use a materasu to destroy the holy temple and cause another great catastrophe. He wants to dance to the woman's tune for a second. He asks the narrator not to dance for another second, because he'd rather die than let someone else do all the work for him. He tells the narrator that he can'