The next morning, the young soldier finds himself in a strange, deserted part of the battlefield. He's not sure where he's been or what's going on, but he knows that the battle is lost, and he'd rather die than see his comrades perish. He tells the soldier to stop arguing and to run, because he can't stay on the battlefield with only one soldier. The soldier, who's wearing a helmet with a "symphonia" accent on it, tells the young man that he was at the grave of Resha, and that there's a lot of light in the darkness. The young man is confused, and the soldier tells him to take off his helmet, because it's his mother's and dad's parents' accents. He says that he doesn't recognize the soldier's voice, because the voice is "leaking" all over the place. He also says that the soldier will turn 23 years old in a few years, which means that he'll be in his early 20s by the time the novel opens. The soldiers wonder if the soldier thinks they're at the fort of Symphonia, which was built in the early 1900s.