"I..." she stumbled over her words and fell silent again. Usually it was so easy for Mitsuru to speak but this topic made her throat close up as her chest began to tighten. It felt somehow like her insides were being twisted all over again. After a few long seconds she shook her head.

"Everything he told us was a lie. He was using us." The three of them more so than any of the others actually, after all they'd been believing these lies the longest. "Destroying the shadows was never going to end the Dark Hour, instead all it was doing was melding them together to create Death itself. He pushed us to do that to bring about something he referred to as the Fall." She didn't look up at him as she spoke and it was probably obvious to him that she was trying very hard to control her voice. "He never wanted to eliminate the Dark Hour."