"They were never prepared for something to find them. Monsters of the sort that we've been ducking around. They survived so well for so long because they were hidden. Soon as you lose that and it comes down to a fight?" Kaji doesn't have to finish that statement. He hesitates over the body of a soldier, Aqures Ixen, by the marks of him. The people that they left behind weren't enough to stop this.

The creek that ran through the village still looks clear, Kaji will take anything for a source of water. He nearly falls in drinking as deeply as he can.

"The Soul Divider. It's got to still be active, right?" Kaji looks back at Levy. "Even when we defeated that thing down there, the Divider was still doing its job. That thing goes, the whole planet goes with it, right?"