Disclaimer: Saiyuki belongs to Kazuya Minekura and associates.

Probably has bits that won’t make much sense if you don’t know anything about the endings of Saiyuki, Reload & Gunlock. There are Gaiden references too.

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The rising sun is a halo of backlighting. Juxtaposed with fairytale mist.
Old soldiers make eternal promises.
Golden eyes look to the sun.

Heretics fall and children and demons. Everything changes while a Goddess smiles.
Heaven and Earth tilt on their axis. Dreams and ambitions vanish in flame.
One to govern evolution, another to bring destruction. Long parted.
Falling into the same hands.

A heretic wanted to remake Earth and Heaven.
A child grasped at a forbidden heirloom.
A well-meaning missionary failed to save them.

At the end of the journey; Western sun setting.
Only a dead god walks away.

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Hypothetically speaking, if people did need to die at the end of the entire series, my money’s on the 'God of Paperwork' going first.

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