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She turned back to Fran as soon as she and Suparna finished their talk, "Such a weird demon, especially considering your history. If you are so repentant, why don't you seek the guidance of the Divine? Maybe you are just walking the wrong path," she said to Fran before sheathing her sword. No fighting was going to happen here, not anymore, so there was no reason to show hostility.
Helena made a dramatic pause to admire how Endian managed to single-handedly ruin her own plan, by not knowing when to stay quiet.
"... everything someone like that machine over there represents. Did she not try to undermine my argument by offering words of true peace and harmony? But, lo and behold, what she was truly intending to deliver was a Machina Dominion. Will any of you still stand by her side now? The choice is not mine to do."
"Either way, don't you remember where you are, little angel? The place where you gain by losing and lose by gaining. Was it not like this that you have discovered within yourself a new strength? I do not need to allow you to recover that which you have lost, all you need to is will it yourself. Simple as that," Helena addressed Miyu.
"Very brave words, Prince of Greed," Helena shook her head before continuing, "Such a shame that your trust has been betrayed from the get go. Either way, I'll address your doubts right along with the concerns of our dear Sheriff," she added, gaze flickering to Omega.
"Both of your choice of actions and speech were very well placed. Indeed you are not going anywhere, Cowboy. Look around and think: Where are you? Does this even look like the Nexus you know?" Helena got back to her feet and extended her right arm, pointing at the sky. More specifically, the vampire was pointing at the starry void overhead and what looked like the sight of a great serpent made space itself, coiling around a cloud of unstable chaos. "You are already in the place Where Nothing Gathers, you can't get closer to 'not going anywhere' than you already are. This is sacred grounds that all of you are stepping in if you did not notice it until now."
"You can see why I do not need your trinket anymore, Hell Knight? It's not a question of whether or not I can take all of you out of the Nexus, it's a question of whether or not you want to go back in, now that you are out and have been so ever since you have stepped into my home," Helena said to Khaine, answering the Hell Knight's unvoiced doubts about why she did give the stone back him. "The only reason why I even needed external assistance is that I normally cannot drag beings like you to this place. Your stone just served as a way to force the gates of Nothingness to open in their full width."
"For that, I'm thankful," Helena curtseyed before sitting by the clock tower's edge once more.
She fought off the urge to laugh when Wolf tickled her with his dispelling powers, though. Helena was already Nothingness made manifest. What could he expect to achieve by emptying her even more? Nevertheless, she maintained her composure taking the chance to capitalize on the Machina's breach of trust once more. "So, is it how you Machina really behave? Attacking me with a dispelling power while everyone else has decided to settle up and talk? Could it be that this is the same reason why the one who almost destroyed the clock is healing herself even while the fight is effectively over? Do you really want to have it your way so badly that you cannot accept a peaceful solution?"
"Either way, your treachery is none of my concern."
Helena snapped her fingers, causing two portals to manifest, one by the base of the clock and another on the opposite side of the arena. "All that had to be said has already been said. It's time you make your choice. Those who wish to leave the Nexus, step through the portal below me so that you can leave this dimension before the Nothingness pressure takes over all of you. Those who want to return to the Nexus, use the other gate."
"It's your turn now..."
