Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

Thank you.

For those inside the system the voices of the Great-Seasons ring out around them once the red mass has vanished and the blue plinth it was smothering is freed once more. They don't have all that much time to reflect on that before they find themselves waking up once more in their bodies around the tree trunks.

Or at least, around the tube that is the Great-Season they entered through. All illusions have vanished now, all that is left are pipes and metal.

The Great-Seasons allow them passage out from the centre, no sentries or pipes attack them this time. Everything seems to have been put to rights, the walls in the Autumn sector have stopped moving, there is no strange weather effects in the Summer Sector, no engineering problems in Winter and all the camaloid creatures in Spring are calm. Any Helpmates they come across are doing their jobs and no longer malfunctioning.

After a small amount of time, enough to check that all is well, their SCA's light up. All Passengers are to return to the Voidtrecker Express.

Considering the vast distances involved it is probably best that they use the evacuation function to return to the Luggage carriage.

Once all Voidtreckers have returned the train returns to the Void once more.

Comments

[worthallthis]

Soldat snorts a little, amused. "Not everyone there participated in trying to kill them. But you woulda gotten a pretty big side-eye from people if you didn't help at all. We worked together, there. We were a. A community."

[its_dad_sanzo]

"Well, I try not to get involved in anything too troublesome, but protecting the sutras is sort of my life's purpose."

Plural because Koumyou still forgets sometimes that he's no longer the guardian of two of the damn things. The first and only Sanzo with two sutras to guard, and he'd done so for longer than many Sanzos survived guarding one.

[worthallthis]

Frankly, having one doesn't necessarily mean one's job description isn't protecting all of them in general. Soldat doesn't even remotely question it. "Suppose it only matters if the things after the train are the same thing. Or are susceptible to the same weapons."

[its_dad_sanzo]

That's also very true! That's certainly how Koumyou had ended up with the Maten alongside the Seiten -- it needed a protector when Tenkai died, and he was it.

Though why it hadn't been assigned a whole other Sanzo later was anyone's guess. Tenkai had probably seen Genjo in Koumyou's future, and knew Koumyou was the path to its next guardian.

Shit was complicated like that when seeing the future got involved.

"That, I don't know. And I certainly have other reasons to help murder anything that comes after the train, now."

[worthallthis]

"Yeah," Soldat agrees sleepily, resting their head back down on their knees. "There's good people here. Don't want anything to happen to 'em."

[its_dad_sanzo]

"Indeed," and unless Soldat says anything else to him, Koumyou is willing to just nap in peace.