Morisaki attempts to resurrect Lisa

Morisaki attempts to resurrect Lisa by presenting a Clavis fragment to the god of Agartha and wishing for her return. The god answers, but not with a living Lisa: her shape appears as Vita-aqua, and the condition that follows—providing a living vessel for her soul—turns his grief into a perilous choice. When Asuna is struck by the light from the rift, the attempt threatens to consume another person rather than undo the death that prompted it.

The Wish and the God

Morisaki crosses an immense grassy plain and reaches a stone pedestal. He places the Clavis fragment on it, but nothing happens at first. The pause matters: the scene does not make the fragment a simple instrument that responds instantly to his touch. At length, both the fragment and the Clavis begin to glow. A shadow appears overhead, and the enormous Shakuna Vimana lands heavily, its body opening countless eyes. The eyes blink independently, making the god’s presence at once vast and strangely attentive.

Morisaki recognizes what stands before him as the god of Agartha. Its voice reaches him within his mind, and he murmurs the question of whether it will grant a wish. The exchange changes the Clavis from an object he has brought across the plain into the means of an encounter: the god can hear him, and he can ask for what he has carried there. The apparent availability of a wish offers no assurance, however, that the answer will take the form he wants.

Lisa’s Return in Form Only

Before making his request, Morisaki is overtaken by memories. He tells Lisa that he has never forgotten her, that he once tried to get over her death, and that he could not do so; he says he can find no meaning in a world without her. His wish is therefore not presented as detached curiosity about the god’s power. It comes from grief that has endured despite an attempt to live beyond it, and the intensity of that grief shapes the request he makes.

Morisaki calls for Lisa to return. The Clavis gives off brilliant light, and a glowing rift opens in the air before the god. Lisa’s shape appears. For an instant, the form seems to answer his plea, but when Morisaki tries to touch it, he discovers that it is only liquid Vita-aqua shaped like a person. The sight separates resemblance from restoration: he can see the form of the woman he loves, yet the scene does not establish that Lisa has returned as a living person. His bewildered response is met by the god’s voice again.

The Price of a Living Vessel

The god’s question, repeated aloud by Morisaki, is whether he will provide a living vessel to house the soul. The terms of the wish become clear only after Lisa’s shape has appeared. The god has not offered resurrection without qualification; what it presents is a demand that links the dead person’s return to a living body. The order of revelation gives the scene its reversal: the apparent fulfillment of the wish is immediately exposed as incomplete, and the next step threatens someone who is still alive.

A dark internal struggle begins within Morisaki at this disclosure. The evidence identifies the struggle but does not resolve it into a stated decision at that moment. This distinction matters: his longing and his request are explicit, but the narrative does not simply equate them with a settled willingness to sacrifice another person. The demand forces the conflict into the open, placing his attachment to Lisa against the cost of the means by which she might be brought back.

Asuna and the Consequence

The rift’s light later flares and pierces Asuna, who collapses. Vita-aqua seeps from her body; attempts to wipe it away cannot stop it, and it eventually envelops her completely. These physical consequences make the vessel requirement more than an abstract condition voiced by the god. The attempt has reached Asuna’s body, and the liquid associated with Lisa’s human-shaped appearance now spills from Asuna herself.

Shin interprets what is happening as the calling of a dead soul into Asuna’s body and angrily challenges Morisaki, asking whether he chose this. His accusation identifies the immediate danger, but it remains Shin’s accusation rather than an independently stated explanation of Morisaki’s intent. Morisaki does not answer. He walks toward the two of them at an unhurried pace, while Shin urges Asuna not to surrender her heart because she will be unable to return. The scene ends with the threat unresolved: Lisa has not been shown to return as herself, Asuna is in mortal danger, and Morisaki’s silence leaves his response to the god’s price uncertain. The attempted resurrection thus converts private mourning into a crisis involving another life, without granting the comfort its wish had promised.