Asuna and Morisaki infiltrate Agartha

Asuna and Morisaki’s entry into Agartha begins with a confession and a choice: Morisaki reveals that he seeks neither immortality nor ancient wisdom, but a way to bring his dead wife back, and Asuna decides to follow him despite not knowing exactly why she must go. The route opens beneath the Vita-aqua, where they can breathe underwater, and carries them past ruined stone structures toward a seemingly bottomless darkness. The descent makes their different aims converge without resolving them: Morisaki pursues a specific answer to bereavement, while Asuna steps forward with feelings she has not yet sorted out.

The Purpose of the Journey

Morisaki’s decision follows the confrontation with Shin, who warns that Agartha is falling into ruin and has none of the wonders the Arch Angels hope to find. Morisaki answers that he has no reason to fight Shin now that he has come this far. His calmness does not mean his purpose has weakened; the resolve in his eyes accompanies a direct rejection of the motives Shin attributes to the Arch Angels. Morisaki is not seeking the secret of immortality or ancient knowledge. He wants to resurrect his wife.

That admission gives the journey its personal stakes. Agartha is not simply a hidden destination or a storehouse of forgotten power for Morisaki: it is the place where he hopes to find a means of reversing his wife’s death. Asuna recognizes the significance of what he has said, but recognition does not settle the question of whether resurrection is possible. Her uncertainty remains explicit. The narrative sets Morisaki’s unwavering objective beside the unresolved prospect of what the country beyond the passage can actually provide.

Asuna Chooses to Follow

At the underground lake, Morisaki says he will continue to Agartha and search for a way to bring his wife back. He apologizes for having put Asuna in danger, then walks into the water. As it rises to his waist, he scoops some up and brings it to his lips. His movement turns the declared intention into action: he does not wait for Asuna to understand or endorse his goal before proceeding.

Asuna calls after him and says she is coming too. When Morisaki asks whether she wants to bring back the boy who died, she cannot give a clear explanation. She does not claim that resurrection is what she wants, or that she has decided what she feels about Shun, Shin, Morisaki, or Agartha. Those questions remain a jumble. What she does know is that if she does not go with Morisaki now, she may never have another chance to reach Agartha. Her decision is therefore both deliberate and incomplete: she chooses the opportunity to go before she can name everything that draws her there.

Morisaki makes the cost of that choice plain. The journey may be dangerous, and they may not know when they can return. Asuna answers with a fervent nod. He holds out his hand and tells her to come. The gesture makes the crossing a shared undertaking, but it does not make their purposes identical: Morisaki has a defined aim, while Asuna enters with questions still open.

Beneath the Vita-aqua

Morisaki has spent ten years continually searching for the way to Agartha; the threshold they have found is the culmination of that long pursuit. He tells Asuna to get ready, and she is dragged beneath the surface of the Vita-aqua. The change is immediate and strange: she discovers that she can breathe. Morisaki gives her a kind smile and resumes walking, guiding her onward rather than pausing to explain the mechanism or the destination in detail.

Under the lake, a long stairway extends between ruined stone structures. Asuna and Morisaki descend it, stealing glances at the ruins as they go. The path ends abruptly at a hole that appears bottomless. Asuna feels primitive fear and hesitates for a moment; Morisaki takes her hand and leaps. The descent continues into darkness, leaving the pair suspended between the visible remains behind them and whatever lies below. Their entry is thus not a triumphant arrival with Agartha laid out before them, but a passage through a boundary whose destination is still concealed.

A Shared Crossing, Unsettled Motives

The sequence develops through successive thresholds: Morisaki first declares why he has come, then enters the lake; Asuna follows him, passes beneath the water, and finally lets him lead her into the hole. Each step makes retreat less immediate without answering the questions that brought them to the edge. The underwater ability to breathe permits the descent, while the staircase and its ruins give the way forward a visible form; at the stair’s end, that form disappears into darkness.

The contrast between the two travelers defines the event. Morisaki’s ten-year search has narrowed into a single stated hope, the resurrection of his wife. Asuna’s choice is powerful precisely because it remains less settled: she cannot yet say whether she follows for the dead boy, for Agartha itself, or for another reason, but she fears losing the chance to go. The hand he offers joins their routes without erasing that difference. Their fall carries them toward Agartha and into a deeper stage of the story, while leaving the possibility of resurrection—and the consequences of seeking it—unresolved.