Morisaki attempts to resurrect Lisa at the Gate of Life and Death

Morisaki’s attempt to resurrect Lisa at the Gate of Life and Death turns his refusal to accept her death into a choice with immediate consequences for Asuna. The clavis answers his wish by summoning Lisa’s shape, but not Lisa as a living person; when the god’s demand for a living vessel is acted upon, Shin intervenes and destroys the crystal. The attempt ends in grief, yet Asuna opens her eyes again, leaving the scene poised between loss and survival.

Reaching the Gate

Morisaki reaches a black sphere floating in empty space after walking on toward the Quetzal Coatl graveyard. Remembering what he had read in the old man’s library, he recognizes it as the Gate of Life and Death and tries to touch it. The setting gives his approach a threshold quality: the Gate is first encountered as an object suspended apart from ordinary surroundings, and Morisaki’s knowledge of it comes from texts rather than direct experience.

The scene then places him on an endless grassy plain. He walks across it to a stone pedestal and sets the clavis fragment on top. At first nothing happens. Only after a delay do both the clavis and its fragment begin to glow. That pause makes the change legible as a response rather than an automatic effect: Morisaki has reached the place and set the object in position, but the moment of activation remains uncertain until the light appears.

The Wish and Its Answer

As memories pass through Morisaki’s heart, he admits that he has never forgotten Lisa and could not find meaning in a world without her. He then makes his wish with all the fervor he can summon: “Lisa! Return to me!” The force of the request is unmistakable, but its answer is not a straightforward restoration. The clavis shines brilliantly, a rift opens in the air, and red tendrils of light coil before him, gradually forming a human figure.

The figure takes Lisa’s shape, and Morisaki asks, “Lisa? Is that you…?” He tries to touch her, only to find that she is liquid Vita-aqua shaped like a person. The scene thus separates the recognizable image of Lisa from the presence Morisaki longs for: the form appears, but it is not proof that Lisa has returned as herself. The god’s voice makes the condition explicit, asking whether Morisaki will “Provide a living vessel to house the soul?” His hope has opened a path, but the path demands a life in exchange.

Asuna Becomes the Vessel

The rift’s light pierces Asuna, and she collapses. Vita-aqua begins seeping from her body; Shin tries repeatedly to wipe it away, but it continues to spill until it envelops her completely. The attempted resurrection is no longer confined to Morisaki’s grief or to the strange transformation before him. Its cost is visibly imposed on Asuna, whose body has become the vessel the god’s question required.

Shin responds with rage, accusing Morisaki: “You called a dead soul into her body!” He also calls out to the Arch Angel and demands to know whether it chose this. Morisaki gives no answer and walks toward Shin and Asuna at an unhurried pace. Against that silence and approach, Shin’s appeal to Asuna becomes an urgent effort to keep her from surrendering her heart and losing the possibility of returning. The conflict is therefore both physical and moral: Morisaki continues toward the result he sought, while Shin acts to stop the sacrifice that makes it possible.

The Clavis Is Broken

Shin takes the short sword his brother gave him and slashes at the clavis. The crystal repels the blade, and an invisible force knocks him flying, but he attacks again. His repeated blows make the clavis’s apparent power part of the struggle: the first strike fails, yet Shin persists rather than accepting the outcome as inevitable. Eventually his sword shatters the clavis into pieces. The decisive act interrupts the attempt at the moment Lisa staggers back.

The Vita-aqua then bursts, leaving Asuna’s body. Morisaki breaks down and sobs; behind him, Shakuna Vimana transforms back into a ship. The change closes the extraordinary manifestation without giving him the restoration he wanted. The scene’s ending does not erase the cost of the attempt: Morisaki has lost the brief appearance of Lisa, and Asuna has collapsed under the force of the rift. Yet, as the sky turns clear blue and Shakuna Vimana flies away between the clouds, Morisaki’s tears fall on Asuna’s cheeks and she slowly opens her eyes. She gently hugs him while Shin speaks behind her. The resurrection fails, but the last movement is toward a living person and a gesture of comfort rather than toward the lost dead.