– Theo grabs another speed sphere and sees if he can use it yet.

He totally can!

Theo picks agility, again.

It works! And the others do the same.

"I think we're all ready."

Theo nods.

"Very well."

The Crusader goes inform other people of the impending start of the operation.

"Well, this is going to be fun," says Theo. "Or not, but at least I can follow Sin after – so this might soon be goodbye."

She sighs. "It feels mean to think it won't work. These people—are giving it their all."

"It feels mean but they didn't seem to know all that much about the devices, so…" He shrugs.

"Not knowing about it is a good sign, though. If they did know that'd mean it wasn't good enough."

He shrugs. "The fact they know enough to put it together suggests that it might not be good enough anyway."

"Ain't that a sweet deal."

"But maybe it didn't predict my help and maybe I helped enough to make it work, or maybe it's just not infallible anyway."

"Nothing is infallible. And we should hope your help, well, helps."

The cage with the huge fiend gets lifted by a crane and is suspended above the water.

Yay, bait is… prepped or whatever.

"Did you get any information about how long they expect it to take Sin to attack? … Or why they expect it to attack only now-onwards and not at some inconvenient point before, or was that just a hope? It was probably a hope, wasn't it."

"It was a hope, yeah. Well, kinda, Sin usually takes a few days to return for its spawn, they're hoping by smashing enough spawn together it'll come sooner."

"So we might be settled in to wait a bit," he nods.

"Theoretically if you poke Sinspawn enough without killing it Sin comes sooner. Some distress signal, maybe."

"… Weird."

An electrical current is discharged into the cage, strong enough for sparks to be visible.

"No one pretends to understand what goes on, there."

Theo just shrugs. "You want to look stuff up on my phone in the meantime?"

"Ooh!"

He hands it over to her.

Eeeee!

He'll watch the crane and machinery and the scenery.

Maybe go flying if Sin takes longer than five minutes.