"Still on your ship, though the ship itself has moved."

"Where?"

"To Five's domain."

"I lost. Why didn't Zero kill me?"

"Because she found a way to kill your parasite instead."

She humphs skeptically. 

"Five had a similar reaction."

"Where is she?"

"Taking a nap, I believe."

"And who are you?"

"My name is Eliese. A visitor from another world, with alien magic."

"Why are you helping Zero?"

"She asked me to."

...Hmph.

"If I'd landed on you instead of her, perhaps we would be having a different conversation."

She scowls. "So you're just taking the side of the first girl you ran across?"

"The present depends on the past; change the past, change the present. Though my experiences of this world have thus far rather borne out Zero's point of view."

"This world deserves to die."

"Why?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

"It is not to me."

"This world is utterly meaningless - and it's false."

"False in what way?"

"There's - I already knew, but the Flower showed me so much more - this world doesn't exist on its own, it's not real, the only real thing is the void that came before, where anything could happen - and everything happened, and nothing lasted - and the most powerful shoved out everyone else's possibilities, forced everything to go their way, and they broke everything, they created something that shouldn't exist and forced everyone else to exist in reference to them, and their world had meaning even if its meaning sucked but then they failed, and - one of them tried to imprint a story on their universe, and it echoed through the void, and our world's nothing more than an echo of an echo of an echo, we don't even have the meaning they did - we were created by accident, nothing cares, and nothing we do matters because everything returns to the void, and - "

"So it might as well return to the void where anything can happen, and where we're not bound by the chains of a false world."

"Well," Eliese says after a considering moment. "I suppose that's one way to think. Personally, I was never much in favor of letting anyone else dictate what meaning or lack thereof my life possesses."