"Why?! She's probably already died more times than we have!"

Red's heavy breathing finally quieted down to a dull, murmuring groan, as an abundant excess of energy slowly vented and steamed off from the surface of his magitek mecha.

Eventually, he brought the thing over beside the empress with its weapons powered down.

"...Look, I dunno all that much about all that stuff you were talkin' about before- about other worlds and cycles of life and death and souls and how nothin's ever gonna change from that.

But even from what you told us, we're all here- Vaikuntha is here- to try and fix that, right? So things are already different from how they were before. And now there's actually a chance things can finally be fixed, right?

So I dunno how many times it's taken you to even get this far, but maybe one'a these times, you can stop bein' so afraid. You aren't always gonna get it right on the first-- or even the fifthieth try.

...take my word for it."