The Promised Canaan Episode 6 Part 1

Bael starts narrating things by saying he belongs to a guild of arbiters that employs a certain intelligence agency. One day he got a certain report from one of the Agents (Ose). He calls this the trigger that started everything this event.

Anyways, Bael brings up that there was a certain case that involved some Transients and Tokyo natives. Otherworlders involved with this event came to know that Tokyo existed through that case and became summoned here. The one thing in common with all their testimonies was a certain keyword: Canaan.

Bael never knew of that name, which is natural given that nobody knew of it. Not even the other World Representatives know that it’s the name of a world that is already destroyed, but when he heard it he knew that some deep tie of fate connects him to it.

It was intuition that told him, the demon Bael from the world of Gehenna, that he could gain great power from it. He also says fate is something known by yourself and it. If you look for it, it will cross your path. Bael also calls it the thing that can surpass roles, powers, and even the walls that divide the worlds, though his investigations after that became extremely difficult.

Bael wondered whether the Shadows made up of memories of many worlds would have any clues, so he pursued every lead he could. Through that he learned of the existence of Canaan’s World Pillar Dagon, and that after losing his body he was sleeping as memories within a part of Babel Tower, the tower that unifies the worlds.

Bael describes Babel Tower as a Pillar that gathers memories from all worlds and stores them as records for preservation. As such it would also record memories of the worlds beyond the 23 divided by the walls. When he found Dagon’s records, he was shocked by what he found. He learned that before falling to Gehenna, he or ‘someone like him’ existed in Canaan, and that Baal received faith as Canaan’s World Representative.

Bael was delighted to discover this since it meant he once qualified to fight in the battle for dominance held in Tokyo. He wanted that power no matter what, so he devised a plan. This plan was reviving the destroyed world of Canaan and reconnecting it to Tokyo so that he could become the 24th World Representative.

Bael set off trying to implement this plan by negotiating with Dagon. Dagon agreed to help under the condition that he would be harboring a certain person until the right time came to return them from whence they came. Bael went on to prepare the vessels needed for Dagon’s thing, starting with getting Old Ones Dagon to be Canaan Dagon’s body, and he comments that having the same name means he has a very strong bond with Canaan.

Bael talks about how memories is just information if there isn’t a body to hold it in. To bring back the world, he’d need more people to be vessels. Bael heard about how Dagon was able to regenerate his servants when Dagon was just a tentacle back at the secret island. As he was now though, he doesn’t have the power to bring back all of Canaan’s people, which was why he needed more people.

Eventually the time to set Bael’s plan in motion came. Disaster struck and Tokyo laid in ruins, and Bael made use of his centralized position to take advantage of Tokyo’s evacuation procedures. He looked into those who could act as the vessels and had them gather where he needed them.

Bael says he used all kinds of information for this plan, and once everyone was gathered, he joined the stage as one of those people himself, becoming the contender for World Representative Baal.

Back to the present, everyone is on edge at Bael’s revealing of himself. Tangaroa accuses him of being the one to have everyone given the memories of another and made to act as them while he’s still laid out on the ground after being struck by Bael’s two clubs. Bael in turn expresses surprise that Tangaroa can still bring himself to talk.

Bael still calls Tangaroa Yam before admitting to being behind everything. Dagon’s tentacle artifacts are what brainwash people and tamper with memories, but it was all Bael’s idea. Astaroth starts talking and refers to Bael as Gehenna’s eastern army general before mentioning they’ve heard a bit about his powers. This is the power to give people knowledge to the point they seem like someone different and making them invisible. Astaroth is shocked that Bael can use it this way.

Anyways, Astaroth asks if Bael used them. Bael protests that using him is such an ugly way of phrasing it and that Bael was just fulfilling the promise he made with them. He points out that Astaroth really did learn of Astarte’s memories more this way.

As he talks he unfurls his batlike shadow wings, then says that this artifact has the power to show someone’s desires. It also has the power to show them a substitute that can pass for the real thing. If it causes someone to live in another world as someone else, that means that person wanted that situation to happen. This can work even if, say, someone was tired of how cruel their original world was and wanted to go to another one and become someone else.

Bael says that if Astaroth became invisible to people, they only turned out that way because they wanted to be so. He supposes that Astaroth wanted that because they were afraid of how other people would like at them. Astaroth doesn’t respond to this, so Bael moves on to thank everyone and releases an aura that presses down upon everyone. He says he now has the position of Canaan’s World Representative, the one designated as invincible by the world.

Dagon is shocked by this, and Bael asks if this was beyond his imagination. According to Dagon’s memories, Astarte was supposed to chose Baal to be Representative, but Astarte rejected him. Astaroth speaks up to agree with this, saying that she noticed her childhood friend that she knew well had become someone else.

Bael doesn’t contradict this and says she must have had a slight feeling of a disconnect. It’s probably because she used Astaroth’s body, but Bael moves on. It’s because of how things went that Astarte picked him to become World Representative. You ask about this, so Bael brings up that a certain condition was changed. That would be your returning to Tokyo.

Everyone is shocked by this, and Dagon tries to talk about that promise to Bael. Bael preempts him by saying it was the promise that was already made with him. Astarte making that promise with Bael however was an easy thing to do for him. He comments on how kind she was to not want you caught up in Canaan’s fate.

Bael assures you he’ll uphold that promise as a specialist in the law and a lawyer. If he doesn’t return you, the trophy, back then it won’t mean anything to him either. You decide to ask him something, and Bael agrees to hear you out. You ask if Astarte knew that everyone else was someone from Tokyo being possessed.

Bael seems surprised you’d ask that and says it’s a sharp question. But to answer...no. Bael never informed her of that either. You react with outrage, and Bael asks if that means you don’t want to go back to Tokyo. You refuse to go back without everyone else, and Bael is unruffled as he says he’ll respect your decision. As a lawyer he won’t force you to change your mind, then asks what you want to have happen.

You demand that everyone be let go, even if you have to defeat him to do it. He tells you to try to calm down before asking if you understand what it is you’re asking for. Should memories be separated from their host bodies, they’ll go back to being information. For the people of Canaan, this may as well be death. He asks if you can abandon the people you spent all that time with.

You are reluctant to answer, and Bael hammers the point down some more as he mentions it goes for Resheph, Moloch, Kothar-wa-Khasis, and even Dagon. All of them gained a new life and a new body here in Canaan. Are you really planning on abandoning all of them?

Dagon however tells you to not listen to Bael as his argument is just sophistry. You have nothing to hesitate about, as everyone from Canaan is little more than a memory from a destroyed world. It was just chance that they gained a new life, so if they lose it, they just go back to being what they already were.

Bael says that if that’s an attempt of persuasion then it was a bad one, one that doesn’t account for people’s feelings as he turns to you. You are unable to bring yourself to respond, and you can look at either him or Dagon.

Anyways, Bael says it seems you understand. If those who died can have a body again and a new life, they could form new connections. Who could possibly forsake that? Bael says it’s because something can’t be abandoned so easily that all becomes lost, the only possible conclusion. This goes even if it means stepping on someone else’s dignity.

Bael talks about how everything is in accordance with love. People give love and consideration to one another, which leads to everyone’s wishes becoming reality. He calls this both wonderful and harsh. A rumbling happens in the distance, and when you ask about it, Bael says the time has come.

Dagon asks if Bael was aiming to set this whole situation up the entire time. Bael cops to it, and the rumbling increases. You initially think it’s an earthquake before thinking it’s even bigger than that and comparing it to the end of the world.

Sounds of something bursting crop up, and Bael asks if you remember that Canaan is a place that’s already destroyed. When you ask what he’s getting at, he asks after that whether you remember that Canaan has been recreated from memories. You confirm and again try to ask what he’s getting at.

Bael says that based on those premises, this world will have to relive through its destruction as well. In other words, Canaan always had a time limit placed on it. You either don’t understand or do in fact understand. Either way Bael says that Canaan was reset by the will of its people. It also can’t stop with the time reset either, which Bael says it can only either delay things or turn back time. Baal becoming World Representative is the trigger that brings Canaan to its end, and this is unavoidable.

Bael then points out the angels from Eden are arriving to announce the end of the world. Special element angels start descending into all of Canaan in huge numbers, and Astaroth recognizes them as Eden’s invasion forces. Bael confirms that fact, then elaborates saying that those angels attack other worlds whose faith has shaken, steal that faith, brand the enemies as demons, and send them to the disposal world Gehenna.

You ask about the angels being Eden’s invader units, so Bael tells you that worlds on the verge of ruin are blank zones of faith, highly sought after prey for other worlds. Canaan was attacked by these angels too when it was falling, though which came first means little now.

But anyways the angel invasion is the last thing Dagon remembers, which means he lost to them and Canaan was lost after that. When Canaan was remade, the angels would be sure to come back again as well. Said angels start attacking Dagon, and Tangaroa tries to get up to help until you talk him down because of his injuries.

More and more angels fall in from above through holes punched into the ground, and Astaroth says you’ll all be buried alive at this rate. Kijimuna attempts to defend by using his NP, and the episode battle begins as the angels sound their trumpets. Though before that happens, the title card pops up. This chapter is called After the End of the World.