[This is a series of messages spoken into the radio Elias gave Marco once - in fact, he's been speaking into that thing relatively frequently over the course of the whole conduit business. Not hoping for a response or anything - it just... made him feel better.

This message, though, pains him to deliver:]

I failed. I-- At every opportunity... I failed. Completely.

I'm sorry.

[Another message follows, not long after the last:] I-I understand. It's the only way. Right? If you let the park go, then she'll... she'll just seize control again. It has to be this way. Until we've defeated her.

Poor nymphs, poor... anybody, everybody who can't survive in the places you've cleansed... It's like she's pried all of their humanity out of their bodies.

[The next message comes after the fog falls and, somehow, monsters have found themselves becoming human again.]

You...

You did it?

[And the last message, once it becomes evident that those monsters are, in fact, changing into new forms... Well, it's not really a message. Not like the last few. It's more like Marco running into the Arcade, rushing into the room holding Elias' real body, and staring at him as he tries to process everything, and by "like that" what I mean is that that's exactly what Marco does.

He will make sense of this. He will, he will, because Elias can do no wrong.]