Saif's eyes welled up with tears, but he quickly held them back and smiled at them all with a true genuine warm smile. "Thank you guys." That's all he manages to say, and all that he needs to say to convey his emotions. They all return to him a genuine smile back, with some also almost having tears in their eyes, and others do have tears rolling down their faces.
They all then slowly unravel from each other, like they were all entangled with one another. They all shuffle themselves and stand in 2 parallel rows, a kind of tunnel that points towards Purgatory's door. Saif's eyes after seeing this slides and looks up at it again, and swallows hard. The memories start to flood back to him. But then he suddenly looked back down and remembered he wasn't alone. He was never alone whenever they were around. He feels an unbelievable amount of comfort and confidence wash over him from remembering this feeling, and he gives his signature one eye brow curled up and one side of the mouth with a smile. A smile he makes when he is determined. He starts to immediately walk towards the door, each step now feeling like chains that held him back were breaking. Like the past was slowly letting go of him finally. All the memories, either horrible or depressing, felt like they were little by little finally washing away. When he finally reached the edge of this world and the beginning Purgatory, he stopped. This sudden stop made everyone nervous for a moment, as his rhythm of walking before was too fast for this sudden stop, but then they all gathered hope that he will still walk inside, but worry is clear on their faces even though they are suppressing it. Saif wasn't standing there out of fear. That no longer was his concern. Even though it was there, in a huge amount still, he was still going to go inside, if not for himself, then for them.
What made him stop was what he saw inside. It wasn't shock he felt, it was weirdly melancholy. This place that was once a part of Hell that has opened to the world, now look at it. The first level in absolute ruin. Nothing of what it was. 'Even the Purgatory dies.' That's what Saif thought to himself as he looked at it in destruction and ruin. The same thought he had when he was about to escape back then. Was he sad that it was destroyed? No. It was that this place was what felt familiar for so long. It was change that he was feeling. Now he understands. He was happy that it was safe now. Nothing no longer needed to be worried about. 'Another death.' He thinks to himself as he finally takes the first step back inside of Purgatory. The step echoed inside as he dropped down a step to get inside. He stands now inside, in the darkness of level one, or what was level one. When he pulls his body up straight fully, he can hear cheering from behind him, and steps getting louder. When he turns around, he immediately gets impacted and swallowed up by a wave of them running at him and group hugging him again, but even tighter.
They all laugh and smile, relieved that it's now truly over. They are all overwhelmed by it all to the point that they don't say anything, and just stick with each other. Saif smiled too, and now, he finally broke and tears finally escaped his eyes as well. They stand there, in the same horror that they once faced, now not afraid. Not any more. Crying in each other's embrace. Now finally no longer inside of Purgatory.
Then, we cut to a security guard outside standing guard and telling people who are complaining about the delays and why they aren't inside yet when it was opening time and they had tickets. Frustration and annoyance was evident on his face from all of it. He then gets a call from his walkie talkie from someone. He picks it up and answers with, "Akh! What now! We are busy enough with all of this crowd control bullshit we have to take care of! What more do they want us to do? Do they need us to do more pampering for those 10 again? Damn it, this is all such bullshit." He said in a rude manner to whoever was calling. On the other side was Ethon and he said to him, "Oh, not much more. I was just going to just give the signal to let everyone back inside." The head guard, now sweating like bullets from realising it was Ethon who called him and not his coworker tries to salvage the situation by trying to give any type of explanation to his comment, but Ethon tells him to save it and just let everyone in and that he will deal with him later. The guard, visibly nervous and doesn't want to lose his job, orders everyone to help in keeping order as people re-enter back inside.
Cutting back to Saif and everyone else. They all stand near the gate from the inside, as they have left Purgatory to wait to get Saif's family. When they finally spot them in the distance as they are one of the first to re-enter, they run towards Saif, and he does the same. They embrace one another in a tight hug, and Saif tells them gently, "I did it." That's all they needed to hear for relief to wash over their bodies and so that they could celebrate and cheer for him for facing his fear. In the background, someone else also enters with a lot of bodyguards. It was a man and a woman and a young man all in fancy attire. They all looked sophisticated with a hint of arrogance in the way they presented themselves. As they get near the group, Victoria runs up to them and greets, "Mum! Dad! Kenny!" And hugs all of them, and they embrace her back with a smile. Saif's father then looks back at him and greets, "Allian. It's good to see you again." And offers him a handshake. Allen looks down at his hand for a moment, then his face softens as he shakes his hand back and says, "It's great to see you too." Saif's father then also greets Kenny and says, "And wouldn't it little Kenny. You really look like your dad in a suit." Kenny smiles and has a show of more confidence from his words, as he took them as a great compliment.
Saif's mum then approaches Victoria's mother and hugs each other, "Oh it's so good to see you again." Victoria's mum said to Saif's mum. "I did too so much. We need to sit together after this and catch up." Saif's mum said, proposing. Victoria's mum smiles and agrees and adds how it's been too long and she wants to know everything that happened with them for the past 4 months since they needed to cut contact for Saif's and the group's sake. Saif's parents aren't of the upper class like them, they are upper middle class, but Victoria's parents look like they are of the 1%. It wasn't always like that. They once loathed each other. But as they had the same goal of getting back their children, it slowly brought them close.
Victoria's father and mother then came up to Saif as they smiled and put their hands on his shoulders. "We are happy you were able to face your fear, Saif." Victoria's mother announces. Then Victoria's father adds, "You are strong for being about to go in on your own accord. We are glad you deserved your title as leader still." Saif returns to them with a smile and says, "I am glad too." Leo then suddenly yelled out, "MUM! DAD! SIS! OVER HERE!" And then bolted to his family. Then, everyone else's parents started to arrive and they would all go to them and everyone would meet them. Emma was an exception however, as she sat in her wheel chair, trying to look fine and well on the outside, but she knew her parents wouldn't come today, like every other day they didn't show up. Her grip on her chair tightened, and noticing this, John gently picked her hand into her and held it tightly yet gently as he possibly could. She looked up to him and when she saw his smile, she truly felt like everything was gonna be okay. Her toxic need for them finally washed away, but she still held tight to his hand as she talked with his parents.
After a lot of greeting and chatting in the middle of the hall area, Ethon got up on an object and yelled loudly, "Family of the people of Purgatory, if I could have your attention!" Everyone then turned their heads to look at him with their full attention as he then after a pause he adds, "Thank you all for coming. And thank you all for trusting me, no, trusting us with all of this. Thank you for letting us all face the fear that haunted us all, may it be those who were inside Purgatory, or outside of it. So, today, let's celebrate this day by all heading inside and exploring the new Purgatory, and the new things it could give us. But until then, what do you all say we eat first!" As he finished this announcement, he raised one hand up as everyone clapped and cheered for him, even those who were just passing by and weren't part of this but enjoyed his speech. As he gets down, he is met with Saif and Isaac and John and Leo. Isaac was first to say, "So, I wasn't the only one practicing speechs." They all give a good chuckle to that and Ethon says, "You know it. Damn, that was harder than I thought when it is family. How do you make up speeches almost on the spot when it's anyone, Saif?" Saif then replies, "Welllll, it's more of a practice makes perfect thing." Ethons then says, "Well, I guess it's a noob versus pro kind of thing when it comes down to it." John then says, "Oh come on, you did great. And it was a fantastic speech, you know." Leo was up next to say, "And don't act like most of that wasn't improvised as we all know you couldn't right that down before hand even if it would kill you." Another chuckle erupts from the group. Saif was next to say, "By the way, I never was able to say this, but thanks Ethon. Thank you for taking the risk none of us would. It was reckless, but turns out, it was the right amount of reckless we needed. So really, thank you Ethon." John was next and he completely agreed and thanked him as well, and after him was Isaac with the same sentiment and thanked him as well, and after then was finally Leo and he agreed as well and thanked him for it too.
Ethon, now visibly emotional, says with a quivering voice, "Aw, thanks guys. Honestly, I don't know what I would have done if it all didn't work out in the end. Damn it, I was supposed to be making you guys feel emotional, not the other way around!" He says that last part in frustration, but with no heat behind it. It was mostly out of relief than anything else. But he tries to compose himself and tries to change the subject and says, "Well, let's go because food will get cold." And rushes away. Leo while walking to everyone again put his arm around John and said while tearing up, "Come on man, don't leave us like that when we are all in this emotional state!" John, visibly frustrated, says, "If you are going to cry, then do it off me! You are getting me drenched in your tears! And EW, get away with your snot!!"
Saif and Isaac laugh with each other after seeing all of everything that happened. Saif, suddenly then sees a white figure in the crowd as the busy hall gets muffled out by bare foot footsteps. He immediately darts his head to the direction of the sound, which pulled Isaac's attention but Saif didn't notice. All he focused on was finding her. When he found her with his eyes, she immediately disappeared into the crowd, and slowly faded from sight. 'Another hallucination', that's all Saif thought about as he realised Isaac was shaking his shoulder and calling for him. When he looked back at him, Isaac asked, "What happened? Is everything okay? What's going on?" Worried, thinking that something is happening. Saif then trying to calm him blurts out, "Oh, no no no, don't worry about it. It's nothing. Just another hallucination of 01." Isaac stares at him for a moment as Saif slowly puts his hand over his mouth and Isaac, worriedly and scaredly asks, "Of who?"