Kael: grinning Hah! That's one god down I can't believe it… we actually beat Time itself.
Yuna: Don't celebrate too early Kael Do you feel that? The air… it's changing.
Kael: frowns Changing how?
Yuna: It's too quiet No it's… wrong I can't even hear my own breathing.
Ryo: Silence has arrived.
The hall darkens. A colossal shadow stretches across the infinite chamber The Judge of Silence descends her form impossible to fully see Wherever her gaze falls sound itself is stripped away Even the trembling of the ground becomes mute.
Judge of Silence: …
Kael: clutching his throat Damn it! My voice it's gone! I can't even hear myself shout!
Yuna: terrified Not just your voice… Kael look! The sound of your heartbeat it's disappearing.
Kael: eyes wide What the hell!? I can't even hear my pulse!
Ryo: Do not fear This is her dominion. She devours voices words meaning In her silence all truths vanish.
Judge of Silence: …Ryo… anomaly… your law… will… end…
The words are not spoken but etched directly into their minds crushing and heavy like iron.
Kael: Tch! Talking in our heads now? What a cheap trick.
Yuna: No… Kael don't She isn't just taking sound She's erasing expression itself Thoughts names songs even prayers… nothing survives her silence.
Kael: glares at the Judge Then how the hell are we supposed to fight something that erases every word we speak?
Ryo: By speaking a word she cannot erase.
Yuna: confused A word she can't erase Ryo is that even possible?
Ryo: Watch.
Ryo steps forward The silence grips him like chains Every step feels heavier every thought stripped Yet his eyes remain calm He opens his mouth and the Court shakes.
Ryo: I am.
The words thunder through the silence The Judge recoils her endless form rippling For the first time sound echoes in the Infinite Court again.
Judge of Silence: Impossible… no word… no voice… can exist before me.
Ryo: And yet here I am A truth above silence A law above erasure My voice cannot be undone.
Kael: punches his palm Hah! That's what I'm talking about Crush her Ryo!
Yuna: Careful… she's not done.
The Judge expands her body forming endless mouths They open but no sound comes out only a silence so sharp it cuts through matter Walls of the Court split apart and vanish into void.
Kael: She's shredding reality with… nothing!?
Yuna: It's not nothing It's silence sharpened into a blade.
Ryo: Then I will answer with a voice sharper still.
Ryo's voice rises calm but absolute Every syllable shakes the Court The sharpened silence strikes him but each attack melts away under the weight of his declaration.
Ryo: No silence will take me No silence will take them.
The Judge staggers back her mouths closing one by one The Infinite Court trembles as her dominion collapses under Ryo's decree.
Judge of Silence: I… cannot…
Ryo: You never could.
With a final word Ryo's voice shatters her completely The Judge of Silence dissolves into dust that cannot echo leaving only stillness.
Kael: That's two! Time and Silence gone just like that.
Yuna: softly Ryo… your words… they didn't just fight her They created sound itself.
Ryo: turns to the remaining Judges Who is next?
The shadows of the Infinite Court grow restless Another Judge rises his body a raging inferno the Judge of Flame.