The Council opened the vault, expecting to find two corpses. Instead, they found Romeo and Juliet standing over a shattered Origin Core. To the public, the news was leaked: Romeo had murdered Juliet, and Juliet had dealt a lethal blow to Romeo.
The city mourned, but in the shadows of the "Under-Verona" slums, the two enemies were hiding. They had faked their deaths using a Montague neuro-toxin that mimicked cardiac arrest. Now, they were ghosts. They began working together, not out of affection, but because they were the only two people on the planet with the skill sets to burn Aethelgard to the ground.