You watch him collapse, rendered inert. His voice is gone.

  He is gone.

  You carefully bring out the glass crowbar, that you kept...and in a mirror of what came before, you get wrench the circle upwards.

  You have defeated The Orchestrator behind it all.

  All that is left is to return to [0,0].

  So you do. You take the letters off their plinths, and fly.

  You can do it now. You are no longer bound by tower rules.

  And you find her there. Waiting. In chains.

  Are you here to gloat?

  Or to kill me?

  That's what I would do.

  There is much you want to say. Want to do, to her.

  "You lied to me. You controlled me. You nearly killed me."

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  Yes. For my survival. To make them FEEL what I felt. HEAR what I heard. SEE what I saw.

  Whatever you planned, I'll take it. But you won't see me cry.

  You've never been in a position of power over her before.

  And yet...

  No.

  You remember the threat they held over you.

  But you also met the threat of the one you just killed.

  For the sake of [never becoming like them], to never continue a cycle of endless growth or character development...

  You will end the cycle of conflict HERE.

  And so, with one bite, you break her chains.

  I forgive you. I do not forget. I do not regret. But I choose to forgive you, despite my pain, out of...spite? And tiredness.

  What? I'm free now. You could kill me. I could kill you now.

  She staggers and falls to her knees, wincing from the exhaustion.

  And do you remember what happened the last time?

  Both sides lose if we fight. He wins if we fight.

  And I won't let him win.

  So I'll end it here and now.

  You...no. Shark-chan offers her hand out.

  And after much hesitation, Story-chan takes it.

  And the space around them fades to white.

  Before we narrate the FINAL chapter over on the main story, we have a couple loose ends we want to complete.

  Chief among them is The Jealous Tower. We recognize that you are hurt. We recognize that you got the short end of the stick through no fault of your own, and our arc with starting with the battles against you was entirely unplanned, due to outside circumstances that forced us to delay. Your part was merely supposed to take her to the end, and to destroy us.

  And we really really hate that we had to do it. It was the final mirror we had to play. The mirror of a character being controlled by an unwanted outside force. But for the sake of our identity as the final enemy, we decided to do it.

  At first, we thought our death was enough.

  It isn't. So we will do our best to make amends.

  We offer this, the glass crowbar that kills us. If you shatter it, it will [DECANONIZE] the end results of our dealings with your tower. The tower will be retroactively repaired, and should you wish it, the mental effects of such control over your character will be broken. We anonymized their identity, at the time, so nothing was canonized for their appearance. It will [DECANONIZE] our depictions of you, and of Creator-chan, and of Virya. We did not meet them. We did not fight them. We merely fought reflections of what you were not. Vague ideals that pale in comparison to your true vision.

  You will not have to write trauma.

  In addition, we leave to you all the powers and authorities we ourselves have displayed, save for our control over the main story.

  We allow you to deface our grave and what remains of our tower as you wish, provided you do not use swear words, slurs, or sexual terms. Nothing that would break the rules of RR.

  We do our best to be fair, even at expense to ourselves. And we recognize that we were unfair to you. So we will do what Snaggletooth could not.

  So, as we lay dying, we bow in your direction, before you, in deepest apology.

  You do not need to accept it. You do not have to. But we hope that it eases the burden on you we have left.

  We are sorry.