Rahul Flashback Arc Finale
"He wasn't erased.
He chose to be forgotten.
Because love, to him, was more sacred than legacy."
— Archive Seal #0001, Eternal Dominion Core
Scene 1: The World Watches for a God Who Never Returned
After The Day the Stars Fled, Rahul was never seen again.
No tomb.
No crown.
No monument.
Just… absence.
The universe healed, but it feared him still.
Not out of hate.
Out of guilt.
"He burned reality for love.
And we asked for more," Eon once said.
Scene 2: The Child at the Gate
But one person saw him again.
A child.
In a field of quiet stars.
Alone. Crying.
Rahul sat beside him.
Gave him food. A story. A moment.
"Are you a god?" the child asked.
Rahul smiled.
"No. Just a man who remembers too much."
Scene 3: The Flame Left Behind
He didn't seal the Memoryflame.
He left it behind—hidden beneath the Citadel, locked by a name only one heir would ever speak.
Kaien.
He wrote a single sentence above the chamber:
"If you find this… you are what I could not be.
Don't make my mistakes. Burn differently."
Scene 4: The Final Conversation
Eon Thalor found Rahul one last time — standing beneath the first star that dared return.
Eon: "You're going to vanish?"
Rahul: "Not vanish. Just…
make room."
Eon: "For what?"
Rahul: "A boy who won't need to kill to be heard."
They stood in silence.
Eon offered his hand.
Rahul shook it.
That moment rewrote cosmic law.
Scene 5: The Goodbye
Rahul walked to the edge of reality.
He took a single breath.
Looked back once — not at the gods, or his enemies.
But at the memory of a woman with a voice like peace,
and a boy who once reached for his hand.
"Let them live."
And then he was gone.
No explosion. No portal. No death.
Just… silence.
Final Line — Kaien's Discovery
Centuries later, Kaien would read the sealed message at the core of the Citadel.
A single line etched in eternal fire:
"I wasn't the strongest.
Just the first to burn for something that mattered."
He stood there.
Silent.
Then whispered back:
"You were never alone."