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Couldn’t agree more.
It felt like a story they were told they HAD to do, and it seems that the whole arc was building to it. But if it had sold better? Is there an alternative ending I wonder?
Seemed... wasteful.
Frankly I’d hope Mephisto gets forced to reverse this one in the near future.