"Oh yeah..." Alastair tried not to think about his failure too much. "I didn't know what would happen, either. There's no...no Leviathan, here, nowhere to permanently store souls, but...technically there shouldn't have been a way to reverse it either. Not unless someone with the same power releases the soul."

He turned thoughtful for a moment, as he sat there curled around Kiryu, but he didn't come to any new and brilliant conclusions that he hadn't before. He still didn't fully understand the mechanics of this new City-borne Oricalchos, but he was afraid to test it too much. Just in case.