A World Underneath chapter told from outside Xavier's direct perspective. A figure in a duck-billed cap — strongly implied to be Isaiah — hands documents to an EVER operative concerning Josephine's experiments on MC. The scene confirms: Isaiah killed MC's grandmother Josephine; EVER is controlling Isaiah via a drug that prevents him from devolving into a Wanderer; surviving Philosian loyalists still want MC to complete the eternal sacrifice cycle; and EVER is systematically collecting Light Evolvers as strategic assets — a list that includes both Isaiah and Soren, Xavier's former Backtracker comrades.