Between Two Fires

Finally, God decides to answer the suffering of humanity.

Jacquot stands near the pope. He joined the papal guard soon after a group of soldiers rescued him from the tree in Normandy. Suddenly the crowd gasps, and Jacquot sees a second pope. The second pope accuses the seated pope of serving the devil.

Thomas knows that he needs to kill the devil-pope. As Thomas rushes the stage, he sees the lion-knight that he knows from the doomed castle. Thomas stabs the lion-knight with his sword, and it crumbles. Thomas gets shot in the chest with an arrow. Jacquot appears, horrified that he shot Thomas. Jacquot asks Thomas to forgive him as Cardinal Cyriac bites the skin off Jacquot’s face. Thomas launches himself at the pope and cleaves his head in two with this sword; however, one of the devil-pope’s hands grabs the sword and flings it away. A fly’s head grows out of the devil-pope’s cloven head. Thomas knows that it is Baal-Zebuth and tries to hit it with the spearhead, but the lion-knight, already partially healed, rips off Thomas’s arm.

Delphine screams in horror as Thomas dies. Baal-Zebuth commands one of the men to throw a spear at Pope Clement, but Delphine intercepts the spear, which pierces her stomach.