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When the day of the tournament finals comes, Hawk is set to fight [[Red Bear]] in a dungeon match, where both opponents must go through the dungeon to pick up items and fight off demons as they reach the ring in the middle. Right as Hawk enters the ring to commence his fight, he is hit with another naming flashback, where this time refusing to name them will have their name be [[Daleth]]. As their match begins, Hawk is snapped out of his reverie by Red Bear. Aleph wins the fight, and so becomes the newest champion of Valhalla, which finally allows Hawk to use shops around town and lets Okamoto take over [[Haneda]]'s gym. | When the day of the tournament finals comes, Hawk is set to fight [[Red Bear]] in a dungeon match, where both opponents must go through the dungeon to pick up items and fight off demons as they reach the ring in the middle. Right as Hawk enters the ring to commence his fight, he is hit with another naming flashback, where this time refusing to name them will have their name be [[Daleth]]. As their match begins, Hawk is snapped out of his reverie by Red Bear. Aleph wins the fight, and so becomes the newest champion of Valhalla, which finally allows Hawk to use shops around town and lets Okamoto take over [[Haneda]]'s gym. | ||
While celebrating with Okamoto in his new gym, Hawk is approached by a [[Holy Knight]] named Hiroko, who requests his help in finding a child she lost in the confusion of an explosion that occurred at the [[Center]] 6 months prior. Believing that the ones responsible for the explosion, the scientists [[Hanada]] and [[Mekata]], were also responsible for the child's disappearance, she tracked the former of them to [[Madam]]'s mansion in Valhalla, and as Madam usually invites new Champions to her mansion, she wishes for Hawk to take her with him as a guest, which he agrees on doing. Coincidentally, Hawk receives the invitation from Madam's [[Alfred|butler]] at that same moment, so the two head to the location immediately. There, Hawk receives another flashback featuring a woman who, if he decides not to name, will be called [[Beth]]. When the flashback fades, Hawk is greeted by Madam, who requests that he find and bring in the same scientist that Hiroko was speaking about, Hanada, who had been recently working for her before fleeing. Madam offers them assistance in the form of her pet [[Cerberus]], after which they track Hanada down to the [[Slum (Shin Megami Tensei II)|Slum]]. When the party confronts him on the bottom floor, Hanada opens a portal to the [[Makai (Shin Megami Tensei II)|Makai]] and tries to order the [[Mercurius|demon]] that comes out of it to attack them, but it quickly kills him before turning it's attention onto Hawk's group. | While celebrating with Okamoto in his new gym, Hawk is approached by a [[Holy Knight]] named Hiroko, who requests his help in finding a child she lost in the confusion of an explosion that occurred at the [[Center]] 6 months prior. Believing that the ones responsible for the explosion, the scientists [[Hanada]] and [[Mekata]], were also responsible for the child's disappearance, she tracked the former of them to [[Madam]]'s mansion in Valhalla, and as Madam usually invites new Champions to her mansion, she wishes for Hawk to take her with him as a guest, which he agrees on doing. Coincidentally, Hawk receives the invitation from Madam's [[Alfred|butler]] at that same moment, so the two head to the location immediately. There, Hawk receives another flashback featuring a woman who, if he decides not to name, will be called [[Beth]]. When the flashback fades, Hawk is greeted by Madam, who requests that he find and bring in the same scientist that Hiroko was speaking about, Hanada, who had been recently working for her before fleeing. Madam offers them assistance in the form of her pet [[Cerberus]], after which they track Hanada down to the [[Slum (Shin Megami Tensei II)|Slum]]. When the party confronts him on the bottom floor, Hanada opens a portal to the [[Makai (Shin Megami Tensei II)|Makai]], the demon world, and tries to order the [[Mercurius|demon]] that comes out of it to attack them, but it quickly kills him before turning it's attention onto Hawk's group. | ||
Hawk's party defeats the demon and returns to Madam, who while disappointed, brushes it off to inform him that a messenger from the Center arrived looking for him. The man looking for Hawk comes forward and tells him to remember his real name, prompting Hawk into a final naming flashback where the man vaguely wonders what path Hawk will choose to take before asking that he give himself a name. If Hawk chooses not to, then he will be told that his name is Aleph, the same name that the man says when the flashback ends. The man introduces himself as Zayin and tells the now-named Aleph that he was originally a resident of the Center, and tells him and his party to come with him. | Hawk's party defeats the demon and returns to Madam, who while disappointed, brushes it off to inform him that a messenger from the Center arrived looking for him. The man looking for Hawk comes forward and tells him to remember his real name, prompting Hawk into a final naming flashback where the man vaguely wonders what path Hawk will choose to take before asking that he give himself a name. If Hawk chooses not to, then he will be told that his name is Aleph, the same name that the man says when the flashback ends. The man introduces himself as Zayin and tells the now-named Aleph that he was originally a resident of the Center, and tells him and his party to come with him. | ||
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Making his way to [[Old Roppongi|Roppongi]], Aleph comes across some [[Mutants (Shin Megami Tensei II)|Mutants]] guarding someone from view. The person in question is [[Hiruko (Deity)|Hiruko]], who allows Aleph to approach him and asks that he gather up [[Masakado]]'s body parts scattered across shrines in the Underground. After freeing the [[Kunitsukami]] dwelling in the shrines and taking the body parts they held, Aleph assembles Masakado's body and brings it to Hiruko so he can put Masakado's soul back into it, completely restoring him. Hiruko and Masakado then go to unseal the entrance of [[Sealed Iwato]] and ask that Aleph free all the [[Amatsukami]] imprisoned inside. If Aleph agrees, he proceeds to free each of the Amatsukami and will be thanked by [[Amaterasu]] before she leaves with Hiruko to go to the [[Diamond Realm]]. | Making his way to [[Old Roppongi|Roppongi]], Aleph comes across some [[Mutants (Shin Megami Tensei II)|Mutants]] guarding someone from view. The person in question is [[Hiruko (Deity)|Hiruko]], who allows Aleph to approach him and asks that he gather up [[Masakado]]'s body parts scattered across shrines in the Underground. After freeing the [[Kunitsukami]] dwelling in the shrines and taking the body parts they held, Aleph assembles Masakado's body and brings it to Hiruko so he can put Masakado's soul back into it, completely restoring him. Hiruko and Masakado then go to unseal the entrance of [[Sealed Iwato]] and ask that Aleph free all the [[Amatsukami]] imprisoned inside. If Aleph agrees, he proceeds to free each of the Amatsukami and will be thanked by [[Amaterasu]] before she leaves with Hiruko to go to the [[Diamond Realm]]. | ||
As Abaddon is nowhere to be found in the Underground, Aleph returns to Holytown to assist Zayin in his rebellion. They head to the Factory to liberate the people forced to work there, but when they try to free any of the prisoners at the Internment Camp, all of them refuse to leave and are content with being forced to work. Zayin suspects that the [[Watchtower]] is responsible for the people's odd behavior, so Aleph follows him to the Watchtower where he will be unable to enter unless he has 10 points in his intelligence stat. At the top of the tower, Aleph finds Zayin limping, having been defeated by the [[Belphegor|demon]] guarding the place, so he beats him in his stead. The demon's defeat unlocks the room [[Siren]] is imprisoned in, whose singing is the cause of the Factory workers' brainwashing. As her singing is due to the grief at being separated from her lover, [[Petersen]], Aleph manages to open a portal to the | As Abaddon is nowhere to be found in the Underground, Aleph returns to Holytown to assist Zayin in his rebellion. They head to the Factory to liberate the people forced to work there, but when they try to free any of the prisoners at the Internment Camp, all of them refuse to leave and are content with being forced to work. Zayin suspects that the [[Watchtower]] is responsible for the people's odd behavior, so Aleph follows him to the Watchtower where he will be unable to enter unless he has 10 points in his intelligence stat. At the top of the tower, Aleph finds Zayin limping, having been defeated by the [[Belphegor|demon]] guarding the place, so he beats him in his stead. The demon's defeat unlocks the room [[Siren]] is imprisoned in, whose singing is the cause of the Factory workers' brainwashing. As her singing is due to the grief at being separated from her lover, [[Petersen]], Aleph manages to open a portal to the Makai to find him and bring him back to Siren, which stops her singing and liberates Factory workers. | ||
Optionally, in the same area of the Makai where Aleph found Petersen, [[Tiferet Town|Tiferet]], Aleph can find a spatial distortion that teleports him to a mysterious facility where multiple people with dilapidated appearances are tied to chairs and hooked up to small machines. Aleph discovers these are the residents of Arcadia, and reaching the top floor, he finds the real Gimel, who reveals that everything in Arcadia was just a virtual simulation and then attacks Aleph's party to find the truth hidden. After defeating Gimel, Aleph is given a choice between inputting his name as the new administrator of Arcadia, destroying the console maintaining Arcadia | Optionally, in the same area of the Makai where Aleph found Petersen, [[Tiferet Town|Tiferet]], Aleph can find a spatial distortion that teleports him to a mysterious facility where multiple people with dilapidated appearances are tied to chairs and hooked up to small machines. Aleph discovers these are the true appearance of the residents of Arcadia, and reaching the top floor, he finds the real Gimel, who reveals that everything in Arcadia was just a virtual simulation and then attacks Aleph's party to find the truth hidden. After defeating Gimel, Aleph is given a choice between inputting his name as the new administrator of Arcadia, destroying the console maintaining Arcadia, thereby destroying Arcadia and killing all the residents hooked up to the simulation, or simply leaving it be. | ||
Returning to Holytown, the Center Bishop announces over the [[Millennium News Network]] that lest Zayin turn himself in, the air supply in Holytown will be cut off, forcing Zayin to comply and head to the Center HQ, making Aleph follow after him. There, Aleph is told by the Bishop that the [[Center Elders]] wish to speak directly to him, so he makes his way through the dungeon, along the way encountering a blue Elder who tells him about how wrong the other Elders are in their methods of bringing about the Millennium Kingdom. Continuing through the HQ, Aleph is stopped by a speaking door that asks him questions that shift his alignment before allowing him to pass through. Once he makes it to the room just before the Elders', Aleph finds a petrified Zayin, and then enters the Elders' room to confront them. There, the Elders angrily call him and Zayin traitors and then transform, revealing themselves to be the Archangels [[Raphael]] and [[Uriel]]. They both attack his party but are slain, enraging the final Elder who also drops his disguise, revealing himself as the Archangel [[Michael]]. He is killed just the same, however, and in his last breaths, he pleads to God to save them and deliver justice to the party. The blue Elder comes forward again to say what a shame it was that they were killed but then warns Aleph that his fight is not over as a being claiming to be [[YHVH]] attacks them. After Aleph defeats the perceived god, the blue Elder sheds her disguise to reveal she is the Archangel [[Gabriel]], and explains that the Elders, in their desperation for a Messiah to complete the Millennium Kingdom, tried to create their own Messiah, causing God to abandon them. She then directs Aleph to Zayin, who was cured of his petrification upon the Elders' defeat. He thanks Aleph for his help but then is interrupted by an alarm altering them to an emergency occurring in Holytown, so Zayin sends Aleph to assess the situation for him. | |||
There, near the Grand Church, Aleph finds emerging from the ground the massive tail of a demon that is draining the [[Magnetite]] of the residents in the district. Zayin determines that the tail is coming from the Makai, so Aleph places the pillars he has gathered throughout the game at altars around the Underground to create a larger portal to the Makai. This portal sends him and his party to Yesod, where he can find the demon that the tail belongs to, which is [[Moloch]]. From there, Aleph explores the Makai, defeating demons guarding passageways and holding keys to progress further into the realm. Once he reaches the entrance of the [[Beriah Corridor]], Aleph is stopped by a demon named [[Gemori]], who forcibly takes him to [[Keter Castle]]. There, he is greeted by [[Louis Cyphre]], the man lounging around bars throughout the game providing hints on where to go, who reveals he is the demon lord [[Lucifer]]. Lucifer explains that as he knew Elders were working in defiance of God's will, he simply wanted for Him to enact his judgment on them, but was surprised to find out it was Aleph that defeated them instead. He goes on to reveal that the YHVH that Aleph defeated at the Center was not the real God and was simply a fake created from the Elders' fervent belief, but even with that being the case, he is unsure how he could have defeated it and questions if he is actually [[Satan]], God's tool of judgment, with the reason he had ordered Aleph be brought to him being to determine this. Verifying that he is not, however, he still warns that Satan's return is imminent as his other half, [[Seth]], is beginning to awaken. Wishing to test Aleph's strength to see if he is capable of aiding him in his inevitable battle against Satan, Lucifer then sends Aleph away, telling him that if he has the strength and will to defeat Satan, he will return to Keter Castle and join him. | |||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
* In the Super Famicom version of ''Shin Megami Tensei II'', when Nadja fuses with Hiroko at the Internment Camp, a message will pop up saying that each of Hiroko's stats have been raised by one point. However, this is bugged; Hiroko's stats will not actually increase. Additionally, if Aleph does not have Nadja with him when he rescues Hiroko, his stats will receive the stat increase instead. These bugs were fixed in future versions of the game. | * In the Super Famicom version of ''Shin Megami Tensei II'', when Nadja fuses with Hiroko at the Internment Camp, a message will pop up saying that each of Hiroko's stats have been raised by one point. However, this is bugged; Hiroko's stats will not actually increase. Additionally, if Aleph does not have Nadja with him when he rescues Hiroko, his stats will receive the stat increase instead. These bugs were fixed in future versions of the game. | ||
* Aleph received his COMP as a Colosseum tournament prize.<ref>{{Cite Game|quote=男：あんた アームターミナル持ってるね | * Aleph received his COMP as a Colosseum tournament prize.<ref>{{Cite Game|quote=男：あんた アームターミナル持ってるね | ||
コロシアムで勝ちぬいて | コロシアムで勝ちぬいて | ||