[... He thought something like this might happen. Even so, he keeps speaking. Pharos deserves to know, at least.]

... They didn't want it to happen. They didn't want Nyx to be called down, to end everything. They wanted to prevent the Fall, with all they had. They learned to face Death, and to overcome it. To not fear it, to stand against it.

It was their choice, in the end. I gave them the chance to kill me, to end their memories of Tartarus, Personas, to return to their normal lives, with no knowledge of the Fall... but they wouldn't. They decided to fight.