Luna Hazuki as Amostia's creation counterpart
I think that I now have more context regarding what Amostia said in the "outlaw and lychgate" short story in regards to Luna's corpse:
“We’re going on a journey. No one can get in our way.”
“Tell me who’s inside that coffin!”
“…It’s a corpse. You all called her—‘Luna Hazuki’.”
“–!?”
“And to me, she is—” ("outlaw and lychgate", chapter 3, scene 4).
Now, I believe he meant to say "to me she is a counterpart of creation".
We know that Amostia has been seeking for a "creation counterpart", since Seth had failed (or rather, had deliberately refused to) to give him one.
“Amostia” has no one
the little boy who is the symbol of destruction
he’ll probably continue
to desperately seek out a counterpart ("creation girl, Gretel").
In "Outlaw and Marionette", the singer explains how he had been leading towards a "new world of evil" some individuals that are not permitted to die.
Those outcasts and their god
Aren’t even permitted to die
In that case, I shall lead them
To yet another world of evil. ("outlaw and marionette")
We know from the "outlaw and lychgate" short story that Amostia had deceived Ron Grapple (the "god" the song refers to) into controlling some dead soldiers (the outlaws) for the purpose of holding a funeral service for Banica. In reality, the outlaws were taking Luna Hazuki's corpse and the outlaws themselves towards the gate of a parallel world under Amostia's scheme ("outlaw and lychgate", chapter 3, scenes 2 and 4).
So, the singer is clearly Amostia, but...interestingly, he also speaks to someone (in second person)...who could that be?
Though I am separate from their way of things,
I am not alone, as long as you’re by my side.
[...]
I’ve destroyed everything
of the world you built
we’ve always been this way
both of us mutual outcasts.
[...]
The outlaws all lined up
The world shot back a “no”.
They’ll take you along too
Once I put you in the coffin ("outlaw and marionette").
I really believe that Amostia is talking to Luna's corpse here, as he had put her in a coffin and led her to a parallel world in the "outlaw and lychgate" short story.
Luna and Amostia have quite the parallels too.
Amostia had been an outcast in the evillious world as a powerful being of destruction that had been sealed for the longest time, until the very end, until Nemesis released him to make a weapon out of his features.
“I had my nation’s scientists analyze the ‘boy’ and improve upon it into a practical weapon—the weapon of mass destruction, ‘punishment’.” ("muzzle of nemesis", chapter 6, scene 1).
In a similar way, Luna Hazuki has been excluded from the history of the third period. We can see in the "master of the heavenly yard" novel how Allen has wondered where she had been in the first place and overall information about her had been wiped out from the akashic recorder of the "heavenly yard's" black box Allen was in.
“Hey, Allen,” Nemesis spoke up as they were walking.
“What is it?”
“Do you remember anything about a ‘moon goddess’?”
“…No. That title wasn’t anywhere in the ‘blackbox’ archive either.” ("master of the heavenly yard", chapter 2, scene 4).
Interestingly, in the "second period" section of the "documents of evil" in the "muzzle of Nemesis" novel, Luna is the only character whose information is completely missing.
Moreover most characters either don't know about her existence (the third period residents, excluding Allen) or they don't remember her (except for Held, Gilles and Rahab in the "seven crimes and punishment" short story" and Levia...who didn't even remember her initially and asked Allen about her, despite her memories as Levia had been fully recovered at that point).
So, in a way, Luna is really an outcast in the third period.
Yet...she had a big role in the creation of the third period; in the "song of the cowardly black bird" Lich remarked how Luna's robots (as he was an engineer, remember?) were hard workers while terraforming the third period.
The terraforming was progressing steadily.
“Your robots are hard workers,” he remarked to the girl standing next to him with a smile as he watched the monitor.
Luna is a "girl of creation" in a metaphorical way, then...and an outcast too, since she never directly intervened in the history of the "third period" (except for when she resetted the world in the "seven crimes and punishments" short story), as she had wished for all along.
But the remaining two—professor Held and Hazuki—opposed that.
They argued that “the role of ‘climb one’ is over. Now we should leave the world to the new humans, and quietly wait for death inside this spaceship”. ("muzzle of nemesis", chapter 7, scene 2).
Now, speaking about the "seven crimes and punishment" short story, there we can see Amostia and Luna inderectly interacting: the first annhilates the world, destroying all the souls and the land that were spared by the punishment weapon (in chapter 7, scene 3), the second was implied to have created another parallel timeline of the third period, after the boy had destroyed everything (extra episode, scene 3).
Destruction and creation.
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