...wait.
Oh shit. This was *always* the plan.
At the height of the actively-ongoing apocalypse, the first Fire Pope comes back from the dead. Shinra is going to face him down and kill him, because protagonist.
What is going to happen to Adolla - humanity's collective perception of reality - when the founder of the modern world and its core religion is killed by the "matricidal devil" at the advent of armageddon?