The Progenitor captures Ceres on her way to reunite with her long-lost celestial robe. She told him that she had never loved him in the first place and that his only use was for creating seed in order to perfect progeny and more superior human descendants. He was shot and then locked up. Ceres and Aya had a conversation about what really happened in the past how Mikagi and Ceres met for the first time, fell in love, Mikage became corrupted by Ceres's power and his death. Then Aya awoke and Ceres does not answer Aya's question of if she really had indeed strongly loved the Progenitor.