#but did you see that massive crater in the ground lined with layered torii gates like a shinto shrine but Existentially Hair Raising

[kaurwreck]

So you know how Amengozen is the space and time sword? What if Amengozen the divine being can rewind time as far it wants, but only to the moment of its creation, so when sskk just barely defeat it, it will just rewind time, and sskk will have to do it again better. That way they can save Teruko, Kunikida, and whoever else will soon perish in this dark timeline.

I'm fairly convinced that as a singularity (center of a black hole), Amenogozen has only taken those he's consumed somewhere else, and I think Atsushi and Akutagawa are going to form a white hole that will connect them to the others.