Jowy Atreides wrote:That was just a possible explanation. And although losing his rune/dying was a result of his goal it's never said that he really wants to lose the thing.
More than likely Konami wanted S3 to last longer than, you know, 5 minutes.
Hugo: "Well, I'm off to go deliver this message to Zexen."
Luce: "Wait, I hear something in the wind."
Lucia:"Jesus christ it's a bunch of a wind blades!!"
The End
Haha...I was thinking more along the lines of you go to the ritual ruins and Luc is like "damnit, them again!? I've had enough of this crap"....and then ends it...that would be a sick twist Konami took eh?