Marko screams, not due to the current situation, but from the horror of being a passive observer to his body's disintegration moments earlier. Kuroto looks disgusted and makes a great show of studying the featureless whiteness around them. Finally Marko calms down a bit, testing the solidity of his body.
"A pathetic display. How can you permit yourself such childishness in the face of the Power that dwells here?"
"You ... you tried to kill me."
"Nonsense. You are the channel through which the Kuroto-no-Mikoto shall be borne into the material world. Yet you yourself are fragile and weak. We shall protect you from the dangers of material existence until the time of parthenogenesis."
"What, what do you mean?"
"Until the God of the Black Gate emerges into the world you must dwell within us, in spirit form. Or we all risk disaster. Surely even you must realize this."
"You want me to stay bodiless?"
"Yes"
"For how long?"
"That we cannot say. Perhaps centuries"
Marko steps back, horrified. "No, no stay away from me ..."