Sharkie visits the next day with Lucifer, and Bel reassures her that the war is over. She then asks him if she can call him “Dad” and Lucifer “Papa.” Both are honored and agree. Lilith visits with Bel’s youngest sister, who can only pronounce his name as “Beef.” Healers then perform another healing session.

The next day, Lily and Bel check in on Asmodeus through a phone call with his wife. He, like Bel, is resistant to bed rest, but Lily and Bel goad him into cooperating by claiming Bel will be cleared before him.

Bel becomes restless after a day and tries to entice Lily into sex. Lily is nearly tempted but saved by Lucifer’s request for a meeting. When she returns, Lily ogles Bel, and he expresses his relief that his new scars don’t bother her. As a means of teasing him, she puts on a daring, sheer bodysuit, knowing he will imagine her in it for the rest of the day.

Later, Lucifer visits Bel to discuss the funeral arrangements for their fallen soldiers while Bel receives another healing treatment. Though he is not fully healed yet, the healer releases him from bed rest. When Bel worries about inviting Lily to the memorial they plan on erecting where the carcasses of the creatures still lie, Lucifer dismisses his concern and informs him of Lily’s encounter with the gegony and chittahi. Bel is outraged.

Bel finds Lily at the Hellp Desk after Lucifer tells him of all Lily has done after the final battle. He lifts her up, launches into the air with her, and brings her to her personal Paradise. They have sex, and Bel states he’s finally home.

They have sex a few more times, and as they are relaxing, Bel tells her the funeral will be in three days. He asks her to be there with him, and she easily agrees. She then tells him of the idea she had for his motto, “Vires per Intellectu,” or “Strength through understanding.” He loves it.

Just as they are about to engage in further intercourse, Sharkie comes home. They hurry for their clothes and lie to Sharkie that the house is playing a prank by locking the door. As they spend their day as a family again, Lily considers the question of reincarnation. Something about her still craves the idea of “life.” She concedes, however, that perhaps her dreams didn’t look like she’d expected them to, since she now has a family and someone who loves her unconditionally. Rather than feeling pain at the idea of pregnancy in general, she now regrets being unable to have children with Bel specifically. Even so, she realizes the Afterlife feels right to her.

Bel wakes, thinking he is under attack, only to calm at the sight of Lily. Asmodeus is calling him, and when he picks up, he informs him that his wife, Sariah, has had their baby. Bel wakes Lily, and they rejoice together.

Asmodeus invites them to visit and marvels at being a father, something Bel echoes given the last few months of death and carnage. When they hang up, Lily and Bel have sex but are interrupted by Sharkie, who opens the door to their room and walks in on them.

Sharkie is disgusted and leaves. At breakfast, Lily sits down with her and talks to her about what she saw and how they should act from now on to avoid another such encounter. Though uncomfortable, Sharkie questions whether Lily and Bel were having sex for pleasure as opposed to the sexual abuse she faced when she was alive. Lily reassures her, and though Sharkie still seems disbelieving that sex can be enjoyed, she is easily distracted by the news of Asmodeus’s new baby.

They visit the new baby, and privately, Sariah and Lily discuss the upcoming funeral and how hard it will be for their respective lovers. Asmodeus is concerned for Sariah and wants her to stay home with their child, but she insists on attending, and Lily supports her.

Lily, Sharkie, and Bel dress themselves separately for the funeral. Sharkie finds Lily and asks her to braid her hair like she did for Bel before the war. When he finds them, he asks for the same. He then gives Lily a crown and awkwardly asks her to clasp it on his head around his horns. She does, and when asked how it feels, Bel confirms it feels right.

They, along with thousands of demons and mortal souls, join the procession to the funeral pyres at the front, where Lucifer and the other princes of Hell wait. Asmodeus does a double-take when he sees Beleth with his crown. Bel recalls finding the crown and reading the letter his father left for him before going into the Void. He’d never read it before, but as he did, he understood that his father loved him. Bel realizes he had let his grief overshadow the love he had for him, and his perception of himself as a failure grew.

A ceremonial song known as the Rising is performed first by the healers, then by the generals, then by all mourners as the bodies of the fallen are returned to the power of the Universe.

Lily and Bel receive the families of the fallen. Hours later, Lily checks in with Sharkie, who asks to go support Lucifer since Bel has Lily. Lily reminds her that it isn’t her job, as a child, to take care of Bel or Lucifer before letting her go. Lev finds Lily and wants to give her a report that he believes will be beneficial to the long-term running of the Hellp Desk. Lily is taken aback, given how his insistence on this report is insensitive to their circumstances, but she promises to discuss the report later.

Bel arrives, equally flabbergasted at Lev’s behavior, before asking Lily to join him on his last difficult task. He and Lily go to the battlefield, and he brings her to a huddled gegony and its young. He explains how, in the last battle, the hostile Universe used the young to spur the parents into a rampage. Feeling sympathy for the creatures, Lily and Bel go about the battlefield, leaving lilies at each grouping of parent and child. Others join them, and someone leaves a chrysanthemum by the first gegony pairing.

Lily tricks Bel into training when he struggles with returning to usual habits. Other soldiers slowly return, and Bel enlists the help of therapists from Level One and Two to help them all address their trauma from the war. Bel gets his hand tattooed in devotion to Lily. During the process, Greg accompanies him and asks whether Lily is “it” for Bel. He confirms she is. Lily, meanwhile, has struggled for days with her decision, but after a happy breakfast with Bel and Sharkie, she decides she will not reincarnate and will remain in the Afterlife. She plans to go to the Reincarnation Office but is delayed by an angry soul.

Lev then comes to find her to talk about his report. In it, he explains how his team has found a way to make her dream come true: If she gives up her reincarnation and applies for deification, the Universe may make her a denizen of the Afterlife, and she could bear children. Overjoyed, she thanks him and runs for the Reincarnation Office.

Bel, meanwhile, is being mocked by Greg and Asmodeus for his tattoos. Lev arrives and tells Bel about informing Lily on the report and how she went directly to the Reincarnation Office. Without knowing or asking for the contents of the report, Bel is devastated and is convinced Lily has left him—especially since her soul file disappears.

Lily arrives at the Reincarnation Desk and notices that the old man who has been waiting for his wife has finally found her again. She goes to the desk and demands to apply for the deification process. She confirms with two souls that the mortal world isn’t for her anymore and that she wishes to go through with her decision because of love. She looks at the reincarnation gate one last time, recalling memories of past lives, and bids goodbye to the mortal realm.

When she then goes to Bel’s office, she finds Greg strangling Lev. Confused, she goes into Bel’s office and finds him utterly distraught. She comforts him and tells him she is staying forever. She apologizes for scaring him but confirms there is now a way for them to possibly have a child together. As they embrace, Lily feels her heartbeat again, and she feels pure elation knowing the deification process has worked.

Bel grumbles about Lev, but Lily reassures him that she would never leave him, as he is worth living for. He shows her his new tattoo, a lily on the back of his hand, which Lily loves. He also reveals he tattooed the motto she gave him on the lowest part of his stomach. They have sex.

As they dress, Lily knows she’ll marry Bel someday. Lev knocks and apologizes for the distress he’s caused. When Lily gives him a hug after forgiving him, it takes Lev a moment to realize she has a heartbeat again. He is incredibly relieved, as he enjoys her reports. Lily then receives a phone call from Asmodeus, who, out of love for Bel, berates her. When Lily explains the situation, he quickly apologizes.

Lily and Bel call Lucifer to tell him the news, then the rest of their friends. Lily realizes that she is now truly a part of the Afterlife and her past no longer defines her, so she forgives God. She and Bel pick up Lily from school and tell her about Lily’s deification on the way back to her Paradise. Sharkie is elated at the prospect of siblings and Lily remaining forever.

A few years later, Bel is still recovering from the trauma of war. Lily continues to support him. Despite their ups and downs, they value each other too much not to overcome adversity. Sharkie has healed and grown and now has her own Paradise next to Lily’s. Lily and Bel have decided to wait to marry and have children until Bel feels secure with his mental health. Though Sharkie now also works at the Hellp Desk, they continue to be understaffed as mortal souls are uninterested in a position.

When a soul named Penny wanders to Hell, lost, deserving of Paradise but adamant that she belongs in Hell, Lily recognizes a kindred soul and offers her a job, which she happily accepts.