What if in a later chapter, we defeat the Knight and another SOUL pops out from its body?
What if the prophecy was just SOUL vs. SOUL, and the lightners/darkners were just chess pieces? It would explain the "Freedom" theme - a lot of them want to escape the fate.

>>713065568
Look at her go!

I want to believe the quotes we find in the code are Dess before she's turned into the Knight and we only get to read about the fucked up process from her perspective