User blog comment:UkantorEX/Sonic '06 Rewrite?/@comment-4883076-20130709210147/@comment-5028662-20130709211844

The amulet thing got me on an interesting train of thought:

What if, Mephiles still needed the Chaos Emeralds to join with Iblis, but also to release him from Elise? He still kills Sonic, but not to make Elise cry, just to make her unprotected.

Sounds good to me. I'd rather that than have Iblis sealed within an object. As much as I actually like that idea myself, it would just make killing Sonic pointless, as Mephiles would have no trouble breaking some Elise's amulet as opposed to pretty much taking and using Elise herself. Plus, this could also be the method Eggman wated to use to free Iblis. After all, he never did eplain in the game how he was gonna extract Iblis from her, and he was after the Emeralds...this would be killing two flickies with one stone! (pun intended :P)