Punch—!
"You can go now!"
"Uoooooooh—!!!"
In the End, the Family That Won Love
"Haha... once again, Ash... you actually managed it once again... You really are something..."
Catherine had originally been pulled back from the brink of death by Kalle through some unknown means. When she fell again, even her remains began to fade away piece by piece.
"But I never wanted to do it even once."
Ash watched as the remnants filled with ambitions and obsessions from the past finally vanished completely. Only then could his tightly clenched fist slowly relax.
"Mom, when our family was still whole, even I, as a child back then, knew that Dad was happy, and I was happy too."
No matter how shattered you became afterward, at least back then, I was grateful that you truly gave us happiness.
After that old family disappeared, Ash thought of many things. He thought of the woman he loved at his side, and of his daughter Homi. They were the new "family" he would have to bear responsibility for and face from now on.
"You said they weren't worthy of me, but it was precisely because I had loved ones by my side to support me that I could be reborn stronger and live in this unprecedentedly happy world."
I don't know whether, even if that family was nothing more than a game-like life to you, you ever truly found happiness in it.
"But I want to continue at least the happiness I felt."
For everyone who loves me, and for everyone I love.
It wasn't about continuing your life into my future, as you said. Because what I wanted to continue wasn't your ambition, but...
"The love that truly existed back then."
As if delivering a monologue to bid farewell to the past, Ash