You said you wanted to create the future with me, but without you, there would be no future for everyone anyway.
"But I realized there was something I was wrong about too, Father. I found that I had been completely mistaken back then."
Created by that system and brought into this world without inheriting any causality, I had truly been nothing but empty-handed, with nothing besides the core It had given me.
"But after meeting all of you—Dad, Miss Puka, Aunt Ayumi, and every person in this warm family—the friendship and love you gave me had already gradually filled my once-empty heart."
"Someone like me naturally couldn't be considered to have nothing anymore."
And also, I'm sorry. I lied once too. There was something I never told you because I didn't want you to worry.
I was pulled from a future that never existed into this timeline by his power. Once that power disappeared, I would naturally vanish as though I had never existed, right?
But rather than leaving without a trace like this, watching the people I loved suffer before my eyes—
"Rather than that, wouldn't it be better to let this daughter do something for you and fulfill her filial duty?"
Since you could give up such a wonderful future for me, then for you... I could offer up my nonexistent future too, couldn't I?
"After all, you said it yourself. Meaning is something people have to give for themselves, right?"
This meaning that I needed to find for myself... it seemed I had found it.
As though the sun had risen before everyone after falling to the ground, a "sun" far too dazzling for this world of void was pulled from Homi's chest before everyone's eyes, her body gradually turning translucent.
"Homi...?"
Ayumi, exhausted to the point