"That's wonderful…
Zenith was amazed by the magnificent view of the cosmos that stretched around her: blue, white, orange, yellow stars, various and colorful planets, and other celestial bodies that shot through space like lines. majestic light.
"That's also what I told myself the first time I visited the cosmos" Kahn said. "When I couldn't stand the loneliness, I used Imagination to teleport myself here, and told myself that all these vile humans were unimportant in comparison"
"You seem to me to really hate them" Zénith observed. "But I think I can understand you.
"Thanks, I appreciate that. Now that I think about it, it's pretty stupid, any human can recreate as many cosmos and universes as they want with Imagination. But hey, that doesn't matter anymore, since I'm not alone anymore. This cosmos is no longer an error of Admon and Eva, nor my outlet, it is just a landscape that it is up to only the two of us to accept"
"Haha, I'll end up falling for you if you say things like that, Kahn"
"In this case…"
Kahn paused.
"In this case?" Zenith asked.
"In that case, I should continue" Kahn finished.
Zenith blushed. At this precise moment, Kahn no longer cared about humanity, Ei, or the fact that Zenith was originally a copy of the latter.
"Kahn, I... I... I don't know what to say" Zénith said with difficulty.
"You don't need to answer me if you don't want to" Kahn said. "Just… don't shatter my illusions yet, okay?"
He brought his hand closer to Zénith's hair, before freezing in his movement.
"Sorry" Kahn said. "After all your efforts, you deserve a better reward than a creepy guy who killed several people taking you to a secluded place to flirt with you"
"It's nothing, I'm just a little… surprised" Zénith replied, looking lost.
"A little? Heh, and I thought I could make the revelation of the century.
Haha, to be honest, it's knowing that a curmudgeon like you can joke that surprises me, in a good way I mean"
There was another moment of whiteness, and Kahn rested his head on Zenith's knees.
"Sorry, I'm just a little tired" he said. "Don't worry, I'm not planning to take you hostage: you just have to want it for the tree of passion to bring you back to Earth, I would just like you to wait until I have fallen asleep"
Taken by intense fatigue, Kahn began to fall asleep without another word in this strange position. As he fell asleep, he felt Zenith's hand stroking his hair. He sincerely wanted this to be his last moment before falling asleep and joining Altir in eternal rest:
"Zénith, I'm the culprit, from the very beginning. I aggravated the problem of the stories to force Ei to react in haste, and it was I who forced Passion into the mouths of Admon and Eva" he said. "The loss of both of them, but also the near-death of concepts, the distancing of humanity from Ei, the damage to the Primary World, from the very beginning, it was me, now you know that. Do what you want, I won't blame you, I'm just glad I was able to tell you. Yes, I'm... glad I got to talk to you"
With these words, freed from the weight of hatred and guilt, Kahn fell asleep, completely vulnerable to outside attacks as his head rested peacefully in Zenith's lap, with no regrets remaining.