He pulled his consciousness back from the mortal world, leaving the two small, insignificant men to their new, simpler lives.
The vast, empty space of the broken Seal was quiet around him. Emma stood beside him, her green eyes full of a new, deeper understanding.
She had felt the subtle shift in reality as he had rewritten the fates of her father and her enemy.
"It's done," he said, the words a quiet finality.
He looked at his family. Sera was in her child form now, her silver hair shimmering as she held his hand tightly. Yuki stood a few feet away, her arms crossed, her expression a strange, unreadable mixture of her two halves: the cold, analytical gaze of Yuki and the faint, curious smile of Seduction. They were a strange, broken family, but they were his. He looked out at the infinite, open cosmos that was now their home, a universe of endless possibilities.
"Now," he said, a genuine, happy smile on his face, "where should we go first?"
