The story jumps forward ten years. Mars is no longer a high-tech colony, but a green world of bio-luminescent forests and stone cities. Humans have evolved. They communicate through telepathy, a gift from Emon's shared consciousness. Emon himself sits under a tree that looks like a banyan but glows like a star. He has no bank account, but he is the wealthiest man in history because he owns the future of a race.
The final twist arrives when a ship from Earth lands. It's not a high-tech vessel, but a wooden ship powered by the very 'Andromeda energy' the shadow had once guarded. Maya steps out, looking younger than ever. "Emon," she says, "We found it. The source. It wasn't in Andromeda. It was inside the human heart all along. The energy we stole was just a mirror." Emon realizes that his entire journey—the sickness, the millions, the space travel—was a simulation created by the ancestors of humanity to see if they were ready to join the galactic community.
He looks up at the stars and smiles. He is no longer a billionaire of money, but a 'Trillionaire of Souls.' He closes the laptop he had since he was a teenager—the only piece of tech that survived—and on the screen, a message from his father appears: "You did it, son. You're finally healthy." The boy who once couldn't leave his bed had now led humanity to the edge of the universe.