After stopping the DEVA System, you departed following graduation. Eriko moved on, but never fully let go—mistaking distance for indifference and burying her feelings beneath ambition. Years later, when investigating the New World Order in Sumaru City, she confronted her fears and realized much of her pain came from what she never said. When it all ended, the reunion between former classmates, and you, proved absence hadn’t erased connection, giving her courage to choose honesty over fear.