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Maria and her family finally arrived at the end of this whole ordeal, the one behind this entire disaster, the Evil God Fragment that possessed the Lesser Yggdrasil Tree, mutating it into an aberrant monster, not at all similar to the adorable Root that Maria raised with love and care.
"I knew it! It was the Evil God Fragment all along! Did you possess Ash body?!" Maria asked.
"THAT BOY'S BODY, YOU ASK?" Laughed the tree. "WHAT IF I DID?! HE'S MERELY A VESSEL! A BODY I USE TO INFECT THIS MUCH MORE PRECIOUS BODY! THIS TREE FILLED WITH SPIRITUAL POWER… IT IS MINE! GAHAHAHA!"
"S-So Ash… Was he forced to merge with the tree?!" Cried Takeshi.
"He was a tool all along for the fragment!" Laura was surprised, although she had guessed correctly.
"I've always knew that my other selves became monsters due to the corruption into my soul…" Tyr sighed. "But this guy is honestly worse than the others by far…"