A/N: I managed to wrap this last chapter within a day, what a relief. From the start of this fic, I already pictured the ending to unfold like this so I'm glad that I managed to pull it off properly.


Without warning, a sudden sense of urgency surged up from inside of him. So much, that it felt as if his heart would burst at any moment. What should he do? If anything terrible should happen to his friends—Michinaga, Win, Neon... Keiwa—it would all be his fault and his sin alone!

All he ever wanted was to be happy—to find a piece of happiness after all of the heartache he had suffered for so long! All he wanted was for everyone to be able to achieve their own happiness, for everyone to be able to truly smile from the bottom of their hearts—but all that ever happened was for everyone to end up suffering. All because of him. Because of someone like him who originally was not supposed to exist existed, it led to the current DesiGra that exchanged the suffering of many to grant the happiness of one person to come into existence! It's all because of him...

For some reason, as Ace started to think about his friends—as he thought about the possibility that he wouldn't be able to see any of them again, to see Keiwa smiling at him again—an excruciating pain started to grow and flare out inside his heart. The dark flame inside his heart seemed to flare out to the rest of his body—he felt so hot! His body felt like burning—it suddenly felt as if it no longer matter anymore if everything around him were to be burned down into nothing...

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"That's not true... that's not what you truly want! Isn't it, Ace?"

Ace opened his eyes to see his mother in front of him, and talking to him directly. Yet, did he imagine it... but his mother's voice and lips didn't seem to be moving in sync. It was as if his mother was not truly in front of him yet she was.

"I'm sorry Ace, all I wanted was to be happy... all I wished for was for you to find happiness. Yet, because of my sins, I have caused so many lives to suffer and become miserable, including you!"

Ace hastily shook his head to his mother, as tears continued to fall from his eyes.

"No, Mother! This is not your fault! You never wanted anything like this to happen to anyone!"

Mitsume shook her head as well.

"It was. You should have just forgotten about me and lived your life in happiness. Then, you wouldn't have to suffer for so long like this."

Ace continued shaking his head at his mother.

"Those words you've said to me before only made me even more determined to not forget about you! How could I live with myself happily while ignoring my own mother's suffering? I rather cease to exist than let you continue to suffer alone by yourself!"

Mitsume let out a painful sigh. "And because of that wish, you've awakened the power to retain all of your memories of the past. And because of your strong wish as well, even when I refused to grant the wish you made to take my place and free me from my fate... you somehow awakened the same power as my own..."

Ace's tears kept on falling as Mitsume continued talking. Tsumuri who was still standing nearby let out a faint gasp as she heard the things that her predecessor had just said. She couldn't believe it! To think that Ace was the one to make himself the new Creation Deity, just to allow his mother to gain freedom. So the one who had also sealed her own powers of creation... was Ace as well, wasn't it? From the beginning, it wasn't Mitsume who had turned Ace into the new Creation Deity and sealed her new-found powers of creation to prevent her from receiving the same fate as Mitsume.

"You're right, Mother. This isn't the world that I wanted. I didn't want to have everything destroyed. I just want... to destroy everything that the DesiGra system had created on this world and recreate the world anew into an ideal one where everyone would be able to become happy. But at this rate, everything that was precious to me will be lost—"

Mitsume placed a hand on Ace's cheek as she made him look up at him.

"Everything is not lost yet, there should be a way for you to regain your happiness." Mitsume showed his son a sad smile. "If it meant that something needs to be sacrificed so that something else can be protected, I wouldn't mind giving up what's left of my powers and life force to make it happen."

Mitsume smiled again, before caressing her son's face affectionately.

"You no longer need to worry about me or my happiness. It was enough for me if you're able to find your own happiness."

Ace shook his head over and over again. "No... no! I've finally been able to find you—I've finally succeeded in setting you free! I wanted to be able to make you happy!"

Mitsume pursed her lips to make Ace listen to what she was trying to say.

"You ARE everything that made me happy. Ever since you were born, Ace, I've always been awash with happiness and bliss. Me and your father. Because you have been born as our son, I was able to feel what true happiness was like."

Ace cried into soft sobs.

"But I don't want to lose you, Mother! I wanted the two of us to live happily together! It has been so very long since we've been apart—!"

Mitsume lowered her hand as she held Ace by the shoulders. "I am happy... as long as YOU'RE happy. My happiness is seeing you happy." She shrugged at her son. "Those people who were taken... Keiwa-kun, all of them are precious to you, aren't they?"

Ace nodded his head shakily as Mitsume pulled him close to plant a soft kiss on his forehead. "I love you Ace, my dearest son. Please remember this... even if you can't see me any longer, I will always be with you inside your heart." Mitsume turned around towards Tsumuri, as she called for her to come close. When Tsumuri came close enough to the mother and son, Mitsume took her hand and pulled Tsumuri over before wrapping her arms around both Ace and Tsumuri.

"My very last wish... was for both of you to be able to protect your own happiness. In return for that, I will not mind paying the price for it with my own life..."

"Mother, no!" cried Ace again as he flung his arms around his mother's body to keep her from going away.

But alas, as Ace desperately tried to hold onto his mother... Mitsume's body dissipated into blue lights right in front of Ace. And in place of his mother's body, Ace glanced down to find a familiar DGP box in his arms. And he noted something else that he wasn't aware of when his mind blanked out after seeing Keiwa disappear before his eyes. In his right hand, there was a new red Raise buckle that he never saw before. It wasn't the normal Boost buckle... nor was it the Boost MKII buckle. Boost MKIII?

But was it just him, or was this new Raise buckle actually TWO Raise buckles combined into one?

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Ace opened the small box in his arms to find his Desire Driver in it as well as his own Core ID inside of it. Ace nodded his head to Tsumuri before taking the Driver out and putting it on him. Immediately, he was transported to a new DesiGra field—just in time to find his friends thrown off onto the ground by Suel, who have taken on a Kamen Rider form. Everyone around Ace immediately detransformed after suffering a lot of damage from Suel's attack. It looked like his friends had been fighting intensely against Suel while Ace was having his last moments with his mother. He bit his lips as he raised the new Raise buckle he had and separated it into two parts.

[MARK IX]

A mechanical voice called out from the new Raise buckles as Ace attached both of them to his Desire Driver. A virtual lever appeared before his hand as Ace turned it around to summon a white mechanical fox beside him. A voice suddenly spoke out from inside his mind...

"What kind of world do you desire to create? Is it Destruction... or Rebirth that you wished for?"

Ace glanced over his fallen friends as he noticed how badly injured all of them have been. Win, Michinaga, Neon... and Keiwa as well. He vowed to himself to not allow any of them to get hurt so badly anymore, he vowed to himself that he would protect all of them so that everyone could find their own happiness.

He would not allow Suel or anyone else behind the DesiGra to have their way around this world any longer!

"I will protect everything I deemed precious in this world from you, Suel. Transform," said Ace aloud as he turned his Desire driver around...


A/N2: Haha. Finally, this is over... should we rejoice? I'm posting this up first, though I might add in a few more tweaks afterwards. But overall, I think I already add enough tweaks in the past few chapters these few days to allow me to wrap this fic completely. Thank you for reading this fic. 💖💖💖

And oh! I managed to wrap this fic with almost (?) double the number of words in Imperfect Solution (not counting Night Terrors)! Cool. It's really had been a long and tough journey to reach this end. 8D