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A: No—only his voice and ideology. That makes him scarier. He’s a ghost orchestrating pain.

Tenma, hearing Eva’s screams through the wall, begins to break down. He whispers: “I’m not a killer… I’m not Johan…” But the intercom plays the child’s drawing again, and he recalls the picture book’s final page: “The monster did not need a name, because he was in everyone’s heart.” monster anime 49

In a moment of despair, Tenma realizes that by chasing Johan, he has become a vessel for Johan’s ideology—a man alone, cut off from humanity, willing to sacrifice everything. “The cruelest thing,” Tenma mutters, “is to turn a good man into a monster.” A: No—only his voice and ideology