As the translator, what I was feeling the author was trying to convey for the last chapter is that despite the fact that it is 200 years later, because the two have each other, they will be happy. Even though ML felt like he had no purpose in life, he believed that he knew he would be alright and knew that he would be happy as long as Yoon was there with him. It's kind of like when Yoon as asking to ML in his head "is he happy with me?" The ending gave the impression that the ML was saying "YES! I am happy with you and I want to prove it to you by being with you forever ". That's just me though lol. I am also sad about the age gap and completely refused to think about the future... I also do feel sad about Dmitry as well but I believe he had already come to peace with how things were going to turn out.
I think if you can understand how he felt the one he loves must have felt it even more. And I'm sure they would have talked it out. Its also obvious they'll be Happy they both gave up life for the other their not going to back out later after all that. They'll have each other and the side ending shows that.
For me I get what the author has the main guy say about victims but I don't agree that either one feels that way. Because of everything they went thru they met each other and will now be together. I don't think they regret a single minute of that time just the time apart but I doubt he regrets it himself though because because of him and his research the one he loves got to wake up. He saved his life and gave them both a future. I think it was hard but I think he would feel it was well worth it.
For me what I think he regrets was that any of it has to happen and that he wishes they could have been normal and got to live long lives together in the original time but to wish for that is to wish for this entire story to never have happened who's to say if he hadn't assimilated with the earth that he would have ever had a reason to meet the main guy who's to say he would have even been the same person it was a big part of developing his current personality.
Personally I also feel like the semes point of view on what he did was valid. He didn't feel like a victim because he did it for the one he loved and because he met him he was able to want to save everyone else. He's a hero. And he was proud of his sacrifice. One he made for his loved one and for all mankind.
I'm sorry you feel so sad and upset for me I chose to think they will find a way to live even longer or create something to make it work. But I'm so glad that every moment they have left they'll be walking it together. That their loves prevailed even time and preserved through all the hardships to outlast most everything.
Some ways they could be together in a sci-fi world
Maybe they could put their minds in a simulation where they can be together forever.
Become androids or part machines or something so they can be together forever
Tell their story so everyone will never forget their love story. Live for eternity in the spoken and written word.
Also I couldn't help but wonder if them getting married might spark a new cultural trend in the future since they would probably be a huge thing. And that made me smile.
I started crying in chapter 53 and then continued to sob my way through all the side stories because WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK I AM SO PISSED. Is it a happy ending? I’m genuinely asking because I am mad at what they had to go through! They are obviously victims and it’s just so fucking unfair to me that MC had to live 35 years of hell alone. He must have been so lonely and then to make the decision he made to Hope to be with ML in th future. To wake up after 200 years! All their friends are dead, everything they knew, gone. They literally only have eachother that’s FUCKING SAD . That’s not romantic (╯°Д °)╯╧╧. I want to burn those fucking pea brain scientists alive! This story made me depressed I literally can’t stop thinking about how absolutely horrible this situation would be. I hope they go on to be happy, I really wish the author would have shown some semblance that the ML will be happy in the future but no, we leave him when his life is still a mess and he doesn’t know what to do with his freedom. MC barely acknowledges or shares the literal TRAUMA he must have went through for those 35 years and when he does touch on it I feel like it really wasn’t explored enough or ML never truly understands what it was like. Also, DIMITRI . I said a lot but to sum it all up, this story left me feeling sad, crying, and pissed off, a little happy they are getting married but dreading their future because it looks bleak at the moment. Mc trauma is now my trauma because I am never going to be able to forget this feeling. This is banana fish all over again for me.