User blog comment:Lilyxflower/The world of DITF is a cult/@comment-38094676-20200616042926

I've often wondered why an area like the abandoned town still had greenery as if the people just packed up and left, while the rest of the world--at least from what was shown, was turned into a desert. Anyway...

As commonly observed in cults, the leaders often preach a higher level of consciousness, or 'salvation' only the select few can take part of. Interestingly, APE also lured the adults with such promises, only it turned out the so-called 'nirvana' was that machine that feeds their brain with happy hormones. lol  or was the promised salvation actually when APE harvested their souls into their planet?

After destroying APE/VIRM's planet, the souls are scattered, possibly returning to where they came from much like Hir02 returned to earth.

So does this mean that APE/VIRM collects all souls that are deceased in the franxx universe? And without anyone interfering this time with their new future 'planet', there won't be any more reincarnations like those escaped souls?

So much questions about that ending. Nishigori should have just killed VIRM. >_<