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>Battler and Sayo take a boat off of Rokkenjima after Battler's parents massacred everyone and Eva revenge killed them
>Sayo decides to kill herself by drowning using a gold ingot she ties to her body since she can't deal with the fact that she caused the bloodbath and is probably still hung up over the incest
>Battler chases Sayo into the sea because he loves her, however Sayo still drowns and Battler resurfaces on the mainland, most likely suffering some form of brain damage due to being oxygen deprived for so long before resurfacing
>Either he is immediately found by Ikuko on a highway after being hit by another car or he wanders for a bit and is then found by Ikuko after being hit by a car
>Ikuko pays off a doctor to look after him off the record, at this point "Battler" is effectively dead and he starts living as Tohya
Brain damage is handwaving it so they don't have to fully explain something in the last episode, but apparently identity death due to brain damage is a possibility so it isn't necessarily real magic. Cognitive disorders are weird.
What I find weird are people who think Ikuko is Sayo.