[As a usually straightforward, logical man, all he has for Shez is the option of a clean death. Of course, he doesn't want it to come to that. Even being returned by the Tree? He doesn't want Shez having to die by his comrades' hands.]

I did. I think they're related, based on the feelings I received of being afraid, being hunted. The dreams others had, too. Like Byleth. They're related to what I saw and felt.

The Oblivion may not necessarily be evil, but it is against what we're trying to do as Meridian. What this place has done with rebirth. It is the end of all things, and we're returning after death, and we're trying to bring our worlds back.