>>3543876Yes, that's on a "well technically" level, but wasn't Kaworu's obsession with Shinji's happiness what kept him going? That's what is represented with the loops, his feelings for Shinji were all delusions that he used as motivation to move forward and fail over and over because that was his reason to do it. Shinji frees him from the loops and frees him from him, so now Kaworu can see that he was lying to himself and this wasn't happiness, therefore, being by Shinji's side is not happiness and will never be so there's no reason to ever go back together even as friends, because Shinji wasn't what Kaworu thought he was and Kaworu wasn't what Shinji thought he was, it was never something good.
